Document: Dutch colonial council minutes, 7 March 1641

On Thursday, being the 7th of March 16*4-1 Interrogatories on which Lupholt was examined in council

Coraello vander Hoykens, fiscal, plaintiff, vs. Laurens Haen, defendant, for faithlessness in the store. The fiscal, persisting in the charges made In his former written bill of complaint, demands judgment.

Pieter Cornelisz, formerly a deacon here, declares that one day last October, toward evening, Haen accosted him near the warehouse to ask that fl. 50 of the poor money be lent to him upon Interest. Whereupon he said, "There is no money." Haen answered: "There are persons who would be willing to lend It to me, but they do not wish to have their names mentioned." Haen said: "If Mrs. Lupholt comes to your house, please tell her that I borrowed the money from the poor fund upon interest." Pieter Cornelissen has affirmed this under oath before the honorable director and council.