Document: Order for the punishment of a boy and girl in the service of Pieter van Couwenhoven for dishonesty

Whereas the boy of Pieter van Couwenhoven and the maid servant of Poulus Leendertsen have transgressed with unfaithfulness in their masters’ house, and considering that they are children from Holland who have been sent over by the almoseniers, the honorable lord director general and councilors have, for important reasons, ordered the fiscal to go on board the warship de Waagh, taking with him the aforesaid boy and girl, and there to let the boy be punished discretely at the capstan in ship’s manner by boys, and to have the girl watch the same, and after threatening her, to let her return to her master, and to have the boy work on board until further orders; and to preside there at once on behalf of the honorable director general and councilors over naval law concerning the carpenter.

Done at the session held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra.

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