Document: Sentence of whipping and banishment pronounced against Ytie Jansen

[several lines lost] time of [ ] which banishment [ ], but has (:her [ ] in contempt for the afore[ said ] once again verl [ ] so far, that in spite of having a [ ] man herself she lived and continued to live in this province in adultery again for some years with the aforesaid Jan Parcel alias Botcher, and illegally produced three children with him; which are matters not only against canon, but also against all political laws and ordinances, [ and ] cannot and should not be tolerated in a place where law and justice is administered, but as an example to others deserve to be punished. Therefore, the director general and councilors of New Netherland, having heard the fiscal’s claim and the aforesaid Ytje Jans’ own confession and admission of guilt without torture, and having paid attention to anything else that may be relevant in this matter, performing justice in the name of the honorable high and mighty lords States General of the United Netherlands and the honorable lords directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber Amsterdam, sentenced, condemned, as they hereby sentence and condemn the aforesaid Ytie Jans, that she shall be brought to the place where [ justice is commonly performed ] [several lines lost] found and to pay the legal [ costs made for this, denying ] the fiscal his further [ claim on ] and against her. Thus done and sentenced at the meeting of the director general and councilors held at Fort Amsterdam the 25th of November, 1658 and executed the 30th of the same month.

P. Stuyvesant Pieter Tonneman

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