Document: Order in regard to persons at Fort Orange accused by Pietersen

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0582

Description

Order. In regard to persons at Fort Orange accused by Pietersen, the negro.

Document Date

1657-05-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-05-15

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

[several lines lost] The fiscal also concludes that Pieter Pietersz, [ ] [i] Company’s Negro, according to his own confession, to have given away the Company’s gun powder to Jochgem de Backer and still four others, that he is condemned to be brought to the place where justice is customarily done, to be beaten there with rods as an example to others and moreover banished from Fort Orange.

Also, that Marritje Cornelis, step daughter of Dirck Theunissen, presently apprehended on suspicion of incest, might be sent from Fort Orange by the lord La Montagne in order to question her about what she knows of this matter. [marginal note:] fiat.

Translation Superscripts

[i]: Some text in the margin intended for insertion here is illegible, except for the phrase “… until further orders.”

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_0582.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.