Document: Sentence of Francis Allard

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[ ] cadet in the company [ ] [ ] general Petrus Stuyvesant [ ] [ ] received against all laws [ ] [ ] to give thieves shelter, together with the goods stolen by them, receiving the same at night and unseasonable times at his house, which he kept and concealed in order thus to hide their thievery, whereupon he derived benefit for his part in it and enjoyed the stolen goods with the thieves, so that he as a receiver of stolen goods deserves to be punished, according to the law, as a thief. Therefore, the lords councilors of New Netherland and the appointed magistrates of the city of Amsterdam, after invocation of God’s holy name, having previously viewed everything that was presented and whatever might be relevant, doing justice to the charge and conclusion of the fiscal and confession of the prisoner, done without pain and fetters, on behalf of the honorable high and mighty lords states general of the united Netherlands and the honorable lords directors of the general chartered West India Company, (having mitigated, for certain considerations, the well-deserved punishment) have condemned the aforesaid Frans Allard, as they hereby do condemn him, to be brought to the place where justice is customarily carried out, and there, first, have his weapons destroyed and then whipped and banished from the country, as an example to other such receivers of thievery.

Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra. Was signed: Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, Allard Anthony, Oloff Stevense, Johan- nis Nevius.