Document: Dutch colonial council minutes, 15-19 August 1648

[1]The honorable director general having exhibited in council the account of Andries Hudden, commissary at Port Nassau, which is found to be obscure and not made out as clearly as it ought to be; therefore, it is resolved to order said commissary to come hither overland and personally to explain his account before the director and council. This 15th of August anno 1648.

Johannes Boodenborch from Hamburg, at present a prisoner.is examined and asked by the honorable courtmartial in what manner the manslaughter was committed by him on the person of Gerrit Jansen from Amsterdam. Johannes Boodenborch, being heard for the second time, persists in his confession and declaration made on the 22nd of July last.

Interrogatories on which said Roodenborch is further examined in court

Which answers Johannes Hoodenborch has given in the presence of the court-martial, the same being confirmed by him on oath, so truly help him God Almighty. Present: the honorable general, Mr. Dincklagen, Mr. La Montagne, Briant Nuton, Lieutenant Paulus Leendersz, naval store keeper, G[ e ]orge Bacxter, ensign, and Sergeant Daniel Litschoe. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 19th of August anno 1648.

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