Document: Order authorizing the court at Fort Orange to proceed with the trial of Frans Gabrielsen

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Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0064b

Description

Order. On a letter from the authorities at Fort Orange, respecting an indictment against Frans Gabrielsen, for committing violence on a little girl aged 7 years, authorizing the court there to proceed with the trial according to law, and to put the sentence into execution, unless the prisoner appeal; in that event all the papers in the case are to be sent to the director and council for revision.

Document Date

1652-09-28

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-09-28

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

The honorable director-general and councillors having seen and read the letters of the commissary, Johannes Dyckman, and the magistrates residing in Fort Orange and Beverwyck, dated 2 September, together with the information concerning Frans Gabrielsen who molested a young girl about seven years old, authorize those of the aforesaid court to try the case and pass judgment according to the law, and to carry out the sentence there on the guilty party unless he appeals to have the case sent here for review, which shall be done according to the circumstances of the matter.[i]

Translation Superscripts

[i]: See Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, 1652-1656, translated and edited by A. J. F. van Laer, Albany, 1920, 1:37, 39-40 for the disposition of this case.

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_0064b.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.