Document: Order to the fiscal to prosecute the widow Morris for having falsely accused Van Borsum's slave of theft

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0547b

Description

Order. Fiscal to prosecute the widow Morris, for having falsely accused Van Borsum's negro of theft (see p. 539).

Document Date

1657-05-01

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-05-01

Document Type

Order

Minutes

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Order

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Translation

Received the petition of Egbert van Borsum[i], ferryman, remonstrating that the goods of the English woman who had accused his[ii] Negro of theft of her goods were found at the house of Jan Peecq where she had left the same; requested that the lord fiscal should press charges against the aforesaid woman and the expenses caused him by the aforesaid woman be reimbursed.

After due deliberation it was decided: The lord fiscal Nicasius de Sille is authorized to institute proceedings according to the tenor of the law and provisionally hold the attached goods until further order. Dated 1 May 1657.

Translation Superscripts

[i]: See 8:522 and 539 for related proceedings.
[ii]: The original has the possessive adjective haar “her” instead of sijn “his.”

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_V08_0547b.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.