Document: Declaration of Maria de Truy concerning Mark Menloff

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NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0032b

Description

Declaration. Maria de Truy, wife of Jan Peeck, as to what she had heard from an Indian in regard to the killing of the hog whereof Mark Menloff is accused.

Document Date

1652-03-25

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-03-25

Document Type

Declaration

Minutes

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Declaration

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Translation

Maria de Truy, wife of Jan Peeck, testified in council before some officials of Vlissinge and Mr. D. Provoost that some Indians had told her about the killing of the hog. The one Indian named Sasse [ ] asked her why the Englishman named Merck Menloff was to be executed. She replied, because he had killed hogs in the woods. The Indian said that there were Indians near the white stone and that they had killed a hog and skinned it [ ] half of it with them, leaving the other half behind because [ ] an Englishman through the woods with a gun . . .

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. . . and declared that an Indian [ ] to his house [ ] offered to bring him pork [ ] ordered him, if the Indian brought him pork [ ] to remain in his house and [ ] to inform the director-general. For which the director-general, Petrus Stuyvesant, informed the authorized officials of Vlissingen in council that Merck Menloff is being held prisoner since several days ago.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0032b.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.