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THE  DUTCH 
RECORDS   OF  KINGSTON 

ULSTER  COUNTY.  NEW  YORK 
(ESOPUS,  WILDWYCK.  SWANENBURGH,  KINGSTON) 
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WITH  SOME  LATER  DATES 


PART  I 


MAY  31.  1658— NOVEMBER  18.  1664 
ESOPUS— WILDWYCK 


REVISED  TRANSLATION  FOR 

<^NEV/  YORK  state:  HISTORICAL 
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^v^  INTRODUCTION 


The  old  Dutch  records  of  Kingston,  now  in  the  office  of  the 
County  Clerk  of  Ulster  County,  dating  from  1658,  are  second  in 
importance  in  the  history  of  the  Colony  of  New  York  to  the  data 
contained  in  the  Records  of  New  Amsterdam,  and  vie  with,  if  they 
do  not  exceed,  in  importance  the  Records  of  the  County  of  Albany 
and  Colony  of  Rensselaerswyck,  edited  by  Prof.  Jonathan  Pear- 
eon,  and  the  Dutch  court  records  of  Albany  still  unpublished. 

The  Kingston  records  have  within  the  past  fifteen  years  become 
accessible  to  the  public  in  translated  form,  in  three  large  manu- 
script volumes  kept  in  the  office  of  the  County  Clerk  of  Ulster 
County,    They  have  not  heretofore  been  printed. 

The  New  York  State  Historical  Association  has  decided,  if  it 
shall  meet  with  sufficient  encouragement,  to  print  the  whole  of  these 
records  in  a  good  English  rendering,  after  a  careful  revision  by 
comparison  with  the  original  Dutch. 

The  manuscript  translation  referred  to,  under  the  supervision 
of  Judge  A.  T.  Clearwater,  as  commissioner  appointed  by  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  of  Kingston,  was  made  between  1895 
and  1898  by  Mr.  Dingman  Versteeg,  a  native  of  Holland.  His 
work,  however,  though  possessing  merits  and  of  value 
in  a  comparison,  is  deemed  by  competent  judges  who 
have  examined  it  to  be  unsuited  to  publication  without 
thorough  revision.  Such  a  revision  has  become  a  desidera- 
tum. The  task  of  making  it  has  been  entrusted  by  the  New 
York  State  Historical  Association  to  Mr.  Samuel  Oppenheim,  of 
the  New  York  bar,  who,  in  another  field  dealing  with  the  Dutch 
period  in  New  Amsterdam  between  1654  and  1664,  has  familiarized 
himself  with  the  crabbed  Dutch  writing  and  the  language  of  simi- 
lar records,  and  whose  acquaintance  with  legal  forms  and  expres- 
Bions  has  been  of  great  service  in  correcting  the  old  translation,  re- 

\  .... 


n  iNTEODncnoN. 

lating  as  it  does  to  court  records.  Many  changes,  both  in  style  and 
in  matter,  have  been  found  necessary  in  the  revision,  the  corrected 
manuscript  showing  alterations  and  recasting  on  almost  every  page.- 

While  a  fluent  and  readable  version  is  given  in  the  revision, 
the  aim,  which  is  believed  to  have  been  accomplished,  has  been  to 
adhere  closely  to  the  original  Dutch  record  and  to  bring  out  its 
meaning  clearly. 

The  court  records  begin,  at  page  11,  of  Book  I,  with  the  min- 
utes of  the  first  meeting  of  the  Inferior  Court  of  Justice  at  Wild- 
wyck,  as  the  Esopus,  later  Kingston,  was  then  called,  presided  over 
by  the  Schout,  or  sheriff,  and  three  Commissaries,  or  commis- 
sioners, appointed  by  Director  General  Stuyvesant  and  the  Coun- 
cil of  New  Netherland.  The  first  meeting  was  held  July  12,  1661. 
Preceding  the  first  court  entry  is  a  copy  of  a  document  dated  May 
31,  1658,  relating  to  the  defence  of  the  village  against  attacks  by 
the  Indians.  This  appears  at  page  3.  The  preceding  two  pages 
are  missing,  but,  judging  from  a  statement  in  The  History  of  Ul- 
ster County,  by  Nathaniel  B.  Sylvester,  Phila.,  1880,  pp.  44  and 
46,  in  a  chapter  copied  from  an  unpublished  manuscript  of  Jona- 
than W.  Hasbrouck,  of  Ulster  County,  they  probably  contained  a 
copy  of  the  order  of  Stuyvesant  giving  the  name  Wildwyck  to  the 
place,  and  a  memorandum  of  the  fact  that  the  court  had  been  es- 
tablished there  in  May,  1661,  and  that  Roeloof  Swartwout  had  been 
appointed  Schout,  together  with  a  copy  of  the  order  of  his  appoint- 
ment   Pages  4  to  10  are  blank.    They  are  referred  to  further  on. 

The  extant  Dutch  records  give  the  legal  history  of  Ulster 
county  quite  fully  to  1684.  They  also  include  a  variety  of  ac- 
count books  from  1676  to  1719,  and  from  1772  to  1774,  as  well 
aa  some  church  ordinances  of  1742.  A  brief  descrip- 
tion of  them,  as  found  in  the  report  of  Prof.  Herbert  L.  Os- 
good on  the  Archives  of  New  York,  printed  in  the  Report  of  the 
American  Historical  Association  for  1900,  Vol.  II,  pp.  78-79,  will 
afford  a  general  idea  of  their  contents  and  of  their  his- 
torical importance.    They  consist  of: 

.  1.  Court  records,  Book  1,  July  21,  1661  to  May  6,  1664.  336 
pp.  Folio.  Prefaced  by  a  copy  of  a  bond  by  the  inhabitants  of 
Esopus,  dated  May  31,  1658,  to  demolish  their  separated  dwellings, 
build  closer  together,  and  surround  the  village  with  a  stockade. 


INTRODUCTION.  HI 

2.  Court  records,  Book  II,  June  29,  1664  to  November  5-15, 
1667.    360  pp.  Folio. 

3.  Court  records,  Book  III,  November  12-22,  1667  to  August 
26,  1673.  302  pp.  Folio.  At  the  end  is  an  indenture  of  service, 
acknowledged  before  the  secretary,  1672-3,  and  in  English,  a  sum- 
mons to  appear  before  the  next  court  of  sessions. 

4.  Court  records.  Book  IV,  November  9,  1673  to  November  11, 
1675.    100  pp.  Folio.    Also  marked  "Liber  C." 

5.  Court  records.  Book  V,  December  22,  1676  to  October  15, 
1684.  243  pp.  Folio.  This  volume  also  contains  an  instrument  of 
December  19,  1685,  acknowledged  before  Thomas  Garton,  justice  of 
the  peace.  In  this  volume  a  list  is  given  of  the  "Prottocol"  or  court 
records,  22  in  number,  stating  which  pages  were  missing  on  Febru- 
ary 19, 1700-01. 

6.  Court  records,  January  8,  1680-1  to  March  13,  1683-4,  and 
March  15,  1680-1  to  September  5,  1683.    354  pp.  Folio. 

7.  Secretary's  papers.  Liber  A,  April  7,  1664  to  December  31 
1665.    140  pp.  Folio.    Contains  depositions,  deeds,  mortgages,  etc. 

8.  Secretary's  papers.  Liber  B.,  1666-1681.  442  pp.  Folio. 
Contains 

(a)  Register  of  the  secretary,  January  5,  1666  to  July  23, 
1667,  190  pp. 

(b)  Contract  of  sale  of  horses,  Gouwert  Poulussen  to  Cor- 
nells Barentsen  Slecht,  1670;  and  two  memoranda  of  fees  due 
March  16,  1670,  and  November  9,  1673,  pp.  191-192.  Pp.  193-220 
are  blank. 

(c)  Register  of  the  secretary,  January  11  to  November  22, 

1675,  pp.  221-235.    Pp.  236  to  254  are  blank. 

(d)  Register  of  the  secretary,  March  10,  1675  to  November  9, 

1676,  pp.  255-276.    Pp.  277-292  are  blank. 

(e)  Register  of  the  secretary,  January  5,  1678-9  to  February 
29,  1860,  pp.  293-295.    Pp.  296  is  blank. 

(f)  Transport  for  three  negro  slaves,  John  Colloway  to  Ga- 
briel Minviele,  1680  (in  English),  p.  297.    Pp.  298  to  316  are  blank. 

(g)  Register  of  the  secretary,  March  3,  1679  to  February  27, 
1679-80,  pp.  317-381.    P.  382  is  blank. 

(h)  Indenture,  December  23,  1678  (In  English),  p.  383.  Pp. 
384-400  are  blank. 

(1)  Register  of  the  secretary,  March  3,  1679-80  to  January  7, 
1680-81.    Pp.  401-442. 

9.  Secretary's  papers.  Liber  C,  1669-1672.  Pp.  13  to  166. 
Folio.  Pp.  1  to  12  are  blank.  Contain  the  register  of  seoretarj 
La  Montagne,  December  27,  1669  to  October  7, 1672. 


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XV  INTEODUCnON. 

10.  Secretary's  papers,  Liber  D,  November  4,  1672,  to  April 
20,  1673.    Contains  deeds,  etc. 

11.  Secretary's  papers,  Liber  E,  1676  to  1679.  216  pp.  Folio. 
Contains  register  of  secretary  La  Montagne,  March  29,  1676,  to 
March  5,  1678-9,  pp.  3  to  133 ;  and  minutes  of  the  court  of  sessions, 
April  26,  1676  to  December  14,  1680,  on  reverse  side,  pp.  134  to 
216. 

12  to  19.  Various  account  books  relating  to  the  poor  funds,  the 
deacons  and  the  church,  all  in  Dutch,  covering  various  dates  be- 
tween 1676  and  1719,  and  also  the  years  1742, 1772  to  1774,  162  pp. 
Folio. 

A  romantic  interest  attaches  to  these  volumes.  Many  years  be- 
fore 1895  they  disappeared  from  the  Ulster  County  Clerk's  office 
at  Kingston,  under  circumstances  not  now  definitely  known.  One 
day  in  June,  1895,  an  express  package  was  received  by  the  Clerk, 
which  upon  being  opened  was  found  to  contain  the  records  just 
described,  together  with  some  others  in  English.  Inquiry  then 
made  resulted  in  the  information  that  they  had  been  shipped  from 
Quogue,  Long  Island,  by  a  gentleman  who  was  a  stranger  to  the 
express  company.  About  fifteen  years  before  this,  rumors  had  been 
circulated  in  Ulster  County  that  the  records  could  be  found  on 
Long  Island,  but  a  sheriff,  armed  with  a  search  warrant,  whose 
arrival  in  New  York  was  heralded  with  an  announcement  of  the 
purpose  of  his  visit,  found  nothing. 

In  explanation  of  their  disappearance  and  return,  Wheeler  B. 
Melius,  in  an  introduction  to  the  index  to  the  Kingston  records, 
printed  in  the  Index  to  the  Public  Records  of  the  Comity  of  Al- 
bany, State  of  New  York,  1630-1894,  quotes  a  statement  concern- 
ing them,  made  by  a  gentleman  named  Van  Alstyne,  residing  in 
Brooklyn,  to  Thomas  J.  Van  Alstyne,  former  Mayor  of  Albany  and 
ex-congressman,  while  in  search  of  genealogical  information.  As 
quoted,  Mr.  Van  Alstyne  of  Brooklyn  said: 

"Tears  ago  I,  with  a  few  others,  became  interested  in  these  old 
Dutch  records  at  Kingston.  There  was  very  little  interest  displayed 
in  their  preservation,  and,  being  written  more  or  less  illegibly  in 
the  old  Dutch  of  that  early  period,  they  were  as  a  sealed  book  to 
most  people.  No  translation  had  ever  been  attempted,  officially  or 
otherwise,  and  as  there  seemed  to  be  no  prospects  of  a  translation, 
the  records  were  removed  to  Brooklyn,  where  arrangements  had 
been  made  for  a  complete  translation  by  an  old  Dutch  scholar.  The 


INTRODUCTION.  v 

work  was  scarcely  started  when  the  translator  was  taken  ill  and 
died.  Owing  to  the  press  of  other  business,  I  lost  track  of  the 
records,  but  it  seems  that  when  the  effects  of  the  deceased  translator 
were  disposed  of,  his  executors,  knowing  nothing  of  the  ownership 
of  the  records,  but  being  satisfied  that  they  were  of  a  public  char- 
acter, had  them  packed  in  a  box  and  removed  to  the  old  city  hall, 
where  they  were  left  undisturbed  for  a  long  time.  I  was  one  of 
the  commissioners  having  in  charge  the  building  of  the  new  city 
hall,  and  when  that  edifice  was  completed  and  the  work  of  trans- 
ferring the  books  and  papers  was  under  way,  this  old  box  of 
Kingston  records  came  to  light.  While  the  officials,  to  whom  the 
records  were  Greek,  were  discussing  the  advisability  of  consign- 
ing the  box  of  'rubbish'  to  the  junk  pile,  I  happened  to  come  into 
the  room,  and  at  once  recognized  the  records.  I  had  them  carefully 
boxed  and  shipped  to  the  Ulster  County  Clerk's  office  at  Kingston. 
No  word  was  sent  with  them,  because  those  who  had  brought  them 
to  Brooklyn  were  unable  to  complete  the  work  and  thought  they 
might  be  open  to  censure  for  removing  them  from  Kingston  and 
then  allowing  them  to  remain  so  long  neglected  and  in  danger  of 
destruction.  These  are  the  facts  of  the  disappearance  and  return 
of  the  Kingston  records,  and  the  mystery  is  a  mystery  no  longer." 

The  Dutch  traded  at  Kingston  Point  as  early  as  1613,  and  left 
some  boats  there  in  1621-22.  No  permanent  occupation  seems  to  have 
been  made,  so  far  as  appears  from  any  manuscript  records,  prior  to 
1652.  In  that  year  Thomas  Chambers,  an  Englishman  by  birth, 
with  a  colony  of  settlers  from  the  Manor  of  Rensselaerswyck,  began 
a  permanent  occupation  of  the  region  of  the  Esopus,  presumably  by 
consent  of  the  aborigines  or  by  purchase  of  farms  from  them.^ 

Rev.  Johannes  Megapolensis  and  Rev.  Samuel  Dris- 
ius,  in  August,  1657,  writing  to  the  Classis  of  Amsterdam,  refer  to 
Esopus  as  follows: 

"About  eighteen  [Dutch]  miles  [about  54  English]  up  the 
North  River,  half  way  between  the  Manhattans  and  Rensselaer  or 
Beaverwyck,  lies  a  place  called  by  the  Dutch  Esopus  or  Sypous  and 
by  the  Indians  Atharhacton  [Atkarkacton].  It  is  an  exceedingly 
fine  country  there.  Thereupon  some  Dutch  families  settled  there, 
who  are  doing  well.  "^ 


>  Tfie  Hintory  of  Ulster  County,  edited  by  Alphonso  T.  Clearwater,  Kings- 
ton, N.  Y.,  1907,  p.  33-34. 

s  EodeeiasticaX  Records  of  New  York,  vol.l,  p.  998. 


VI  INTBODUOTION. 

Although  the  Dutch  authorities  had  forbidden  the  sale  of  brandy 
and  other  liquors  to  the  Indians,  Chambers  reported  to  Director 
General  Stuyvesant  in  May,  1658,  that  some  trouble  had  oc- 
curred at  the  Strand  "through  the  fearful  intoxication  of  the  bar- 
barians." They  had  obtained  an  anker  of  brandy  (about  ten 
gallons),  and,  becoming  intoxicated,  killed  one  of  the  inhabitants 
and  set  fire  to  the  house  of  another,  so  that  the  people  were  com- 
pelled to  fly.  At  a  previous  date  the  Indians,  under  the  influence 
of  liquor,  had  become  quarrelsome  and  had  compelled  the  settlers, 
under  the  threat  of  arson,  to  plow  their  lands  for  them,  killed  some 
hogs  and  a  horse  or  two  that  had  strayed  on  their  plantations,  and, 
in  the  estimation  of  their  white  neighbors,  used  great  violence 
every  day.^ 

On  an  appeal  to  Stuyvesant  for  assistance,  he  went  up  from 
Manhattan  to  the  scene  of  the  disturbance.  In  an  interview  with 
the  inhabitants  he  pointed  out  to  them  the  inadvisability  of  then 
thinking  of  war  against  the  Indians,  and  suggested  that  they  should 
build  closer  together  and  enclose  the  whole  place  with  palisades. 
He  marked  out  for  them  a  site  for  a  village  on  the  north  side  of 
the  Great  Plat,  to  which  he  later  gave  the  name  Wildwyck,  now  the 
oldest  part  of  Kingston.* 

The  agreement  of  the  inhabitants  by  which  they  bound  them- 
selves to  live  close  together,  upon  the  assurance  of  protection  from 
Stuyvesant  in  case  of  attack  by  the  Indians,  is  the  first  entry  in 
the  extant  Dutch  records  now  put  into  print.  A  photogravure  of 
the  record  of  this  agreement  accompanies  this  translation. 

The  Indians  were  not  pleased  with  the  action  of  the  white 
men,  and  complained  to  Stuyvesant  that  the  land  taken  for  the 
village  had  not  been  paid  for,  but  after  a  conference  with  him  they 
agreed  to  yield  their  claim  "to  grease  his  feet  with,  because  he  had 
made  such  a  long  journey  to  come  and  see  them."  Later,  further 
meetings  were  held  with  the  Indians,  and  further  land  obtained 
from  them.  Matters  proceeded  along  with  more  or  less  friction 
until  the  latter  part  of  1659,  when,  through  the  sale  of  intoxicants 


*  Clearwater,  mtpra,  p.  34. 
«  Id.,  pp.  84-36. 


INTRODUCTION.  VH 

to  the  savages,  what  is  known  as  the  Esopus  War  of  1659-1660  wo? 
inaugurated.^ 

A  record  of  this  war  and  of  the  events  leading  to  and  fol- 
lowing it  is  to  be  found  in  the  Documents  relating  to  the  Colonial 
History  of  New  York,  vol.  XIII,  which  is  our  main  source  of  infor- 
mation regarding  the  early  history  of  Esopus  or  Kingston. 

Peace  was  concluded  July  15,  1660,  "under  the  blue  sky."  A 
copy  of  the  treaty  is  given  in  vol.  XIII,  just  mentioned.  By  its 
terms,  the  Sachems  promised  to  convey,  as  indemnification,  all  the 
territory  of  the  Esopus  and  to  remove  to  a  distance  from  there, 
without  ever  returning  again  to  plant.  In  other  words,  they 
promised  to  give  up  the  Groot  Plat  which  Stuyvesant  wanted  and 
which  the  settlers  hoped  to  obtain  without  payment.' 

The  name  Wildwyck  was  given  by  Stuyvesant  to  the  settle- 
ment in  the  spring  1661,  in  a  document  of  which  Sylvester  gives 
the  Dutch  version  which,  as  already  mentioned,  he  indicates  was  the 
first  entry  in  the  records,  page  1.    The  English  reads  as  follows : 

"Peter  Stuyvesant,  Governor  and  Director  General,  commis- 
sioned and  authorized  in  the  control  of  all  matters  relating  to  the 
public  good  of  all  the  territories  of  New  Netherland,  by  virtue  of 
the  authority  and  permission  of  the  Honorable  Lords,  the  Directors 
of  the  Privileged  West  India  Company,  Greeting: 

"The  aforesaid  valiant  Director  General  Peter  Stuyvesant,  ob- 
serving the  situation  and  condition  of  the  place  called  "Esopus," 
already  inhabited  six  or  seven  years,  and  pleased  thereat,  hath,  in 
consideration  of  its  state  and  population,  erected  our  place  into  a 
village,  and  honored  it  with  the  name  of  Wildwyck,  by  which  name 
it  shall  henceforth  be  called."' 

A  court  at  Wildwyck  was  established  by  Stuyvesant  in  May, 
1661.  The  oath  of  office  of  the  commissaries  appointed  to  act  dur- 
ing the  first  year  appears  to  be  dated  May  5,  1661,  though  the  en- 


6  Id.,  p.  36. 
•  Id.,  pp.  33-38. 


i  Nathaniel  B.  Sylvester,  The  History  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  Phlla., 
1880,  p.  44.  The  editor  adds  that  the  new  name  was  given  in  honor  of  the 
Indians  who  had  made  a  "free  gift "  of  the  soil,  and  that  the  Governor  prob- 
ably meant  it  to  be  known  as  Indian  retreat,  Indian  Befuge  or  Indian  Village. 
Though  Sylvester  spells  the  name  Wlltwyck,  the  correct  spelling  Wildwyck, 
which  has  the  meaning  he  mentions,  is  here  used.  The  original  of  the  docu- 
ment he  quotes  does  not  now  appear  to  be  extant. 


1 


Vni  INTEODUCnON. 

abling  ordinance  is  noted  as  having  been  enacted  later,  May  16, 
1661.  The  oath  is  to  be  found  in  Documents,  supra,  vol.  XIII,  p. 
196,  and  reads  as  follows: 

"Whereas,  the  settlement  in  the  Esopus  increases  daily,  it  has 
been  considered  necessary  to  establish  there  a  small  bench  of  jus- 
tice, as  Commissaries  of  which  his  Honor,  the  General,  has  chosen 
Evert  Pels,  Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht  and  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose, 
who  took  the  following  oath  as  Commissaries: 

"  'We  promise  and  swear,  in  the  presence  of  the  Almighty  and 
Ever-present  God,  that  we  will  be  true  and  faithful  to  the  Director 
General  and  Council,  now  in  office  or  hereafter  to  be  appointed, 
under  the  authority  of  Their  High  Might:  the  Lords  States  Gen- 
eral, and  the  Lords  Directors  of  the  Incorporated  West-India  Com- 
pany, Department  of  Amsterdam,  as  our  Masters  and  Patroons, 
that  we  will  hold  them  and  their  orders  in  great  respect  and  obey 
them,  that  we  will  administer  good  law  and  justice  to  the  best  of 
our  knowledge,  prevent  aU  mutiny,  strife  and  disorder,  and  assist 
in  preventing  them  by  all  our  power,  that  we  will  maintain  and 
exercise  the  Reformed  Church  service  and  no  other,  obey  the  in- 
structions received  or  hereafter  to  be  received,  and  finally  do  every- 
thing, which  good  and  faithful  magistrates  are  bound  to  do.  So 
help  us  God  Almighty  1' 

"May  5  [1661].'" 

The  ordinance  establishing  the  court  is  entitled,  "An  Ordi- 
nance of  the  Director  General  and  Council,  for  the  erection  of  a 
Court  of  Justice  at  Wildwyck,"  passed  May  16,  1661.  It  is  print- 
ed in  Laws  and  Ordinances  of  New  Netherland,"  edited  by  E.  B. 
O  'Callaghan,  at  pages  395  to  401,  and  was  no  doubt  intended,  with 
the  preceding  oath  and  the  order  quoted  below,  appointing  the 
Schout,  to  be  copied  in  the  blank  pages  4  to  10  of  Book  I  of  the 
Dutch  records  following  the  document  of  1658,  This  ordinance 
is  also  found  in  the  Documents,  supra,  pp.  196-198,  as  translated  by 
Berthold  Pemow,  with  variations  in  language  from  that  given  in 
0 'Callaghan 's  translation  of  New  York  Colonial  Manuscripts,  vol. 
IX,  pp.  607,  et  seq.  The  0 'Callaghan  translation  is  preferred,  and 
is  here  given,  for  a* clearer  understanding  of  the  translated  court 
records.  In  it  the  name  of  the  village  is  spelled  Wildwyck,  though 
in  Femow's  translation  it  is  printed  Wiltwyck.    It  reads: 

"Petrus  Stuyvesant,  on  behalf  of  the  High  and  Mighty  Lorda 
States  General  of  the  United  Netherlands,  the  Honorable  Directors 


INTEODUCTION.  IX 

of  the  Incorporated  West  India  Company,  Director  General  of  New 
Netherland,  Curacoa,  Bonaire,  Aruba,  and  their  dependencies,  to- 
gether with  the  Council: 

'  *  To  all  who  shall  see  these  Presents,  or  hear  them  read,  Greet- 
ing, make  known: 

"That  their  Honors  do  not  hope  or  wish  for  anything  else  than 
the  prosperity  and  welfare  of  their  good  Inhabitants  in  general, 
and  in  particular  of  the  People  residing  in  the  Village  of  Wildwyck 
situate  in  the  Esopus,  and  in  order  that  such  may  be  effected  and 
preserved,  with  greater  love,  peace  and  unity,  and  to  manifest  and, 
indeed,  to  prove  to  each  Inhabitant  of  the  above  named  Village, 
the  effect  thereof,  the  Director  General  and  Council  aforesaid,  con- 
sidering the  increase  and  population  of  said  village,  have  resolved 
to  favor  its  Inhabitants  with  an  Inferior  Court  of  Justice,  and  to 
constitute  it,  as  much  as  possible  and  the  circumstances  of  the 
Country  will  permit,  according  to  the  laudable  custom  of  the  City 
of  Amsterdam  in  Holland,  but  so  that  all  judgments  shall  remain 
subject  to  reversal  by  an  appeal  to  the  Director  General  and  Coun- 
cil of  New  Netherland,  to  be  by  their  Honors  finally  disposed  of. 
"In  order  that  all  things  may  be  performed  with  proper  order 
and  respect,  it  is  necessary  to  choose,  as  Judges,  honest,  intelligent 
persons,  owners  of  real  estate,  who  are  lovers  of  peace,  and  well 
affected  subjects  of  their  Lords  and  Patroons  and  of  the  Supreme 
government  established    here,  promoters  and  professors  of  the  Re- 
formed Religion,  as  it  is  at  present  taught  in  the  Churches  of  the 
United  Netherlands,  in  conformity  to  the  "Word  of  God,  and  the 
order  of  the  Synod  of  Dordrecht,  which  Court  of  Justice,  for  the 
present  time,  until  it  shall  be  herein  otherwise  Ordained  by  the  said 
Lords,  Patroons  or  their  Deputy,  shall  consist  of  one  Schout,  being 
on  the  spot,  who  shall,  in  the  name  of  the  Director  General  and 
Council  convoke  the  appointed  Schepens  and  preside  at  the  Meet- 
ing; and  with  him,  of  three  Schepens,  to  which  office  are  for  the 
present  time  and  ensuing  year,  commencing  with  the  last  of  next 
May,  elected,  and  on  having  taken  oath  are  confirmed  by  the  Direc- 
tar  General  and  Council,  Evert  Pels,  Cornelia  Baerentsen  Sleght, 
and  Elbert  Heymans  Rose: 

"Before  whom  all  matters  touching  civil  affairs,  security  and 
peace  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Esopus,  also  justice  between  Man 
and  Man,  shall  be  brought,  heard,  examined,  and  determined  by 
definitive  judgment,  to  the  amount  of  Fifty  guilders  and  ulnder 
without  appeal;  when  the  sum  is  larger  the  aggrieved  party  shall 
be  at  liberty  to  appeal  to  the  Director  General  and  Council  afore- 
said, provided  that  he  enter  the  appeal  within  the  proper  time,  and 
give  security  according  to  law,  for  the  principal  and  costs  of  the 
suit. 


[ 


X  INTRODUCTION. 

"In  case  of  disparity  of  votes  and  opinions  on  any  occurring 
cases,  the  minority  shall  coincide  with  the  majority  without  any 
contradiction.  But  those  who  are  of  a  different  advice  and  opinion 
can  cause  their  advice  and  opinion  to  be  entered  on  the  roll  or  rec- 
ord; but  in  no  wise  make  public  their  rendered  advice  outside  the 
Court,  nor  make  it  known  to  parties,  under  arbitrary  correction  at 
the  discretion  of  the  Court  itself, 

"The  Schout  shall,  pursuant  to  the  first  Article,  preside  in  the 
meeting,  and  collect  the  votes;  also  act  as  Secretary  until  further 
order  and  increase  of  the  population.  But  if  he  have  to  act  for 
himself  as  a  party,  or  in  behalf  of  the  right  of  the  Lords  Patroons, 
or  in  behalf  of  justice  for  the  right  of  the  Fiscal,  in  such  case  he 
shall  rise  up  and  absent  himself  from  the  bench,  and  then  have  no 
advisory,  much  less  a  casting,  vote ;  but  one  of  the  senior  Schepens 
shall,  in  such  case,  preside  in  his  place. 

"What  is  set  forth  in  the  preceding  Article  of  the  Schout,  shall 
also  apply  to  the  Schepens,  whenever  any  cases  or  questions  arise 
in  the  aforesaid  Court  between  themselves  as  parties,  or  between 
others  related  by  consanguinity  to  the  appointed  Schepens,  such 
as  brothers,  brothers-in-law  or  cousins  in  the  first  or  direct  line. 

"All  inhabitants  of  the  Esopus  shall,  until  further  order,  either 
of  the  Lords  Patroons  or  their  Supreme  government,  be  amenable 
to  and  subject  to  be  cited  before  the  aforesaid  Schout  and  Commis- 
saries, who  shall  hold  their  Session  and  Court  meeting  in  the  Village 
aforesaid  once  a  fortnight,  harvest  time  excepted,  unless  necessity  1 
and  circumstances  otherwise  require.  / 

"In  order  to  provide  the  good  Inhabitants  of  Wildwyck  with 
cheap  and  inoppressive  justice,  the  Schout,  as  president,  and  the 
Schepens  of  the  Court,  must,  for  the  convenience  of  parties,  appear 
on  the  Court  day,  and  at  the  place  appointed,  on  the  fine  of  Twenty 
stivers,  to  be  at  the  disposition  of  the  Board,  they  being  notified  at  i 
lefist  twenty-four  hours  before  the  Court  day  to  appear,  by  the  \ 
Court-messenger,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Director  General  and  (, 
Council,  and  double  as  much  for  the  President,  unless  excused  by 
sickness  or  absence.  If  appearing  too  late,  and  after  the  appointed 
hour,  the  fine  shall  be  Six  stivers. 

"Extraordinary  Courts  shall  not  be  ordered  at  the  cost  and 
charges  of  the  parties,  except  on  the  application  of  both  parties, 
under  submission  to  costs  on  loss  of  the  suit,  which  costs  shall  prev- 
iously be  deposited  by  the  applicant  or  appellant,  to  wit:  for  each 
Schepen,  Fifty  stivers,  for  the  President,  Three  guilders,  besides 
the  provision  for  the  Clerk  and  Court  messenger,  to  be  hereafter 
appointed  and  other  ordinary  costs,  according  to  law. 


INTEODUCTION.  XI 

"All  cases  of  Crime  shall  be  referred  to  the  Director  General 
and  Council  of  New  Netherland,  saving  that  those  of  the  court  may, 
and  are  bound  to  apprehend,  arrest  and  to  detain  and  hold  in  con- 
finement, all  Criminal  delinquents  until  they  can  send  them  under 
guard  to  the  Supreme  government,  and,  in  the  meantime,  take  good 
and  correct  information  touching  the  Crime  committed,  at  the  cost 
of  the  Criminal  or  the  Treasury,  and  such  transmit  at  the  same 
time  with  the  delinquent. 

"Minor  offences,  such  as  Brawls,  Injuries,  Scolding,  Striking 
with  the  fist.  Threats,  simple  Drawing  of  a  Knife  or  Sword  with- 
out assault  or  bloodshed,  are  left  to  the  adjudication  and  decision 
of  the  Court  aforesaid,  in  which  cases  the  Schout  there  shall  have 
power  to  act  as  prosecutor,  saving,  nevertheless,  the  clause  of  Ap- 
peal, in  case  the  condemned  may  find  himself  aggrieved  by  the 
sentence  of  the  Court. 

"All  cases  of  Major  Crimes,  and  delinquents  charged  with 
Wounding  and  bloodshedding,  "Whoredom  and  Adultery,  public  and 
notorious  Theft,  Robberies,  Smuggling  of  Contraband  articles. 
Blaspheming  and  profaning  God's  holy  name  and  religion.  Sland- 
ering and  calumniating  ^the  Supreme  government  or  its  representa- 
tives, shall,  after  the  informations,  afiidavits  and  testimony  have 
bf en  taken,  be  referred  to  the  Director  General  and  Council  of  New 
Netherland. 

*  *  Should  the  situation  of  affairs  so  require  that  the  President 
and  Schepens  consider  necessary  for  the  greater  security  of  the 
peace  and  quiet  of  the  Inhabitants,  to  enact,  in  the  absence  of  the 
Director  General  and  Council,  some  ordinances  for  the  greater  ad- 
vantage and  contentment  of  the  aforesaid  Village  and  Court  in  the 
above  mentioned  district,  respecting  Surveys,  Highways,  Outlets, 
Posts,  and  Fences  of  Land,  laying  out  of  Gardens,  Orchards  and 
such  like  matters  that  may  most  concern  the  flat  country  and  agri- 
culture; also  in  regard  to  the  building  of  Churches,  Schools  and 
similar  public  works,  and  the  means  how  and  by  which  the  same 
are  so  effected,  they  are  to  commit  to  writing  their  opinions  there- 
upon, and  deliver  them  to  the  Director  General  and  Council,  with 
the  reasons  upon  which  they  are  founded,  annexed,  in  order,  if 
such  be  deemed  necessary,  that  they  may  be  confirmed,  approved 
and  ordered  by  the  Director  General  and  Council. 

*  *  Said  Schout  and  appointed  Schepens  shall  also  be  particularly 
careful,  and  be  bound  strictly  to  observe  and  cause  to  be  observed 
the  Laws  of  our  Fatherland,  and  the  Ordinances  and  Edicts  of  the 
Honorable  Director  General  and  Council  heretofore  ordained  and 
published,  or  hereafter  to  be  ordained  and  published,  and  not  to 


Xn  INTBODUCTION. 

Boflfer  anything  to  be  done  contrary  thereto,  but  to  see  that  the 
contraveners  shall  be  proceeded  against  according  to  law. 

"Said  Schout  and  Court  shall  not  have  power  to  enact,  publish, 
much  less  to  post  up,  any  Ordinance,  Edicts  or  such  like  Acts,  ex- 
cept with  the  previous  knowledge  and  consent  of  the  Director  Gen- 
eral and  Council. 

"The  Schout  and  Schepens  shall  also  be  particularly  careful, 
and  be  bound  to  assist  the  Honorable  Directors  as  Ix)rds  and  Pa- 
troons  of  the  province  of  New  Netherland,  under  the  Sovereignty 
of  their  High  Mightinesses,  the  Lords  States  General  of  the  United 
Netherlands,  and  them  to  help  to  maintain  in  their  Supreme  Juris- 
diction, Right  and  Domains,  and  all  other  their  Prerogatives. 

"Whereas,  it  is  customary  in  our  Fatherland  and  other  well 
regulated  governments,  that  some  change  be  made  annually  in  the 
Magistracy,  so  that  some  new  ones  come  in  [and]  a  few  continue  in 
order  to  inform. the  new;  the  Schepens  now  appointed  shall  pay  due 
attention  to  the  conversation,  demeanor  and  fitness  of  honest  and 
decent  persons.  Inhabitants  of  their  respective  Village,  in  order  to 
be  able,  about  the  time  of  changing  or  election,  to  furnish 
the  Director  General  and  Council  with  correct  information  as  to 
who  may  be  found  fit,  so  that  some  may  then  be  elected  by  the 
Director  General  and  Council. 

"Thus  done  and  given,  at  the  meeting  of  the  Director  General 
and  Council,  hold^en  in  Port  Amsterdam  in  New  Netherland,  the 
16  May,  Ao  1661." 

The  above  ordinance  was,  on  April  25,  1664,  on  petition,  so  far 
modified,  as  to  authorize  the  court  at  Wildwyck  to  enact  by-laws 
and  ordinances  such  as  the  circumstances  of  the  place  and  the 
settlers  might  require,  on  condition  that  it  first  submit  them, 
with  the  reasons  therefor,  to  the  director  general  and  council  for 
their  approval,  and  obtain  the  same,  unless  such  could  not  be  done 
in  consequence  of  the  winter  season.  In  that  case,  the  court  was  em- 
powered to  issue  and  execute  provisional  ordinances,  provided  it 
submit  them  at  the  first  opportunity  to  the  director,  etc.,  for  appro- 
vaL  See  New  York  Colonial  Manuscripts,  vol.  X,  pt.  3,  pp.  205- 
206;  O'Callaghan,  supra,  p.  401.  For  the  petition  and  the  action 
thereon  see  Documents,  supra,  vol.  XIII,  pp.  369-370. 

On  the  establishment  of  the  court,  Roeloof  Swartwout  applied 
for  the  position  of  Schout,  and  on  May  23,  1661  received  an  ap- 
pointment from  the  director  general  and  cooncil  as  "provisional 
Schout  in  the  village  of  Wildwyck  on   th«   Esopus,   to   serve 


INTRODUCTION.  X™ 

there  in  the  capacity  of  Schout,  in  accordance  with  this 
commission  and  the  instructions  already  given  him  or 
hereafter  to  be  given,  as  a  good  and  faithful  Schout  is  bound  to 
do."  {Documents,  supra,  vol.  XIII,  p.  199.)  He  had  returned 
from  a  trip  to  Holland  in  1660,  bringing  with  him  an  appointment 
from  the  Directors  there,  dated  April  15,  1660,  to  act  as  provisional 
Schout,  and  his  instructions  gave  him  authority  to  act  as  judge 
and  to  hear  and  decide  cases,  etc.  (Id.,  pp.  158-160.)  Stuyvesant 
then  refused  to  recognize  the  appointment,  stating  that  he  did  not 
consider  Swartwout,  because  of  his  youth  and  inexperience,  qualified 
for  the  position  and  also  because  no  court  had  yet  been  established. 
Id.,  p.  177 ;  Sylvester,  supra,  p.  47.  He  was  ordered,  however,  by 
the  directors  to  ratify  the  appointment.  Nothing  appears  to  have 
been  done  by  the  Schout  until  the  first  session  of  July  12,  1661. 

The  difficulties  with  the  Indians  did  not  cease  with  the  organ- 
ization of  the  court.  The  Esopus  war  of  1663  occurred,  and  the 
record  shows  the  troublous  days  passed  by  the  inhabitant.*!,  the 
massacre  of  some  of  them,  the  destruction  of  their  property,  and 
the  dangers  they  ran  while  earning  their  living.  The  sittings  of 
the  council  of  war,  appointed  by  Stuyvesant,  headed  by  Marten 
Cregier,  are  also  recorded.  A  treaty  of  peace  with  the  Indians 
was  made  May  15,  1664. 

The  records  now  here  printed  supplement  the  data  in  the  arch- 
ives at  Albany,  partly  printed  in  the  Documents,  supra. 

The  picture  of  life  in  the  village  presented  by  the  reading  of 
the  first  part  of  these  records  now  printed,  covering  the  Dutch 
period,  is  an  interesting  one.  That  substantial  justice  was  meted 
out  to  the  inhabitants  in  their  disputes  is  clearly  evident. 

The  minutes  show  at  first  a  primitive  state  of  affairs,  but  grad- 
ually present  a  more  organized  aspect.  We  read  first  of  complaints 
of  shortage  in  the  food  supply  for  the  military,  and  of  clashes  be- 
tween the  soldiers  and  some  of  the  inhabitants.  Then  comes  the 
sad  case  of  Grietjen  Westercamp  and  her  efforts  to  establish  the 
paternity  of  her  child.  Later,  after  the  inauguration  of  the  sec- 
ond Indian  war  in  1663,  we  read  of  Aeltje  Sybrants,  the  wife  of  the 
gamier  Matthys  Boelof  sen,  and  her  contemptuous  treatment  of  the 
<Nrder  of  the  council  of  war  forbidding  the  sale  of  strong  drink  to 


1 


xrr  INTRODUCTION. 

the    troops    or    to    the    Indians,    and    of    the     proceedings    to 
punish  her  for  contempt.    Suits  for  slander  also  appear.    One  man 
felt  aggrieved  because  he  was  called  a  Jew,  another  becai|;se  he  was 
called    deceitful,  and  another  because  he  was  called  a  little  tattle- 
tale.     One  litigant  railed  at  the  court  after  losing  his  case  and 
called  one  of  the  judges,  who  was  a  physician,  a  bloodsucker,  and 
was  brought  to  the  bar  to  apologize.     Suits  were  frequent  for  the 
recovery  of  money  due  for  wages,  goods  sold  and  money  loaned.      ] 
Mortgages  and  deeds  were  put  on  record.    Lots  for  building  pur-      1 
poses  were  granted  by  the  court  to  various  applicants.     Various     j 
orders  are  entered  for  the  regulation  of  affairs  in  the  village.    Ap- 
peals are  noted  in  a  number  of  cases  to  the  director  general  and 
council  in  New    Amsterdam.    Stuyvesant  himself  appears  as  a      H 
suitor  for  money  due  from  tenants  and  others.    The  Schout,  Swart-      1  ! 
wout,  occasionally  appears  as  a  defendant,  though  usually  as  plain-       1 
tiff  to  collect  fines  for  violation  of  orders.     His  suits  for  the  recov-       ■ 
cry  of  fines  for  violation  of  the  ordinance  forbidding  any  one  to 
go  out  to  mow  without  a  convoy,  are  of  interest  as  showing  the 
strictness  of  the  precautions  to  prevent  attacks  by  the  Indians.  •  -, 

The  troubles  of  Domine  Blom,  the  first  minister,  in  his  efforts    I } 
to  collect  his  salary,  in  arrears  for  several  years,  are  reflected  in    i  i 
suits  against  a  number  of  the  inhabitants  who  had  agreed  to  pay    [ 
their  share  but  had  neglected  to  do  so.    His  letter  to  the  magis-    ' 
trates  regarding  the  non-payment  is  worthy  of  perusal.    Suits  re-    / 
lating  to  the  parsonage  then  being  erected  are  several  times  men-  ,  ' 
tioned.    The  domine 's  dispute  with  the  magistrates  regarding  the  [\  \ 
administration  of  the  estates  of  several  intestates,  as  to  which  the  ',  j 
church  claimed  an  ecclesiastical  right,  is  the  subject  of  various  en-  /i 
tries.    In  one  of  these  the  domine  takes  occasion  to  rebuke  the  court 
for  writing  to  him  a  business  letter  dated  on  a  Sunday.    In  his  re- 
ply he  expresses  his  astonishment  that  they  should  work  on  that  day,  Vi 
seeing,  as  he  said,  that  there  were  enough  other  days  in  the  week, 
and  he  adds  that  this  no  doubt  is  the  reason  why  the  magistrates' 
pew  is  empty  during  the  Sunday  morning  and  afternoon  services. 
His  anxiety  for  the  welfare  of  the  community  is  shown  in  a  long  let- 
ter in  which  he  asks  the  magistrates  to  co-operate  with  him  to  sup- 
press the  celebration  of  Fastenseen  (Shrove   Tuesday   or  Mardi 


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INTRODUCTION.  XV 

Gras),  as  being  of  pagan  origin  and  conducive   to   Bacchanalian 
orgies.     The  Court  gave  the  necessary  order. 

The  farming  out  of  the  excise  by  auction  is  recorded,  and  suits 
for  smuggling  and  non-payment  of  the  impost  are  noted.  Many 
suits  involving  arrests,  attachments,  partnership  disputes  and  other 
classes  of  litigation  appear.  The  retired  magistrates  came  in  for 
a  reprimand  for  not  making  up  their  accounts  for  the  information 
of  their  successors,  who  were  appointed  annually,  and  were  ordered 
to  hand  them  in  at  once. 

Finally,  the  on  coming  of  the  English  is  noted  by  a  reference  to 
the  course  of  action  to  be  pursued  if  they  should  appear  at  the 
gates.  Then  we  read  of  the  selection  of  Willem  Beeckman  to  pro- 
ceed to  Manhattan  to  obtain  a  warrant  of  authority  for  the  continua- 
tion of  the  court,  and  also  of  his  return  with  the  warrant,  dated  Oc- 
tober 24, 1664,  entered  in  full  in  the  minutes  of  November  14  of  that 
year,  as  translated  from  the  English  into  Dutch.  The  original  Eng- 
lish version  does  not  appear  to  be  extant.  These  minutes  are  here 
included  as  well  as  those  of  the  succeeding  session,  November  18, 
1664.  The  latter  contain  the  record  of  an  important  lawsuit  be- 
tween Stuyvesant,  then  described  simply  as  Mr.  Stuyvesant  and  no 
longed  director  general,  and  one  of  his  debtors. 

"We  meet  in  the  Dutch  period  with  many  familiar  names,  such 
as  Tierck  Claszen  de  Witt,  Alaerdt  Heymansz  Roose  or  Roosa,  Al- 
bert Gysbertsen,  Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  Sergeant  Christiaen  Nissen, 
Thomas  Chambers,  Mattheus  Capito,  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht, 
Evert  Pels,  Nicolaes  de  Meyer,  Henderick  Jochemsen,  Juriaen 
Westphael,  Matthys  Roeloofsen,  Jacob  Barentsen  Cool,  Jan  Wil- 
lemsen  Hoochteylingh,  Willem  Beeckman,  Thomas  Harmensen, 
Walran  du  Mont,  and  others.  The  Schout,  Roeloof  Swartwout,  act- 
ed for  two  years  as  recorder  of  the  minutes.  The  later  entries 
were  made  by  his  successor,  Mattheus  Capito,  who  was  also  de- 
signated as  secretary.  Their  records  are  precisely  kept,  so  that  the 
meaning  can  be  clearly  gathered,  though  the  language  used  in  fre- 
quently tautological,  terse  or  elliptical. 

The  spelling  of  names  in  the  body  of  the  minutes  differs  in 

many    cases    from    that    found    in    signatures.     These    varia- 

,  tions  have  been  followed  in  this  translation.    Some  of  these  names 


Xn  INTEODUCnON. 

printed  here  appear  as  though  containing  typographical  errors. 
These  follow  the  spelling  in  the  Dutch  entries.  No  attempt  has  been 
made  to  reproduce  the  sign  manual  adopted  by  those  who  could 
not  write.  Titles  and  other  abbreviations  in  the  original  record 
are  given  in  fuU  in  the  translation.  The  letters  "ij"  of  the  Dutch 
in  names  have  been  transcribed,  as  "y"  in  the  English.  Original 
signatures  are  printed  in  caps  and  small  caps. 

The  name  of  the  village  always  appears  as  Wildwyck  while 
Capito,  the  more  scholarly  writer,  was  the  recorder  of  the  min- 
utes. Before  that,  in  Swfl,rtwout's  entries,  it  appears  as  Wildt- 
wyck.  Wiltwyck,  frequently  seen  in  translations  of  other  writ- 
ings and  in  accounts  of  Kingston,  does  not  occur  in  these  records. 
Throughout  the  further  records  above  referred  to,  yet  to  be  pub- 
lished, the  spelling  is  Wildwyck.  In  those  records  the  village  was 
called  Kingston  from  1671  on,  except  during  the  Dutch  re-occupa^ 
tion  in  1673-4,  when  the  name  Swanenburgh  was  given  to  it.  If 

This  translation  covers  the  whole  of  Book  I,  336  pages,  and .       \  | 
also  46  pages  of  Book  II,  of  the  Dutch  records. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  fb'st  installment  will  meet  with  a  favorable       j 
reception.    The  interest  of  the  record  grows  with  the  growth  of  the     i  » , 
colony.    Afl  the  great  German  poet  has  so  well  said :  if/i 

"Examine  where  you  will  the  teeming  sea  of  human  life,  / '  | 

(All  are  of  it,  but  not  to  many  is  it  known),  \  >f 

With  fruitful  interest  you'll  always  find  it  rife."  j  'i 


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FIRST  PAGE  OF  WILDWYCK  RECORDS 


THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON 
BOOK  1 

[Resolution  op  Inhabitants  of  Esopus,  Mat  31,  1658, 

AND 

Court  Records  of  Wildwyck,  July  12,  1661-May  6,  1664.] 

[Pages  1  and  2  are  missing.     See  Introduction.] 
Copy. 

Having,  through  very  sad  cases  and  to  our  general  injury,  ex- 
perienced and  borne,  from  time  to  time,  the  treacherous  and  intol- 
erable audacity  of  the  wild  and  barbarous  natives,  and  realizing  the 
folly  of  trusting  to  their  promises  and  our  own  risk  and  danger  in 
living  separated  and  far  apart  from  each  other  among  such  treach- 
erous and  vindictive  people. 

We,  the  undersigned  inhabitants  of  the  Esopus,  in  meeting  as- 
sembled, have,  upon  the  suggestion  of  the  Director  General,  the  Lord 
Petrus  Stuyvesant,  and  his  promise  to  provide  us  with  a  protec- 
tive guard  and,  when  needed,  to  assist  us  with  additional  troops, 

Resolved,  that,  for  the  greater  security  of  ourselves,  our  wives 
and  children,  we  will,  immediately  after  subscribing  to  these  pres- 
ents, completely  demolish  our  separate  dwellings,  and  locate  at 
the  place  designated  by  the  Lord  General,  and,  by  our  own  united 
efforts,  together  with  the  assistance  of  the  Lord  Director  General, 
surround  the  place  with  palisades  of  a  proper  height,  in  order,  with 
the  blessing  of  the  All-Good  God,  the  better  to  protect  ourselves  and 
our  property  against  the  hostile  assaults  of  the  savages.  And, 
invoking  the  Divine  blessing  and  help,  and  using  all  honorable 
means,  we  bind  ourselves  to  enter  upon  this  work  at  once  and  to 
complete  it  as  soon  as  possible,  a  fine  of  one  thousand  dollars  to  be 
paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  commimity,  as  a  penalty,  by  any  who 
by  word  or  deed  oppose  this. 


2  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [  l66g 

For  the  greater  security  whereof  we  have  personally  signed 
our  names  hereto,  in  the  presence  of  the  Right  Honorable  Lord 
Director  General  and  Mr.  Goovert  Loockermans,  former  Schepen  of 
the  City  of  Amsterdam  in  New  Netherland.  Done  this  last  of  May^ 
Ao.  1658. 

Jacob  Jansen  Stol,  Thomas  Chambers,  Cornelis  Barense 
Slecht,  the  mark  (x)  of  Willem  Jansen,  made  by  himself,  the  mark 
(x)  of  Pieter  Dircksen,  made  by  himself,  Jan  Jansen,  Jan  Broersen^ 
his  mark  (x),  made  by  himself,  Dirck  Hendricksen  Graef,  (x)  his 
mark,  made  by  himself,  Jan  Lootman. 

In  presence  of  the  Lord  Petrus  Stuyvesant  and  Goovert 
Loockermans. 

The  above  copy,  made  by  order  of  the  Commissaries,  has  been 
found,  after  comparison,  to  agree  with  the  original. 

Attest, 

ROELOOP   SWARTWOUT,   Schout. 

[Pages  4  to  10  in  original  record,  blank.     See  Introduction  as 
to  probable  record  intended  to  be  entered  here.] 

July  12,  1661. 

First  Ordinary  Session,  held  at  Wildtwyck, 

Resolved,  by  the  Schepens  here  present,  to  hold  Court  on 
Tuesday  and  thereafter  every  two  weeks,  until  the  further  order 
of  the  Director  General  and  Council  of  New  Amsterdam. 

On  the  same  day.  Sergeant  Christiaen  Nissen  romp  informs 
the  Schout  and  Schepens  here  present,  that  whereas,  no  grain  is  to 
be  had  here  for  the  militia,  Pieter  van  Alen,  the  shoemaker,  is 
exporting  wheat.  Whereupon,  deliberation  having  been  had,  it  is 
resolved  that  the  shoemaker  shall  deliver  his  remaining  grain  to 
Sergeant  Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  who  is  authorized  to  pay  him  on 
delivery. 

On  the  same  day,  the  Schout  and  Schepens  appoint  one  Jacob 
Joosten  to  attend  to  all  kinds  of  church  service  and  services  for  the 
Court.  He  is  appointed  Court  Messenger,  provisionally,  until  the 
farther  order  of  the  Director  General,  and  shall  receive  for  one  year 
two  hondred  guilders  [one  guilder  equals  forty  cents],  in  zeewant. 


1661]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  3 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  September  13,  1661. 

Present:  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymansen,  Cornelis  Baren 
Slecht. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Coenraedt  the  soldier,  defendant. 
Default. 

Tjirick  Classen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Femmetjen.    Default  . 

Hendrick  sewant  reyger  [braider  of  sewant]  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan 
Buur.     Default. 

Mathys  Blanchan,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hendrick  sewant  reyger 
{braider  of  sewant].        Default. 

Pieter  van  Alen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Sergeant  Christiaen  Nissen 
romp.    Default. 

Machtelt  [Stoffels],  plaintiff,  vs.  Gerrit  van  Campen.    Default. 

Femmetjen  [Alberts],  plaintiff,  vs.  Gerrit  van  Campen.  De- 
fault. 

Femmetjen  [Alberts]  demands  payment  of  twelve  guilders,  in 
zeewant. 

The  Schout,  prosecutor  and  plaintiff,  vs.  Thomas  Chambers, 
defendant. 

The  Schout  declares  that  Thomas  Chambers  drew  a  knife  against 
hiK  brother-in-law,  Jan  Janssen,  at  Cornelis  Barentse  Slegt's  house, 
which  is  denied,  by  the  defendant.  Also  that,  on  the  last  day  of 
August,  Thomas  again  drew  a  knife  against  Jan  Janse  and  wound- 
ed him,  which  also  is  absolutely  denied  by  the  defendant. 

Albert,  the  carpenter,  asks  for  a  building  lot,  which  is 
granted  him. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  September  28,  1661. 

Pieter  van  Alen,  prosecutor  and  plaintiff,  vs.  Sergeant  Chris- 
tiaen Nissen  romp. 

Pieter  van  Alen  complains  that  the  Sergeant  beat  him  in  the 
guard  house,  and  pursued  him  on  the  public  street.  In  defense, 
the  Sergeant  says  that  Pieter  took  brandy  into  the  guard  house 
and  sold  it  there. 

Resolved,  [rest  of  page  blank]. 

Catelyn  the  Walloon,  plaintiff,  complains  of  the  cowherder, 
that  he  does  not  drive  the  cows  home  in  time  and  that  he  did  not 
drive  them  home  for  two  days. 


4  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1661 

In  defense,  the  cowherder  says  that,  as  she  does  not  drive  her 
cows  to  the  herd,  he  cannot  take  care  of  them. 

Ordered,  that  Catelyn  shall  drive  her  cows  to  the  herd  and 
that  the  defendant  shall  then  take  care  of  them. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  declares  that  Mathys  Constapel 
[the  gunner]  tapped  during  the  sermon.  This  the  defendant  de- 
nies, and  says  it  is  not  true. 

Gritedgen  [Hillebrants],  plaintiff,  demands  that  her  master 
say  if  he  knows  aught  against  her  as  a  reason  why  he  discharged  her. 

Juriaen  Westgaer,  the  defendant,  says  that  when  he  was  sick 
she  went  out  every  day  and  returned  home  late  at  night,  and  that 
he  then  said  to  her,  "Where  you  have  been  during  the  day,  go 
there  also  at  night." 

Tjyrick  Classen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pemmetje,  defendant.  Default. 
Default. 

The  Schout  plaintiff  vs.  Poulus  Poulssen  defendant. 

The  Schout  declares  that  Poulus  drew  a  knife.  This  the 
defendant  denies. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  [blank  space  in  original]. 

Jan  Lammerse  asks  for  a  building  lot,  to  be  built  upon  at 
once. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  October  11,  Anno  1661. 

Present:  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht,  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Hey- 
manse;  the  Schout,  Roeloof  Swartwout. 

Piet;er  Jacobsen  requests  the  Schout  and  Schepens  to  fix  his 
charges  for  grinding  corn.  And  whereas  the  said  petitioner  leaves 
it  to  the  decision  of  the  Court,  he  is  allowed  to  charge  for  every 
schepel  [about  one  bushel],  eight  stivers  [one  stiver,  equals  two 
cents]  in  zeewant,  and  as  to  those  who  have  no  zeewant  he  may 
deduct  a  tenth  part  but  no  more.  This  permission  is  to  be  for  one 
year,  or  until  the  further  order  of  the  Director  General  and  Coun- 
ciL 

The  Lord  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Fop  Barense.  The  Schout 
declares  that  complaint  has  been  made  that  Fop  Barents  created 
a  disturbance  in  front  of  the  guard  house,  and  there  defied  the 
Corporal,  knife  in  hand,  the  which  Corporal  Hanson  attests  and 


1661]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  5 

says  actually  took  place.  Whereupon,  having  considered  the 
matter,  the  Schepens  give  the  officer  time  until  the  next  Court  day 
to  get  the  Sergeant  to  testify. 

Basje  Pieterse,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  of  Aert  Otters- 
poor  of  nineteen  guilders,  in  zeewant.     Default. 

Basjen  Pieterse,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pop  Barense.  Plaintiff  demands 
forty  guildeis,  in  zeewant,  of  Pop  Barense  who  admits  owing  the 
same  and  promises  to  pay  within  a  month  from  date,  under  penalty 
of  execution. 

Basje  rieteise.  \s.  Poulus  Poulussen,  demands  payment  of 
the  amount  of  twenty-three  guilders,  in  zeewant.  Default. 

Tjirck  Classen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Roeloof  Swartwout  pay- 
ment of  three  and  a  half  schepels  of  wheat,  and  also  of  seven 
schepels  of  wheat  assigned  to  him  by  some  one  else.  The  Schout 
is  ordered  to  pay  three  and  a  half  schepels  of  seed-corn  within  eight 
days,  the  other  seven  schepels  to  be  paid  within  a  month. 

On  this  day  the  Schout  submits  some  written  charges  against 
Thomas  Chambers,  all  of  which  the  latter  denies. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  October  25,  [1661]. 

Present:     Evert  Pels,  the  Schout,  Cornells  Barense  Slecht. 

Evert  de  Waeesman,  defendant. 

The  Commissaries  demand  a  mudde  of  wheat  [about  four 
bushels]  and  seven  guilders,  nine  stivers,  which  Evert  Pels  under- 
takes to  pay,  the  same  to  go  to  the  poor. 

Evert  de  Waelsman,  plaintiff,  demands  from  William  Jansen 
Stol,  as  payment  for  two  cows,  the  amount  of  two  hundred  guilders, 
in  corn.     William  Jansen  Stol  is  ordered  to  pay  within  two  months. 

Evert  de  Waelsman,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Tjirick  Clasen  pay- 
ment of  wages  for  nineteen  days,  and  for  mowing  grass  two  days. 
[Defendant]    is  ordered*  to   pay  two  schepels   of  wheat  for  the 
mowing  of  the  grass,  and  two  gldrs.  in  zeewant,  per  day,  for  the 
nineteen  days,  and  to  pay  the  whole  amount  within  six  weeks. 
I  /      Jacob  Joosten,  plaintiff,  vs.  Poulus  Poulussen.    Default, 
j       Jacob  Joosten,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen.    Default. 
^       Tjirick  Clasen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Hillebrantsen.     Default 

Thomas  Chambers  requests  of  the  Commissaries  further  par- 
iculars  from  the  Schout  of  the  written  charges  made  against  him. 


6  THE  DUTCH   RECORDS   OP  KINGSTON.  [1661 

And  whereas  Thomas  requests  the  same  to  be  in  writing,  though 
he  has  received  a  copy  and  he  claims  that  omissions  occur  therein, 
the  Commissaries  have  therefore  examined  said  copy,  and  find  the 
same  to  be  correct  and  to  correspond  with  the  original  charges. 
At  the  request  of  the  Schout,  it  is  consented  that  the  parties  be  re- 
ferred to  the  Lord  Director  General  and  Council  of  New  Amster- 
dam, or  they  may  await  the  arrival  of  the  Lord  General. 

October  26,  Anno  1661. 

Extraordinary  Court  Session,  called  by  Thomas  Chambers  to 
proceed  against  the  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout, 

Whereas,  Thomas  Chambers,  by  petition,  asks  the  Commis- 
saries, "Why  am  I,  Thomas,  not  permitted  to  appear  before  the 
Court,  notwithstanding  the  Schout  has  summoned  me?" 

The  reason  why  Thomas  was  summoned  is  because  of  the 
four  schepels  of  wheat  which  he  guaranteed  for  his  servant  Poulus 
Poulussen,  and  for  which  he  refuses  to  pay  to  the  Court  Messenger 
sent  to  him.  The  Consistory  petitioned  that  the  Magistrate  should 
kindly  demand  the  same.  The  Schout  therefore  summoned  him, 
Thomas.  If  his  name  was  not  called  from  the  calendar,  his  default 
will  be  opened.  Secondly:  Whereas,  Thomas  by  a  petition  has 
further  requested  the  Commissaries  to  give  reasons  why  the  par- 
ties are  referred  to  the  Director  General  and  Council,  the  Com- 
missaries answer  that,  as  Thomas  has  denied  all  the  charges  which 
the  Schout  presented  against  him,  and  as  these  concern  the  Sup- 
reme Magistrates,  the  matter  has  been  referred  to  the  Director  Gen- 
eral and  Council  of  New  Amsterdam. 

Thus  done,  for  cause  us  thereunto  moving.  | 

By  order  of  the  Commissaries.       1 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  November  8,  Anno  1661.  i 
Present:    The  Schout,  Evert  Pels,  Comelis  Barense  Slecht. 

Aldert  Heymanse,  absent.  ^ 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  demands  of  the  Sergeant  proof  of  wha^ 

he  has  complained  about  Fop  Barentse.      The  Sergeant  denies  th 

Fop  Barense,  the  defendant,  also  declares  it  to  be  untrue,  and  sa; 

he  was  at  work. 


1661]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  7 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  Alen,  defandant.    Default. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjirick  Clasen,  defendant.  Default. 

Matheus  Blanchan,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  Alen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff,  by  virtue  of  a  power  of  attorney  conferred  upon  him  by 
Pousien  Briel,  demands  payment  of  Pieter  van  Alen  of  the  amount 
of  two  schepels  of  wheat.    Default. 

Jan  Aersen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Evert  Pels,  defendant, 
payment  of  the  amount  of  forty  gldrs.,  thirteen  stivers.  Defend- 
ant offers  to  pay  the  plaintiff  in  strung  zeewant.  The  plaintiff, 
Jan  Aersen,  is  not  satisfied  with  zeewant.  He  is  ordered  to  show, 
at  the  next  session  of  the  Court,  whether  the  debt  arose  in  beavers 
or  in  zeewant,  and,  as  the  defendant  does  not  admit  owing  in 
beaver  price,  Jan  Aersen  is  required  to  submit  a  true  account. 

Gertjen  Bouts,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Jan  Aersen,  payment  of 
the  quantity  of  twenty-one  schepels  of  wheat.  Jan  Aersen  admits 
owing  the  same  and  on  consent  promises  to  pay  one-half  within 
two  weeks,  and  the  other  half  next  spring. 

Jan  Jansen  van  Eyckelen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Margrita 
Clabbort  payment  of  the  sum  of  seventy-two  guilders. 

Margrita,  on  the  other  hand,  demands  payment  from  Jan  Jan- 
sen van  Eyckelen  of  rent  incurred  while  living  in  her  house. 

The  Commissaries  having  heard  the  parties,  both  are  referred, 
under  orders  from  the  Schout  and  Schepens,  to  two  good  men 
to  arbitrate  the  matter  as  far  as  possible.  For  which  purpose  the 
Schout  and  Schepens  select  Jacob  Boerhans  and  Aldert  de  Rade- 
maker  [the  wheelright],  who,  if  a  decision  should  prove  too  diffi- 
cult, are  permitted  to  choose  a  third. 

Jan  Joosten  van  Eykelen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Pieter  Loock- 
ermans  the  payment  of  fourteen  schepels  of  wheat  and  asks  to  be 
allowed  to  attach  his  money  here.  Pieter  Loockermans  says  he 
does  not  owe  him  any  wheat,  and  that,  besides,  he  has  worked 
for  him  two  or  three  days.  The  Commissaries,  having  heard  the 
parties,  refer  them  to  the  judge  having  jurisdiction. 

Jan  Janse  van  Eyckelen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  "Willemse,  defend- 
ant.   Plaintiff  demands  of  Jan  Willemsen  payment  for  the  amount 
I  of  six  schepels  of  wheat    Default. 


8  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1661 

Basjen  [Pieters],  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Otterspoor.  Plaintiff  de- 
mands of  Aert  Otterspoor  payment  of  nineteen  guilders.  Aert 
Otterspoor  admits  owing  Basjen  Pieters  nineteen  guilders,  and  as- 
signs to  Basjen  Pieters  [his  claim]  against  Evert  Pels  who  agrees 
to  pay  the  same. 

Basjen  Pieters,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Poulus  Poulussen  pay- 
ment of  the  amount  of  twenty-three  guilders  and  assigns  one-half 
of  it  to  the  poor  or  to  the  church.  Third  default. 

The  Schout  and  Schepens  order  the  defendant  to  pay  within 
two  days,  together  with  the  costs  accrued  under  the  law  relating 
thereto. 

Note.  Poulus  Poulussen  having  appeared  this  day,  and  having 
been  heard  in  his  defense,  denying  everything,  he  saying  that  he 
drank  there  only  once,  for  which  the  new  farmer  paid  for  him, 
the  Commissaries,  having  heard  both  parties,  order  Basjen  Pieters 
to  prove  the  debt,  the  party  found  in  the  wrong  to  pay  the  costs. 

Femmetjen  Alberts,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Gerrit  van  Cam- 
pen,  defendant,  payment  of  the  amount  of  twelve  guilders.  Second 
default. 

Geertruyt  Vosburgh,  plaintiff,  says  that  she  gave  an  order  to 
Jan  van  Breeman  for  two  hundred  boards  to  be  delivered  here  at 
Wildtwyck.  Jan  van  Breeman,  defendant,  produces  a  certificate 
by  two  witnesses,  that  Gysbert  van  den  Bergh  would  not  let  the 
boards  go  forward  until  the  payment  of  the  money  advanced  by 
him  thereon. 

And  as  Geertruyt  Vosburgh  had  Jan  van  Breeman  arrested 
here,  and  she  showed  us  an  extract,  dated  August  23,  whereby  the 
Honorable  Commissaries  of  Fort  Orange  ordered  the  defendant 
either  to  pay  or  to  deliver  the  boards  at  this  place,  the  defendant 
is  ordered  to  furnish  a  bond  for  the  remaining  one  hundred  and 
fifty-two  boards,  and  he  offers  as  surety  Juriaen  Westgaer.  This 
(x)  is  the  mark  of  Juriaen  Westgaer.  And  for  this  reason  the  par- 
ties are  referred  to  the  judge  having  jurisdiction. 

Fop  Barense,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Jan  Jansen,  defendant, , 
eight  schepels  of  wheat  for  wages  earned  by  him.    Default.  j 

Evert  de  Wachtsman  [the  watchman],  plaintiff,  demands  of 
Juriaen  Westgaer,  defendant,  payment  of  the  amount  of  forty 


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1661]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  9 

gldrs.  in  zeewant.  Defandant  admits  owing  the  same  and  promises 
to  pay  within  fourteen  days. 

Gritjen  Hillebrants,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Juriaen  Westgaer 
payment  of  her  full  wages,  and  says  that  her  master  discharged 
her.  Defendant  denies  this,  and  Gritjen  is  ordered^  to  produce 
good  witnesses  at  the  next  session  of  the  Court. 

Eymmetjen,  defendant,  places  under  attachment  the  moneys 
of  Jan  the  weaver,  which  are  in  the  custody  of  Comelis  Barense 
Slecht. 

Ymmetjen  de  Backster  [the  baker],  defendant,  places  under 
attachment  the  moneys  of  Arent  Isacsen,  which  are  in  the  custody 
of  Cornells  Barense. 

First  Session,  held  Wednesday,  November  16,  Anno  1661. 

Present:  The  Noble  Lord  General,  Petrus  Stuyvesant;  The 
Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout;  Commissaries,  Evert  Pels,  Cornells 
Barense  Slecht,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roosa. 

Femmetje  Albert,  plaintiff,  demands  twelve  guilders  of  Gerret 
van  Campen,  who  admits  the  debt.  The  Schout  and  Schepens 
order  the  defendant  to  pay. 

Mathyeu  Blanchan,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  Alen,  defendant. 
The  third  default. 

Gritjen  Hillebrants,  plaintiff,  says  that  her  master  dis- 
charged her,  which  she  offers  to  prove  by  two  witnesses.  They  tes- 
tify that  they  heard  her  master  say:  "Where  you  have  been  dur- 
ing the  day,  go  there  also  at  night."  Juriaen  Westgaer,  de- 
fendant, says  that  what  the  witnesses  say  is  correct.  Both  parties 
having  been  heard,  Juriaen  Westgaer  is  ordered  to  pay  Gritjen 
Hillebrantsen  a  quarter  year's  wages. 

Jan  Jansen  van  Eyckelen,  plaintiff,  demands  a  receipt  and  the 
liquidation  of  the  balance  of  his  account.  He  testifies  under  oath 
that  the  debt  is  just,  according  to  his  account.  Arien  Symensen,  the 
defendant,  is  ordered  to  give  plaintiff  a  receipt  and  to  pay  the  bal- 
lance  of  the  debt. 

1  Bart  Sybrantse,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Lowys  Dubo  the  amount 
lof  seven  schepels  of  wheat  as  payment  for  the  freight  of  cattle. 
Lowys  Dubo,  defendant,  says  he  paid  his  share. 


10  THE  DirrCH  BECOEDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1661  { 

Whereas,  the  defendant  admits  having  ordered  the  cattle  of         / 
Bart,  he  is  therefore,  after  deliberation,  ordered  to  pay. 

Bart  Sybrantsen,  plaintiff,  demands  sixteen  guilders  in  zeewant 
from  Harmen  Jansen  in  payment  for  passage  of  himself,  wife  and 
children  from  the  Manethans  [Manhattan],  to  the  Hesopues  [Eso- 
pus] ,  also  eight  guilders  paid  to  Mr.  Poulus,  besides  half  a  schepel 
of  peas.  Harmen  Jansen,  defendant,  admits  that  he  owes  the 
debt,  and  is  ordered  to  pay,  before  his  departure,  twenty-four  guil- 
ders in  zeewant  and  a  half  schepel  of  peas,  to  Bart  Sybrantsen. 

Geertruyt  Andrissen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Gerrit  van  Cam- 
pen  payment  of  two  schepels  of  wheat  and  eleven  guilders  in  zee- 
want.  Gerrit  van  Campen,  defendant,  having  been  heard  in  his 
own  defense,  is  condemned  to  pay  one  schepel  of  wheat  and  eleven 
guilders,  in  zeewant. 

"Weynant  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  of  Jan  Lam- 
mersen,  defendant.  The  first  default. 

Ordinary  Session  held  Tuesday,  November  22,  [1661]. 

Present:  The  Noble  Lord  General,  Petrus  Stuyvesant;  Schout 
Roeloof  Swartwout;  Commissaries,  Evert  Pels,  Cornells  Barense 
Slecht,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roosa. 

Evert  Prys,  plaintiff,  by  a  petition,  demands  the  return  of  the 
two  cows  he  let  to  Roeloof  Swartwout  for  one-half  of  the  nat- 
ural increase,  which  is  testified  to  by  Pieter  Jacobsen.  Roe- 
loof Swartwout,  the  defendant,  admits  having  hired  the  cows,  and 
is  permitted  to  keep  said  cows  until  the  expiration  of  the  three 
years,  as  contracted  for. 

Mathyue  Blansan,  plaintiff,  summons  Pieter  van  Alen  again, 
and,  by  virtue  of  a  power  of  attorney  from  Toeryn  Briel,  demands 
two  schepels  of  wheat  and  a  sack  [zak,  or  three  schepels].  Defend- 
ant's third  default. 

He  is  ordered  after  the  third  default  to  pay  to  Matheue  Blan- 
chan,  by  virtue  of  a  power  of  attorney,  and  the  costs  of  the  case.   | 

"Wynant  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  demands  thirty  guilders  in  zeej 
want  from  Jan  Lammersen,  defendant,  who  admits  he  justly  owes 
the  debt.    The  parties  having  been  heard  by  the  Honorable  Court, 


1661]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  11 

the  defendant  is  ordered  to  pay  Weynant  Gerritsen  thirty  guil- 
ders, the  amount  claimed,  besides  the  costs  accrued  herein. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  demands  a  fine  of  Tjirick  Clasen  because 
he  carted  during  the  harvest.    Fined  six  guilders. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  demands  a  fine  of  Pieter  van  Alen, 
because  he  desecrated  the  Sabbath  by  receiving  people  and  selling 
them  brandy  during  the  sermon.  The  defendant  is  ordered,  on  his 
third  default,  to  pay  the  legal  fine. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  at  Wildtwyck,  December  6,  1661. 

Present:  The  Lord!  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Cornelis  Barense 
Slecht,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roosa. 

Jonas  Ransou,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roeloofsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  alleges  that  defendant  murderously  attacked  him  at  night, 
without  reason  or  cause.  He  accuses  him  of  having  been  at  his 
wife's  bed,  and  of  having  overpowered  him,  so  that  he  would  have 
been  murdered  if  no  assistance  had  come,  the  which  plaintiff  says 
he  can  prove.    Defendant's  first  default. 

Machtelt  Stoffels,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Altjen  Constapel  a 
pettycoat  which  plaintiff  loaned  her  when  she  fled  from  her  hus- 
band, Mathy  Constapel.    Defendant's  first  default. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp.  Sergeant,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Magiel 
Veree  eight  guilders,  heavy  money,  and  also  two  schepels  of  loaned 
wheat.  Defendant  says  he  paid  the  eight  guilders  of  heavy  money 
to  My  Lord  the  General.  Whereas,  Magiel  Veere  can  not  prove  the 
payment,  therefore  the  Schout  and  Commissaries,  having  heard  the 
parties,  order  Magiel  Feere  to  pay  the  aforesaid  amount  within 
six  weeks. 

On  the  same  date,  Cornelis  Jansen,  sawyer,  petitions  for  a  lot 
for  a  house,  which  is  granted  him  by  the  Schout  and  Schepens, 
the  same  to  be  pointed  out  to  him  at  the  first  opportunity. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  at  Wildtwyck,  January  3,  Anno,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout,  Roeloof  Swartwout,  Aldert  Heymanse 
Boosa,  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht. 

1  Tjirick  Classen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  the  Schout,  Roeloof 
Swartwout,  the  cost  of  three  summonses  and  also  demands,  with- 
out proof,  two  schepels  of  wheat. 


12  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

Roeloof  Swartwout,  the  defendant,  denies  owing  the  two  sche- 
pels  of  wheat  demanded  by  the  plaintiff.  "Whereas,  Tjirick  Cla- 
sen  cannot  prove  the  debt,  his  claim  is  rejected,  but  the  Schout  is 
ordered  to  pay  for  the  three  summonses. 

Tjirick  Clasen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Pieter  Hillebranteen, 
defendant,  eight  schepels  of  wheat.  Pieter  Hillebrantsen  admits 
he  owes  the  debt.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries,  having  heard  the 
parties,  order  Pieter  Hillebrantsen  to  pay  the  plaintiff  two  schepels 
every  week  until  the  eight  schepels  are  paid. 

Huybrecht  Bruyn,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Tjirick  Clasen  the 
value  of  six  schepels  of  wheat.  The  defendant  admits  he  owes  the 
debt,  and  promises  to  pay  th6  same  to  the  Schout  within  six  weeks. 

Casper  Caspersen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Pieter  Jillessen  pay- 
ment of  the  amount  of  thirty-two  guilders  zeewant,  as  per  obliga- 
tion. The  defendant  Pieter  Jillisse  admits  he  owes  the  plaintiff. 
The  Commissaries,  having  heard  the  parties,  order  the  defendant 
to  pay  within  fourteen  days. 

Capser  Casperse,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Jonas  Ransou,  payment 
of  the  amount  of  twenty-nine  guilders,  sixteen  stivers,  in  zeewant, 
08  per  obligation.  The  defendant  admits  he  owes  the  debt.  The 
Schout  and  Commissaries,  having  heard  the  parties,  order  Jonas 
Ransou  to  pay  the  amount  sued  for  within  eight  days. 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Albert  Gerritsen 
payment  of  the  cost  of  palisades  for  a  lot  bought  and  not  built 
upon.  The  defendant  answers  as  follows:  The  Schout  and  Com- 
missaries have  given  me  the  lot  for  which  I  am  to  pay  six  schepels 
of  wheat  for  expenses  incurred  for  palisades. 

Mathys  Roelofsen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Aert  Aertsen  Otters, 
poor  payment  of  the  quantity  of  ten  schepels  of  wheat,  due  for 
drinks  of  brandy.  The  first  default. 

Huybrecht  Bruyn,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Parent  Gerritsen  pay- 
ment of  the  value  of  sixteen  schepels  of  wheat  for  wages  earned 
on  a  lot  of  work  thus  undertaken,  which  Jan  Westhoesen  is  willing* 
under  oath  to  affirm  he  heard.  The  first  default. 

Albert  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jan  Jansen  van 
Ammerstede  payment  of  the  quantity  of  twenty-seven  sohepeli 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  13 

of  wheat  due  for  wages  earned.  Defendant  Jan  Janse  van  Amers- 
foort's  [sic]  first  default.     Paid. 

Jan  Jansen  van  Amersfoort,  plaintiff,  vs.  Willem  Haf.  The 
first  default. 

Gerrit  van  Campen  appears  and  assigns  to  Jan  Barensen 
fdz  schepels  of  wheat  which  Aldert  Heymanse  promises  to  pay. 

Matheu  Blanchan,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Pieter  van  Alen, 
by  virtue  of  an  earlier  judgement  against  him,  payment  of  two 
fichepela  of  wheat  and  a  sack.  Whereas,  Pieter  van  Alen  shows  us 
A  receipt  from  Toesyn  Briel's  son-in-law  for  the  debt  sued  for, 
dated  November  24,  and  whereas  Matheu  Blanchan  has  pressed  the 
Schout  to  issue  execution  against  Pieter  van  Alen,  who  has  de- 
manded security  from  Matheu  Blanchan,  which  is  conceded  as  due 
to  Pieter  van  Alen,  but  Matheu  Blanchan  refuses  to  give  security, 
«nd  the  parties,  at  their  request,  having  been  heard,  Pieter  van 
Alen  is  ordered  to  pay,  as  aforesaid,  provided  Matheu  Blanchan 
gives  security  on  his  claim  against  Pieter  van  Alen. 

January  10,  Anno  1662. 

Huybrecht  Bruyn  requests  an  extraordinary  session  of  the 
<3ourt  for  the  purpose  of  proceeding  against  Barent  Gerretsen,  the 
party  found  in  the  wrong  to  pay  the  cost. 

Huybrecht  Bruyn,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Barent  Gerritsen, 
•defendant,  payment  of  the  value  of  sixteen  schepels  of  wheat  for 
wages  earned,  for  which  he  had  contracted  with  the  defendant. 
Barent  Garretsen,  the  defendant,  denies  owing  the  value  of  sixteen 
schepels  of  wheat,  but  says  that  he  made  a  contract  with  Huybrecht 
Bruyn  for  the  mason  work,  for  sixteen  schepels  of  oats,  of  which 
he  offers  to  make  oath. 

Huybrecht  Bruyn  produces  two  certificates,  one  by  Jan  West- 
husen  who  certifies  and  declares,  at  the  request  of  Huybrecht 
Bruyn,  that  Barent  Gerretsen  contracted  for  the  mason  work  in 
putting  up  two  brandy-stills,  and  an  axle  with  which  to  grind,  and 
a  malt  kiln,  in  consideration  of  sixteen  schepels  of  wheat,  or  in 
oats  at  the  price  of  wheat,  three  schepels  of  oats  to  be  reckoned 
equal  to  one  schepel  of  wheat;  and  he  confirms  the  same  under 
^ath. 


14  THB  DUTCH  REGOBDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1662 

The  second  certificate,  made  by  Jan  Broersen,  states  that  he 
was  present  when  Huybrecht  Bruyn,  the  mason,  demanded  sixteen, 
schepels  of  wheat  from  Barent  Oerritsen,  and  he  confirms  the 
same  with  his  oath. 

The  plaintiff  declares  the  debt  sued  for  is  just,  and  this  he- 
confirms  under  oath. 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries,  having  considered  the  matter 
and  having  found  a  great  error,  thereupon  order  Barent  Gerritsen 
to  pay  the  demanded  quantity  of  sixteen  schepels  of  wheat,  beside* 
the  cost  of  the  trial.    The  defendant  is  allowed  a  stay  of  two  weeks.. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  at  Wildtwyck  this  17th  of  January^ 
Anno  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Comelis  Barense  Slecht,  Evert  Pela^ 
Aldert  Heymanse  Hoosa. 

Jonas  Ransou,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Prys,  defendant.  ^The  first 
default.    Paid. 

Magiel  Feree,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  Alen,  defendant.  The 
first  default.    Paid. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Fop  Barense,  defendant.. 
The  first  default. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Aertsen,  defendant.  The 
first  default.  Paid. 

Barent  Gerretsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hey  Olfertsen,  defendant.  The 
first  default.    Paid. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Ransou,  defendant.  The 
first  default.    Paid. 

Barent  (Jerretsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Jansen,  defendant.  The 
first  default.    Paid. 

Jan  Jansen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Willem  Jansen  Hap,  de- 
fendant, payment  of  the  quantity  of  thirty  schepels  of  wheat. 
Against  Willem  Jansen  Stol,  defendant.    Paid.     The  first  default.. 

Albert  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  demands  twenty-seven  schepels  of 
wheat  from  Jan  Jansen  for  wages  earned.  The  defendant  answers 
he  does  not  owe  any  money  until  he  shall  have  received  the  money 
from  William  Jansen  Stol.  The  plaintiff  replies  that  he  will  bei 
able  to  prove  that  Jan  Jansen  must  pay  him. 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  15 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Dirck  Willemse 
payment  of  the  quantity  of  ten  schepela  of  wheat,  according  to 
account.  The  defendant  admits  owing  plaintiff  ten  schepels  of 
wheat,  and  assigns  to  him  his  claim  against  Tjirick  Clasen  to  receive 
the  value  of  ten  schepels  of  wheat. 

Cornelis  Jansen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  Alen,  defendant.  The 
first  default. 

Jan  Dircksen  van  Breeman,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornelis  Jansen,  de- 
fendant. The  first  default. 

Jan  Dircksen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Lammerse,  defendant.  The 
ifirst  default. 

Hendrick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  demands  ten  and  a  half  schepels 
•of  wheat  from  Jonas  Ransou.    The  first  default. 

Hendrick  Jochemsen  attaches  the  value  of  six  schepels  of  wheat 
telonging  to  Jonas  Ransou,  in  the  possession  of  Dirck  Willemsen. 

Hendrick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  of  Jacob 
Jansen,  defendant.    The  first  default. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  January  31,   [1662]. 

Present:  The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert 
Heymanse  Roosa,  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht. 

Albert  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Jan  Jansen  van  Amers- 
foordt,  defendant,  payment  of  the  quantity  of  twenty-seven  schepels 
of  wheat.  Defendant  admits  he  owes  no  more  than  sixteen  schepels 
of  wheat  for  work  and  for  making  "Willem  Jansen  Stol's  harness. 
He  admits  still  owing  eleven  schepels  of  wheat  on  account  of  the 
work  of  Geertruyt  Andrissen,  but  promises  to  pay  these  eleven 
schepels  at  the  completion  of  the  job.  The  Schout  and  Commissar- 
ies order  the  defendant  to  pay  the  first  half  of  the  sixteen  schepels 
of  wheat  within  two  weeks,  and  the  other  half  one  month  after  date. 

Jonas  Ransou,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Evert  Prys  payment 
of  the  amount  of  ten  schepels  of  wheat,  three  half  pints,  forty-fiv/» 
stivers,  on  account  of  brandy  delivered  to  him. 

The  defendant  answers  that  he  owes  only  for  a  pint  of  brandy. 
The  plaintiff  says  he  is  ready  to  prove  that  the  debt  sued  for  is  just. 

Hey  Olfersen,  plaintiff,  complains  that  Barent  Gerritsen 
eat  and  kicked  him  and  trampled  upon  him,  and  proves  it  by 


16  THE  DUTCH  EECOEDS  OP  KIN08T0N.  [1662 

xour  witnesses,  viz.  Jan  Lammersen,  Alberent  Gerritsen,  Gommert 
Gerritsen,  Aert  Pietersen  Tack. 

The  defendant,  Barent  Gerritsen,  admits  having  beaten  the- 
plaintiff  three  times,  and  says  he  beat  him  because  plaintiff  heaped 
abuse  upon  him  and  said  that  he,  Barent  Gerritsen,  was  a  scoun- 
dreL  The  defendant  is  granted  time  until  the  next  session  of  the- 
Court  to  prove  his  assertions. 

Jan  Jansen  van  Amersfoort,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Willem 
Jansen  Stol,  payment  of  the  amount  of  fifteen  schepels  of  wheat 
for  wages  earned.  The  defendant  admits  owing  plaintiff  the  amount 
sued  for.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  the  defendant  to- 
pay  the  plaintiff  the  first  half  within  six  weeks,  and  the  balance- 
one  month  after  [that]  date. 

Session,  held  Tuesday,  February  7,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout;  Comelis  Barense 
Slecht,  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Heymanse  Roosa. 

Dirck  Ariaensen,  plaintiff,  says  he  worked  for  Evert  Pels  dur- 
ing harvest  time,  and  threshed  twenty-seven  days.  He  demands,  as 
daily  wages  for  threshing,  two  guilders,  in  zeewant,  and,  for  har- 
vesting, two  guilders,  ten  stivers,  in  grain,  per  day.  The  defend- 
ant. Evert  Pels,  answers  he  owes  the  plaintiff  no  more  than  one 
guilder,  ten  stivers,  for  threshing,  and  two  guilders,  ten  stivers 
for  harvesting,  both  in  zeewant. 

The  Commissaries  order  the  defendant  to  pay  the  plaintiff 
for  harvesting,  two  guilders,  ten  stivers,  in  wheat,  and,  for  thresh- 
ing, one  guilder,  ten  stivers,  in  zeewant,  each  per  day. 

Jan  Aersen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Evert  Pels  payment  of 
the  quantity  of  sixty  schepels  of  oats.  The  cjef  endant  admits  owing 
Jan  Aersen  the  above  demanded  sixty  schepels  of  oats  and  prom- 
ises to  pay  within  fourteen  days. 

Jan  Aersen,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  of  Roeloof  Swartwout. 
Defendant  admits  owing  the  plaintiff  and  says,  if  the  plaintiff  in 
willing,  he  will  pay  him  at  the  opening  of  navigation. 

Hendrick  Comelissen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Albert  Gysbert- 
sen  payment  of  the  quantity  of  four  and  a  half  schepels  of  oats  for 
wages  earned.    The  defendant  admits  owing  the  amount  sued  foi?» 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINOSTON.  17 

and  promises  to  pay  within  fourteen  days,  at  the  option  of  the 
plaintiff. 

Hendrick  Cornelissen,  plaintiff,  demands  a  mudde  of  wheat 
[about  four  bushels]  or  its  value  from  Jan  Willemsen  for  wages 
earned.  The  defendant  admits  owing  plaintiff  the  aforesaid 
amount,  provided  plaintiff  first  completes  the  work  contracted  for. 
The  Commissaries  order  plaintiff  first  to  finish  his  work  and  then  to 
demand  payment. 

Hendrick  Corneelissen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jan  Lootman's 
wife  payment  of  the  amount  of  twelve  guilders,  in  zeewant.  The 
defendant,  Jan  Lootman,  denies  the  debt,  and  answers  he  does  not 
know  what  his  wife  has  done,  but  promises  the  plaintiff  eight  guild- 
ers he  owes  him.  The  Commissaries  order  the  defendant  to  pay 
plaintiff  eight  guilders,  in  zeewant,  and  the  plaintiff  to  prove  the 
balance  of  the  debt. 

Haremen  Hendricksen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Pieter  Hille- 
brantsen  payment  of  the  amount  of  eight  schepels  of  wheat,  as  per 
obligation  assigned  to  him.  The  defendant  admits  owing  the  quan- 
tity demanded.  The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  within 
three  days  three  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat,  and  the  balance 
within  six  weeks. 

Storm  Albertsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Baerent  Gerritse 
the  quantity  of  forty  schepels  of  oats  in  payment  for  an  anker  of 
brandy  [about  ten  gallons].  The  defendant,  Albert  Gerretse,  ad- 
mits owing  the  amount  demanded.  The  Commissaries  sentence 
defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  within  one  month. 

Hey  Olfersen,  plaintiff,  demands  of  Barent  Gerritsen,  as  per 
complaint  heretofore  presented,  security  for  his  hurts,  physician's 
fee,  and  lost  time.  Barent  Gerritsen  admits  having  thrice  beaten 
Hey  Olfersen,  as  heretofore  stated,  and  that  he  cannot  prove  any- 
thing further.  The  Commissaries  order  and  refer  the  parties  to  two 
good  men  within  the  period  of  thrice  twenty-four  hours. 

Machiel  Feere,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Pieter  van  Alen  pay- 
ment of  the  amount  of  two  and  a  half  schepels  of  wheat  for  wages 
earned.  The  defendant,  Pieter  van  Halen,  refuses  to  pay  the 
amount  sued  for,  and  says  he  does  not  owe  it,  and  has  overpaid  the 
plaintiff.    The  Commissaries  having  examined  the  accounts  of  the 

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parties  find  that  defendant  has  paid  one  schepel  of  wheat  too  much, 
on  which  account  the  plaintiff  is  ordered,  if  he  cannot  adduce  fur- 
ther proof,  to  pay  the  defendant  one  schepel  of  wheat. 

The  Schout,  as  plaintiff,  declares  that  on  February  2,  Anno 
1662,  one  Jacob  Boerhans  was  found  very  badly  hurt  in  his  own 
house,  and  that  there  were  present,  Jan  van  Breemen,  Sergeant 
Christiaen  Nissen  roemp,  Poulus  Poulussen,  the  Norman,  of  which 
I  demand  judicial  inquiry. 

'  Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  defendant,  says  he  is  not  able  to  say 
anything  about  it. 

'  Poulus  Thomassen,  defendant,  says  he  did  not  know  anything 
about  it  until  he  came  in  on  the  morning  of  the  following  day,  and, 
seeing  what  had  taken  place,  went  immediately  away.  He  testifies, 
however,  that  the  Sergeant  took  a  knife  from  the  table,  and  threat- 
ened him,  Poulus  Tomassen,  with  the  same. 

'  Jan  Dircksen  van  Breeman,  defendant,  says  he  was  there 
too,  but  does  not  know  how  Jacob  Boerhans  happened  to  get  hurt, 
saying,  "I  weis  drunk."  He  declares  that  he  knew  that  Sergeant 
Christiaen  Nissen  romp  and  Poulus  Tomsen  had  had  trouble,  and 
that  Poulus  Tomassen  had  tried  to  break  the  Sergeant's  sword,  and 
had  broken  the  scabbard  to  pieces. 

Defendant  Jan  Jansen  van  Hamersfoort  was  called  upon  to 
testify,  but  declares  that  he  does  not  know  how  Jacob  Boerhans 
happened  to  get  hurt,  as  he  arrived  there  after  it  happened. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp  testified:  "Poulus  Tomassen  broke 
the  scabbard  of  my  sword  to  pieces,  and  thereupon  fell  over  the 
bench,  and  upon  me,  and  thereupon  I  took  a  knife  from  the  table 
and  said  to  him,  '  Get  off  of  me.'  " 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday  this  14th  of  February,  1662. 

Present :    The  Schout ;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Boosa. 

Machiel  Fere,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  Halen,  defendant.  The 
plaintiff  demands  another  two  and  one  half  schepels  of  wheat  from 
Pieter  van  Halen.  Defendant  denies  owing  anything  to  plaintiff, 
and  even  claims  a  balance  in  his  favor.  Whereas,  parties  have  not 
made  up  their  accounts,  the  Commissaries  refer  the  parties  to  two 
good  men,  Tomas  Chambers  and  Albert  G^rritsen. 

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1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  19 

Jacob  JoGsten,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Pieter  Hillebrantsen 
payment  for  the  value  of  four  schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant's  first 
default. 

Matys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jacob  Jansen  thirty- 
six  schepels  of  oats.  The  defendant  admits  he  owes  the  plaintiff 
thirty-six  schepels  of  oats.  The  Commissaries  order  the  defend- 
ant to  pay  within  three  months. 

Mathys  Roelofsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jacob  Barense 
payment  of  three  schepels  of  wheat,  due  for  wine  delivered  to  de- 
fendant. The  defendant  admits  owing  three  schepels  of  wheat,  but 
says  he  is  not  able  to  pay  at  present,  and  requests  two  or  three 
months'  time.  The  Commissaries  order  the  defendant  to  pay  within 
two  months. 

Hendrick  Janse  Looman,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jacob  Joosten 
payment  of  the  value  of  forty  schepels  of  wheat,  due  for  moneys 
advanced.  The  defendant  admits  he  justly  owes  the  plaintiff.  The 
Commissaries  order  the  defendant  to  pay  twenty  schepels  of  wheat 
within  two  months,  and  the  balance  after  that  date. 

Jacob  Joosten,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Mathys  Roeloofsen, 
three  and  a  half  schepels  of  wheat  for  school-money  earned  by  him. 
The  defendant  admits  owing  plaintiff  the  aforesaid  amount  and 
requests  four  weeks'  time,  which  are  allowed  him. 

As  plaintiffs,  Aert  Aertsen  and  Pieter  Jillessen  demand  full 
payment  for  taking  care  of  the  Schout's  cows.  The  Schout  an- 
swers that  they  were  only  to  take  care  of  the  cows  during  harvest 
time,  and  therefore  he  refused  full  payment.  The  plaintiffs  say 
that  as  the  Schout  had  the  cows  brought  to  his  land  they  were  not 
obliged  to  receive  them  again.  The  Commissaries  order  the  Schout 
to  pay  in  full. 

Albert  Gysbertsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Aert  Jacobsen  pay- 
ment of  the  value  of  three  beavers,  wages  earned  for  making  a 
plough.  The  defendant  answers  he  owes  no  more  than  two  beavers 
and  a  half.  The  Commissaries  find  that  plaintiff  is  entitled  to  his 
full  wages,  and  thereupon  defendant  is  ordered  to  satisfy  the  plain- 
tiff. 
I      Jonas  Ransou,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Prys,  defendant.    Defatilt. 


20  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

Hey  Olfertsen,  plaintiff,  says,  Barent  Gerritsen  has  been  un- 
willing to  appear  before  good  men  to  settle  his  difference  with  me. 
The  defendant  answers  that  he  has  not  had  time.  The  Commissar- 
ies order  the  defendant  to  pay  to  Hey  Olfersen,  according  to  the 
account  furnished,  eighteen  guilders,  four  stivers,  and  in  addition, 
for  expenses  incurred,  such  as  court  summons,  six  gldrs.  more, 
making  together  twenty-four  gldrs,,  four  stivers. 

The  Commissaries  order  plaintiff  to  pay  a  fine  of  six  gldrs., 
for  the  poor. 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerretsen,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  says  he  bought  of  defendant  three  ankers  of  distilled 
waters,  one  anker  [about  ten  gallons]  to  be  delivered  every  consecu- 
tive week.  The  defendant  answers,  and  admits  he  sold  plaintiff 
three  ankers  of  distilled  waters  and  delivered  two  of  them,  but  says 
he  is  not  willing  to  deliver  any  more  until  he  is  first  paid.  The 
Conmiissaries  order  the  defendant  to  deliver  the  third  anker  of 
wine  within  a  week's  time,  and  further  order  the  plaintiff  to  pay 
within  a  week  from  date  thirteen  schepels  of  wheat  and  fifty 
guilders,  in  zeewant. 

Jan  Lammersen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Femmetjen  Alberts 
five  schepels  of  wheat,  the  selling  price  of  a  pig. 

The  defendant,  Femmetje  Alberts,  answers  she  does  not  owe 
more  than  four  schepels  of  wheat.  The  plaintiff  answers  he  will 
be  satisfied  with  four  schepels.  The  Commissaries  order  defend- 
ant to  pay  one-half  within  two  weeks  and  the  other  half  two  weeks 
after  date. 

Jan  Barense  van  Ammeshof,  plaintiff,  demands  from  the 
Schout  payment  of  the  value  of  nineteen  schepels  of  wheat. 

Roeloof  Swartwout,  the  defendant,  admits  the  debt  and  re- 
quests time.  The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  within  six 
weeks. 

Jacob  Joosten,  plaintiff,  demands  from  the  Schout  seven 
schepels  of  wheat  and  one  daelder  [sixty  cents]. 

The  Schout,  defendant,  admits  the  debt.  The  Commissaries 
order  defendant  to  pay  within  one  month. 

Jan  Janse  Brabander,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Aert  Jacobsea, 
defendant,  payment  of  the  value  of  ten  schepels  of  oats.  The  de- 
fendant admits  the  debt  and  promises  to  pay  the  oats.  ( | 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  21 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintifif,  demands  from  Fop  Barense, 
defendant,  as  payment  for  a  hat,  six  schepels  of  wheat  and  five 
gldrs,,  ten  st.,  in  zeewant.  Defendant  admits  owing  the  debt  sued 
for.     Plaintiff  grants  defendant  three  weeks'  time. 

The  Schout,  as  plaintiff,  again  informs  the  Commissaries  that 
one  Jacob  Boerhans  was  very  badly  wounded  in  his  own  house, 
and  requests  to  be  allowed  to  secure  legal  evidence  concerning  the 
same  from  the  witnesses  who  were  present  at  the  time,  viz.,  Chris- 
tiaen Nissen  romp,  Poulus  Tomassen,  Jan  Dircksen  van  Breeman, 
and  requests  that  Jan  Jtinse  give  testimony  in  regard  to  the  same, 
as  he  had  come  there. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  February  28,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Heymanse  Roosa, 
Cornelis  Barense  Slecht. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Matys  Roeloofsen  and 
Altjen  Sybrants,  defendants. 

Plaintiff  demands,  as  payment  for  a  hat,  the  value  of  six 
schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  but  answers  he  has 
an  account  against  the  plaintiff. 

Plaintiff  says  the  account  is  wrong,  and  defendant  answers  that 
he  is  able  to  prove  the  same. 

The  Commissaries  order  the  defendant,  in  accordance  with  his 
own  request,  to  prove  his  account  at  the  next  session  of  the  Court. 

[No  names  appear  in  the  following  case,  but  judging  from  the 
second  entry  in  the  next  session  it  was  between  Christiaen  Nissen 
romp  and  Mathys  Roeloofsen.] 

The  plaintiff  tells  the  Court  how;  the  defendant,  during  the 
night,  pushed  the  drunken  savages  out  of  the  house,  which  the  de- 
fendant admits,  saying  they  rushed,  with  kettles,  in  and  out  of  the 
house. 

The  plaintiff  further  says  that,  because  he  happened  to  men- 
tion this  at  the  house  of  Jan  Brouwersen,  the  defendant,  and  espec- 
ially his  wife,  called  him,  the  plaintiff,  names,  in  his  own  house,  on 
a  Sunday  before  the  morning  sermon,  saying  he  was  a  rascal  and  a 
thief— "you  robber  of  reputations." 


22  THE  DUTCH  BECOEDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

The  defendant  admits  having  called  plaintiff  names,  and  con- 
siders him  now  just  such  a  person  as  he  was  stated  to  be,  and  asks 
if  he  can  prove  that  I  sold  brandy  to  the  savages. 

On  the  second  count,  the  Commissaries,  upon  the  plaintiff's 
demand,  order  the  defendant  to  prove  at  the  next  session  of  tho 
Court  what  rascally  and  thieving  acts  the  plaintiff  has  committed, 
under  a  penalty  [to  be  imposed  on]  defendant,  as  an  example  to 
others.  In  addition,  the  defendant  is  ordered  to  prove  how  the 
savages  obtained  the  brandy,  or  he  will  be  punished  at  the  next 
session  of  the  Court. 

Jonas  Ransou,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Evert  Parys,  defend- 
ant, payment  of  the  amount  of  ten  schepels  of  wheat  and  forty-five 
stivers  for  sold  brandy.  Defendant  denies  the  debt.  Martin  Har- 
mense,  a  witness,  says  that  Jonas  Ransou  fetched  three  cans  of 
brandy  for  defendant. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  a  witness,  says  he  heard  that  Evert 
Prys  promised  to  pay  Jonas  Ransou  ten  schepels  of  wheat. 

The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  to  the  plaintiff  the 
amount  sued  for,  within  two  months,  unless  the  defendant  can  fur- 
nish counter  proof. 

Evert  Parys,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Ransou,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff says  that  Jonas  Ransou,  in  the  presence  of  Poulus  Poulussen, 
Jan  Brouwersen  and  Jan  de  Brabander,  called  him  a  thief  and  a 
scoundrel. 

The  defendant  denies  having  called  names,  but  says  that  plain- 
tiff did  not  act  right  in  trying  to  keep  from  defendant  what  belong- 
ed to  him. 

Storm  Albertsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jonas  Ransou,  de- 
fendant, payment  of  the  amount  of  ten  schepels  of  oats  and  two 
schepels  of  wheat,  as  per  obligation  which  ought  to  have  been  paid 
Dec.  10,  1661.  The  defendant  admits  the  debt.  The  Commissaiv 
ies  order  defendant  to  pay  within  two  weeks,  without  further  delay, 
besides  the  costs. 

Aert  Pietersen  Tack,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Aert  Jacobsen 
payment  of  the  amount  of  eighty-one  schepels  of  oats.  Defendant 

admits  the  debt  but  says  he  is  not  now  able  to  pay.  Bequests  timq. 

I 

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1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  23 

Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  the  plaintiff  twenty  schepels 
of  oats  every  two  weeks  until  the  debt  is  paid. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Matys  Roelofsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  the  defendant  payment  of  thirteen  schepels 
of  wheat  and  fifty  guilders,  in  zeewant,  for  wines  delivered  to  him. 
Defendant  says  that,  whereas  plaintiff  did  not,  in  accordance  with 
the  judgment,  deliver  the  third  anker,  he  does  not  now  want 
plaintiff's  wines,  and  requests  that  the  third  anker  of  wine  be 
deducted  from  the  bill.  The  Clommissaries  order  plaintiff  to  value 
the  anker  of  wine  at  eighty  guilders,  in  zeewant,  to  be  deducted 
from  the  bill. 

Defendant  is  ordered  to  pay  plaintiff  eight  schepels  of  wheat 
within  two  weeks. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hey  Olfersen,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  presents  a  petition  informing  the  Commissaries  that 
he  gave  an  order  to  Hey  Olersen,  the  carpenter,  to  build  a  house 
for  him,  to  be  finished  without  delay,  and  that  he  needs  it 
badly.    Requests  to  be  allowed  to  employ  another  carpenter  on  it. 

The  defendant  answers  that  he  will  have  the  work  done  within 
two  weeks,  to  be  ready  for  occupancy  at  the  pleasure  of  the  plain- 
tiff. 

Whereas  this  matter  has  already  been  before  the  Schout  and 
Schepens,  defendant  guarantees  the  completion  of  the  above  and, 
in  case  of  failure,  to  pay  a  fine  of  fifty  guilders  to  the  poor,  at  the 
pleasure  of  the  Commissaries. 

Barent  Gerrisen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Ransou,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  payment  of  the  value  of  six  schepels  of  wheat  for 
wine  delivered.  Defendant  demands  an  account  of  what  has  been 
received  for  the  same.  The  Commissaries  order  plaintiff  to  make 
out  and  send  in  his  account. 

Dirck  Arianese,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  payment  of  twenty-seven  guilders,  ten  stivers,  in 
wheat,  and  also  forty  guilders,  ten  stivers,  in  zeewant.  Defendant 
answers  he  paid  four  schepels  of  wheat,  leaving  a  balance  due  of 
five  schepels.  The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff 
two  schepels  of  wheat  within  eight  days,  and  of  the  balance,  on« 
flchepel  each  week,  and  to  pay  the  zeewant  within  three  weeks. 


24  THE  DUTCH  BECOEDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

Evert  Pels,  plaintiff,  vs.  Qeertruyt  Andrissen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  five  hundred  guilders, 
eighteen  stivers,  to  be  paid  in  heavy  money. 

The  defendant  answers  that  he  has  a  counter  bill,  and  also  that 
the  accounts  do  not  agree  but  that  there  is  a  considerable  difference 
between  them.  The  parties  are  allowed  by  Schout  and  Commissar- 
ies two  weeks'  time  to  verify  and  square  their  accounts,  and  are 
ordered  to  furnish  copies  to  each  other. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  March  19,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout,  Roeloof  Swartwout;  Cornelia  Barense 
Sleght,  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roosa. 

Storm  Albertsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Ransou,  defendant.  The 
first  default. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roeloofsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  again  demands  that  defendant  prove  what  ras- 
calities and  slanders  the  plaintiff  committed. 

Defendant  requests  another  two  weeks'  time  to  adduce  proof. 
At  the  request  of  the  defendant,  the  parties  are  granted  two  weeks' 
time  by  the  Schout  and  Commissaries. 

Qeertruyt  Andriessen,  plaintiff,  presents  an  account  against 
the  Schout,  and  demands  fifty  lbs.  of  butter  and  some  beavers,  for 
carting  sixteen  stack-poles. 

The  Schout  demands  a  copy  of  the  account  with  full  particu- 
lars. The  Commissaries  allow  the  parties  two  weeks'  time,  and 
ord£r  a  copy  of  the  account  to  be  furnished. 

Lowys  Dubo,  plaintiff,  vs.  Coenraet  Jans  or  Ham  and  Chris- 
tiaen Andrissen,  defendants. 

Plaintiff  demands  from  defendants  payment  of  five  schepels  of 
rye,  on  account  of  ribbons  sold  them.  Defendants  admit  the  debt. 
The  Commissaries  order  defendants  to  pay  within  three  weeks. 

Classjen  Thunes,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Pieter  Hillebrantse^ 
defendant,  payment  of  the  amount  of  twenty-two  and  one  half 
schepels  of  wheat,  due  on  account  of  brandy  and  Spanish  wine  sold 
to  him.    The  first  default 

I,  undersigned,  Pieter  van  Halen,  acknowledge  owing  Pieter  van 
Alen,  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  thirty  schepels  of  good 


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■winter  wheat,  and  in  default  of  payment  the  parties  have  agreed 
that  Pieter  van  Halen  shall  keep  at  interest  the  aforesaid  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty  schepels  of  wheat  for  the  period  of  two  years,  com- 
mencing August  1,  1662,  and  shall  pay  for  the  use  of  said  moneys 
ten  schepels  of  wheat  per  annum.  Pieter  van  Halen  promises  to 
return  and  repay  the  aforesaid  principal,  with  the  interest  there- 
on, on  March  14,  1664.  For  this  purpose,  said  Pieter  van  Halen 
binds  and  absolutely  mortgages  his  house  and  lot,  situated  here,  be- 
sides all  his  property,  real  and  personal,  present  and  future,  sub- 
mitting himself  to  the  jurisdiction  of  all  Lords  and  Courts. 

PiETEB  VAN  Halen. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  March  28,  1662. 

Present :  The  Schout,  Roeloof  Swartwout ;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert 
Heymanse,  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roeloofsen,  de- 
fendant.   Default. 

The  Commissaries  allow  defendant  one  more  default,  for  the 
last  time,  under  penalty  of  imprisonment. 

Cornelis  Jansen  Houtsager  [sawyer],  plaintiff,  vs.  Carsten 
Carstense.    Default. 

Cornelis  Barense  Slecht,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juaraien  Westvael.  De- 
fault. 

Cornells  Barense  Slecht,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Geertruyt 
Andrisse,  defendant,  payment  of  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and 
forty-six  guilders,  ten  stivers,  heavy  money,  advanced  for  building 
the  bridge. 

The  defendant  answers  she  has  a  counter  bill.  The  Commis- 
saries order  defendant  to  produce  her  account  at  the  next  session  of 
the  Court,  and  to  have  it  complete. 

Ann  Bloms,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jan  Mertense  pajmient  of 
twenty  beavers,  according  to  a  delivered  obligation,  for  which  de- 
fendant's com,  now  held  by  Andries  the  weaver,  has  been  attached. 
Defendant  answers  he  knows  nothing  about  the  debt,  and  requests 
time  until  his  wife  arrives  here,  and  lets  his  grain  be  held  till  then. 

Philip  Hendricksen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Willem  Mertense 
payment  of  the  quantity  of  two  muddes  [about  four  bushels  each]  of 


26  THE  DUTCH  RECX)RDS  OP  KINaSTON.  [1662 

wheat  for  two  thousand  bricks  delivered  by  hinL  Defendant  ad- 
mits having  bought  the  bricks  from  plaintiff.  Whereupon  the 
Schout  aiid'Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  two 
muddes  of  wheat. 

Jeronimus  Ebbingh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornelis  Barense  Sleght,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  two  thousand  gldrs., 
five  years'  rent  for  the  use  of  his  farm,  and  now  asks  to  be  permit- 
ted to  enter  upon  his  farm  and  a  restitution  of  everything,  according 
to  lease  between  both  parties.  The  defendant  answers  he  paid  five 
hundred  and  fifty-six  guilders. 

Plaintiff  demands  a  copy  of  the  account,  and  announces  the 
seizure  by  the  Court  Messenger  of  the  threshed  and  unthreshed 
grain,  the  brewing  kettle  and  appurtenances,  and  the  remaining 
cattle,  all  of  which  were  in  the  possession  of  Cornelis  Barense 
Slecht  on  March  29. 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries,  having  carefully  considered  this 
matter,  find  a  small  yield  of  grain,  and  therefore  resolve  that  it  is 
unreasonable,  as  it  is  not  right,  in  the  first  year  of  the  lease,  to 
take  a  farm  from  the  lessee  because  he  is  unable,  owing  to  poor 
crops,  to  pay  the  rent  which  is  due,  and  order  defendant  to  pay  the 
rent  of  the  current  year  within  one  week.  And  as  defendant  has 
requested  time  for  the  payment  of  the  money  due,  he  promises  to 
pay  one  thousand  guilders  within  seven  months,  and  engages  to 
pay  in  addition  one-sixth,  under  penalty  of  judgment  by  default. 

Jeronimus  Ebingh,  [the  plaintiff],  signs  appeal  papers  and 
requests  permission  to  appeal. 

Jeronimus  Ebbingh,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Willem  Mertense 
payment  of  the  amount  of  thirty  schepels  of  wheat  due  in  the  fall 
of  1661,  on  the  sale  of  150,000  planks.  The  defendant  admits  the 
debt,  but  answers  that  he  has  an  account  against  the  Commissaries 
for  the  sale  of  lime.  The  Commissaries  agree  to  pay  Jeronimus  Eb- 
bingh thirty  schepels  of  wheat  next  fall. 

Pieter  de  Reymer,  plaintiff,  vs.  Willem  Jansen  Stol,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  value  of  eight  schepels  of  wheat, 
for  panes  of  glass  sold  and  set.  Defendant  acknowledges  the  debt 
and  requests  time.    The  Commissaries  order  him  to  pay  the  plaintiff 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  27 

the  amount  sued  for.  He  promises  to  pay  one-half  within  three 
weeks,  and  the  other  half  in  the  fall,  at  plaintiff's  option. 

Hermen  Vedd^r,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jan  Mertense  pay- 
ment of  the  value  of  one  hundred  sehepels  of  oats,  and  announces 
the  seizure  at  the  house  of  Andries  Barrense  of  the  grain  belonging 
to  Jan  Mertense.  Defendant  admits  being  indebted  to  Hermen 
Vedder.    The  parties  decide  to  come  to  an  agreement. 

Barent  Pietersen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Barent  Gerritsen 
payment  of  the  amount  of  ninety-five  sehepels  of  wheat,  as  per 
obligation  payable  November  1,  1661.  Defendant  admits  he  justly 
owes  the  debt,  and  says  he  is  not  able  to  pay.  The  Commissaries 
order  defendant  to  pay  the  plaintiff  the  amount  sued  for. 

Barent  Pietersen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Willem  Mertense 
payment  of  the  amount  of  twenty-five  sehepels  of  wheat.  De- 
fendant admits  the  debt,  and  says  he  has  the  guarantee  of  the  Com- 
missaries for  lime  delivered  to  them.  They  agree  to  pay  Barent 
Pietersen  twenty-five  sehepels  of  wheat  next  fall  for  Willem  Mer- 
tense, if  so  much  is  due  him. 

Elsje  Jans,  wife  of  Hendrick  Jochemse,  had  attached  the  value 
of  six  and  one-half  sehepels  of  wheat  in  the  possession  of  Aldert 
Heymanse  Roose,  belonging  to  Barent  the  shoemaker,  and  now 
gives  notice  of  the  attachment.  She  also  gives  notice  of  another  at- 
tachment of  the  value  of  five  sehepels  of  wheat  and  three  and  one- 
half  guilders,  in  zeewant,  in  the  possession  of  Evert  Parys.  * '  The 
money  belongs  to  Jonas  Ransou  who  owes  the  above  named  amount 
to  me. ' '  She  gives  notice  of  the  attachment  of  the  money  of  Frans 
Pietersen  in  the  possession  of  Albert  Gysbertse,  and  "all  the  money 
that  is  coming  to  him  there. ' ' 

Ordinary  Session,  held  this  March  29. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Boose, 
Comelis  Barense  Slecht. 

Willem  Mertense,  plaintiff,  vs.  Geertryut  Andriessen,  defends 
ant.    Default. 

Matheu  Blanchan,  plaintiff,  says  he  leased  to  Mathys  Roelof- 
sen  two  oxen  for  the  amount  of  fifty  guilders,  for  the  purpose  of 
carting  wood  to  his  house,  and  that  this  should  have  been  done 


28  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

last  fall.  The  defendant,  Mathys  Roeloofsen,  says  his  wife  hired 
the  oxen  for  fifty  gldrs.,  but  has  not  yet  carted  it  all,  and  therefore 
refuses  to  pay.  Jan  Mertense  testifies  that  the  oxen  were  leased 
and  hired,  and  that  the  carting  ought  to  have  been  finished  in 
the  fall  at  ploughing  time,  or  the  oxen  returned. 

Whereas,  Mathue  Blanchan  says  he  has  another  account 
against  her,  he  is  given  time  until  next  session  of  the  Court  to  make 
out  his  bill. 

Geertruyt  Andrissen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roeloof  Swartwout,  defend- 
ant. 

Hey  Olfersen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  says  he  is  building  for  defendant,  and,  as  the  work  w^s 
given  out  by  contract  and  there  is  not  sufficient  lumber,  he  is  oblig- 
ed to  wait.    Defendant  says  windows  and  doors  are  still  to  be  made. 

Plaintiff  answers  that  no  mention  is  made  in  his  contract 
about  his  making  windows  and  doors.  The  Commissaries,  after 
calling  in  carpenters  and  obtaining  their  advice,  decide  that  Barent 
Gerritse  shall  pay  extra  for  doors  and  windows. 

Jeronimus  Ebbing  says  that,  although  the  grain  in  possession 
of  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht  has  been  seized,  he  will  not  oppose 
either  its  threshing  or  sowing  there,  as  may  be  necessary,  but  asks 
the  Commissaries  to  supervise  the  same  and  to  see  that  the  over- 
plus grain  be  not  neglected. 

The  Commissaries  agree  to  attend  to  their  duty  in  this  matter, 
according  to  law.  • 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  April  18,  1662. 

Present:  Roeloof  Swartwout,  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse 
Roosa,  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht. 

Pieter  van  Halen,  plaintiff,  demands  three  and  one-half  sche- 
pels  of  wheat,  in  payment  for  a  pair  of  shoes.  Warrenaer  Hooren- 
beeck,  defendant,  admits  he  honestly  owes  plaintiff  the  debt.  The 
Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  the  amount  he  is  sued  for, 
within  a  month's  time  and  without  further  delay. 

Volckjen  Jans,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jan  Aersen  the  amount 
of  thirty-four  schepels  of  wheat,  for  one  month's  board  and  for 
leewant  advanced  him.    Defendant  denies  owing  so  much,  and  de* 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGBTON.  29 

mands  an  itemized  account.    The  Commissaries  order  the  parties  to 
furnish  a  copy  thereof. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Roeloof 
Swartwout  payment  of  eighteen  schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant 
admits  the  debt  and  says  he  will  pay  within  twenty-four  hours  with 
the  grain  belonging  to  Storm  Albertsen,  attached  by  Christiaen  Nis- 
sen romp  at  the  Ronduyt  [Redoubt]. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Juriaen  West- 
gaer  payment  of  the  amount  of  twenty-nine  schepels  of  wheat,  ac- 
cording to  bill  produced  in  court,  due  for  wages  earned. 

Defendant  admits  the  debt  and  promises  to  pay  within  two 
weeks,  plaintiff  being  willing, 

Cornells  Barense  Slecht,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Juriaen 
Westgaelt  payment  of  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  fourteen 
gldrs.,  heavy  money,  due  for  wages  earned  for  brewing. 

Defendant  Juriaen  Westvael  admits  he  honestly  owes  the 
debt.  The  Commissaries  condemn  defendant  to  pay  within  six 
weeks. 

Cornelis  Barense  Slecht,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  from 
Geertruyt  Andrissen  of  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  seven  gldrs. 
ten  stivers.  Defendant  admits  owing  plaintiff  the  debt.  The  Com- 
missaries order  defendant  to  pay  the  amount  sued  for  within  six 
weeks. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Tjirick 
Classen  payment  for  a  cow  sold  defendant  and  for  wages  earned, 
together  amounting  to  one  hundred  schepels  of  oats.  Defendant 
admits  the  debt,  and  says  he  is  not  able  to  pay  at  present  as  he 
will  be  obliged  to  sow  his  oats  himself.  The  Commissaries,  having 
heard  the  parties,  order  Tjirick  Classen  to  pay  plaintiff  the  amount 
sued  for,  and,  on  default  of  payment,  plaintiff  is  authorized  to 
seize  the  cow. 

Jan  Aersen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Tomas  Chambers  pay- 
ment of  the  amount  of  one  hundred  gldrs.,  heavy  money,  due  for 
wages  earned  for  smithing. 

Defendant  admits  the  debt  and  requests  six  months'  time. 
The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  the  amount  sued  for, 
within  six  weeks. 


30  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1662 

Elsjen  Jans,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Jonas  Ransou  five  sche- 
pels  of  wheat,  and  three  gldrs.,  in  zeewant.  Defendant  denies  the 
debt,  and  says  he  does  not  owe  more  than  one  can  of  brandy,  and 
one  turkey  and  three  musjens  [half  pints]  of  brandy.  The  Com- 
missaries, having  heard  the  parties,  order  plaintiff  to  prove  the 
debt  she  is  suing  for  and  the  defendant  to  pay  the  debt  he  has 
acknowledged. 

Willem  Mertense,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Geertruyt  Andris- 

sen  payment  of  the  amount  of and  shows  an  account.    The 

defendant  and  plaintiff  decide  to  agree. 

The  Schout,  as  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertse.  The  first 
default. 

Volckjen  Jans,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Juriaen  Westvael  pay- 
ment of  the  amount  of  fifteen  schepels  of  wheat,  according  to  obli- 
gation produced  in  court.    Defendant's  first  default. 

Matthys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Barense  and  "Willem 
Mertense,  defendants.     The  first  default. 

Matheu  Blanchan,  plaintiff,  demands  for  the  second  time  fifty 
gldrs.,  zeewant,  for  the  use  of  two  oxen  by  Mathys  Roelofsen.  He 
also  demands  twenty-five  gldrs.,  eleven  stivers,  zeewant,  more,  for 
milk,  butter  and  brandy  supplied  to  defendant.    Default. 

Lowys  Dubo,  plaintiff,  vs.  Coenraet  Ham  and  Christiaen  An- 
drissen,  defendants.    Default. 

Lowys  Dubo,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Hillebrantse,  defendant  De- 
fault 

Anthony  Cruepel,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Hendrick  Mertense 
pajrment  of  the  amount  of  twenty-three  gldrs.,  fifteen  stivers,  in 
zeewant,  due  for  wages  earned.    Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout,  agrees  to  pay  plaintiff  for 
Hendrick  Martense  twenty-three  gldrs.,  fifteen  stivers,  in  zeewant, 
one-half  within  two  weeks,  and  the  balance  one  month  after  that 
date. 

Anthony  Cmepel,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Hillebrantse,  defendant 
Default 

The  Schout,  as  plaintiff,  vs.  Hester  Douwens  and  Hey  Olfer- 
sen,  defendants. 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  31 

Plaintiff  asks  Hester  Douwens  what  she  has  to  say  against  the 
defendant  Hey  Olfersen,  as  she  has  accused  him  of  theft.  She 
answers:  "This  is  plain  enough,  because  he  took  out  of  my  house 
at  night  some  flour  and  some  pieces  of  meat,  as  set  forth  in  the 
summons.  I  also  miss  a  beaver,  an  otter,  and  a  half  beaver,  as  well 
as  an  anker  of  small  beer,  and  the  person  who  stole  the  one  I  guess 
must  also  have  taken  the  other." 

Defendant  also  announces  the  attachment,  at  the  house  of  Jan 
de  Brabander,  of  goods  belonging  to  Hey  Olfersen,  to  serve  as 
security  for  the  stolen  goods. 

Defendant,  Hey  Olfersen,  admits  having  taken  some  meat  and 
flour  from  Hester  Douwens'  house  at  night,  because  he  was  hungry. 
He  also  says,  "As  she  would  not  give  me  food  and  I  was  working 
for  her,  I  tried  to  procure  it,  since  there  was  little  or  no  food  for 
sale  here." 

Whereas,  Hey  Olfersen  requests  of  the  Schout  and  Commis- 
saries of  the  Court  here,  to  be  allowed  to  go  out  on  bail,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  enabling  him  the  better  to  plead  his  cause,  the  Court,  there- 
fore, for  cause,  hereby  consents  thereto. 

For  cause,  the  Commissaries  have  suspended  judgement  in  the 
above  mentioned  case,  and  also  decide  to  wait  until  the  arrival  of 
the  Noble  Lord  General;  so  as  to  enable  the  parties  the  better  to 
plead  their  cause. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  May  2,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout;  Cornells  Barense 
Slecht,  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roosa. 

Anthony  Cruepel,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Pieter  Hillebrantse 
payment  of  the  amount  of  two  schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  ad- 
mits owing  the  plaintiff  two  schepels  of  wheat.  The  Commissaries 
order  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  amount  sued  for,  within  eight 
days. 

Lowys  Dubo,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Pieter  Hillebrantse  pay- 
ment of  the  amount  of  two  schepels  of  wheat  due  for  ribbons  sold 
him.  Defendant,  Pieter  Hillebrantsen  admits  owing  the  debt  to 
plaintiff.  The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
amount  sued  for,  'wathin  two  montlui'  time. 


32  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1662 

Jan  Lammersen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Juriaen  Westphalen 
payment  of  the  amount  of  sixteen  scheples  of  wheat,  according 
to  obligation,  and  procuration  received  from  Volckje  Juriaens. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt,  says  he  is  at  present  unable  to  pay, 
requests  time,  and  offers  to  pay  proper  interest  therefor.  "The 
principal  together  with  the  interest  I  promise  to  pay  next  fall." 
Thus  declared,  at  the  pleasure  of  plaintiff. 

Mathys  Blahchan,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Mathys  Roeloofsen 
payment  of  fifty  gldrs.,  zeewant,  for  the  use  of  two  oxen,  as  al- 
ready mentioned,  and  as  has  been  proved.  Plaintiff  in  addition 
demands  twenty-five  guilders,  in  zeewant,  for  goods  furnished. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt  of  twenty-five  gldrs.,  zeewant,  but  sayij 
he  has  not  had  satisfactory  use  of  the  oxen,  and  therefore  declines 
to  pay.  The  Commissaries,  after  having  heard  the  parties,  and 
the  circumstances  being  known  to  the  Court,  order  defendant  to 
pay  the  plaintiff  the  amount  sued  for. 

Cornells  Jansen  van  Dost,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Aert  Jacob- 
sen  payment  of  the  amount  of  sixty-one  guilders,  zeewant,  for  wages 
earned.  Defendant  admits  the  debt  but  says  he  carted  a  load  of 
stone  for  six  guilders,  zeewant.  The  Commissaries  order  defendant 
to  pay  plaintiff  fifty-five  gldrs.  zeewant,  within  fourteen  days. 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Coeraet  Ham,  defendant. 
Default 

In  the  matter  of  the  elections,  the  Schout  and  Commissaries 
h&ve  decided  to  nominate  the  following  persons  to  govern  us  here- 
after, subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Very  Noble  Honorable  Lord 
Director  General  and  the  Lord  High  Councillors:  Thomas  Cham- 
bers, Jan  Willemse,  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit,  Albert  Gysbertsen, 
Aert  Jacobsen. 

The  Noble  Lord  Director  General  and  High  Councillor  Gerret 
Decker  were  this  day  here  present.  The  Lords  Director  General 
and  Councillor  continued  Evert  Pels  and  Aldert  Heymanse  Boose 
as  Commissaries,  and  from  the  nominees  above  mentioned  appointed 
Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Tjirick  Classen  deWit. 

Below  stood, 

April  27,  Ao.  1662,  Pieter  Stuyvesant. 


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On  May  3,  the  newly  appointed  Commissaries  took  their  oaths 
before  the  Schout  and  the  old  Commissaries,  and  were  installed 
into  office  by  order  of  the  Noble  Lord  Director  General  and  the 
Lord  Councillor  Gerrit  Decker,  who  were  here  present. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  May  16,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout;  Evert  Pels,  Allert 
Heymanse  lloose,  Albert  Gysbertse. 

Jan  Broersen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Cornells  Barense  the 
amount  of  six  schepels  of  wheat  and  says  he  sold  him  hops  therefor. 
Defendant's  first  default. 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Coenraet  Ham 
payment  of  the  amount  of  eighty-six  gldrs,,  fifteen  stivers,  eight 
pennies,  in  zeewant.    Second  default. 

Hey  Olfersen,  plaintiff,  presents  a  petition  in  writing,  stating 
that  he  would  have  finished  his  work  at  Barent  Gerritsen's,  but  that 
owing  to  the  absence  of  materials  such  as  boards,  lumber  and  nails, 
he  was  unable  to  do  so,  and  that  he  also  was  refused  board.  He 
therefore  asks  full  payment  for  his  contracted  work,  and  restitu- 
tion of  expenses  and  damages  suffered  in  consequence. 

Defendant,  Barent  Gerritsen,  answers  that  there  were  boards 
atill  there  for  use,  and  that  he  did  not  refuse  him  board.  The  Com- 
missaries order  plaintiff  to  prove  that  his  materials  had  been  used 
up,  as  stated  in  his  petition  presented  to  the  Coort. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  June  22,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Heymanse  Roose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit. 

Hey  Olfersen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  a  total  of  sixty-four  gldrs.,  heavy  money,  in  res- 
titution of  expenses  and  for  lost  time  and  board. 

Defendant  says  he  is  not  liable  for  the  expenses,  "but  if  you, 
Hey  Olfersen,  had  not  failed  me,  I  would  certainly  have  paid  you 
the  last  time." 

The  Commissaries  order  the  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  sixty- 
four  gldrs.,  heavy  money,  for  damages  sustained.  They  also  order 
plaintiff  and  defendant  each  to  pay  twenty-five  gldrs.  for  the  poor, 


34  THE  DUTCH   RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

as  both  appeared  here  February  28,  and  offered  fifty  gldrs.  to  the 
poor  if,  at  the  appointed  time,  Barent  Gerritse's  house  were  not 
finished.  This  time  having  expired,  it  is  more  Barent  Garritsen'a 
than  Hey  Olfersen's  fault,  since  he,  defendant,  made  the  plaintift 
do  the  work  over  again,  so  that  plaintiff  could  not  complete  the  work 
at  the  appointed  time.  All  of  which  is  known  to  the  majority  of 
the  Commissaries  and  the  Schout;  they  therefore  sentence  the  par- 
ties to  each  pay  twenty-five  gldrs.,  for  the  poor. 

Evert  Pels  does  not  believe  Barent  Gerritse  should  pay  for  the 
time  during  which  Hey  was  detained  for  his  acknowledged  theft. 

Counter  opinion  of  the  Schout  and  Commissaries:  "We  deem 
Barent  G€rritsen  to  be  origin  and  author  of  all  the  trouble. '  * 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roelofsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  of  defendant  proof  of  his  account, 
which  he  himself  once  before  consented  to  give,  and  says  defend- 
ant's book  is  false. 

By  order  of  the  Commissaries,  Mathys  Roelofsen  made  out  an- 
other account  and  found  that  it  tallied  with  the  first  one,  and  at 
the  instance  of  plaintiff  he  affirmed  it  under  oath.  The  Commis- 
saries order  plaintiff  to  pay  defendant  the  amount  sued  for. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff again  demands  from  defendant  a  vindication  of  his  honor  be- 
fore the  Commissaries'  Court,  before  whom  this  case  comes  for  the 
third  time,  the  magistrate  having  been  called  names.  Defendant, 
Barent  Gerritsen,  once  more  asks  for  time,  and  demands  an  account 
of  expenses  from  Hey  Olfersen. 

The  Commissaries  for  the  last  time  grant  him  time  tintil  the 
next  session  of  the  Court,  when  he  is  to  show  what  injustice  has 
been  done  him. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  July  4,  1662, 
Present:     The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Eoose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen. 

Mathys  Blanchan,  plaintiff,  demands  vindication  of  his  honor. 
Says  that  Juriaen  told  his  wife  that  it  was  reported  that  Dirck 
Adriaensen  said  to  her  he  had  seen  Matheu  Blanchan  beat  Juriaen 
WeBtvael's  pig.    Defendant  Juriaen  Westvael  and  bit  wife  admit 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  35 

having  heard  this  from  Dirck  Adriaensen,  and  state  that  Pieter  Jan- 
sen  also  heard  it. 

Defendant  Dirck  Adriaensen  denies  this,  and  says  he  did  not 
say  so.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  the  parties  to  pre- 
serve the  peace,  and  sentence  Dirck  Adriaensen  to  pay  a  fine  of  six 
gldrs.,  for  the  poor. 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plamtiff,  demands  from  Coenraedt  Ham 
payment  of  the  amount  of  eighty-six  gldrs.,  fifteen  stivers,  eight 
pennies,  in  zeewant.  Defendant  admits  owing  plaintiff  the  amount 
aued  for.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay 
within  fourteen  days  thirty  gldrs.,  and  the  balance  one  month  after 
date. 

Tjirick  Classen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jillessen,  defendant.  De-. 
fault. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Mathys  Roe- 
loofsen vindication  of  his  honor,  under  an  earlier  complaint  men- 
tioned in  this  register.  Whereupon  the  Commissaries  refer  both  to 
two  good  men,  and  a  third,  to  consider  and  decide  the  matter.  And 
in  case  the  good  men  are  unable  to  mediate  between  them,  the  par- 
ties are  referred  to  the  Lord  Director  General  and  Supreme  Council 
at  the  city  of  New  Amsterdam.  Such  is  the  order  of  the  Commis- 
«aries,  in  the  absence  of  the  Schout. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  October  4,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit. 

Grietjen  Westercamp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jacobsen,  defendant. 
Default. 

Classjen  Maertens,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Hillebrantsen,  defend- 
ant.   Th€  second  default. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen,  defendant.  Default. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  Westvael,  defendant. 
Default. 

Willem  Vredenburgh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Jansen  van  Amers- 
foort,  defendant.    Default. 

;    Extraordinary  Session,  held  at  Wildtwyck  this  10th  of  Octo- 
ber, 1662. 


36  THE  DXJTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1662 

Present:  The  Schout;  Commissaries,  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Hey- 
manse  Roose,  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick  Classen  de  "Wit. 

Hans  Carrelsen  van  Langesont,  plaintiff,  vs.  Andries  Jochem- 
sen,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  says  he  took  defendant  in  his  yacht  up  the  river,  and 
thence  above  Fort  Orange  to  the  Manathans,  and  then  was  not  able 
to  collect  payment;  that  he  again  took  defendant  to  Fort  Orange, 
on  his  promise  to  pay  there,  and  not  being  able  to  get  any  money 
there,  the  defendant  signed  an  obligation  for  the  amount  of  sev- 
enty-seven gldrs.,  in  zeewant,  due  for  passage  money  and  money 
advanced  at  Fort  Orange. 

Defendant  admits  that  he  honestly  and  truly  owes  plaintiff  the 
above  mentioned  debt. 

Andries  Jochemsen  assigns  to  plaintiff  his  claim  against  Cor- 
nelis  Barense  Slecht,  on  which  to  collect  seventy-seven  gldrs.,  if 
plaintiff  will  consent  thereto.  Plaintiff  requests  the  Commissaries 
to  allow  him  costs  as  well,  as  defendant  would  not  pay  the  principal 
before  suit.  The  Schout  and  Schepens  having  considered  the 
request,  defendant  is  ordered,  within  twenty-four  hours,  to  pay 
twenty  gldrs.  for  costs,  in  addition  to  the  principal  of  ninety-nine 
gldrs. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  October  17,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick 
Classen  de  Wit. 

Barent  Gerretsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  Westvael,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  three  hundred  and 
fifteen  gldrs.,  thirteen  stivers,  as  per  obligation  to,  and  assignment 
by,  Evert  Pels,  the  same  payable  at  beaver's  price. 

Defendant  admits  the  obligation  and  also  that  he  accepted 
the  assignment,  but  denies  owing  the  whole  debt  and  says  he  only 
owes  part  of  it.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to 
pay  his  signed  obligation  within  six  weeks. 

Grietjen  Hendricks  Westercamp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jacobsen, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  of  defendant  why  he  denies  his 
child.    Defendant  answers,  and  says,  "I  have  my  doubts  about  it." 

Plaintiff  says  that  defend^ant  mined  h^,  and  asks  that  he 
restore  her  to  honor. 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  EJNOSTON.  37 

Defendant  denies  that  he  ruined  her,  and  says  '  *  she  must  prove 
this  to  me,"  and  also  denies  that  he  promised  to  marry  her.  He 
asks  her  when  she  became  pregnant,  and  when  she  was  de- 
livered. 

Plaintiff  says  that  defendant  made  her  pregnant  eight  days 
before  Christmas,  1661,  and  that  she  was  delivered  eight  days  be- 
fore Kermis  [the  Fair],  1662.  Plaintiff  says  she  conceived  at  the 
mill-house  of  Pieter  Jacobsen.  Defendant  requests  two  weeks' 
time.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  grant  the  defendant  two 
weeks'  time,  and  order  plaintiff  to  prove  at  the  next  session  that 
defendant  ruined  her. 

Maerten  Gerretsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Hillebrantsen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  twenty-two 
schepels  of  wheat  due  for  debts  for  liquor.  Defendant  admits  the 
debt.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  within 
twenty-four  hours  twenty-five  gldrs.,  in  wheat,  and  to  count  this 
from  the  aforesaid  Court  day,  by  virtue  of  the  third  default. 

Gerrit  Herregrins,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roeloof  Swartwout,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  two  schepels  of  wheat,  payment 
of  wages  earned  by  him.  The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to 
pay  within  twice  twenty-four  hours  two  schepels  of  wheat.  Plain- 
tiff shows  a  certificate  against  defendant  who  requests  a  declaration. 
The  Commissaries  order  plaintiff  to  procure  his  witnesses  at  the 
next  session  of  the  Court. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerrissen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff asks  from  the  Court  a  vindication  of  his  honor  and  reputation, 
and  that  the  same  be  maintained,  because  defendant  has  abused 
the  Court. 

Defendeint  acknowledges  that  he  has  spoken  evil,  and  asks  the 
Commissaries  that  the  matter  may  be  amicably  settled  between  the 
parties.  The  Commissaries  resolve  and  hereby  allow  the  parties  to 
settle  their  differences  amicably. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  October  31,  1662. 
Present:     The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit. 


38  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1662 

Hendrick  Comelissen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Marten  Hermensen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  amount  of  ten  gldrs., 
ten  stivers.    The  first  default. 

Barent  Sybrantsen  van  der  Hout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Lootman. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  thirty-six  gldrs.  zee- 
want,  for  freight  and  board  earned  by  him.  The  defendant  does 
not  deny  the  debt,  and  answers  that  he  is  willing  to  pay  six  sche- 
pels  of  wheat,  or  thirty-six  gldrs.,  zeewant.  The  Schout  and  Com- 
missaries order  defendant  to  pay  within  ten  days. 

Jesyntje  Verhagen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Barense,  defendant. 
Default. 

Willem  Mertense,  plaintiff,  vs.  Iley  Olfersen  Roseblom,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  for  freight  from  the  Manathans 
to  the  Hesobes  [Esopus],  amounting  to  fourteen  gldrs.,  zeewant. 
The  defendant  admits  having  come  here  with  plaintiff  in  his  vessel. 
Thereupon  the  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  satisfy 
plaintiff. 

Sara  Pieterse  Schepmoes,  plaiatiff,  vs.  Huybrecht  Bruyn,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount 
of  fifty-four  gldrs.,  twelve  stivers,  and  costs,  according  to  judg- 
ment and  the  order  given  to  the  Doorkeeper*  at  the  city  of 
New  Amsterdam  on  July  21,  1661.  Defendant  denies  the  debt. 
The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  within  twen- 
ty-four hours,  under  an  earlier  sentence  of  the  Burgomasters  at  the 
city  of  New  Amsterdam,  this  at  the  pleasure  of  plaintiff.  As  the 
defendant  denies  the  debt,  he  must  seek  redress  before  the  judge 
having  jurisdiction,  at  New  Amsterdam. 

Geertruyt  Vosburgh,  widow,,  plaintiff,  vs.  Marten  Harmensen, 
defendant.     Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  fifty- 


•  This  word  appears  here  In  the  Dutch  record  as  consaraie,  and  later  as  con- 
cergie,  1.  e.,  concierge,  meaning  doorkeeper,  or  the  Dutch  Ck)urt  officer,  Deur- 
XBoarder.  Though  some  dictionaries  translate  deurwaarder  as  a  process  server, 
sergeant-at-law,  tipstaff,  or  baliff,  in  addition  to  doorkeeper,  the  revised  Eng- 
lish translation  of  Simon  van  Leeuwen's  Het  Rooms-Hollands-regt,  Am- 
sterdam, 1678,  by  J.  G.  Kotz6  ajad  C.  W.  Decker,  in  Commentaries  on  Roman' 
Dutch  Law,  London,  1881-1886,  renders  the  word  as  Usher  or  Doorkeeper.  The 
last  named  form  is  adopted  here  and  elsewhere  in  this  record  as  the  most 
appropriate  equivalent.  The  duties  of  this  Court  officer,  under  the  Dutch 
law,  differed  from  those  of  the  Court  Messenger  or  of  a  Bailiff.  The  Court 
Messenger  at  "Wildwyck  probably  performed  the  duties  of  a  devuniDaarder.  For 
■ome  of  these  duties  see  Deuryeaarder,  in  van  Dale's  Qroot  Woordenboek, 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  39 

three  gldrs.,  eight  st.,  due  on  debt  for  liquor,  as  per  account  pro- 
duced by  her,  and  which  she  says  has  been  taken  from  her  hus- 
band's book.  In  addition,  there  is  an  account  of  eighteen  gldrs., 
two  St.,  crossed  out  in  the  book.  The  defendant  denies  owing  her 
the  whole  debt,  but  admits  he  owes  thirty-one  gldrs.,  six  st.,  and 
says  he  paid  her  four  beavers  on  the  above  itemized  bill.  The 
Schout  and  Commissaries  having  explained  to  her,  the  widow  is 
satisfied  with  the  payment  by  Marten  Harmense  of  thirty-one  gldrs., 
six  St.  Accordingly,  the  defendant  is  ordered  to  pay  the  amount  of 
thirty-one  gldrs,,  six  st.,  and  further  to  prove  he  paid  four  beavers. 

Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Lammersen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  twenty-one 
gldrs.,  in  zeewant.  He  admits  he  received  on  the  account  one 
beaver  for  twelve  gldrs.  The  defendant  admits  the  debt,  but  says 
he  worked  one  day  at  harvest  time,  and  demands  five  gldrs.  for 
this.  Plaintiff  says  his  other  laborers  worked  for  one  schepel  of 
buckwheat,  and  that  he  pays  no  more. 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  plaintiff  to  pay  one  sche- 
pel of  buckwheat  for  one  day's  work,  and  defendant  to  pay  plain- 
tiff the  balance  as  demanded. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  demands  a  five-fold  fine  of  Jan  Barense 
Amersfort  for  having,  in  the  presence  of  two  Commissaries,  smug- 
gled into  this  place  an  anker  of  wine. 

The  defendant,  Jan  Barense  Amersfort,  denies  having  smug- 
gled it.  He  says  he  will  prove  that  the  soldiers  at  the  Bonduyt 
[Redoubt]  permitted  him  to  discharge  the  wine,  and  that  they 
said  to  him,  "The  Schout  and  Evert  Pels  are  present." 

The  Commissaries  grant  defendant  time  until  the  next  session 
of  the  Court  to  furnish  proof. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Wednesday,  November  1,  1662. 

Grietjen  Hendriks  Westercamp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jacobse, 
defendant. 

Plaintiff  exhibits  to  the  Schout  and  Commissaries  a  certificate 
and  deposition  by  seven  women  who  certify  and  declare  that  they 
were  present  at  the  birth  of  Grietje  Westerkamp'e  child,  and  that 


40  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1662 

she  swore  three  times  that  Pieter  Jacobse  was  the  father  of  the 
child.     The  plaintiff  asks  for  a  vinidiction  of  her  honor. 

The  defendant  says  plaintiff  did  not  behave  as  a  decent  girl 
should,  and  produces  a  certificate  of  Juriaen  Westvael  and  his 
wife  who  declare  that  Grietjen  Westercamp  lay  under  one 
blanket  with  Jan  van  Breeman,  with  his  daughter  between  them. 
Defendant,  being  interrogated,  admits  having  conversed  and  lain 
with  plaintiff,  but  did  not  promise  marriage,  and,  besides,  gave  her 
no  money  for  it,  and  asks  if  a  woman  can  be  thirteen  months  and 
four  days  in  the  family  way. 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  bring  clearer 
proof  at  the  Court's  next  session. 

Thomas  Chambers,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount  of  seven 
hundred  guilders,  in  wheat  and  in  oats,  according  to  bill  of  sale 
of  a  house,  barn  and  lot.  The  defendant  admits  the  debt,  and  of- 
fers to  pay  next  winter,  as  his  wheat  it  yet  unthreshed. 

Plaintiff  demands  immediate  payment. 

Defendant  answers  he  is  unable  to  pay  at  once,  and  offers  to 
restore  plaintiff's  property  and  to  pay  him  a  moderate  rent  for  the 
same,  if  he  is  allowed  his  outlay  for  repairs. 

Plaintiff  refuses  to  take  back  his  property,  but  says  he  pro- 
poses to  recover  his  money  with  costs  and  accrued  and  accruing 
damages.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay 
plaintiff  the  amount  claimed,  within  the  period  of . . .  .1.  .etc. 

Thomas  Chambers,  plaintiff,  vs.  The  Schout,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  payment  from  defendant  of  the  amount  of  forty-six 
schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  and  alleges  he  has 
a  counter  claim.  The  Commissaries  order  the  Schout  to  liquidate 
hia  account  with  plaintiff  and  to  pay  any  balance  within  six  weeks. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Thomas  Chambers,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  three  fines,  of  six  gldrs.  each,  due  from  defendant's 
unwillingness  and  neglect  to  cart  materials  for  the  parsonage  when 
the  Commissaries  ordered  this  to  be  done. 

Defendant  admits  having  thrice  neglected  to  cart  materials 
for  the  Court,  and  says  he  is  not  disposed  to  cart  materials  for  the 
general  parsonage,  either  by  order  of  the  Schout  or  of  the  Schepemi. 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  41 

Plaintiff  demands  that  the  Commissaries  impose  the  fine,  and  says 
that,  as  they  promised  the  fine  to  the  congregation,  it  ought  to  have 
it.  Defendant  exhibits  a  certificate  in  which  it  is  declared  that  the 
Schout  and  some  citizens  were  at  the  defendants'  house,  and 
that  the  Schout  seized  some  goods  there,  trying  forcibly  to  take 
possession  of  something,  and  carried  it  out  of  the  house.  For  this, 
defendant  now  makes  a  charge  of  assault  against  plaintiff,  and 
craves  justice.  Plaintiff  admits  he  was  with  others  at  defendant's 
house,  in  order  to  collect  the  fine  of  six  guilders  for  his  neglect  to 
cart.  He  says  he  received  an  order  and  authority  from  the  Com- 
missaries to  make  no  exception  as  to  any  offender,  this  being  for  the 
benefit  of  those  who  carted. 

The  Commissaries  sentence  defendant  to  pay  eighteen  gldrs., 
for  thrice  neglecting  to  cart,  and  empower  plaintiff  to  deduct  the 
amount  of  the  fines  from  the  debt  he  owes  defendant. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  on  Tuesday,  November  14,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse,  Alben 
Gysbertsen.    Tjirick  Classen.    Default. 

Isaack  d'Foreest,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerretsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  gldrs.,  zee- 
want,  as  per  obligation  delivered  in  Court.  Defendant  admits  the 
debt.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  ask  plaintiff  to  accept  a  mort- 
gage on  defendant's  house,  located  in  this  place,  which  defendant 
voluntarilly  offers.  In  case  of  non  payment  by  April  1,  1663,  plain- 
tiff may  then  take  and  sell  defendant's  property  until  he  realizes 
the  amount  of  the  debt  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  gldrs.,  zeewant, 
together  with  costs  and  interest  to  the  above  named  date. 

Geertruyt  Vosburgh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roelofsen,  defendant. 
Default. 

Hendrick  Briesjen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjirick  Classen,  defendant. 
Default. 

Hendrick  Bresjes,  plaintiff,  demands,  under  power  of  attorney 
from  Storm  Albertse,  produced  in  Court,  payment  from  Barent 
Q^rritsen  of  the  amount  of  forty  schepels  of  oats,  pursuant  to 
judgment  of  February  7,  1662.  The  payment  not  having  been 
made  after  three  warnings,  plaintiff  asks  the  court  to  permit  him  to 


42  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

proceed  with  the  execution.    The  Commissaries  permit  plaintiff  so 
to  proceed  against  defendant,  through  the  Doorkeeper. 

Bart  Sybrantsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hendrick  Cornelissen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  three  schepels  of 
wheat,  due  on  the  sale  of  some  articles.  Defendant  admits  the 
debt.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  three 
schepels  of  wheat  within  eight  days, 

Hendrick  Briesjes,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Ransou,  defendant.  De- 
fault. 

Evert  Prys,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  twenty-five  and  one-half 
schepels  of  wheat,  and  also  twenty-one  gldrs.,  heavy  money,  for 
wages  earned.  Defendant  Albert  Gysbertsen  admits  owing  the 
above  mentioned  debt.  The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  de- 
fendant to  pay  within  six  weeks. 

Evert  Parys,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit,  defendant. 
Default. 

Evert  Parys,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Pietersen  Tack,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  eleven  and  one-half 
schepels  of  wheat,  for  wages  earned.  Defendant  admits  the  debt, 
and  offers  to  pay  one-half  of  it  within  fourteen  days,  if  it  so  please 
the  plaintiff. 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  the  other 
half  within  six  weeks. 

Warrenaer  Hoorenbeeck,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Jansen  Stouten- 
burg,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  t^^o  hundred  guilders, 
heavy  money,  a  couple  of  shirts,  a  pair  of  stockings  and  a  pair  of 
shoes,  as  payment  for  wages  earned.  Defenda,nt  admits  owing 
plaintiff  eighty  gldrs.,  according  to  the  verbal  contract  between 
them,  and  says  he  paid  thirty  gldrs.  thereof. 

Plaintiff  admits  having  received  thirty  gldrs.,  and  says  that 
as  payment  has  not  been  made  in  accordance  with  the  contract, 
two  years  having  already  passed,  he  requires  fuU  payment. 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  plains 
tiff,  as  per  contract,  eighty  gldrs.,  deducting  therefrom  the  amount 
already  paid,  unless  plaintiff  is  able  to  adduce  proof  of  the  agree« 
ment  between  them. 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  43 

Pieter  Jillessen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roeloof  Swartwout,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  thirteen  beavers.  De- 
fendant admits  the  debt.  The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay 
plaintiff  the  amount  of  thirteen  beavers  within  ten  days,  and  that 
the  grain  shall  be  attached  until  the  debt  is  paid. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  November  28,  1662. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Gysbertse,  Aldert 
Heymanse  Roose,  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit. 

Pieter  Couwenoven,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Stoutenburgh,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  the  amount  of  thirty  schepels  of  oats  and 
four  schepels  of  buckwheat,  sold  in  1659  for  seed-corn,  together  with 
the  freight  charges  thereon.  Defendant  admits  having  received  the 
corn  with  Albert  Jansen  who  bought  it  from  the  plaintiff. 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff 
the  just  half  of  the  amount  sued  for. 

Pieter  Couwen-oven,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornells  Barense  Slecht,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  four  hundred  and  thirty- 
seven  gldrs.,  in  corn,  for  wages  earned,  as  per  obligation  made  out 
to  Albert  Jansen.  Defendant  answers  that  he  paid  the  obligation, 
but  that  it  was  not  cancelled,  and  requests  plaintiff  to  show  his  as- 
signment and  power  of  attorney  for  the  same.  Cornells  Barense 
is  ordered  to  furnish  written  proof. 

Symen  Jansen,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  of  twenty-seven 
gldrs.,  in  zeewant,  thirty-one  gldrs,  ten  stivers,  in  beavers,  and  thir- 
teen schepels  of  wheat.  Pieter  van  Halen,  the  defendant,  admits 
the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  amount  sued 
for. 

Albert  Heymanse,  plaintiff,  demands  proof  of  Pieter  van  Alen 
who  has  accused  him  of  using  false  weights.  Defendant  admits 
[the  accusation],  and  says  that  he  did  not  receive  full  weight. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  under  arrest  until  the  accusation 
shall  have  been  proved. 

Symen  Jansen  Romeyn,  plaintiff,  va.  Willem  Jansen  Stol,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the 
amount  of  seventy  gldrs.,  Dutch  money.    The  debt  was  due  to  his 


44  THB  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

forefather,  Claes  Hendricksen,  deceased,  for  money  borrowed  in 
Holland  by  Marcus  Vogelsaugh  on  bottomry  bond-  Defendant 
offers  to  pay  the  principal. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  principal  of 
the  bottomry  bond,  without  interest. 

Hendrick  Cornelissen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Marten  Harmense,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  of  defendant  three  thousand  bricks  bought 
by  him  but  not  received.  Defendant  says  he  did  not  deliver  any 
bricks  to  plaintiff,  and  admits  he  owes  him  eight  gldrs.,  ten  stivers. 
The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  amount  of 
eight  gldrs.,  ten  stivers. 

Jan  Pietersen,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  for  six  schepels,  as 
per  assignment  by  M.  [Dr.]  Jan.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendant,  ad- 
mits the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  him  to  pay. 

Doctor  Jan  demands  from  defendant,  Poulus  Poulussen,  pay- 
ment of  two  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat. 

Defendant  admits  having  hired  Doctor  Jan  to  barber  him  and 
gfive  him  medical  treatment. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  amount  claimed. 
Poulus  Martense,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  of  eighteen  sche- 
pels of  wheat  for  wages  earned.     Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendant, 
admits  the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  amount  claimed. 
Merten  Hermensen,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  according  to 
judgment  which  should  have  been  paid  within  twenty-four  [hours]. 
Defendant,  Pieter  Hillebrantsen,  answers  he  can  make  no  other  pay- 
ment than  what  he  earns  by  working  for  Aert  Jacobsen. 

Pieter  Hillebrantsen,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Aert  Jacobsen 
payment  of  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  seventy  gldrs.,  in  wheat 
or  other  grain,  for  wages  earned.  Aert  Jacobsen,  the  defendant, 
admits  the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  amount  claimed. 
Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  Westvael,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount  of  three 
hundred  and  fifteen  gldrs.,  thirteen  stivers,  as  per  an  earlier  judg- 
ment rendered  by  the  Court,  here,  October  19,  1662. 


1662]  THB  DUTOH  BEOOBDS  OF  KINGSTON.  45 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  as  pel 
former  judgment. 

Martha  Symense,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jaeobsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount  of 
twenty-eight  and  one-half  gldrs.,  in  heavy  money,  and  seventeen 
igldrs.,  in  zeewant,  besides  a  shirt,  due  for  wages  earned.  Defend- 
ant admits  the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  amount 
•claimed. 

Barent  Gerretsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount  of  ten 
ischepels  of  oats,  nine  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat,  and  forty-six 
gldrs.,  zeewant.     Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Schout  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay. 

Gerrit  Herregrens,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  two  sche- 
pels of  wheat. 

Gerrit  Heergrins,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Pieterse  Tack,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  pajmient  of  the  amount  of  four 
•schepels  of  wheat  which  his  son  earned  while  with  defednant.  De- 
fendant says  he  hired  plaintiff's  son  for  two  years,  the  first  year  for 
ten  schepels  of  wheat  and  a  pair  of  leather  breeches,  the  second 
year  for  fifteen  schepels  of  wheat;  that  plaintiff  took  his  son  away 
from  him,  and  for  fear  of  arrest  sent  said  son  to  the  Mathans  [Man- 
liattan] .  This  having  been  made  known  to  the  Schout  and  an  order 
•of  arrest  having  been  asked  for,  defendant  refuses  to  pay,  or  wants 
plaintiff's  son  to  serve  out  his  time;  says  the  mudde  of  wheat 
which  plaintiff  claims  for  his  son  is  ready.  This  is  affirmed  by  Pou- 
lus  Poulussen  who  is  busy  winnowing. 

The  Commissaries,  having  heard  both  parties,  order  plaintiff  to 
send  his  son  back  to  serve  out  his  time,  as  he  admits  he  hired  him 
out  under  a  written  agreement  with  defendant,  prepared  by  him- 
self, and  according  to  which  defendant  is  to  pay  plaintiff  a  mudde 
of  wheat.  For  which  reason  plaintiff  is  ordered  to  pay  the  fine  on 
arrest.    He  says  he  himself  represents  his  son. 

EvEBT  Pels, 
The  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Qtsbebtsen, 

TiEBCK  Claszen  db  Wptt. 


46  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  de- 
fendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount  of 
twenty  schepels  of  oats,  as  per  assignment,  by  which  defendant  en- 
gaged to  pay  for  Mathys  Roeloofsen  the  money  due  for  an  anker 
of  brandy  delivered  to  the  latter. 

Defendant  admits  the  debt,  requests  time  or  to  be  allowed  to 
pay  at  the  garrison. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  within  six  weeks. 

Willem  Vredenburgh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Janse  van  Amersfoort,. 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  nine 
schepels  of  wheat.     Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff. 

Pieter  van  Halen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Mertense  Dorn,  defend^ 
ant.  Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  twelve  schepels  of  wheat  due 
for  shoes  made  and  brandy  furnished.  Defendant  admits  he  bought 
the  shoes  and  owes  for  them,  but  says  he  received  no  more  than* 
two  cans  of  brandy.  m 

The  Schout  and  Commiggfeiries  order  him  to  pay  eight  schepels 
of  wheat  and  the  plaintiff  to  prove  the  balance  of  the  account  or  t(y 
confirm  his  book  under  oath. 

[The  following  entry  is  in  the  handwriting  of  Mattheus  Capito^ 
Secretary.] 

"This  note  was  neglected  to  be  entered  by  the  ex-Schout  and 
Secretary,  Roelof  Swartwout,  and  I  have  entered  the  same  here 
at  the  request  of  Gysbert  van  Imbrock.  This  is  a  literal  copy  of 
the  original  which  reads: 

"On  the  underwritten  date,  the  worthy  Aert  Pietersen  Tack, 
resident  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  appeared  before  Roelof 
Swartwout,  Schout  of  Wildwyck,  and  two  Commissaries  ,  and  ack- 
nowledged and  said  he  appeared  before  us  and  admitted  and  declar- 
ed that  he  this  day  settled  and  closed  his  accou;^  with  Mr.  Gysbert 
van  Imbrock,  and  is  truly  and  justly  indebted  toSjim  for  the  sum 
of  five  hundred  and  fifty-eight  gldrs.,  in  beavers,  with  interest  on 
two  hundred  and  sixty  four  gldrs.,  as  per  obligation  in  favor  of 
Mr.  Gysbert,  which  sum  the  said  Aert  Pietersen  Tack  acknowledges 
he  owes.  And,  owing  to  his  inability  now  to  pay,  he  absolutely  mort- 


» 


1662]  THE  DXJTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  47 

gages  his  present  crop  of  grain  which,  by  God's  grace,  is  to  be  har- 
vested in  the  year  1663,  and  hereby  confers  upon  him  full  right, 
power  and  authority  to  do  with  the  same  as  if  personally  present, 
until  Mr.  Gysbert  shall  have  received  his  claim  out  of  the  same, 
and  in  general  to  properly  account  for  the  same.  Both  appearers 
Jiereby  admit  having  made  this  agreement  with  each  other,  and,  in 
pursuance  thereof,  submitting  themselves  to  the  jurisdiction  of  all 
courts  and  judges.  The  appearer  [Tack]  shall  not  be  at  liberty  to 
Alienate,  seize  or  cause  to  be  seized  any  of  the  said  crops  or  harvests 
until  Mr,  Gysbert  van  Imbrock  shall  have  been  satisfied  for  what 
has  been  above  mentioned.  In  testimony  whereof,  we  have  affixed 
our  signatures  to  these  presents  at  Wildwyck  this  21st  of  December, 
Anno  1662. 

(Signed)  This  is  the  mark  (x)  of  Aert  Pietersen  Tack,  This 
is  the  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit. 

(Below  stood)   In  my  presence.     Roelof  Swartwout. 

After  comparison  with  the  original  the  above  has  been  found 
to  be  an  exact  copy,  to  which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary,  October  25,  1664." 

Pieter  van  Alen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Ransou,  defendant.  De- 
fault. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Barense  Amershoff,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  for  the  second  time  one-half  an  anker  of  brandy, 
the  fine  for  smuggling.  Defendant  answers  that  he  will  prove  he 
yras  at  Bestevaer's  house,  and  says  that  his  witnesses  are  sick. 

The  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  furnish  either  oral  or 
"written  proof  at  the  next  session  of  the  court. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerretsen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  twelve  gldrs.,  because  defend- 
ant made  two  exit  openings  in  the  fortress  or  long  palisades. 

Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay  the  fine. 

Evert  Pels, 

TiERCK    CL.ASZEN    DE   WiTT, 

The  mark  (x)  of  Aibert  Gysbertsen. 
Willem   Jansen   Stol,   plaintiff,   vs.   Jan   Aersen,   defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
gldrs.,  in  beavers,  to  be  paid  with  wheat  at  three  schepels  per  bea- 


48  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1662 

ver,  as  per  obligation  therefor  shown  to  the  Court.    Defendant  ad- 
mits the  debt  and  says  he  paid  twenty  beavers  on  it. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  parties,  orders  defendant  to  pay 
plaintiff,  as  per  obligation,  unless  defendant  can  prove  he  so  paid 
plaintiff,  which  shall  then  be  deducted  from  the  amount  claimed. 

Evert  Prys,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hendrick  Jochemsen,  defendant.. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  amount  of  sixty-six  gldrs.^ 
zeewant.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  but  shows  a  bill  for  sixty 
gldrs.,  fourteen  stivers,  zeewant,  which  plaintiff  accepts  in  payment.. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  balance  of  the  account. 

Symen  Jansen  Romeyn  asks  for  an  attachment  of  fifty-four 
gldrs.,  Dutch  money,  in  the  possession  of  Jan  Aersen  Smit,  due- 
him  from  "Willem  Jansen  Stol. 

Willem  Vredenburgh  attaches in  the  possession  of  the 

Noble  Lord  Director  General  Pieter  Stuyvesant,  money   due   to» 
Evert  Parys. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  December  12,  [1662]. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose,, 
Albert  Gysbertse,  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit. 

Barent  Hermensen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  receipt  for  eight  schepels  of 
wheat  which  he  says  he  paid  defendant  in  accordance  with  a  power 
of  attorney  and  an  obligation. 

Defendant  admits  he  received  the  power  of  attorney,  and  that 
he  was  paid  by  plaintiff. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  return  to  plaintiff  his  obliga- 
tion, together  with  a  receipt. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hendrick  Comelissen,  defen- 
dant.   Default. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen  and  his  wife,  defend* 
ants.    Default. 

Plaintiff  demands  judgment  on  account  of  a  former  complaint, 
lodged  before  this  Court,  that  defendants  sjioke  irreverently  of  the 
Court  in  saying  that  the  Commissaries  did  not  give  them  justice. 
The  Schout  having  communicated  with  the  Commissaries  they  know 
all  about  the  matter. 


1662]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINQSTON.  49 

Whereas,  the  defendants  do  not  appear  before  the  Court,  but 
have  several  times  poked  fun  at  the  Court,  the  Schout  is  ordered 
to  put  the  defendants  under  arrest  until  they  shall  prove  they 
have  been  unjustly  treated  by  said  Court. 

Evert  Pels, 

Alaerdt  Hetmansz  Roose, 
This  is  the  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen, 

TiERCK    CliASZEN    de   "Witt. 
Poulus  Poulussen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Pietersen  Tack,  defend- 
ant.    Plaintiff  demands  the  amount  of  thirty  schepels  of  wheat, 
payment  of  three  months'  wages  earned. 

Defendant  answers  that  plaintiff  broke  the  terms  of  his  con- 
tract by  leaving  him.  The  Court  questions  Gommert  Gerritsen  and 
Dirck  Adriaensen,  witnesses  who  had  been  summoned,  and  finds  that 
Poulus  Poulussen  left  Aert  Pietersen  Tack's  service,  without  the 
latter 's  consent. 

The  Court  rejects  plaintiff's  claim,  because  he  hired  himself 
out  for  a  year  and  left  his  place  within  the  stipulated  period ;  and 
decides  that  defendant  owes  plaintiff  nothing. 

Poulus  Poulussen,  after  the  above  sentence  was  read  to  him, 
declares  that  the  witnesses  testified  falsely,  and(  that  if  he  is  not 
paid  he  will  not  be  receiving  justice. 

The  Commissaries  order  the  Schout  to  arrest  Poulus  Poulussen, 
and  to  keep  him  under  arrest  until  he  shall  prove  he  has  not 
received  justice,  and  further  proved  that  the  witnesses  have  testi- 
fied falsely. 

Evert  Pels, 

Alaerdt  Heymansz  Roose, 
Albert  (x)   Gysbertsen, 
TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt. 
Jan  Broersen,   plaintiff,   vs.   Hendrick  Martense,   defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  six  months*  house  rent,  at  four  gldrs. 
per  month.    Defendant  answers  that  plaintiff  did  not  ask  any  rent, 
and  he  therefore  refuses  to  pay. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  twenty-four  gldrs. 

Hendrick   Jochemse,   plaintiff,   vs.    Evert  Parys,   defendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  of  defendant  five  schepels  of  wheat  and  three 


50  THE  DXrrCH  records  of  KINGSTON.  [1662 

and  one-half  gldrs.,  in  zee  want,  for  which  plaintiff  has  attached 
defendant. 

Defendant  answers  he  knows  of  no  attachment  and  that  he  has 
paid.  The  Court,  having  heard  the  parties,  orders  defendant  to  pay 
plaintiff. 

Willem  Jansen  Stol,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Prys,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  payment  of  five  schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  answers 
he  earned  this  amount  from  plaintiff  for  four  days*  labor.  Plain- 
tiff says  defendant  only  worked  three  days. 

The  Commissaries  order  plaintiff  to  pay  defendant  three  sche- 
pels of  wheat  for  labor  done,  and  defendant  to  satisfy  plaintiff 
for  the  balance  of  the  account. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Barense  Amershof,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  a  fine  for  the  half  anker  of  brandy  which  de- 
fendant smuggled,  about  which  Jacob  Boerhans,  being  also  ques- 
tioned by  the  Court  Messenger,  says  he  saw  the  brandy  taken  from 
the  wagon.  Defendant  says  he  called  at  the  Collector's  house  and 
the  Collector  not  being  home,  the  brandy  was  carried  to  his  house. 

The  Court,  Commissaries,  order  the  brandy  to  be  con- 
fiscated and  that  defendant  pay  six  gldrs.  for  the  poor. 

Evert  Pels, 

AliAERDT  HeYMANSZ  RoOSE. 

Thomas  Chambers,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Pietersen  Tack,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount  of 
two  hundred  and  ninety-four  gldrs.  beaver's  value,  as  per  obliga- 
tion.   Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  parties,  orders  defend^ant  to 
satisfy  plaintiff. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  The  Schout,  defendant.  Default. 

Hendrick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Willem  Vredenburgh,  de- 
fendant.   Default. 

Hester  Dowens  gives  notice  of  an  attachment  of  three  schepels 
of  buckwheat  in  the  hands  of  Jan  Jansen,  belonging  to  Merten 
Hermensen. 

Session  of  January  9,  1663. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymansz  Roose, 
Albert  Gyibertie. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  51 

Poulus  Poulussen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jannetje  Volckertsen,  defend- 
ant.   Default. 

Jan  Jansen  de  Brabander,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  seventeen  and  one-half  schepels  of 
wheat  and  also  eighteen  and  one-half  lbs.  of  butter.  Defendant 
answers  he  has  a  bill  against  this,  which  plaintiff  declines  to  accept. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  amount  claimed,  and,  if 
defendant  has  any  claim  against  plaintiff,  he  may  go  to  Court 
with  it. 

Jan  Broersen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Thomas  Chambers,  Elsjen  Jans, 
and  Pieter  Cornelissen,  defendants.    Default. 

Barent  Gerretsen,  plaintiff,  demands  payment  of  ten  schepels 
of  wheat,  as  per  obligation  payable  Ao.  1663.  Defendant,  Jan 
Broersen,  admits  the  debt  and  requests  time. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  amount  claim- 
ed, as  per  obligation  of  Ao,  1663. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh,  vs.  Matys  Roeloofsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  the  six  new  sacks  which  he  found  at  the  house 
of  defendant,  who  kept  them  four  weeks.  Through  the  Schout, 
he  ordered  the  defendant  to  give  the  sacks  back,  and  upon  his  re- 
turn home  Mr.  Gysbert  took  the  sacks  to  the  Schout  for  inspection. 
There  is  was  found  that  some  of  them  were  rotten  and  decayed, 
and  one  was  missing,  for  which  he  demands  payment.  Defendant 
says  he  knew  nothing  about  the  sticks  until  the  Schout  sent  for 
them. 

Thereupon  the  Court  was  informed  by  Jan  Peerssen  that  he 
had  directed  Louwerens  the  soldier  to  take  the  six  sacks  to  Mr. 
Gysbert  van  Imbrogh 's. 

And  whereas,  both  parties  refer  to  Jan  Perssen,  it  is  ordered 
that  the  witnesses  shall  be  present  or  testify  in  writing, 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Anthony  de  Walter,  defend- 
ant.   Default. 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Poulus  Toraassen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  twenty  schepels  of  wheat  due  for 
drinks  and  goods  sold  defendant.  Defendant  admits  the  debt  and 
requests  six  weeks*  time. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  within  six  weeks. 


52  THB  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

The  Court,  Commissaries,  order  that  the  attachment  laid  on 
the  goods  in  the  possession  of  Roelof  Swartwout,  for  the  amount  of 
twenty  schepels  of  wheat,  shall  remain  in  force  until  full  payment 
by  Poulus  Tomassen. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  demands  from  Mathys  Roeloofsen  a  fine 
of  five  hundred  gldrs.,  because  the  savages  were  admitted  to  his 
house  at  night  through  the  palisades,  all  of  which  the  Sergeant  and 
his  roundsman  declare. 

The  Court  allows  the  Schout  fifty  gldrs.,  and  the  defendant 
is  ordered  to  pay  the  same  to  the  Schout. 

Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit  and  Sergeant  Christiaen  Nissen,  under 
power  of  attorney  from  the  Lord  General  Pieter  Stuyvesant, 
plaintiffs,  vs.  Cornells  Barense  Slecht,  defendant. 

Plaintiffs  inform  the  Court  that  whereas,  in  consequence  of  a 
late  sentence  against  Cornelis  Barsen,  they  have  become  sureties  for 
him  for  the  amount  of  nineteen  hundred  gldrs.,  in  beavers,  and 
finding  that  no  com  is  forthcoming,  they  ask  the  Court  to  authorize 
them  to  appoint  one  or  two  guards  at  the  expense  of  defendant,  so 
as  to  relieve  them  of  their  anxiety. 

The  Court,  after  considering  the  petition,  directs  plaintiffs 
to  take  turns  each  week,  and  every  day  to  carefully  watch  the 
quantity  of  corn  threshed  and  delivered  there,  and  also  to  receive 
and  note  the  same,  to  store  or  cause  the  same  to  be  stored,  and,  if 
this  do  not  suffice,  they  are  authorized  to  appoint  two  watchers  to 
watch  the  corn,  at  the  expense  of  defendant. 

Tjirick  Classen  deWit  sues  out  an  attachment  upon  one  hun- 
dred and  seven  gldrs.,  beaver's  value,  in  the  hands  of  Juriaen  West- 
vael,  belonging  to  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht. 

Pieter  Jacobsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Grietjen  Westercamp.  Plain- 
tiff, by  petition,  asks  to  be  released  from  defendant,  so  as  to  be  a 
free  man  again  and  earn  his  living.  Defendant  requests  fourteen 
days'  time. 

The  Court  again  allows  defendant  fourteen  days*  time,  and 
if  she  can  not  bring  proof,  plaintiff  shall  receive  the  judgment  of 
the  Court  which,  upon  request,  will  mete  out  justice. 

Evert  Pels,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  Westvael,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  of  defendant  what  he  has  to  say  against  his  obligation 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  53 

held  by  plaintiff,  as  defendant  is  not  willing  ro  pay  it.  Defend- 
ant demands  a  bill  of  particulars. 

Plaintiff  answers  he  is  not  obliged  to  give  one,  because,  at  the 
signing  of  the  obligation,  they  settled  their  accounts  in  the  presence 
of  Thomas  Chambers.  He  therefore  demands  payment,  or  proof  by 
defendant  that  he  does  not  owe  it.  Defendant  answers  he  is  not 
disposed  to  bring  any  other  proof  before  this  court. 

The  Commissaries  order  plaintiff  to  show  defendant  the  origin 
of  the  indebtedness,  and  the  defendant  to  send  in  his  account  to 
plaintiff. 

Session,  held  January  13,  1663. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick  Classen  deWit. 

Aldprt  Heymanse,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  Alen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  says  that  by  a  previous  judgment  uf  the  Commissaries, 
rendered  at  their  session  of  November  28,  defendant  was  ordered  to 
prove  to  plaintiff  that  he  used  false  weights.  The  defendant,  af- 
ter being  under  arrest  for  four  days  in  the  bauds  of  the  Schout, 
moves  him  to  bring  him  to  Court. 

The  Court,  Commissaries,  resolve  and  decide  to  give  defend- 
ant time  until  the  next  session  of  the  Court,  and  in  the  meantime 
he  may  give  bail,  or  else  be  detained  until  then. 

Evert  Pels, 
TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt, 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  January  23,  1663. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose,  Albert  Gys- 
bertse,  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit. 

Thomas  Chambers,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant.  Both 
default. 

Poulus  Poulussen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annejte  Aerts,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  defendant.    Default. 

Poulus  Poulussen,  at  the  request  of  Emmctje  Volckerts,  de- 
clares and  testifies  that,  after  he  left  Tack's  service,  Aert  Pieter- 
sen  Tack  promised  to  pay  her. 

Jan  Broersen,  plaintiff,  demands  a  declaration  of  Thomas 
Chambers,  Pieter  Comelissen  and  Elsjen  Jans.    Says  that  the  Ser- 


54  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

geant  called  him  a  thief.  Pieter  Cornelissen  and  Elsjen  Jans  tes- 
tify and  declare  that  they  did  not  hear  it.  Thomas  Chambers  de- 
clares he  heard  he  was  taxed  with  having  stolen  turnips,  which 
plaintiff  admits  in  Court.  The  Sergeant  added :  '  *  Fresh  pork 
tastes  good  with  turnips." 

Walraven  deMont,  plaintiff,  vs.  Huybrecht  Bruyn,  defendant. 
Default. 

Gommert  Poulussen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roeloof  Swartwout,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  fifty-three  and 
one  half  schepels  of  wheat,  due  for  goods  bought  from  and  wages 
earned  by  his  deceased  brother.    Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  one-half  within  one 
month  and  the  balance  within  two  months. 

Evert  Pels, 
Alaerdt   Heymansz. 

Gommert  Poulussen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Mertense  Dorn,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  twenty-five  and  one-half  sche- 
pels of  wheat,  for  cloth  sold;  and  also  twenty-four  schepels  of 
wheat,  and  eleven  gldrs.,  zeewant,  the  latter  due  on  an  obligation 
to  Willem  Mertense  for  whom  Gommert  Poulussen  is  attorney, 
as  is  known  to  Tjirick  Classen  and  Albert  Gysbertsen. 

Defendant  Aert  Mertense  Dorn  admits  the  debt  and  requests 
time.  The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  within  six  weeks,  and  the 
obligation  six  weeks  afterwards. 

Gommert  Poulussen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Peter  Bni.vnsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  ten  schepels  of  wheat  for  goods  sold. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt.  The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay 
within  six  weeks. 

Gommert  Poulussen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Warrenaer  Hoorenbeek,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  seventeen  schepels  of 
wheat,  and  also  three  schepels  of  wheat  for  interest. 

Defendant  admits  the  debt.  The  Court  orders  defendant  to 
pay  within  six  weeks. 

Matheu  Blanchan,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roeloofsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  the  expenses  he  says  he  incurred  for  defendant 
when  defendant  was  under  sentence.  Defendant  answers  he  offered 
to  pay  plaintiff,  but  his  obstinacy  caused  him  to  go  to  Court. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  55 

The  Court,  after  hearing  both  parties,  decides  that  each  pay 
one-half  the  expense,  so  that  defendant  must  pay  plaintiff  ten 
gldrs.,  ten  stivers. 

Pieter  Jacobsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Grietjen  Westercamp,  defendant. 
Default. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritse,  defendant.    Default. 

Emmetjen  Volckertss,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Barense,  defendant. 
Default. 

Jacob  Joosten,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Barense,  defendant.  The 
plaintiff,  as  attorney  for  Jan  Verbeeck,  demands  of  defendant  pay- 
ment of  the  amount  of  fifteen  schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  admits 
the  debt,  offers  to  pay  eight  schepels  of  wheat  within  fourteen  days. 

The  Court,  Commissaries,  order  that  the  nttachment  levied  by 
Jacob  Joosten  on  Jacob  Barense 's  corn  shall  remain  in  force  until 
the  final  payment. 

Hendrick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff',  vs.  Annetje  Aerts,  defendant.. 
Plaintiff  says  that  defendant  taxed  him  with  keeping  false  accounts 
and  with  selling  diluted  brandy,  and  he  requests  a  vindication  of 
his  honor. 

Defendant  admits  having  said  to  plaintiff  that  he  sent  in  a 
false  bill,  and  also  says  that  plaintiff's  wife  called  her  a  whore. 
Plaintiff  protests  and  says,  "I  shall  consider  you,  defendant,  to 
be  a  whore  until  you  prove  to  me  that  I  keep  false  books." 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  have  proof  at  its  next  session, 
and  plaintiff  to  prove  his  account. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Matthys  Roeloofsen, 
defendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  payment  for  the  six  ruined  sacks  which  de- 
fendant kept  four  weeks.  Defendant  once  before  declared  he 
knew  nothing  about  the  sacks,  and  now  shows  an  attestation  by 
which  Jan  Persen  and  Jan  Westhoeven  declare  that  his  wife  took 
them  filled  up,  from  her  own  mowers  at  the  Ronduyt. 

On  this,  the  Court  decides  and  orders  the  defendant  to  pay 
plaintiff  for  the  sacks,  and  also  to  pay  as  a  fine  one  pound  Flemish 
[six  guilders,  or  $2.40]  for  the  church. 

Aldert  Heymanse  Roose,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  hAlen,  de- 
fendant.    Plaintiff,  under  an  earlier  judgment  of  the  Commissar- 


56  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

ies  directing  defendant's  arrest,  requests  his  apprehension  outside 
his  own  house,  until  he  has  proven  plaintiff's  weights  to  be  false. 
Defendant,  on  an  examination  by  the  Commissaries,  answers  that 
he  did  not  say  that  plaintiff's  weights  were  false,  but  that  he  had 
not  received  full  weight.  At  the  former  session,  November  28,  1662,, 
he  roundly  declared  it  be  true  that  he  had  said  so. 

The  Commissaries,  therefore,  decide  to  refer  the  parties  to 
three  good  men,  Thomas  Chambers,  Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh  and 
Sergeant  Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  for  the  purpose  of  settling,  if 
possible,  the  difference  between  them,  otherwise  to  have  the  de- 
fendant arrested  at  plaintiff's  request;  the  expenses  to  be  paid 
by  the  party  decided  to  be  in  the  wrong. 

Evert  Pels, 

TiERCK  Claszen  db  Witt, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  (x)  his  mark. 
The  good  men  selected  not  having  been  able  to  settle  the  above 
dispute,  the  Commissaries  are  asked  to  act  as  arbitrators.  These 
state  that  the  parties  have  come  to  such  an  understanding  that 
Pieter  van  Halen  declared  in  their  presence  that  he  knew  nothing 
of  Albert  Heymanse  and  his  wife  but  what  was  honorable  and  vir- 
tuous, and  promised  to  pay  through  the  Schout  the  expenses  in- 
curred in  the  above  matter. 

Evert  Pels,  '  ^ 

TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt, 
(x)   [Albert  Gysbertsen.] 

Extraordinary  Session,  held  Saturday,  January  29,  1663. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick  de  Wit. 

Hester  Douwens,  or  her  attorney  in  the  absence  of  her  hus- 
band, plaintiff,  vs.  Tjirick  Classen  deWit,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  three  hundred 
and  thirty-two  gldrs.,  eighteen  stivers,  zeewant,  for  goods  and 
jewelry  furnished  to  defendant.  Defendant  re /laws  the  account, 
says  he  once  verbally  settled  with  her,  in  the  presence  of  herself 
and  husband,  and  then  owed  twenty-six  schepels  of  wheat,  a  schepe) 


\ 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  57 

of  onions  and  a  half  a  thousand  brick.  But,  owing  to  plaintiff's 
pressure,  defendant  asks  for  a  copy  of  the  account  and  fourteen 
days'  time  to  examine  it. 

The  Court  decides  that  defendant  shall  furnish  a  sufficient 
counter-bill  within  fourteen  days,  unless  he  can  prove,  as  claim- 
ed, that  he  settled  it  with  plaintiff.  Plaintiff  is  also  ordered  to  fur- 
nish a  copy  of  his  account. 

Ordinary  Seession,  held  Tuesday,  February  6,  1663. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse,  sick, 
Albert  Gysbertse,  Tjirick  Classen  deWit. 

"Whereas,  the  Court  has  decided  to  find  the  rent  for  the  Court 
room  and  thus  relieve  the  community,  therefore  those  who  shall 
appear  before  it  to  plead  or  seek  justice,  shall  each  pay  thirty-six 
stivers,  to  be  advanced  by  the  plaintiff,  at  the  cost  of  the  loser  of  the 
suit,  which  moneys  shall  be  used  to  pay  the  rent  of  the  place  where 
the  ordinary  sessions  of  the  Court  are  held. 

Evert  Pels, 
TiERCK  Claszen   de  Witt, 

Jan  Broersen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Thomas  Chambers,  Pieter  Cornelis- 
sen,  Elsjen  Jans,  defendants.  Plaintiff  again  demands  an  oppor- 
tunity to  testify  as  to  the  truth,  and  for  that  purpose  summoned 
Thomas  Chambers,  Pieter  Cornelissen,  and,  Elsjen  Jans  who  do 
not  refuse  to  testify  to  the  truth,  but  ask  the  Court  to  first  ascer- 
tain whether  plaintiff's  accuser,  Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  will  af- 
firm what  he  said  to  plaintiff,  in  which  case  no  witnesses  will 
be  necessary. 

Regarding  this,  the  Court  decides  that  plaintiff  summon  the 
'respondent  and  have  him  either  deny  or  affirm  the  accusation. 

Pieter  Jacobsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Grietjen  Westercamp,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  asks,  by  petition,  that  the  Court  grant  him  justice  against 
defendant.  Defendant  answers  that  plaintiff  is  the  father  of  her 
child.  He  denies  this,  says  it  is  not  his  child,  and  offers  to  affirm 
upon  oath.  Which  he  did  before  the  Court,  saying,  "I  am  not  the 
father  of  the  child:  So  truly  help  me  God  Almighty  I" 

Therefore,  the  Court  decides  to  allow  plaintiff  to  marry  any 
other  person  he  pleases,  and  it  has  also  thought  it  proper,  in  view 
of  several  certificates  previously  shown  by  both  parties  to  the 


58  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Court,  that  plaintiff  shall,  for  the  nonce,  pay  defendant  two  hun- 
dred gldrs.,  on  a  former  acknowledgment  made  by  him  that  he 
did  not  compensate  her  for  lying  with  her,  and  he  is  therefore 
bound  to  pay  her  for  that  service. 

Anthony  Cruepel,  plaintiff,  vs,  Roeloof  Swartwout,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  forty  schepels  of 
wheat  and  thirteen  schepels  of  buckwheat.  Defendant  admits  the 
debt. 

The  Court,  Commissaries,  order  defendaat  to  pay  plain- 
tiff the  amount  claimed,  within  six  weeks. 

Evert  Pels, 

TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt. 

Jan  Barense  Amraershof,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roeloof  Swartwout, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  twelve  schepels  of  wheat. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  amount 
claimed. 

Evert  Pels, 

Tierck  Claszen  de  Witt. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen,  defendant.  The 
first  default. 

Plaintiff  demands  payment  from  defendant  of  the  amount  due 
as  per  agreement  on  January  9,  made  in  the  presence  of  the  Com- 
missaries. Defendant  admits  the  debt  and  promises  to  pay  the 
Schout  within  twenty-four  hours. 

The  Court  orders  this  to  be  done,  and,  if  defendant  does  not 
comply,  the  Schout  is  authorized  to  enforce  the  claim. 

Roeloof  Swartwout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roeloofsen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount 
of  seven  beavers.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  buu  answers  that  he 
assigned  to  plaintiff  his  claim  against  Jonas  Rantsou,  which  plain- 
tiff admits,  but  says  the  assignment  has  not  been  accepted,  and,  in 
consequence,  he  again  enters  his  claim  against  thi»  principal  [the 
defendant] .  The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  and  satisfy  plain- 
tiff. 

Evert  Pels, 

Tierck  Claszen  de  Witt. 


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Jan  Jansen  Ammersfoort  and  Cornelis  Slecht,  plaintiffs,  vs. 
Aert  Jacobsen,  Jan  Willemsen  and  Hendrick  Jansen  Looman,  de- 
fendants. 

Plaintiffs  demand  from  defendants  payment  for  what  each  has 
bought  at  public  sale:  Jan  owes  three  hundred  and  fifty  gldrs. ; 
Aert  Jacobsen  is  to  pay  three  hundred  and  forty-five  gldrs.,  and 
Hendrick  Jansen  Looman  two  hundred  and  ten  gldrs.,  all  according 
to  bill  of  sale.    The  defendants  admit  the  debt. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  respective  parties,  orders  defend- 
ants, each  for  himself,  to  pay  plaintiffs  for  the  grain  bought  of  the 
latter,  according  to  the  bill  of  sale,  which  is  past  due. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mattheu  Blanclian,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff says  that  defendant,  an  inhabitant  of  this  village,  does  not 
confine  himself  to  distilling,  but  has  dared  to  violate  the  ordinances 
established  by  the  Director  General  and  Supreme  Council  for  this 
place,  and  stiU  unrepealed,  providing  that  those  who  desire  to  tap 
must  observe  said  ordinances  until  further  order.  Concerning 
which  the  Schout  states  that  defendant  sold  a  half  anker  of  brandy 
to  his  brother-in-law,  Lowy s  Duho,  and  fthat]  when  the  Court  was  at 
defendant's  house  to  gauge,  [the  defendant,]  to  account  for  what  had 
become  of  his  wine,  gave  as  an  answer  that  he  had  two  or  three 
times  boiled  over  into  the  ashes  [i.  e.,  spoiled  the  product].  And  the 
Court,  being  informed  that  on  the  great  piece  some  mishap  has  occur- 
red, went  thither  with  the  whole  Board  on  horseback  to  investigate 
for  the  general  good  how  much  wine  there  was  and  in  whose  pos, 
session  it  was,  and  found  a  half  anker  of  distilled  water  at  the 
house  of  Lowys  Dubo  who  admitted  and  declared,  in  the  presence 
of  the  Court,  that  he  bought  it  from  his  father.  And,  whereas,  the 
•  defendant  did  not  declare  the  wine,  the  Schout  demands  his  fine. 

Evert  Pels, 

TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt. 
Jan  Albertsen  van  Steenwyck  appeared  before  the  Commissar- 
ies, and  asked  that  he  be  granted  a  convenient  lot  below  the  fort, 
on  the  bank  of  the  Kill  to  the  southward  of  Barent  Gerritsen's  to 
bo  used  as  a  tannery  and  garden.  The  same  is  hereby  granted  to 
him  provisionally,  on  condition  of  not  building  thereon,  either  now 
or  hereafter,  any  dwellings  or  breweries.    The  lot  is  eleven  rods 


60  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

wide  and  sixteen  rods  long.    Thus  measured  in  the  presence  of  the 
Court. 

Evert  Pels, 
\  Alaerdt  Heymansz  Roose, 

Albert  Gysbertsen,  (x)  his  mark, 
Tierck  Claszen  deWitt. 
The  matter  on  the  other  side  [of  the  page]  between  the  Schout 
and  Matheu  Blanchan  having  been  presented  to  the  Commissaries 
and  having  been  considered  by  them  and  the  Court,  they  find  that 
the  ordinance  must  be  observed,  and  in  order  to  prevent  the  evils 
which  otherwise  might  result,  and  for  cause  it  thereunto  moving, 
the  Court  condemns  the  defendant  to  pay  a  fine  of  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  guilders,  to  be  applied  as  follows:  One  third  to  the 
poor,  one-third  to  the  Bench,  and  one-third  to  the  Schout. 

Evert  Pels, 

Alaerdt  Heymansz  Roose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  (x)  his  mark, 
Tierck  Claszen  deWitt. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  February  20,  1663. 
Present:     The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Ileymanse  Roose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick  Claesen  deWit. 

Annctjen  Aerts,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hendrick  Jochemsen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  an  accounting  from  defendant.  Defendani 
submits  a  bill  for  fourteen  guilders,  whereupon  plaintiff  claims 
four  hundred  bricks  more. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  parties,  through  witnesses  sum- 
moned, and  information  received  from  Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh 
and  from  Jan  Aersen,  the  smith,  finds  an  omission  in  the  account 
and  orders  plaintiff  to  pay  defendant  four  gldrs.,  ten  stivers,  the 
defendant  to  supply  four  hundred  bricks  to  plaintiff  and  pay  the 
costs  incurred. 

Huybrecht  Bruyn,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Jansen  van  Ammersfoort, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  amount  of 
twelve  Bchepels  of  wheat,  due  for  wages  earned  for  mason  work. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt,  but  says  that  the  mason  has  still  to 


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61 


plaster  the  walls.    This  the  mason  denies,  saying  it  was  not  stipu- 
lated as  part  of  the  work  contracted  for. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  amount  claimed,  but 
if  he  can  prove  that  plaintiff  contracted  to  plaster  the  walls,  the 
defendant  shall  then  receive  satisfaction. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roeloofsen, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  ex- 
penses incurred  in  consequence  of  the  judgment  given  in  favor  of 
plaintiff  on  January  13.  Defendant  answers  that  plaintiff  attached 
his  money  before  the  judgment  was  rendered. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  parties,  orders  defendant  to  pay 
plaintiff  fourteen  gldrs.,  eight  stivers,  for  costs  incurred. 

Evert  Prys,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hendrick  Jansen  Looman,  defendant. 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Huybrecht  Bruyn,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  thirteen  schepels  of 
wheat  due  on  the  sale  of  some  goods.  Defendant  admits  the  debt. 
The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roeloof  Swartwout,  defendant. 
Plaintiff,  under  a  power  of  attorney  shown  to  the  Court,  demands 
payment  of  the  amount  of  fourteen  schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant 
admits  the  debt,  but  says  he  is  entitled  to  a  deduction  for  two 
sacks. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  within  three 
weeks. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjirick  Classen  de  Wit,  defend- 
ent.  Plaintiff  demands,  as  per  adjustment  of  accounts  shown  to  the 
Court,  the  amount  of  twenty-six  schepels  of  wheat,  thirteen  gldrs., 
five  St.,  in  zeewant,  and  five  hundred  bricks.  Defendant  admits  the 
debt,  and  promises  to  pay  within  fourteen  days,  the  whole  Bench 
being  present. 

On  February  28,  Matheu  Blanchan  requested  permission  to 
appeal,  which  was  granted  by  the  Court. 

He  offers  Christiaen  Nissen  romp  and  Lowys  Dubo  as  sureties 
for  the  judgment  rendered  or  to  be  rendered,  with  the  costs  thereof. 

Christtan  Niszen, 
■  Louts  (x)  duBois. 


62  THE  DUTCH  BECOBDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  March  6,  1663. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjirick  Classen  deWit. 

Pieter  Vlamingh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  payment  of  twenty-one  schepels  of  oats  for  wages 
earned.    Default. 

Gommert  Poulussen,  plaintiff,  vs  Evert  Prys,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  twenty-one  schepels  of  wheat.  De- 
fendant says  he  does  not  owe  more  than  nineteen  schepels. 

The  Court,  after  hearing  both  parties,  orders  defendant  to  pay 
nineteen  schepels  of  wheat. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Altjen  Sybrants,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands,  under  an  earlier  complaint  made 
before  this  Court,  vindication  of  his  honor  against  defendant.  He 
produces  a  certificate  made  by  three  witnesses  who  declare  they 
heard  defendant  call  plaintiff  a  Jew  and  that  she  also  called  him 
a  sucker.  They  also  declare  that  she  struck  his  chest  so  that  he 
fell  backward,  and  that  her  husband,  Mathys  Roeloofsen,  threaten- 
ed plaintiff,  saying,  "If  I  had  you  elsewhere,  I  would  teach  you 
gomethlng. ' ' 

Defendant  in  default. 

Roeloof  Hendricksen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Thomas  Chambers,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  three  schepels 
of  wheat.  Defendant  answers  that,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge, 
he  paid  plaintiff  or  somebody  else  on  his  behalf.  Plaintiff  offers 
to  testify  to  the  truth  of  the  fact  that  he  never  received  payment 
and  that  he  did  not  authorize  any  one  to  collect  the  debt  for  him. 

The  Court,  having  heard  both  parties,  grants,  at  their  request, 
an  adjournment. 

Hendrick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annetjen  Aerts,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  vindication  of  his  honor;  says  that  defendant 
called  his  wife  a  whore,  and  charged  him  with  keeping  false  books, 
and  watering  his  brandy.  Defendant  denies  the  accusation,  states 
that  she  said  he  showed  her  a  false  account,  as  is  entered  in  the 
minutes  of  February  20, 1662,  and  demands  proof  of  the  accusation 
and  vindication  of  her  honor  because  plaintiff  called  her  a  whore. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  63 

Plaintiff  requests  that  justice  be  done  him,  or  otherwise  he  will 
be  obliged  to  seek  it  elsewhere. 

An  order  had  been  given  by  the  Court  to  plaintiff,  on  Febru- 
ary 6,  that  the  parties  should  produce  proofs,  and  as  plaintiff  has 
no  other  witnesses  than  his  own  wife,  both  parties  are  ordered  to 
keep  the  peace.  In  addition,  Hendrick  Jochemse  is  ordered  to  pay 
a  fine  of  twenty-five  gldrs.,  and  Elsjen  Jans  and  Annetjen  Aerts 
are  each  also  ordered  to  pay  a  fine  of  six  gldrs.,  to  go  to  the  poor, 
for  having  used  vile  and  nasty  language  before  the  Court. 

Jacob  Boerhans,  Collector  for  this  village,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hen- 
drick Jochemse,  Wallera  deMont,  Jonas  Rantsou,  in  default,  Wil- 
lem  van  Vreedenburgh,  in  default,  Hendrick  Jansen  Looman,  Claes 
Pietersen,  in  default,  defendants. 

Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  excise  license  for  the  wine 
or  beer  which  each  defendant  has  taken  in  and  disposed  of.  The 
above  named  defendants  admit  the  claim. 

The  Court  orders  defendants,  severally,  to  pay  within  eight 
days,  in  accordance  with  the  Collector's  book,  under  pain  of  execu- 
tion. 

Mr.  Verleet,  for  Fop  Barense,  demands  payment  of  the  amount 
due  on  settlement  of  accounts,  viz. :  Fifty-seven  and  one-half  sche- 
pels  of  wheat  and  one  hundred  and  fifty-four  gldrs.,  eighteen  sti- 
vers, in  zeewant,  which  amounts  are  due  Fop  Baranse  for  building 
the  parsonage,  as  per  adjustment  November  12,  1661. 

The  Sehout,  as  plaintiff,  against  Fop  Barense,  on  complaints 
made  by  Domine  Blom  to  the  Magistrates,  demands  that  the  money 
due  Fop  Barense  be  held  under  attachment  until  he  shall  ap- 
pear here  to  defend  himself. 

Whereas,  the  Sehout  has  a  case  against  Fop  Barentse,  arising 
from  some  threatening  or  abusive  language  used  towards  the  minis- 
ter, Domine  Harmanus  Blom,  and  others,  the  Commissaries,  there- 
fore, declare  said  attachment  to  be  valid,  and  specially  charge  the 
Sehout  to  officially  summon  Fop  Barense  to  appear  before  this 
Court,  either  in  person  or  by  attorney,  within  sis' weeks,  to  answer 
the  complaint  now  before  the  magistrates.  Done  at  Wildtwyck, 
March  31,  1663. 

Hendrick  Jochemse  informs  the  Court  that  he  has  a  piece  of 
farm  land  situated  near  the  wood  opposite  the  Kill,  bounded  by  a 


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64  THE  DUTCH  EECOEDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

part  of  the  land  of  Jeronimus  Ebbingh  whose  lessees  cause  damage 
to  the  petitioner  through  the  pasturing  of  their  horses.  He  requests 
that  the  owners  of  the  meadow  lands  across  the  Kill,  wihich  are 
private  property,  be  ordered  to  fence  them  in,  and  to  pay  for  the 
damage  done  to  the  farming  land. 

The  Court  orders  and  directs  that  every  one,  who  has  or  intends 
to  have  and  maintain  private  meadows  on  or  near  cultivated  farm 
lands,  shall  fence  such  meeadow  lands,  without  encroaching  upon 
his  neighbor's  property. 

We,  the  undersigned,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose,  Commissary  and 
Elder  of  the  village  of  Wildtwyck,  and  Albert  Gysberse,  Commis- 
sary and  Deacon  of  said  village,  make  known  that  before  us 
Appeared  the  worthy  Evert  Pels,  inhabitant  of  the  village  of  Wildt- 
wyck, who  acknowledged  that  he  actually  and  in  good  faith  bor- 
rowed and  received  from  Roeloof  Swartwout  and  Cornelis  Barense 
Slecht,  the  appointed  guardians  of  the  minor  children  of  the  late 
Mathys  Jansen,  deceased,  the  amount  of  one  thousand  gldrs.,  in  corn, 
at  beaver's  value,  which  he  agrees  to  hold  at  interest  for  two  con- 
secutive years,  and  promises  to  give  as  interest  one  hundred  and 
twenty  gldrs.,  in  corn,  beaver's  value,  per  annum,  being  twelve 
gldrs.,  per  cent,  commencing  February  15,  of  the  current  year,  1663 
and  terminating  February  15,  1665,  when  he  will  return  and  reim- 
burse the  aforesaid  principal  and  the  second  year's  interest.  For 
which  purpose  he,  the  appearer,  specially  mortgages  his  lands, 
situated  near  the  village  Wildtwyck,  and  his  house,  standing  in 
the  aforesaid  village,  which  he  says  are  free  and  unincumbered; 
and  he  further  generally  pledges  his  person  and  goods,  real  and 
personal,  present  and  future,  nothing  excepted,  placing  and  sub- 
mitting them  and  himself  to  and  under  the  jurisdiction  of  all  court! 
and  judges,  adding  the  costs  incurred  thereby. 

In  testimony  whereof  we,  the  above  named,  and  the  appearer, 
have  subscribed  and  authenticated  these  presents  with  our  own 
signatures.  Done  at  the  village  of  Wildtwyck,  this  February  15, 
1663. 

Evert  Pels. 
To  my  knowledge,  Alaebdt  Hetmansz  Eoosb. 

This  is  the  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen,  made  by  himself. 
To  my  knowledge,  Tieboe  Claszen  de  Witt. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  65 

Ordinary  Session,  April  3,  Anno,  1663. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjiriek 
Classen  deWit.     Aldert  Heymanse,  absent. 

Mathys  Roeloofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Jansen  van  Ammersfoort, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  fifty-eighi 
gldrs.,  fourteen  st.,  eight  pennies,  due  on  a  debt  for  liquor.  De- 
fendant admits  the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  within  six  weeks. 

Evert  Pels,  Commissary,  as  attorney  for  Jan  Dircksen  van 
Breeman,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mathys  Roelofsen,  defendant.  Plaintiff 
demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  three  hundred  and  eighty-one 
gldrs.,  two  St.,  heavy  money,  and  also  twelve  schepels  of  wheat, 
due  for  wages  and  goods  sold.  Defendant  answers  that  he  has  a 
counter  claim,  and  that,  after  balancing  accounts,  he  would  owe 
twelve  gldrs.,  zeewant. 

The  Court  orders  the  parties  to  adjust  their  accounts  between 
themselves  and  to  inform  it,  at  its  next  session,  of  the  result. 

Johanna  Ebbingh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Bruynsen  van  Boohee- 
men,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  four  beavers,  two 
and  one-half  of  which  had  been  loaned  and  one  and  one-half  of 
which  were  for  goods  furnished.  Defendant  admits  he  received  the 
goods  and  the  beavers,  but  says  he  does  not  owe  plaintiff  anything, 
as  the  latter  did  not  keep  her  promise  to  let  him  learn  a  trade. 
Plaintiff  answers  that  about  two  years  ago  they  mutually  agreed 
regarding  the  debt  specified  above. 

The  Court,  after  having  heard  both  parties,  orders  defendant 
to  pay  plaintiff,  and  to  give  satisfaction  for  the  amount  claimed. 

Pieter  Mathysse,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  twenty-one  schepels  of 
oats,  due  for  wages  earned.    The  second  default. 

Thereupon  the  Court  orders  defendant  to  deposit  the  twenty- 
one  schepels  of  oats  in  Court  as  provisional  Becurity,  and  to  appear 
before  it  a  third  time. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  April  17,  1663.  fl 

Present.  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjiriek 
Classen  deWit,  Aldert  Heymanse  Roose,  in  default. 


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66  THE  DtJTCH  BECOBDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Geertjen  Bouts,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Mertense  Dom,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  thirty  schepels  of 
wheat  due  on  an  obligation,  and  says  he  journeyed  many  times  to 
this  place  to  obtain  payment.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  accord- 
ing to  obligation. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff. 

Roeloof  Hendricksen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Thomas  Chambers,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  three  schepels 
of  wheat  for  wages  earned.    Defendant  in  default. 

"Whereas,  plaintiff  and  defendant  were  in  Court  once  before, 
and  requested  an  adjournment,  the  defendant  is  therefore  ordered 
to  deposit  the  three  schepels  of  wheat  in  Court  as  provisional  se- 
curity. 

Cornelis  Barense  Slecht,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  eight  and  one- 
half  beavers  on  which  thirty-three  schepels  of  oats  have  been  paid, 
due  for  wages  earned.    Default. 

Cornelis  Barense  Slecht,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Willemse,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  sixty  gldrs.  heavy  money,  and  twen- 
ty-four gldrs.,  zeewant.    Default. 

Albert  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annetjen  Aerdts,  defendant. 
Default. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Altjen  Sybrants,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  enters  a  complaint  against  defendant  for  as- 
sault and  for  being  called  a  slanderer.  Requests  vindication  of 
his  honor  and  punishment  of  defendant,  as  provided  by  law. 

Defendant  presents  a  certificate  of  two  witensses  who  offer  to 
testify  that  Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh  called  Altjen  Sybrants  a 
heap  of  dung,  and  that  thereupon  Altjen  Sybrants  called  Mr.  Gys- 
bert a  Jew  and  a  sucker,  and  threatened  one  of  the  witnesses,  and 
said  to  Mr.  Gysbert,  "If  I  had  you  elsewhere,  I  would  show  you 
what  it  means  to  call  me  a  heap  of  dung."  This  complaint  of  Mr. 
Gysbert  van  Imbrogh,  now  made  for  the  third  time,  and  his  former 
appearance,  have  preforce  moved  the  Court  to  proceed  to  punish- 
ment, 80  as  to  serve  as  an  example  to  others.  The  Court  allows 
each  of  the  parties  fourteen  days'  additional  time,  without  exten- 
sion,  to  prove  their  allegations,  and  then  will  give  judgment. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH   RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  67 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Mertense  Dorn,  ue- 
fendant.     Settled. 

Aert  Mertense,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roeloof  Swartwout,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and  two 
gldrs.,  as  per  settlement  of  accounts  shown  to  the  Court.  The  de- 
fendant admits  the  debt. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff. 

Evert  Pels, 

TiERCK    ClASZEN    DE    WiTl. 

Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Plaintiff,  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of  ten  schepels  of  wheat 
due  for  servant's  wages  assigned  to  him.  Defendant  answers  he 
does  not  owe  more  than  three  schepels  of  wheat  on  the  old  account. 
and  requests  a  bill  for  the  thirty  gldrs.  which  Christiaen  says  he 
owes  for  brandy,  and  says,  "I  would  certainly  have  paid  you  if 
you  had  not  summoned  me  before  the  Court.'* 

Plaintiff  says  he  settled  with  defendant,  saying,  "  If  1  had  you 
outside  I  would  teach  you  something."  He  says  his  claim  is  just, 
and  offers  to  swear  to  it,  as  he  is  voluntarily  doing  by  the  oath  he 
has  taken. 

The  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  furnish  a  proper  account,  and  de- 
fendant to  pay  the  same  within  one  month  after  its  receipt. 

On  April  20,  1663,  Hester  Douwens  sued  for  a  writ  to  attach 
two  horses  belonging  to  Jan  Dircksen  van  Breeman,  now  with  Jur- 
iaen  Westvael. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  May  1,  1663, 
Present:    The  Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Tjirick  Classen 
deWit.    Evert  Pels  in  default. 

Roeloof  Swartwout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Poulus  Tomassen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  alleges  that  defendant  hired  and  bound  himself  out,  to- 
gether with  Jan  Muessen,  each  as  principal,  to  thresh  all  the  corn, 
and  as  the  defendant  voluntarily  allowed  his  comrade  to  go,  and 
himself  now  has  also  run  away  from  the  work  he  contracted  to  do, 
plaintiff  therefore,  after  due  protest,  requests  permission  to  sub- 
stitute and  keep  somebody  else  at  the  work,  at  defendant's  cost  and 
expense,  to  do  the  threshing  contracted  for.    He  also  requests  pay- 


68  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

ment  for  a  small  keg  of  soap  and  security  for  its  value  and  costs  m< 
curred. 

Defendant  answers  that  plaintiff  was  willing  that  his  mate 
should  depart.  Plaintiff  admits  he  was  willing,  as  he  relied  on  hii 
contract  which  provides  that  each  shall  be  liable  as  principal. 

The  Court  orders  and  directs  defendant  to  bear  three  parts  of 
the  expenses,  provided  plaintiff  shall  put  somebody  else  at  defend- 
ant's work  to  finish  the  threshing,  plaintiff  to  bear  the  fourth  part. 

Whereas,  there  is  not  a  full  Bench,  plaintiff  requests  a  revision 
or  that  defendant  give  security  for  arrears. 

TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt, 
Albert  QYSBERTSEN,(x)hi8  mark. 

Tjirick  Classen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen,  defend* 
ant. 

The  Court  resolves  not  to  decide  between  parties  at  present, 
because  only  the  Schout  and  one  Commissary  occupy  the  bench,  but 
the  parties  must  have  their  papers  ready  at  the  next  session,  when 
the  matter  will  be  taken  up. 

Claes  Louwrence,  plaintiff,  vs.  Walleraven  duMont,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  asks  why  defendant  attached  his  money.  Defend- 
ant answers,  because  plaintiff  hired  a  man-servant  at  the  Mana- 
thans,  and  on  his  arrival  here  he  hired  him  out  to  another,  and 
thereby  made  a  profit  of  fifty-two  gldrs.,  in  zeewant,  and  six 
schepels  of  wheat.  Plaintiff  answers  that  he  is  entitled  to  it  for 
his  expenses  in  relation  to  the  servant,  and  for  his  trouble. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  parties,  finds  that  said  servant 
voluntarily  hired  himself  out  to  Tjerck  Classen  de  Wit,  pursuant  to 
a  contract  made  between  both,  and  decrees  that,  as  Tjerck  Classen 
wants  to  keep  the  servant,  and  pays  him  higher  wages  than  those 
at  which  Claes  engaged  him  at  the  Manathans,  Tjerck  Classen  shall 
pay  Claes  Laurence  personally  the  expenses  he  incurred,  or,  other- 
wise, make  him  a  voluntary  present,  at  the  option  of  the  last  hirer, 
but  Tjerck  Classen  shall  not  deduct  said  money  from  the  servant 'e 
wages,  and  the  servant,  in  accordance  with  his  contract  of  employ- 
ment, shall  then  complete  his  term. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  May  22,  1663. 


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1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  EINOBTON.  69 

Present:  The  Schout;  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tiriek 
Classen  deWit. 

Copy. 

The  Director  General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland  having 
received  and  read  the  nomination  made  and  delivered  by  the  Schout 
and  Commissaries  of  the  village  of  Wildtw^ck,  in  the  Esopus,  have 
selected  and  confirmed  Thomas  Chambers  and  Gysbert  van  Im- 
burgh  at  the  said  place,  in  place  of  those  retiring. 

Done  at  Fort  Amsterdam,  in  New  Netherland,  April  5,  1663. 

In  conformity  with  the  written  instructions,  the  Court  requir- 
ed the  newly  appointed  Commissaries  to  take  the  oath,  which  was 
administered  by  the  Court,  in  the  usual  manner. 

Tirick  Classen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen,  defend- 
ant.   Default. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jacobsen,  defendant.  De- 
fault. 

Mathys  Roelofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Chrigtiaen  Nissen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  presents  a  certificate,  and  states  that  the  Sergeant  seized 
some  merchandise  belonging  to  him.  Under  examination,  he  admits 
he  concealed  some  lead  and  wool  at  the  Ronduyt,  with  the  permis- 
sion of  the  soldiers  quartered  there.  Hereupon  the  Sergeant  an- 
swers, "I  don't  want  to  have  the  Ronduyt  turned  into  a  home  for 
you  sutlers  and  suckers  of  this  place,  and  don't  intend  to  give  up 
the  goods  until  the  arrival  of  the  Lord  General." 

The  Court,  having  heard  both  parties,  orders  the  "Sergeant  to 
return  plaintiff's  merchandise,  provided  that,  if  any  contraband 
goods  be  found  thereunder,  defendant  shall  deposit  the  same  with 
the  Court,  and  further  that  he  shall  require  his  soldiers  not  to 
tolerate  any  sutlers  there  but  to  give  information  of  them  to  the 
Court  which  will  deal  with  them  as  is  proper.  Pending  the  arrival 
of  the  Noble  Lord  General,  the  contraband  goods  shall  remain  in 
custody. 

Hendrick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Gcertuyt  Andrissen,  defend- 
ant.    Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  the  amount  of due  on  an 

obligation  made  by  Jacob  Jansen  Stol,  deceased.  Defendant  re- 
quests time  to  examine  her  husband's  books,  for  which  purpose  the 


70  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Court  allows  her  fourteen  days,  and  parties  are  ordered  to  com- 
pare their  accounts  and  inform  the  Court. 

Domine  Hermanus  Blora  requests  the  Court  that  care  be  taken 
to  have  the  remaining  debt  on  the  parsonage  paid,  and  especially 
that  the  money  for  which  he  has  become  surety  be  collected,  as 
he  experiences  much  trouble  on  its  account,  adding,  "Otherwise 
we  shall  put  a  stop  to  it."  And  he  especially  recommends  the 
Magistrates  to  take  better  care  than  heretofore  of  his  salary. 

The  Court  resolves  to  summon  the  retiring  Commissaries  to  ap- 
pear before  it  and  render  an  account  of  receipts  and  disburse- 
ments for  the  building  of  the  parsonage,  for  the  benefit  of  those 
having  claims  against  the  same,  and  to  notify  each  of  them,  as  some 
bills  have  already  been  sent  in  and  presented  to  the  Court.  They 
are  ordered  to  appear  on  May  25,  1663,  at  the  house  of  Thomas 
Chambers.  » 

Ordinary  Session,  held  at  Wildtwyck,  June  5,  1663. 

Present:  The  Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjrick  Classen  de- 
Wit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imbrogh. 

Tjirick  Classen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Barent  Gerritsen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands,  under  a  power  of  attorney  from  Jan  Ever- 
sen,  payment  of  the  amount  of  seventy-four  gldrs.,  in  beavers,  and 
fourteen  schepels  good  winter  wheat,  and  forty- four  gldrs.,  in  zee- 
want.  Defendant  admits  owing  the  amount  claimed,  as  per  obli- 
gation, due  January  1,  1662. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  parties,  finds,  from  the  obligation, 
that  defendant  must  pay  plaintiff  the  amount  claimed  but,  as  plain- 
tiff still  demands  payment  of  one  hundred  and  sixteen  gldrs.,  in 
beavers,  for  expenses  incurred,  the  Court,  at  the  request  of  defend- 
ant, refers  the  matter  of  the  expenses  to  two  impartial  people. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Jansen  van  Oosterhout,  defend- 
ant.   Default. 

Barent  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Comelissen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  an  amount  of  thirty-five  schepels  of  wheat.  De- 
fendant admits  owing  thirty-four  and  one-half  schepels.  The  Court 
orders  him  to  pay. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  71 

Gerrit  Voken,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornelia  Barense  Slecht,  defendant. 
Plaintiff,  through  a  document  whereby  Volckert  Jansen  and  Jan 
Tomassen  constitute  themselves  plaintiffs,  presents  to  the  Court  q 
petition  against  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht,  who  is  summoned  by 
plaintiff  before  this  Court.  Plaintiffs  demand  restitution  of  a  mare, 
because  it  was  impounded  by  the  defendant.  Upon  testimony  given 
by  Pieter  Jacobsen  that,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge,  the  horse  was 
driven  and  chased  away,  and  in  consequence  thereof  died,  plain- 
tiffs now  conclude  and  demand  that  defendant  shall  bo  ordered  to 
indemnify  them  for  the  said  mare,  and  to  pay  all  costs  of  suit. 

In  defense,  Cornelis  Barense  Slecht,  the  defendant,  presents  a 
certificate  by  Adriaen  Gerritsen  van  Vliet  and  Hermen  Hendrick- 
sen  who  attest,  at  his  request,  that  they  saw  him  about  three  hours 
before  nightfall  drive  six  horses  away  from  his  land,  on  an  easy 
trot. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  parties  and  examined  the  papers, 
orders  plaintiffs  to  adduce  clearer  and  fuller  proof. 

The  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  van  Ilalen,  defendant.  De- 
fault. 

A  majority  of  the  Commissaries  resolve  that  the  Court  shall 
not  sit  again  until  there  are  four  or  five  cases.  If  necessary  for 
the  convenience  of  the  residents,  it  will  sit  every  week.  The  rea- 
son of  this  is  because,  in  the  absence  of  a  Village  or  City  Hall,  the 
rent  for  the  room  can  not  be  met. 

(x)   [Albert  Gysbertsen], 
TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt, 
Gysbert  van  Imbrocii. 


[The  preceding  minutes,  except  one  entry,  as  noted,  are  all  in 
the  handwriting  of  Roeloof  Swartwout,  Schout.  The  following  are 
in  that  of  Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary.] 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  July  24,  1663. 

Present:  The  Noble  Lord  Johan  de  Decker;  Roelof  Swart- 
wout, Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjerck  Classen  deWit,  Thomas 
Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  Commissaries. 

Albert  Gysbertsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  de- 
fendant. 


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Albert  Gysbertsen  says  that  defendant  caused  plaintiff's  pig  to 
be  killed,  and  presents  a  certificate  to  this  effect.  Defendant  an- 
swers that  he  does  not  know  whether  it  was  plaintiff's  pig,  and  offers 
to  pay  the  owner  therefor. 

The  Commissaries,  having  heard  defendant's  confession,  order 
him  to  deposit  with  the  Court  the  quantity  of  six  schepels  of  wheat, 
for  the  benefit  of  him  who  shall  be  found  to  be  the  lawful  owner, 
or  otherwise  the  Court  will  dispose  of  it  is  it  may  see  fit. 

Tjerck  Classen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Default. 

The  Schout,  in  place  of  the  Noble  Lord  Johan  de  Decker,  plain- 
tiff, vs.  Tryntje,  wife  of  Cornelissen  Barentsen  Slecht,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  says  that  defendant  called  the  Noble  Lord  de  Decker  a 
blood  sucker. 

Defendant  does  not  deny  she  spoke  evilly  of  the  Noble  Lord 
de  Decker,  but  says  she  spoke  while  depressed  and  discouraged  be- 
cause of  the  many  misfortunes  that  had  befallen  her  through  the 
savages,  and  adds  that  she  feels  sorry  for  having  slandered  him. 

The  Commissaries,  having  heard  the  confession  and  regrets  of 
defendant,  prefer  mercy  to  the  severeity  of  justice,  and  order  her 
to  pay  a  fine  of  twenty-five  gldrs.,  in  zeewant,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
church. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  September  18,  1663. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Tjerck  Classen  de  Wit, 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  Com- 
missaries. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  plaintiff',  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Dom,  defend- 
ant.    Default. 

Same,  vs.  Hendrick  Cornelissen  Slecht,  defendant.    Default. 

Same,  vs.  Pieter  Bruynsen;  defendant.    Default. 

Same,  vs.  Cornells  Bransten  Vos,  defendant.    Default. 

Same,  vs.  Hendrick  Aertsen,  defendant.    Default. 

Same,  vs.  Jacob  Joosten,  defendant.  The  plaintiff  demands 
from  defendant  the  amount  of  twenty-five  gldrs.  fine,  for  the  first 
offense,  and  fifty  gldrs.  fine  for  the  second,  for  violating  the  ordin- 
ance dated  August  4,  1663. 


1663]  THE  DXPTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  73 

Defendant  replies  by  asking  whether  he  is  not  permitted  to 
support  his  family. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  demand  of  the  aforesaid  Schout, 
and  the  defence  of  the  defendant,  orders  defendant  to  settle  with 
the  Schout  for  the  fine  due,  within  eight  days,  or  on  default  then 
to  expect  the  judgment  of  this  court. 

Same,  vs.  Harmen  Hendericks, 

Same,  vs.  Ariaen  Huyberts, 

Same,  vs.  Henderick  Jochemsen, 

Same,  vs.  Willem  Aertsen, 

Same,  vs.  Jan  Broersen, 

Same,  vs.  Jacob  Barents  Cool, 

Same  vs.  Antoni  Crupel, 

Same,  vs.  Henderick  Hendericksen, 

Same,  vs.  Jan  Jansen  van  Oosterhout, 

Same,  vs.  Jacob  Jansen  Stoutenborch, 

Same,  vs.  Jacob  Janse  de  lange, 

Same,  vs.  Aert  Jacobs, 

Same,  vs.  Gerret  Aertsen, 

Same^  vs.  Evert  Prys, 

Same,  vs.  Jan  Willemsen, 

Same,  vs.  Tennis  Jacobsen, 

Same,  vs.  Warnaer  Iloorenbeeck, 

Same  vs.  Jan  Gerritsen, 

Same,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerritsen, 

Same,  vs.  Mattys  Roelofsen, 

The  plaintiff,  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  presents  to  the  Court 
a  certificate,  dated  June  5,  1663,  stating  that  the  defendant,  Mat- 
thys  Roelofsen,  sold  brandy  to  the  savages,  according  to  the  testi- 
mony of  the  savages  themselves. 

The  Commissaries  order  defendant,  pursuant  to  his  offer,  to 
reply  to  the  certificate  at  the  next  session  of  the  Court. 

Hester  Douwesen  appears  before  this  Court  and  demands 
seven  schepels  of  wheat  which  Hey  Olfertsen,  deceased,  owed  her. 
The  Court,  having  heard  her,  proposes  to  administer  the  property 
of  the  deceased  here  in  Wildwyck  and  then  pay  her  and  the  other 
creditors. 


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T4  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

This  Court  resolves,  in  obedience  to  a  previous  request  of  the 
Captain  Lieutenant  and  Council  of  War,  to  renew  and  replace  the 
fallen  and  damaged  palisades  around  the  village,  next  Wednesday, 
September  26,  with  the  assistance  of  all  the  inhabitants  of  this  place, 
none  excepted,  under  a  penalty  of  twelve  gldrs.  for  non  compliance. 

The  Court  further  resolves  that  it  will  administer  the  prop- 
erty of  persons  who  were  killed  during  the  troubles  of  June  7  last, 
leaving  no  relatives.  Their  names  are:  Willem  Jansen  Seba,  ser- 
vant; Henderick  Jansen  Looman,  brewer's  helper;  Dirrick  Willem- 
sen,  inhabitant. 

The  Court  appoints  as  administrators,  Albert  Gysbertsen  and 
Tjerck  Classen  de  Wit,  both  Commissaries,  with  orders  to  immedi- 
ately inventory  all  the  property  of  said  deceased,  and  to  administer 
the  same  until  further  order,  or  claims  by  nearest  relatives  or 
creditors. 

Inventory,  September  18,  1663,  taken  at  Wildwyck,  at  the 
house  of  Juriaen  Westphael,  in  the  presence  of  the  Schout,  Roelof 
Swartwout,  and  two  Commissaries,  Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Tjerck 
Claasen  de  Wit,  of  the  property  left  by  Hendrick  Looman,  found 
to  be  as  follows :  i .    ;         »  vj: 

1  gelding, 

1  large  brewing  kettle, tuns, 

1  sword  and  belt.  v^;^ 

1  trunk  without  key,  wherein  was  found 

1  letter  case  containing  letters,  and  a  note  book  with  memo- 
randa of  outstanding  debts  and  accounts, 

1  old  gray  suit, 

1  old  gray  colored  pair  of  breeches, 

1  new  gray  suit, 

2  pair  of  black  woolen  stockings, 
1  new  black  hat  and  hat  box, 

1  bar  lead, 

4  small  pieces  of  Haarlem  cloth, 

1  clothes  brush, 

1  trunk, 

2  cravata, 

3  handkerchiefs. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  75 

1  package  containing  about  a  pound  of  lead, 
1  wagon  frame,  with  iron  tires. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  October  9,  1663. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Albert  Gyebertsen, 
Tjerck  Classen  de  Wit,  Gysbert  van  Imborch. 

The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout,  requests  the  Court  to  pro- 
nounce judgment  against  those  whom  he  had  summoned  to  appear, 
but  who  did  not  come  before  this  Court  and  w^ere  in  default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Mertensen  Doom. 
Second  default. 

Same,  vs.  Jan  Hendericksen,  defendant.     Second  default. 

Same,  vs.  Warnaer  Iloorenbeeck,  defendant.  Second  default. 

Same,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen  van  Vliet.     Second  default. 

Same,  vs.  Ilenderick  Cornelis^en  Slecht.     Second  default. 

Plaintiff  demands  that  there  be  imposed,  in  accordance 
with  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  last,  a  fine  of  twenty-five  gldrs., 
for  the  first  offense,  and  fifty  gldrs.,  for  the  second,  for  violating 
said  ordinance  that  no  one  should  go  out  to  mow,  without  the 
consent  of  the  Captain  Lieutenant  and  a  sufficient  convoy. 

Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  representing  his  son  Hendrick  Cor- 
nelissen  Slecht,  answers  that  he  is  not  obliged  to  comply  therewith, 
saying,  "Let  me  appear  before  the  Court  having  jurisdiction,  the 
Supreme  Council.     I  have  nothing  to  say  till  then." 

The  Commissaries,  having  heard  the  reply  of  Cornelis  Barent- 
sen Slecht,  order  him  to  pay  the  above  named  fine,  since  he  does 
not  acknowledge  the  Inferior  Court  of  Justice  here  as  having  juris- 
diction, and  appeals  to  the  Supreme  Council. 

Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  standing  before  the  Court  and  be- 
ing requested  to  render  an  account  of  the  estate  of  William  Janseu 
Seba,  deceased,  a  demand  therefor  having  been  made  of  him  by  the  \ 
curators  and  trustees  of  said  estate,  September  18,  last,  answers 
that  he  is  not  obliged  to  render  an  account  of  this  matter  to  this 
Court,  he  having  once  delivered  an  obligation  to  the  aforesaid  ; 

William  Jansen  Seba.  I 

J, 
The  Schout  thereupon  asks  the  Court  that  Cornelis  Barentsen  |; 

Sleeht  be  eompelled  to  render  to  it  an  account  of  the  above  named  | 


t 


76  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

estate  of  William  Jansen  Seba,  deceased,  in  the  interest  of  the  cura- 
tors appointed  for  that  purpose,  because  said  obligation  has  not 
been  and  cannot  be  found  by  the  curators  among  the  effects  of  the 
deceased.  The  Court,  pursuant  to  the  Schout's  request,  orders  and 
directs  Cornelis  Barentse  Slecht  to  render,  at  its  next  session,  a 
statement  of  the  account  between  him  and  the  said  Wiliam  Jansen 
Seba,  deceased,  so  that  debits  and  credits  may  be  adjusted  in  the 
proper  and  customary  manner. 

After  the  above  was  read  to  him,  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht 
said  that  he  is  not  inclined  henceforth  to  render  an  account  to  this 
Court. 

The  Court,  having  seen  and  heard  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht's 
unreasonableness  in  opposing  the  Court  of  Justice  of  this  place, 
orders  him  to  be  confined  in  the  house  of  the  Schout,  Roelof  Swart- 
wout,  who,  for  this  purpose,  is  directed  to  put  him  under  arrest 
and  so  keep  him  until  he  is  ready  to  render  said  account. 

Having  been  informed  by  Schout  Swartwout,  in  the  presence 
of  the  Court  here,  that  he  should  repair  to  the  appointed  place  of 
confinement,  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht  answered  that  the  Schout 
would  have  to  fetch  him  with  two  officers  and  that  he  would  not 
voluntarily  come,  and  defied  him  in  the  matter.  For  the  threat 
aforesaid,  the  Schout  requests  the  Court  to  be  permitted  to  lock  said 
Slecht  up ;  whereupon  the  Court,  having  heard  the  request,  directs 
him  to  have  said  Slecht  confined  in  the  guard  house. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Bruynsen,  Hen- 
derick  Aertsen,  Ariaen  Roose,  Jan  Roose,  Willem  Aertsen,  Cornelis 
Brantsen  Vos,  Jacob  Joosten,  Ariaen  Huybertsen,  Harmen  Hen- 
dericksen,  defendants. 

Plaintiff  demands  of  the  above  mentioned  defendant  fines  for 
violating  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  last,  that  no  one  should 
venture  out  to  mow  without  consent  and  a  proper  convoy,  the 
fines  being, 

For  Pieter  Bruynsen,  25  gldrs. 

**    Henderick  Aertsen,  75      ** 

**    Ariaen  Roose,  25      ** 

♦*    Jan  Rose,  75      " 

*'    Willem  Aertsen,  75      " 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  77 

**    Cornells  Brantsen,  75      '* 

'•    Jacob  Joosten,  75      " 

*'    Harmen  Hendericksen,  75      *' 

"    Ariaen  Huybertsen,  75      " 

Cornelis  Barentsen,  on  behalf  of  his  farm  hands  above  named, 

answers  that  they  are  not  guilty  and  that  they  are  not  disposed  to 

pay  the  fine,  but  that  the  matter  must  be  heard  and  decided  by  the 

judge  having  jurisdiction,  and  requests  copy  thereof. 

Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht's  reply  having  been  heard,  the  Court 
here  decides  it  has  jurisdiction,  and  orders  the  above  defendants 
to  pay  the  fines  in  full  to  the  plaintiff. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Henderick  Jochemsen, 
defendant.     Second  default. 

Plaintiff  demands  judgment.  The  Court  allows  defendant  a 
third  default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Gerritsen,  Antony 
Crupel,  Henderick  Hendericksen,  Jacob  Stoutenborch,  defendants. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  the  aforesaid  defendants  fines  due  for 
violation  of  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  that  no  one  should  ven- 
ture out  to  mow,  without  consent  and  a  proper  convoy,  the  fines 
amounting, 

For  Jan  Gerritsen,  to  75  gldrs. 

•'     Antoni  Crupel,  "75     " 

"     Henderick  Hendericksen,  **  75     " 

"     Jacob  Stoutenborch,  '*  25     " 

Juriaen  Westphael,  representing  the  above  named  defendant? 
who  were  in  his  employ,  says  he  is  not  disposed  to  pay  any  fine 
herein,  as  the  promises  given  him  were  not  fulfilled  at  mowing  time. 
Plaintiff  requests  judgment  herein. 

The  Commissaries,  having  heard  plaintiff's  demand  and  the 
answer  of  defendants'  representative,  order  defendants  to  pay  the 
full  fine  to  plaintiff,  because  their  representative's  day  had  been 
extended  through  rain  and  other  causes,  and  the  next  day,  when  the 
weather  was  favorable,  no  work  was  done,  yet  at  a  time  when,  un- 
der the  general  agreement  of  the  community,  he  ought  to  have  as- 
sisted other  farmers  with  his  people,  he  had,  notwithstanding  the 
ordinance,  had  his  work  continued  without  giving  notice  to  the 
Council  of  "War  and  this  Court.- 


78  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

The  curators  or  overseers  of  the  estate  of  the  late  Henderick 
Looman  request  that  Jeuriaen  Westphael  render  an  account 
of  the  property  of  the  said  Henderick  Looman,  He  answers  he  will 
not  render  such  account. 

This  Court  orders  Juriaen  Westphael  to  make  a  declaration, 
and  extends  his  time  to  do  so  until  its  next  session. 

And  whereas,  defendant  offers  to  make  proof  that  there  was 
no  other  property  of  the  aforesaid  Looman  than  is  shown  by  the 
above  mentioned  inventory,  the  same  will  be  received  by  the  Court, 
otherwise  the  Court  stands  by  the  foregoing  decision, 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Broersen,  defend- 
ant.   Second  default. 

Plaintiff  demands  a  fine  of  seventy-five  gldrs.,  and  requests 
judgment.    The  Court  allows  defendant  a  third  default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Barentsen  Cool, 
defendant.  Second  default.  Plaintiff  demands  a  fine  of  twenty- 
five  gldrs.  and  requests  judgment.  The  Court  allows  defendant  a 
third  default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff',  vs.  Jacob  Jansen  van 
Oosterhout,  defendant.  Second  default.  Plaintiff  demands  a  fine 
of  seventy-five  guilders,,  and  requests  judgment.  The  Court  allows 
defendant  a  third  default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Jansen  de 
lange  [the  long],  defendant.  Second  default.  Plaintiff  demands 
a  fine  of  seventy-five  gldrs.,  and  requests  judgment.  The  Court 
allows  defendant  a  third  default. 

Lucas  Hendricks,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Simonsen,  defendant.  De- 
fault. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  "VVillemsen  and 
Teunis  Jacobsen,  defendants.  Plaintiff  demands  from  the  first 
named  defendant,  Jan  Willemsen,  twenty-five  gldrs.,  and  from  Teu- 
nis Jacobsen,  twenty-five  gldrs.,  due  for  violation  of  the  ordinance 
dated  August  4,  last,  that  no  one  should  venture  out  to  mow  with- 
out consent  and  a  proper  convoy. 

Defendants  answer  that  they  are  not  liable  for  the  payment  of 
a  fine  herein  and  await  a  decision  and  order  of  the  Court  hereupon. 

The  Court  orders  defendants  to  pay  the  full  amount  of  the  fine 
to  the  plaintiff. 


1663]  THE  DxrrcH  records  op  Kingston.  79 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen  and 
Gerrit  Aertsen,  his  son,  Aert  Jacobsen 's  daughter,  Aert  Jacobsen  *6 
servant,  Andries,  defendants.  Plaintiff  demands  from  the  aforesaid 
defendants,  for  their  violation  of  the  ordinance  dated  August  4, 
last,  that  no  one  should  venture  out  to  mow  without  consent  and 
a  proper  convoy,  a  fine, 

From  Aert  Jacobsen,  of  75  gldrs. 

'•       Gerrit  Aertsen,  "75     " 

"       Aert  Jacobsen 's  daughter,  "25    " 

Andries,  his  man,  "25     " 

Defendants  answer  they  are  not  liable  for  the  payment  of  the 
above  fines,  and  request  copy  of  the  judgment. 

The  Court  orders  defendants  to  pay  plaintiff  the  full  amount 
of  the  fines. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  complains  to  this  Court  that  defendant 
said  that  the  Lord  God  would  some  time  avenge  himself  upon  the 
Lords  who  are  here  on  the  bench. 

Defendant  does  not  deny  having  said  so,  and  the  Commissar- 
ies Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Gysbert  van  Imborch  also  confirm  that 
they  heard  him  say  so,  once  at  the  house  of  Schout  Roelof  Swart- 
out,  and  once  at  the  bridge. 

The  Court  of  this  place  orders  defendant  to  submit,  at  its  next 
session,  his  reasons  for  saying  that  revenge  should  be  called  down 
upon  it. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  accuses  defendant  of  being  a  desecrater  of  the 
Sabbath,  he  having  on  that  day  taken  a  load  of  beer  to  his  house,  for 
which  plaintiff  seized  defendant's  wagon  and  beer,  and  that,  not- 
withstanding the  seizure,  the  defendant  fetched  the  wagon  and 
beer  to  his  house. 

Defendant  denies  having  attempted  to  take  a  wagon  load  of 
beer  home  on  a  Sabbath  or  Sunday,  but  offers  to  prove  that  the 
Sabbath  had  expired. 

The  Court  allows  defendant  time  until  the  next  session  of  the 
Court  to  prove  the  above. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Prys. 


80  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Plaintiflf  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  twenty-five  gldrs. 
for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  last.  Defendant  an- 
swers that  he  had  the  Captain's  consent. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  submit  proof,  at  the  next  ses- 
sion, that  he  had  such  consent. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Tyssen,  defendant. 
Second  default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Harmen  Hendricksen, 
defendant.    Second  default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Magdalena,  the  wife  of 
Harmen  Hendericks.  Plaintiff  complains  that  he  was  hindered  in  his 
official  duty,  while  apprehending  Aeltje  Claes.  Defendant  denies 
this,  saying  she  is  able  to  furnish  better  proof  of  the  matter  than 
has  been  given ;  that  she  only  said,  * '  Swartwout,  why  do  you  want 
to  put  this  woman  in  prison?  Why  do  you  want  to  disgrace  herl 
She  is  neither  a  whore  nor  a  thief,  and  there  is  a  private  place 
here  from  which  she  cannot  run  away." 

The  Court  orders  defendant  at  the  next  session  to  submit  evi- 
dence which  will  clear  her. 

Eechtje  Ariaens, '  plaintiff,  vs.  Christiaen  Niessen  romp,  de- 
fendant.   Default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Dirrick  Hendericksen, 
defendant.    Default. 

Copy 

Henderick  Jochemsen  and  Juriaen  "Westphael,  appearing  this 
9th  day  of  October,  1663,  at  the  Court  room  of  the  Honorable 
Court  at  Wildwyck,  request,  on  behalf  of  Comelis  Barentsen 
Slecht,  that  the  said  Slecht  be  permitted  to  leave  the  guard  house 
and  go  to  his  home  in  order  the  better  to  prepare  the  account 
between  himself  and  Willem  Jansen  Seba,  deceased.  They  offer 
themselves  as  sureties  for  the  body  of  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht, 
each  as  principal,  that,  at  the  desire  of  tlie  Honorable  Court,  he 
will  return  at  once  to  his  duly  provided  place  of  confinement.  For 
which  purpose  they  bind  their  persons  and  property,  real  and  per- 
sonal, present  and  future,  and  to  give  this  more  force,  have  per- 
sonally subscribed  hereto.  Done  at  Wildwyck,  the  day,  year  and 
place  above. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTONo  81 

(Signed)      Henderick  Jochemsen.    The   mark    (x)    of  Juriaes 
Westphael. 

Agrees  with  the  original.    To  which  I  certify. 
"Witness, 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 

The  following  ordinances  were  passed  by  the  Schout  and  Com- 
missaries at  Wildwyck. 

Concerning  Beer  Excise. 

The  Honorable  Court  having  seen  that  licenses  for  beer  have 
been  discontinued  during  the  late  troubles,  and  finding  that  very 
little  revenue  is  produced  from  wine,  and  as  beer  as  well  as  wine 
is  sold  at  retail,  and  this  does  not  profit  the  buyer,  the  Honorable 
Court  advises  that  from  now  on  no  one  shall,  under  the  penalty 
heretofore  announced,  sell  any  more  beer  without  having  first  duly 
paid  the  excise  to  the  Collector,  Jacob  Boerhans. 

Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  October  9,  1663,  at  a  meeting  of 
Schout  and  Commissaries. 

Concerning  Wolf  Catching. 

Whereas,  great  damage  in  and  about  the  region  of  Wildwyck 
is  done  to  pigs,  calves,  and  other  cattle,  by  that  destructive  ani- 
mal, the  wolf,  tending  greatly  to  retard  the  inhabitants  of  this 
place,  who  would  prefer  that  their  pigs  and  cattle  increase;  Now, 
in  order  to  prevent  this  damage  as  much  as  possible,  the  Hon- 
orable Court,  here,  has  resolved  and  promises  to  pay  twelve  guild- 
ers, zeewant,  to  any  one  shooting,  catching  or  taking,  in  any  man- 
ner, a  male  wolf,  and  eighteen  guilders,  in  zeewant,  for  a  she  w,olf. 
For  the  purpose  of  raising  this  money,  the  Schout  and  Commissar- 
ies of  the  village  of  Wildwyck  order  every  householder  engaged  in 
farming  to  contribute  at  once,  for  every  wolf  caught  and  brought 
in,  one  guilder  in  zeewant.  The  wolf  catcher  must  also  bring  the 
captured  wolf  to  the  Schout 's  house  for  inspection. 

Thus  done  at  a  meeting  of  Schout  and  Commissaries,  at  Wild- 
wyck, this  October  9,  1663. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Paulus  Tomassen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  complains  of  defendant,  that  on  October  7,  be- 
ing Sunday,  a  gun  was  discharged  by  one  Arent  Jansen,  which  was 


82  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

heard  and  seen  by  Captain  Lieutenant  Cregier  who  had  him  tak- 
en to  jail,  and  that  immediately  thereafter  another  shot  was  fired, 
at  the  house  of  Aert  Martensen  Doom.  The  plaintff  hearing  this, 
went  to  the  aforesaid  house,  saying,  ' '  Friends,  it  looks  as  if  this  had 
been  done  to  spite  us.  * ' 

Whereupon  defendant  answered,  "I  fired  off  a  gun  that  was 
loaded  long  ago."  To  which  the  plaintiff  made  answer:  "Very 
well;  if  you  did  it  I  will  know  how  to  get  satisfaction 
from  you  for  it."  The  defendant  to  this  replied,  "See 
here,  Schout,  I'll  shoot  you  some  day."  Whereupon  plain- 
tiff wanted  to  arrest  him.  Defendant  at  first  refused  to 
go  along,  but  upon  arriving  at  plaintiff 's  house  he  resisted  plaintiff 
with  acts  as  well  as  words,  and  while  following  plaintiff  to  the 
guard  house  kept  threatening  and  hitting  him,  and  after  he  had 
been  put  in  the  guard  house  defendant  went  so  far  as  to  hit  plain- 
tiff on  the  head,  so  that  he  stumbled  over. 

Whereupon  the  following  interrogatories  were  had: 

Interrogatories  to  Paulus  Tommassen,  defendant. 

Present— the  Honorable  Court. 
Questions : 

1.  Did  the  defendant  on  Sunday,  October  7,  at  the  house  of 
Aert  Martensen  Doom,  discharge  a  gun?    Answer.    Yes. 

2.  Was  defendant  drunk  or  sober  at  the  time  ?  Answer.  He 
was  drunk. 

3.  Where  did  he  get  the  wine?  Answer.  He  had  the  wine 
in  his  little  chest. 

4.  Did  he  refuse  to  go  to  prison?  Answer.  The  Schout 
knows  all  about  this. 

5.  Did  he  strike  the  Schout  on  the  street  or  at  the  Schout 's 
house  ?    Answer.    No. 

6.  Did  he  strike  the  Schout  at  the  guard  house  t  Answer.  He 
denies  this. 

The  Schout  requests  that  defendant  be  again  put  in  prison. 
This  is  granted  by  the  Honorable  Court. 
Done  at  Wildwyck,  October  9,  1663. 

On  Saturday,  October  6,  a  meeting  was  held  by  the  Honorable 
Council  of  War  and  the  Honorable  Court  at  Wildwyck,  at  which 
were  present: 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KlNaSTON.  83 

Marten  Cregier,  Captain  Lieutenant;  Christiaen  Niessen,  En- 
sign ;  Evert  Willem  Munniek,  Peter  Ebel,  Jan  Peersen,  Sergeants ; 
Eoelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjerck  Claesen  de 
Wit,  Gysbert  van  Iraborch,  Commissaries. 

Captain  Lieutenant  Marten  Cregier  and  the  Council  of  War 
having,  on  September  26,  given  Schout  Swartwout  an  order  that 
no  strong  drink  be  sold  to  the  militia  or  to  the  Indians,  as  they  wish- 
ed to  hold  them  in  readiness  for  the  coming  expedition,  the  Schout 
went  personally  to  notify  the  householders  at  Wildwyck.  On  ar- 
riving at  the  house  of  the  wife  of  gunner  Mattys  Roelofsen  to  in- 
form her  thereof,  she  told  the  Schout  that  he  might  cleanse  his 
anus  (beg  your  pardon)  with  the  order.  On  the  complaint  of 
the  Schout,  the  Captain  Lieutenant  expressed  to  the  Council  of  War 
and  the  Commissaries  of  Wildwyck,  here  specially  assembled,  his  re- 
gret for  the  act  which,  if  not  done  to  insult  the  Council  of  War 
•  and  those  who  commissioned  it,  is  still  not  to  be  tolerated  in  decent 
places. 

Whereas,  the  Schout  has  met  with  insult  from  the  gunner's 
wife  above  named,  on  account  of  this  order,  he  requests  that  she  be 
punished  therefor,  in  order  that  so  impudent  and  shameless  a  per- 
son may,  in  this  case,  receive  what  she  d^eserves,  and  thus  be  made 
an  example  to  others. 

Aeltje  Sybrants,  wife  of  Mattys  Roelofsen,  was  summoned  be- 
fore the  Honorable  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  at  Wild- 
wyck and  asked  by  the  Captain  Lieutenant  in  reference  to  the  afore- 
said complaint,  whether  she  did  not  say  that  the  Schout  might 
cleanse  his  anus  with  the  order  mentioned,  whereupon  she  an- 
swers that  she  did  not  say  any  such  words  to  the  Schout,  and  that 
he  must  prove  this ;  that  the  Schout  lied  about  the  matter,  and  that 
he  treated  her  in  this  manner  out  of  spite. 

The  Schout  called  in  proof  Heyltje  Jacobs,  wife  of  Jan  Broer- 
sen,  who  testifies  before  the  Council  of  War  that  she  heard  that  the 
wife  of  Mattys  the  gunner  had  some  words  with  the  Schout,  but  is 
not  prepared  to  say  truthfully  that  she  also  addressed  the  afore- 
mentioned scandalous  words  to  the  Schout. 

Grietje  Jacobs,  wife  of  Willem  Jansen,  was  also  called,  and 
testified  before  the  Council  of  War  that  she  heard  there  was  much 


84  THE  DXJTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

wordy  war  between  the  Schout  and  the  gunner's  wife  above  named 
and  that  among  other  things  she  said  to  the  Schout,  kiss  my  anus. 

Aeltje  Sybrants  was  again  called  to  the  stand  and,  being  in- 
formed of  the  foregoing  testimony,  did  not  deny  she  had  had  words 
with  the  Schout,  nor  that  she  may  possibly  have  said  to  him,  kiss 
my  anus. 

The  Schout,  Swartwout,  is  ordered  to  submit  additional  proof 
in  this  matter. 

Thus  done  at  the  session  aforesaid,  the  day  and  year  above 
stated. 

On  Wednesday,  October  10,  1663,  a  session  was  held  at  Wild- 
wyck  by  the  Honorable  Council  of  War  and  the  Honorable  Court 
of  Wildwyck. 

Present:     Marten  Cregier,    Captain    Lieutenant;    Christiaen 
Niessen,  Ensign;  Evert  Willem  Munnick,  Jan  Peersen,  Sergeants;, 
Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjerck  Claesen  de 
Wit,  Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  Commissaries. 

The  Schout,  Swartwout,  appearing  before  the  Honorable  Coun- 
cil of  War  and  the  Honorable  Court  at  Wildwyck,  submits,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  foregoing  order,  proof,  in  writing,  by  Willem 
Jansen  Schut,  dated  October  8,  last,  confirmed  under  oath  in  the 
presence  of  two  Commissaries,  reading  thus: 

Deponent  above  named  declares  that,  at  the  reading  of  the 
order  given  to  the  Schout  by  the  Captain  Lieutenant,  and  while 
leaving  the  house  of  Jan  Broersen,  he  heard  Aeltje  Sybrants,  wife 
of  Mattys  Roelof  sen,  say,  "Tut,  tut,  it's  only  a  trifle;  cleanse  your 
fundament  with  it. ' '  Deponent  does  not  know  the  meaning  of  these 
words. 

Aeltje  Sybrants,  the  defendant,  called  to  the  stand  and  being 
shown  by  the  Schout  the  deposition,  signed  as  aforesaid,  denies 
the  same,  and  says  she  did  not  say  the  said  words  to  the  Schout. 

Having  seen  and  heard  the  obduracy  of  defendant,  Aeltje  Sy- 
brants, in  denying  the  truth  of  the  proofs  adduced,  which  are  ac- 
cepted by  the  Honorable  Council  of  War  and  the  Honorable  Court 
here,  and  the  Schout  also  being  deemed  worthy  of  belief,  oflScially, 
the  Honorable  Council  of  War  and  the  Honorable  Court  at  Wild- 
wyck, therefore,  being  desirous  of  preventing  all  slander  and  vile 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  85 

language,  and  of  punishing  the  same  as  an  example  to  others,  here- 
by sentence  and  condemn  Aeltje  Sybrants,  the  wife  of  Mattys  Roe- 
lofsen,  for  her  use  of  vile  and  foul  language  in  contemning  and  vili- 
pending the  order  given  to  the  Schout,  to  pay  a  fine  of  one  hundred 
Carolus  guilders,  and  the  costs,  to  be  applied  as  usual,  and  to  be  paid 
within  the  next  fourteen  days,  under  penalty  of  issuance  of  execu- 
tion. 

Done  at  Wildwyck  the  day  and  year  above  mentioned.  Sign- 
ed by  the  Honorable  Council  of  War  and  the  Honorable  Court  of 
Wildwyck. 

Note.— The  Honorable  Council  of  War  and  the  Honorable 
Court  at  Wildwyck  decree  that  the  Schout,  being  prosecutor,  shall 
receive  two-thirds  of  the  fine  to  be  paid  by  Aeltje  Sybrants,  and 
that  one-third  shall  be  for  the  Church  at  Wildwyck.  Done  at 
Wildwyck,  October  10,  1663. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jansen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  lodges  a  complaint  against  defendant  for  having 
fired  a  shot  on  Sunday.  Defendant  does  not  deny  he  fired  once. 
He  is  therefore  sentenced  by  the  Honorable  Council  of  War  and 
the  Honorable  Court  to  pay  plaintiff  a  fine  of  nine  gldrs.,  beino; 
three  gldrs.,  as  per  ordinance,  for  each  shot,  and  six  gldrs.,  because 
he  did  it  on  Sunday  during  the  sermon. 

Given  at  Wildwyck  this  October  10,  1663,  at  the  session  of  the 
Honorable  Council  of  War  and  the  Honorable  Court  at  Wildwyck. 

Willem  Jansen  Schut  called  on  October  10, 1663,  on  the  Schout. 
Roelof  Swartwout  and  complained  that  he,  Schut,  had  been  assailed 
by  Aeltje  Sybrants,  wife  of  INIattys  Roelofsen,  who  said  to  him 
that  in  his  deposition  he  testified  falsely  against  her.  Wherefore, 
then,  for  fuller  information  in  the  matter,  Jan  Peersen,  Sergeant, 
and  Jacob  Boerhans,  Clerk,  both  officers  of  the  Honorable  Com- 
pany, were  dispatched  with  said  Willem  Jansen,  to  ascertain 
if  she  would  confirm  these  spoken  words.  Upon  their  return  tney 
reported  that  she  disavowed  her  spoken  words.  Notwithstanding 
this,  the  appearer  aforenamed  requests  the  Honorable  Court  here 
that  he  may  have  justice  done  to  him. 

Thus  entered  the  day  and  year  above  mentioned,  at  Wildwyck, 
in  the  presence  of  the  Captain  Lieutenant  Marten  Cregier.  To 
which  I  certify.  Mattheus  Capffo,  Secretary. 


86  the'  dutch  records  op  Kingston.  [1663 

Extraordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  October  16,  1663. 
Present:      Roelof    Swartwout,    Schout;    Albert    Gysbertsen, 
Tjerck  Claesen  de  "Wit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imbroch, 
Commissaries. 

Resolution  passed  relative  to  late  comers  on  the  Bench. 
To  prevent  any  disorder  in  convening  the  Inferior  Bench  at 
Wildwyck,  it  is  resolved  and  ordered  by  the  Honorable  Court 
here,  that  any  of  those  constituting  the  Bench  arriving  later  than 
the  hour  fixed  shall  be  fined  twenty  stivers,  for  the  benefit  of  his 
colleagues.  Done  at  Wildwyck,  as  above.  In  my  presence.  To 
which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 
There  was  presented)  a  note  signed  by  the  Captain  Lieutenant, 
Marten  Cregier,  dated  October  10,  stating  that  Lieutenant  Hen- 
derick  Jochemsen  has  suffered  and  is  yet  suffering  inconveniences 
from  the  militia  who  use  his  home  as  a  guard  house,  which  makes 
it  burdensome  to  him.  The  Captain  Lieutenant  therefore  requests 
that  the  aforesaid  Henderick  Jochemsen  be  relieved  from  this  bur- 
den, and  that  the  Honorable  Court  cause  a  guard  house  to  be  built 
for  the  militia. 

Lieutenant  Henderick  Jochemsen  having  been  summoned  to 
appear  in  the  Council  room  of  the  Court  in  the  matter,  and  having 
been  asked  if  he  would  consent  to  harbor  the  militiamen  four  or 
six  weeks  longer  in  his  house,  as  at  present  no  materials  can  be 
had  for  building  a  guard  house,  leaves  to  the  discretion  of  the  Hon- 
orable Court  here  the  amount  of  compensation  to  be  paid  him  dur- 
ing the  period. 

The  Honorable  Court,  considering  that  one  inhabitant  alone 
should  not  bear  all  the  burdens,  and  that  he  has  consented  to  suf- 
fer the  inconvenience  of  having  the  militia  at  his  house  four 
or  six  weeks  longer,  and  as  the  soldiers  have  been  quartered  in  his 
house  since  June  7,  and  will  continue  there  four  or  six  weeks  lon- 
ger, has  therefore  allowed  him,  as  compensation,  fifty  guilders,  in 
zeewant. 

Thus  done  at  the  session  above  mentioned. 
Rejrnier  Pietersen  Schipper,   [skipper],  presents  an  account 
against  Henderick  Jansen  Looman,  amounting  to  four  sohepels  of 
wheat,  and  requests  payment. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  87 

Boelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Janse  de  lange 
[the  long],  defendant.  Plaintiff  requests  that  defendant  tes- 
tify in  the  case  of  the  prisoner  Paulus  Tomassen,  and  state  if 
he  did  not  hear  the  prisoner  say,  "Schout,  I'll  shoot  you."  De- 
fendant answers  that  the  said  words  were  spoken  by  the  prisoner 
Paulus  Tomassen  at  the  house  of  Aert  Martensen  Doom. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Dirreck  Ilendericksen. 
defendant.     Second  default. 

Gerret  Willerasen,  Corporal  in  the  service  of  the  Honorable 
Company,  called  before  the  Court  here,  declares  that  when  the 
Schout  placed  Paulus  Tomassen  in  custody  in  the  guard  house, 
said  Tomassen  struck  the  Schout 's  head  there,  so  that  the  Schout 
fell  over  the  sweat  bench.  Paulus  Tomassen  having  been  accused 
at  the  last  session  of  the  Court  by  the  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout, 
is  once  more  interrogated: 

1.  Whether  he  said  to  the  Schout,  at  Aert  Martensen  Doom's 
house,  "Schout,  I'll  shoot  you  some  day."  Answers,  that  he  was 
drunk  and  does  not  know  whether  he  said  this  then,  but  says  he 
said  it  later. 

2.  To  be  brought  to  jail,  he  was  at  the  Schout 's  house. 
Whether  he  did  not  refuse  to  go  with  the  Schout  to  jail.  Answers, 
yes,  he  refused. 

3.  Whether  he  did  not  strike  the  Schout  in  the  guard  house. 
Answers,  he  does  not  know  if  he  struck  the  Schout  in  the  guard 
house,  but  that  he  heard  from  others  that  he  had  done  so. 

4.  Whether,  being  put  under  arrest  by  the  Schout,  he  beat  the 
latter  on  the  street  and  hit  him  with  his  fists.  Answers,  he  neither 
beat  the  Schout  nor  knocked  against  him,  but  that  he  warded  off 
the  beating  which  the  Schout  gave  him  on  the  street. 

The  Schout  asks  whether  this  confession  by  the  prisoner  Paul, 
us  Tomassen  is  sufficient.  If  not,  he  will  produce  fuller  and  stron- 
ger testimony.  The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  Schout  to  submit 
his  demand  against  the  prisoner. 

The  Schout 's  Demand. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  prosecutor,  against  Paulus  Tomas- 
sen. The  plaintiff  demands  that,  though  the  prisoner  ought  to  be 
punished  criminally  by  the  Honorable  Court,  yet,  as  the  Honor- 
able Court  has  no  power  to  inflict  such  punishment,  the  prisoner  be 


88  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

sent  to  the  Director  General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland,  there 
to  be  duly  punished. 

Decision  op  the  Honorable  Coxjrt. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  the  Schout's  demand,  an 
also  the  witnesses  produced  and  the  confession  of  the  prisoner, 
Paulus  Tomassen,  himself,  orders  the  prisoner,  Paulus  Tomassen, 
to  settle  this  matter  with  the  Schout,  or  to  work  for  one  month  on 
the  dam,  at  his  own  expense,  and  to  pay  aU  costs  that  have  been 
incurred;  and,  in  case  he  cannot  arrive  at  a  settlement  with  the 
Schout,  that  he  shall  give  bail  to  the  Court  against  running  away, 
or  shall  be  chained  while  working  on  the  dam. 

Resolutions  concerning  the  erection  of  the  fortifications 
of  this  village  of  Wildwyck. 

A  note  from  the  Captain  Lieutenant,  dated  October  15,  was 
read  to  the  Honorable  Court  requesting  that  the  palisades  for  this 
village  of  Wildwyck  be  repaired  and  renewed,  so  as  to  serve  for  de- 
fense. After  the  reading,  the  Honorable  Court  decides  that  there 
is  an  urgent  necessity  that  this  village  be  properly  provided  with 
good  and  new  palisades,  and  therefore  orders  and  directs  every 
farmer  to  properly  fence  his  lot,  renewing  the  old  palisades; 
and  that  the  rest  of  the  people,  inhabitants  or  bur- 
ghers, possessing  thirty-nine  lots  in  this  village,  shall, 
from  the  Watergate  up  and  along  the  curtain  walls  to  Aert 
Pietersen  Tack's  lot,  properly  repair  and  replace  the  old  with  new 
palisades  of  at  least  two  feet  in  circumference,  the  thicker  the  bet- 
ter, and  of  a  height  of  thirteen  feet,  according  to  the  extent  of  the 
locality  and  as  the  Honorable  Court  may  deem  necessary.  This 
renovation  and  enclosing  shall  commence  next  Monday,  October  22. 
Wherefore,  every  inhabitant  of  this  place  is  notified  to  appear  on 
said  day  at  about  seven  o  'clock,  at  the  gate  near  Hendrick  Jochem- 
sen's  house,  there  to  be  enrolled,  for  the  purpose  of  commencing 
said  work,  and  to  remain  at  it  until  completed,  on  pain,  for  neglect 
or  unwillingness,  of  three  guilders  for  the  first  offense,  twice  as 
much  for  the  second,  and  increasing  so  on  three  guilders. 

Thus  done,  at  the  session  of  the  Schout  and  Coramissarieg  of 
this  village  of  Wildwyck,  this  16th  day  of  October,  1663. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH   RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  89 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  October  23,  1663. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Tjerck  Classen  de  Wit. 
Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissaries. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  de- 
fendant. Defendant  is  asked  by  plaintiff  what  he  has  to  say  to 
the  Honorable  Court,  in  view  of  the  record  of  the  previous  session 
of  October  9— handing  him  the  papers.  Defendant  humbly  asks 
forgiveness,  saying  that,  if  he  said  anything  which  unguardedly  es- 
caped his  lips,  may  the  Honorable  Court  pardon  him  therefor. 

Plaintiff  demands  that  defendant  be  punished  for  the  afore- 
said words,  either  by  a  money  fine  of  one  thousand  guilders,  or 
that  he  be  referred  in  this  matter  to  the  Director  General  and 
Council  of  New  Netherland. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  the  Schout's  demand  and 
also  the  humble  repentance  of  defendant,  besides  his  confession,, 
sentences  defendant,  Aert  Jacobsen,  to  pay  a  fine  of  twenty-five 
gldrs.,  with  costs,  the  fine  to  be  applied  as  usual. 

Plaintiff  requests  an  appeal  hereupon,  which  is  granted  by  the 
Court. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  de- 
fend/ant.  Plaintiff  appears  against  the  defendant  for  desecrating 
the  Sabbath,  having  appeared  against  him  on  October  9,  and  having 
handed  him  a  copy  of  the  papers.  The  defendant  appearing,  says 
he  has  nothing  to  offer,  in  view  of  the  foregoing  papers,  to  prove 
that  the  Sabbath  had  expired. 

The  Honorable  Court  sentences  defendant  to  pay  the  plain- 
tiff a  fine  of  one  pound  Flemish  [six  guilders  or  $2.40],  in  this  case. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roelof  Hendericksen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  payment  of  ten  schepels  of  wheat  for  thir- 
teen days'  carpenter  work,  according  to  contract.  Defendant  says 
he  worked  eight  and  one-half  days  in  reduction  of  the  ten  schepeh 
of  wheat,  and  remained  idle  all  summer,  during  which  time  he  was 
not  sought  by  plaintiff,  and  later  only  after  he  had  become  bound 
to  some  one  else. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  both  parties,  orders  de- 
fendant to  satisfy  plaintiff  for  the  remainder  of  the  thirteen  days, 
being  three  and  one-half  days  of  work. 


90  THS  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Broersen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  a  fine  of  seventy-five  gldrs.  for  violation  of 
the  ordinance  of  August  4.  Defendant  says  he  is  not  liable  for  the 
payment  of  a  fine  to  plaintiff,  but  that  his  farmer,  Juriaen  West- 
phael,  in  whose  employ  he  was,  must  pay  the  fine. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Barents  Cool  and 
Jan  Jansen  van  Oosthout,  defendants.  Plaintiff  demands  from 
Jacob  Barents  twenty-five  gldrs.,  and  from  Jan  Jansen  van  Ooster- 
hout  seventy-five  gldrs.,  fine  for  violating  the  ordinance  of  August 
4. 

Juriaen  Westphael,  answering  for  Jan  Broersen,  Jacob  Barents 
Cool  and  Jan  Jansen  van  Oosterhout,  allows  himsself  to  be  recorded 
in  their  place. 

Aeltje  Claes,  appearing  before  the  Honorable  Court,  requests 
that  the  estate  left  by  Claesje  Teunissen,  deceased,  be  administ- 
ered by  the  Honorable  Court,  which  request  is  granted. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  twenty-five 
gldrs.  for  impounding  his  horses  and  carting  for  Tjerck  Classen, 
a  fine  of  fifty  gldrs.  for  violating  the  ordinance  of  August  4,  and 
twenty-five  gldrs.  for  refusing  to  cart  in  the  service  of  the  Honor- 
able Company  on  the  strand. 

Defendant  answers,  regarding  the  seizure  of  his  horses,  that  he 
was  not  allowed  to  keep  them  in  the  Fort,  but  that  they  had  to  find 
their  fodder  in  the  field  where  his  children  were.  The  Schout  put 
down  their  names.  With  regard  to  the  fine  of  fifty  gldrs.  for 
violating  the  aforesaid  ordinance,  he  refers  to  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit 
who  employed  him  at  the  time.  With  regard  to  his  refusal  to  cart 
on  the  strand,  he  answers  he  was  there  at  the  time  and  carted  the 
biggest  load. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  defendant's  confession, 
orders  him  to  settle  with  plaintiff,  because  his  children  were  in 
the  field  with  the  horses,  contrary  to  the  ordinance. 

Concerning  the  fine  for  driving  for  Tjerck  Claesen,  the  de- 
fendant must  show  that  Tjerck  Claesen  made  himself  responsible 
therefor,  which  defendant  offers  to  prove. 

Concerning  his  refusal  upon  the  strand,  the  Honorable  Court 
acquits  defendant,  because  he  afterwards  did  his  duty. 


1663]  THB  DUTCH  BSOOBDS  GT  ZZKOSTON.  91 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  complains  that  defendant  during  harvest  time  caused  one 
of  plaintiff's  pigs  to  be  shot.  Defendant  demands  proof.  The 
Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  adduce  proof. 

Evert  Pels  informs  the  Court  that  Juriaen  Westphael  received 
a  letter  from  Jochem  Ketelheem  at  Fort  Orange,  and  requests  a 
copy  thereof,  which  is  allowed  him. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit  and  Albert  Gysbertsen,  curators  of  the 
estate  left  by  Hendrick  Looman,  having  summoned  Juriaen  West- 
phael before  the  Honorable  Court  here,  the  question  was  put  to 
him,  Juriaen  Westphael,  whether  he  knows  any  more  about  the 
estate  left  by  said  deceased  than  is  shown  by  the  inventory.  Where- 
upon the  aforenamed  Juriaen  Westphael  declares,  upon  his  word  as 
a  man,  that  he  knows  no  more,  unless  perhaps  that,  among  the  ef- 
fects of  Jan  Albertsen,  there  were  uppers  for  two  pairs  of  shoes. 

Hilletje  Hendericks,  having  been  summoned  before  the  Honor- 
able Court,  declares  under  oath  she  does  not  know  of  any  other 
property  of  Willem  Jansen  Seba  than  what  has  been  inventoried. 
She  requests  immediate  payment  of  the  account  she  has  rendered^ 
and  in  addition  three  months'  stable  rent  for  Willem  Jansen  Seba's 
horse,  amounting  to  two  and  one-quarter  schepels  of  wheat. 

Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht,  having  been  summoned  before  the 
Honorable  Court  by  the  curators  of  the  estate  of  Willem  Jansen 
Seba,  is  once  more  called  upon  to  render  an  account  between  him- 
self and  Willem  Jansen  Seba.  He  requests  for  this  purpose  four- 
teen days'  more  time,  which  the  Honorable  Court  allows  him. 

Elsje  Gerrets,  plaintiff,  vs.  Christiaen  Niessen  romp,  defend- 
ant. Second  default.  Plaintiff  says  that  defendant  has  a  pillow 
belonging  to  her,  which  he  retains.  Requests  that  he  fetch  said 
pillow  to  Court  to  compare  it  with  another  pillow  belonging  to 
plaintiff.    Defendant  is  allowed  a  third  default. 

Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annetje  Ariaens,  wife  of 
Aert  Pietersen  Tack,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  that,  pursuant 
to  mortgage,  defendant  be  not  permitted  to  alienate  or  estrange 
the  gathered  grain  before  he  has  first  been  paid.  Defendant  an- 
swers that  if  plaintiff  will  undertake  to  pay  her  debts  she  will  then 
get  out  and  leave,  and  adds  thereto  that  the  debts  contracted  by  her 


92  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

for  food   during  harvest  time  must  also  be  paid,  otherwise  she 
could  not  have  taken  in  the  crops. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  both  parties,  finds  that, 
according  to  the  obligation,  defendant  must  not  appropriate  or 
decrease,  much  less  alienate,  any  of  the  grain,  without  the  knowl- 
edge and  consent  of  the  plaintiff. 

Jacob  Joosten,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annetje  Ariaens,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  five  schepels  of  wheat,  which  de- 
fendant admit  he  owes.  The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant 
to  pay  plaintiff  the  said  amount. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Jansen  de  lange 
[the  long],  defendant.  Third  default.  Plaintiff  demands  pay- 
ment of  a  fine  of  seventy-five  gldrs.,  legally  due  after  a  third  de- 
fault. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant,  for  not  appearing  be 
fore  it  after  a  third  default,  to  pay  the  full  fine  to  plaintiff,  and  also 
to  pay  the  costs. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Heymans,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  enters  suit  against  defendant  on  a  complaint  of 
the  Commissaries,  Tjerck  Claesen,  Albert  Guysbertsen  and  Gysbert 
van  Imbroch,  that  defendant  publicly  accused  them  of  being 
deceitful  in  carrying  out  their  ordinances,  and  that  they  did  not  do 
justice  in  accordance  therewith. 

Defendant  says,  that  the  Court  did  not  act  in  accordance  with 
the  wording  of  the  ordinance,  and  demands  a  copy  of  the  record 
herein. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  Tjerck  Claesen,  Albert  Gysbertsen 
and  Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  at  its  next  session,  to  furnish  proof  of  the 
foregoing  complaint,  in  conformity  with  their  own  statement. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Heymans,  de- 
fendant. A  complaint  is  made  to  the  Schout  that  on  August  30,  last 
Albert  Heymans,  when  lawfully  called  upon  by  Gysbert  van  Im- 
broch, at  a  meeting  held  at  the  Schout 's  house,  to  furnish  a  horse 
for  the  expedition  against  the  savages,  would  not  say"  yes  "or"  no" 
to  the  Court,  but  said  he  would  first  see  what  the  gentlemen  were 
going  to  do,  and  that,  when  the  Commissary  again  demanded  an 
answer,  the  defendant  called  him  a  little  tattle  tale.    By  reason 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  BECOEDS  OP  KINGSTON.  93 

whereof,  the  said  Commissary,  nomine  officio,  pursuant  to  the  said 
complaint,  requests  the  Court  to  sustain  his  action. 

The  foregoing  having  been  read  to  defendant,  he  admits  hav- 
ing used  the  aforesaid  words,  "little  tattle  tale,"  towards  the  Com- 
missary, at  the  said  place,  and  requests  a  copy  of  the  record  here, 
and  promises  to  reply  at  the  next  session  of  the  Court. 

Roclof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Geertruyd  Andriesen. 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  fifty  gldrs. 
for  violating,  for  the  first  time,  the  ordinance  enacted  August  4, 
and  a  fine  of  two  hundred  gldrs.  for  a  second  violation,  in  having 
harvested  with  four  wagons,  and  a  fine  also,  for  a  third  offense,  in 
having,  on  October  26,  [sic]  arbitrarily  harvested  with  two  wagons, 
and  having  a  gun  in  the  field.  Also  a  further  fine  for  carrying 
fodder  for  her  horses  on  a  Sunday,  on  which  occasion  the  horses 
were  seized,  but  nevertheless  the  matter  was  settled  with  the 
Schout  for  five  schepels  of  wheat,  and  a  can  of  brandy  for  the 
guard. 

Defendant  answers  that  she  was  several  times  refused  a  con- 
voy, and  therefore  she  was  obliged  to  gather  in  her  grain  herself 
without  a  guard,  for  fear  that  the  rain  would  spoil  it. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  both  parties,  orders  de- 
fendant to  pay  the  full  amount  of  the  fines  demanded  for  violating 
the  ordinance,  and  to  pay  plaintiff  the  agreed  fine  of  five  schepels 
of  wheat  and  a  can  of  brandy. 

The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout,  enters  a  complaint  that  the 
Messenger,  Jacob  Joosten,  is  of  little  or  no  service  to  him,  and  re- 
quests the  Honorable  Court  to  please  give  orders  relative  thereto. 
Whereupon  defendant,  Jacob  Joosten,  answers  that  he  has  not  been 
able  to  collect  his  money,  either  as  Church  or  Village  Messenger, 
not  having,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge,  received  as  Village  Mes- 
senger more  than  one  hundred  and  fourteen  gldrs. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  and  directs  the  Village  Messenger 
to  be  more  faithful  in  his  duty,  and  that  he  be  paid  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible for  his  services  as  such. 

Meeting  of  the  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries,  held  Tues- 
day, October  30,  1663. 


94  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Present:  Marten  Cregier,  Captain  Lieutenant;  Christiaen 
Niessen,  Ensign;  Evert  Willem  Munnick,  Jan  Peersen,  Sergeants; 
Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout ;  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Gysbert  van  Im- 
borch,  Tomaa  Chambers,  Commissaries. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Henderick  Cornelis- 
sen  Slecht,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine 
of  seventy-five  gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the 
Court  under  date  of  October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  enacted 
August  4,  in  that  he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a 
proper  convoy. 

Defendant  admits  having  worked  in  the  field  without  permis- 
sion and  convoy,  and  says  that  the  Schout  came  without  a  convoy 
to  the  field  and  fined  him  for  a  second  offense.  He  adds  that  he 
was  fully  able  to  defend  himself,  and  therefore  did  not  need  a 
guard. 

Defendant  having  been  given  his  choice  between  paying  Uhe 
full  fine  to  the  plaintiff  pursuant  to  said  judgment,  or  arranging 
with  him  amicably,  answers  he  would  rather  pay  the  full  fine  than 
settle  with  the  plaintiff. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  understand  that,  ac- 
cording to  the  aforementioned  judgment,  defendant  is  liable  for  the 
full  fine,  as  he  behaves  very  obstinately  in  the  matter. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Bruynsen,  defendant.  Plaintiff 
demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  twenty-five  gldrs.  for  violating 
the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  in  that  he  worked  in  the  field  without 
permission  and  a  proper  convoy,  for  which  he  was  sentenced  by  the 
Honorable  Court  on  October  9. 

Defendant  admits  having  worked  one  day  in  the  field  without 
permission  and  convoy,  and  the  proposition  is  made  to  him  whether 
he  would  prefer  to  settle  with  the  plaintiff.  He  answers  he  is 
not  willing  to  settle  with  the  plaintiff,  nor  does  he  intend  to  pay 
one  stiver  therefor. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay 
the  full  fine,  in  accordance  with  the  judgment  dated  October  9, 
and,  as  he  shows  himself  obstinate  and  unwilling  so  to  do,  that  he 
be  confined  until  he  shall  have  paid  the  full  fine. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Henderick  Aertsen,  de- 
fendant.   Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  seventy-five 


1663]  THB  DUTCH  BECORDB  OF  KINOSTON.  95 

gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Honorable  Court 
under  date  of  October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  enacted  August 
4,  in  that  he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  proper 
convoy. 

Defendant  admits  having  worked  in  the  field  without  consent 
and  a  proper  convoy,  and  also  Bays  that  he  had  Bofficient  means 
of  defence  there. 

The  proposition  having  been  made  to  him  to  settle  with  plain- 
tiff, he  answers  he  is  not  willing  to  settle  with  him  nor  does  he  in- 
tend to  pay  one  stiver. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  condemn  defendant  to 
pay  the  full  fine,  in  accordance  with  the  judgment  of  the  Court  on 
October  9,  and,  as  defendant  shows  himself  obstinate  and  is  un- 
willing so  to  do,  that  he  be  confined  until  he  shall  have  paid  the 
full  fine. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Roose  and  Jan 
Roose,  defendants.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendants  a  fine  of 
one  hundred  gldrs.,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  in 
that  they  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  De- 
fendants admit  having  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and 
a  convoy,  and  also  say  they  had  sufficient  means  of  defence  there. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  decide  that,  as  defend- 
ants are  still  young  and  minors,  they  shall  be  excused  in  this  case. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Willem  Andriese  Reea.. 
defendant.    Absent.    Default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornells  Brantsen  Vos. 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  seventy- 
five  gldrs.,  pursuant  to  judgment  rendered  by  the  Court  on  October 
9,  for  violation  of  the  ordinance  of  August  4,  in  that  he  worked  in 
the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  Defendant  admits  hav- 
ing worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy,  and  also 
says  that  he  had  sufficient  means  of  defense  there. 

After  a  proposition  had  been  made  to  defendant  to  settle  the 
fine  with  plaintiff,  he  answers  he  is  not  willing  so  to  settle  nor  does 
he  intend  to  pay  anything,  but  purposes  to  bring  the  case  before  a 
higher  court 


96  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  condemn  defendant  tc 
pay  the  full  fine,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Court 
and,  as  defendant  shows  himself  obstinate  and  unwilling,  that  he 
be  placed  in  confinement  until  he  shall  have  paid  the  full  fine. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Joosten,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  seventy-fivf 
gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Honorable  Court 
on  October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  in 
that  he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  proper  convoy. 
Defendant  admits  his  guilt,  but  says  he  must  earn  his  living  here 
or  elsewhere. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  decide,  for  cause,  to  ex- 
cuse defendant  this  time. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Huybertsen, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  seventy- 
five  gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Court  on 
October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  in  that  he 
worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  Defendant 
admits  having  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy, 
and  also  says  that  he  had  sufficient  means  of  defense  there.  A  pro- 
position was  made  to  defendant,  to  either  pay  the  full  fine  or  to 
settle  with  the  Schout,  but  he  answers  he  does  not  intend  to  pay 
the  fine  herein. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  condemn  defendant  tc 
pay  the  full  fine,  pursuant  to  the  foregoing  judgment  rendered  by 
the  Court  on  October  9. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Harmen  Henderick- 
sen,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine 
of  seventy-five  gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the 
Honorable  Court  October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  Au- 
gust 4,  in  that  he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a 
convoy. 

Defendant  admits  he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission 
and  a  convoy,  but  adds  that  he  had  sufficient  means  of  defense 
there,  and  requests  the  Captain  Lieutenant  to  settle  this  case  for 
him  with  plaintiff. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Gerretsen,  de- 
fendant.   Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  seventy-five 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  97 

gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Honorable  Court 
on  October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  in  that 
he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  Defend- 
ant admits  he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy, 
but  says  he  was  working  close  by  the  guard  house,  and  does  not 
owe  anything  but  intends  to  go  higher  up. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  order  defendant  to  pay 
the  full  fine,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Court  on 
October  9, 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Antoni  l!rupel,  defend- 
ant.   Absent.    Default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Henderick  Ilenderiek- 
sen,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  seven- 
ty-five gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  dated  October  9,  for  vio- 
lating the  ordinance  enacted  August  4,  in  that  he  worked  in 
the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  Defendant  admits  he 
worked  without  permission  in  the  field,  and  says  that  Juriaen  West- 
phael,  who  also  appeared  before  the  Honorable  Court  on  October 
9,  and  was  sentenced  by  it  to  pay  the  full  fine,  made  himself 
responsible  for  it,  and  has  filed  an  appeal  therein. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Willemsen,  de- 
fendant.   Absent.    Default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tennis  Jacobsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  seventy-fivo 
gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Honorable  Court,, 
on  October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  in  that 
he  harvested  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  Defendant  denief 
having  been  notified  by  plaintiff  that  he  was  to  be  fined,  and  says 
he  knows  nothing  about  it. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  order  plaintiff  to  prove 
his  demand. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  two  hun- 
dred gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Honorable 
Court  on  October  9,  for  a  violation  of  the  ordinance  dated  Au- 
gust 4,  by  himself,  his  son,  his  daughter  and  his  farm  hand,  in  that 
he  harvested  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  The  defendant  in- 
sists upon  an  appeal,  a;:       :       i 


98  THE  DUTCH  BECOEDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Jansen  de 
lange,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a 
fine  of  seventy-five  gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by 
the  Court  on  October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August 
4,  in  that  he  harvested  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  Defend- 
ant admits  that  he  harvested  without  permission  and  a  convoy, 
and  says  he  does  not  intend  to  pay  for  doing  so. 

The  Council  of  War  and  Commissaries  condemn  defendant  to 
pay  the  above  fine  to  plaintiff,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered 
October  9,  and,  as  he  shows  himself  obstinate  and  unwilling,  that  he 
be  placed  in  confinement  until  he  shall  have  paid  the  full  fine. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Otterspoor,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  twenty-five 
gldrs.,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered  by  the  Honorable  Court 
under  date  of  October  9,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August 
4,  in  that  he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a  convoy. 
Defendant  admits  he  worked  in  the  field  without  permission  and  a 
convoy  and  says  he  is  willing  to  settle  with  plaintiff. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Henderick  Jochem- 
sen,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  twen- 
ty-five gldrs.,  for  violating  the  ordinance  dated  August  4,  in  that 
he  was  in  the  field  near  the  bridge,  without  permission  and  a  convoy. 
Defendant  admits  he  was  at  the  bridge,  as  a  sentry,  as  he  with  oth- 
ers present  had  to  repair  the  bridge,  but  being  unable  to  work  be- 
cause of  a  lame  hand  he  therefore  stood  sentry  for  the  laborers. 

Whereas,  the  repairers  of  the  bridge  received  permission  from 
the  Captain  Lieutenant,  the  Schout 's  demand  is  refused, 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerritsen,  de- 
fendant.   Absent.    Default. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Wamaer  Hoorenbeeck, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  fine  of  twenty-five 
gldrs.,  for  violating  the  ordinance  of  August  4,  in  that  he  har- 
vested  without  permission  and  a  convoy.  Defendant  refers  himself 
to  his  mistress,  because  she  represented  him  at  the  said  session  of 
October  23  [sic] .  Plaintiff  is  ordered  to  summon  her  in  this  mat- 
ter before  the  Court. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs  Geertruyd  Andriessen, 
defendant.    Absent.    Default. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  99 

The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout,  requests  the  Honorable  Court 
to  allow  him  execution  in  the  matter  of  the  judgment  rendered  by 
the  Commissaries  and  Council  of  War  on  June  27,  1663. 

The  foregoing  request  of  the  Schout  is  granted  by  the  Court 
here.     Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  October  30,  1663. 

Order  to  the  Schout  and  Secretary. 
Whereas,  on  October  23,  1663,  Aeltje  Claes  appeared  before 
the  Honorable  Court  here  in  Wildwyck,  and  requested  that  the  es- 
tate of  Claesje  Teunissen,  deceased,  be  administered  by  the  Honor- 
able Court,  which  the  Honorable  Court  agreed  to  do,  it  is  therefore 
ordered  that  the  individual,  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  together 
with  the  Secretary,  Mattheus  Capito,  repair  to  the  house  of  the  de- 
ceased Claesje  Teunnissen,  there  to  make  a  proper  inventory  of  the 
estate  left  by  her,  and,  having  done  so,  that  they  exhibit  the  same 
to  the  Honorable  Court  here. 

Given  at  Wildwyck,  this  October  30,  1663. 
Report  on  the  foregoing. 
On  this    30th  of  October,  in  the  afternoon  we,  Roelof  Swart- 
wout, Schout,  and  Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary,  pursuant  to  the  order 
of  the  Honorable  Court  here,  repaired  to  the  house  of  Aeltje  Claes, 
for  the  purpose  of  taking  an  inventory  of  the  estate  left  by  Claesje 
Teunissen,  deceased,  and  questioned  Aeltje  Claes  and  also  the  oldesi 
daughter  of  the  deceased,  concerning  the  estate  left.     They  an- 
swered us  whether  wo  were  joking  with  them  and  whether  we  did 
not  know  that  the  Domine  had  arranged  everything  relating  to  this 
matter,  and  that  if  we  wanted  to  know  about  it  we  ought  to  go  to 
the  Domine,  who  would  undoubtedly  give  us  information  about  the 
matter.    Done  at  Wildwyck,  on  the  above  date  in  the  year  1663. 
(Signed)  Roelof  Swartwout,  Mattheus  Capito. 

Whereas,  Comelis  Barentsen  Slecht  has  settled  with  the  Schom 
Swartwout,  for  and  on  behalf  of  his  servants,  for  violating  the  ordi- 
nance passed  on  August  4,  last,  by  the  Council  of  War  and  the 
Honorable  Court,  and  he  has  made  a  request  of  the  aforesaid 
Court  that  his  servants  be  set  at  liberty,  it  is  ordered  that  the  same 
be  granted  to  said  Comelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  and  his  servants  be 


100  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

released  from  arrest  and  be  permitted  to  return  home.    Done  at 
Wildwyck,  November  1,  1663. 

(Signed)   Marten  Kregier. 

Whereas  Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imbroeck  Has  settled  with  the  Schout 
Swartwout,  for  the  offence  committed  by  Jacob  Jansen  in  violating 
the  ordinance  of  the  Council  of  War  and  the  Honorable  Court 
made  August  4,  last,  for  which  said  Jacob  Jansen  has  been  placed 
by  the  Court  in  confinement,  the  said  Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imborch  re- 
quests of  said  Court  that  the  individual,  Jacob  Jansen,  be  dis- 
charged, to  which  the  Court  consents  and  discharges  the  said  Jacob 
Jansen  from  his  arrest  for  the  present. 

Done  at  Wildwyck,  November  1,  1663. 

(Signed)   Marten  Kregier. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  November  6,  1663. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Albert  Gysberteen, 
Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Thomas  Chambers, 
Commissaries. 

Eechtje  Gerrets,  plaintiff,  vs.  Christiaen  Nissen  romp,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  that  defendant  return  to  her  a  cushion  of 
which  she  shows  a  duplicate  to  the  Court,  having  taken  from  the 
clothes  line  at  defendant's  home  a  pillow  case  which  she  says  is 
hers  and  which  she  shows  to  the  Honorable  Court. 

Defendant  says  that  plaintiff  took  said  pillow  case  from  the 
clothes  line  at  his  house,  and  requests  that  she  return  the  same  to 
him.  Defendant  further  denies  having  a  pillow  and  a  pillow  case 
belonging  to  plaintiff,  and  says  that  plenty  of  goods  resemble  each 
other  without  being  owned  by  the  same  party. 

Plaintiff,  having  been  asked  whether  she  would  declare  under 
oath  that  the  pillow  is  in  possession  of  defendant,  answers  "Yes." 
Defendant  refuses  plaintiff's  oath,  as  he  does  not  consent  to  her 
taking  one,  but  requests  that  she  prove  that  he  has  a  pillow  and 
pillow  case  belonging  to  her. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  prove  that  defendant 
has  a  cushion  belonging  to  her. 

Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  curator  of  the  estate  left  by  Willein 
Jansen  Seba,  plaintiff,  vs.  Comelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  defendant. 


1663]  THB  DUTCH  EECOEDS  OF  KINGSTON.  101 

Plaintiff  requests  that  defendant  make  an  explanation  to  the 
Court  and  render  an  account,  in  the  matter  between  him  and  WU- 
lem  Jansen  Seba,  for  which  he  received  an  extension  of  fourteen 
days  on  October  23,  last. 

Defendant  answers  that  the  Consistory  has  enjoined  him 
against  rendering  an  account  to  the  Honorable  Court  here,  in  the 
matter  of  "Willem  Jansen  Seba. 

Jacob  Joosten,  Village  Messenger,  being  summoned  before  the 
Honorable  Court  and  being  asked  whether,  under  directions  from 
the  Consistory,  he  has  enjoined  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht  from 
rendering  an  account  to  the  Honorable  Court  here,  answers  "Yes," 
and  says  he  notified  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  on  said  directions, 
not  to  pay  any  bills  for  Willem  Jansen  Seba,  and  that,  if  he  should 
do  so,  said  payment  would  not  be  audited. 

The  Village  Messenger  having  been  sent  by  the  Honorable 
Court  to  Domine  Hermanns  Blom  and  the  Consistory  to  request 
them  to  please  appear  at  the  session  of  the  Court,  the  said  Domine 
answered  that  he  could  not  attend  to-day. 

The  Consistory,  Albert  Heymans,  appeared,  and  was  asked  by 
the  Honorable  Court  whether  the  Domine  and  the  Consistory  for- 
bade Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht  and  Juriaen  Westphael  to  pay  any- 
,  thing  to  any  one  for  Willem  Jansen  Seba,  deceased,  and  Hendrick 
Looman.     He  answered  "Yes." 

The  Honorable  Court  resolves  to  refer  this  record  to  the  Direc- 
tor General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland. 

Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  requests  an  extension  until  the  next  session  of  the  Court, 
as  he  has  not  yet  ready  the  proofs  he  is  to  adduce  against  defend- 
ant. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  submit  his  proofs  at 
its  next  session,  or  the  Court  will  decide  between  the  parties  on 
their  papers. 

Paulus  Paulusen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Eva  Swartwout,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  desires  that  defendant  substantiate  her  charge  that  plain- 
tiff stole  twelve  chickens. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  representing  his  wife,  Eva,  the  defendant, 
demands  that  plaintiff  submit  proofs. 


102  THE  DUTCH  ElECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  produce  proof  at  itt 
next  session. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Sehout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Allert  Heymans  Roose, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  asks  defendant  for  the  documents  demanded 
of  him  at  the  last  session  of  the  Court.  Defendant  submits  his  an- 
swer in  writing,  which  literally  reads  as  follows:  Anno  1663,  Oc- 
tober 23.  I  was  standing  in  the  street  near  the  guard  house  looking 
at  the  people  going  out,  and  then  asked  Tjerck  Claesen  how  many 
horses  would  go  along  with  the  expedition  against  the  savages,  to 
which  Tjerck  answered,  "sixteen;"  whereupon  I  replied,  "There 
are  not  as  many  farmers,  unless  double  farras  like  those  of  Tomas 
Aert,  Aert  Jacobsen  and  your  owji  furnish  two."  Whereupon  he 
said,  "Well,  farmer,  you  pay  rather  much  attention  to  me;  well, 
you  did  not  do  so  much  in  the  expeditions  pursuant  to  the  ordin- 
ance, for  you  rather  stood  on  one  wagon  with  two  in  it,  and  I  alone 
on  one.  Ho,  farmer,  you  lie,  I  have  done  as  much  as  you." 
Thereupon,  I  answered,  "Thus  you  give  the  lie  to  your  own  ordi- 
nance. It  is  not  right."  For  these  words,  Mr.  Gysbert  comes  and 
makes  complaint. 

(Subscribed)  Alaerdt  Heymansz  Roose. 

This  matter,  on  the  votes  of  three  Commissaries,  is,  for  cause, 
referred,  for  decision,  to  the  Director  General  and  Council  of  New 
Netherland. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Sehout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Allert  Heymans 
Roose,  defendant.  Plaintiff  alleges  that  defendant  challenged  a 
member  of  the  Court  when  sitting  in  the  Council  of  War  at  the 
house  of  Thomas  Chambers,  July  7,  concerning  two  Wappinger  sav- 
ages, saying,  *  *  If  there  is  anyone  at  this  meeting  who  is  a  friend  of 
these  savages,  I  dare  him  to  come  outside.  * ' 

Defendant  denies  this,  and  requests  a  copy  of  the  record. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff,  at  next  session,  to  prove 
his  charge. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit  requests  the  Honorable  Court  at  Wild- 
wyck  to  allow  him  to  use,  as  a  garden,  the  place  outside  of  the  re- 
tracted curtain  wall,  up  to  the  place  of  the  old  removed  curtain  wall, 
lying  east  of  petitioner 'b  lot  and  west  of  the  lot  of  Aert  Otterspoor. 


1663]  THB  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  103 

The  Honorable  Court  grants  petitioner's  request,  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Honorable  Director  General  and  Council  of  New 
Netherland. 

On  this  November  13,  1663,  this  note  was    handed    to    the 
minister,  Hermanns  Blom: 
Rev.  Mr.  Hermanus  Blom. 

"Whereas,  Aeltje  Sybrants,  wife  of  Mattys  Roelofsen,  was  or- 
dered by  the  Council  of  War  and  the  Court  of  this  village,  on  Octo- 
ber 10,  last,  to  pay  a  fine  of  one  hundred  gldrs.,  and  one-third  of 
said  amount  was  set  apart  for  the  Church,  the  one-third  part  in 
wheat,  being  five  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat  computed  at  six 
gldrs.  per  schepel,  due  you,  is  herewith  sent  to  your  Reverence. 
Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  November   13,  1663. 

(Signed)   Marten  Cregier. 
(Beneath)     By  authority  of  the  above  named  Court. 
(Signed)   Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  November  20,  1663. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen, 
Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissaries. 

The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout,  presents  this  complaint  against 
Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  reading,  according  to  his  understanding,  as 
follows : 

Whereas,  Aeltje  Wygerts  and  Albert  Gysbertsen  have  com- 
plained to  me  that  on  November  13,  Tjerck  Claesen,  armed  with  a 
drawn  knife,  openly  quarreled  in  his  house,  acting  as  if  he  wished 
to  kill  every  man,  woman  and  child,  I  therefore,  on  this  complaint, 
inform  the  Court  of  the  matter,  and  also  decide  to  exclude  him  for 
the  present  from  the  Bench,  until  he  shall  have  cleared  himself  oi 
the  charge,  and  shall  have  been  declared  cleared  by  the  Honorable 
Court.      The  advice  of  the  Commissaries  is  requested  herein. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  that,  whereas,  Tjerck  Claesen  de- 
Wit  has  already  amicably  settled  the  above  matter  with  his  accuser. 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  and  they  have  come  to  an  agreement  regarding 
it,  he  shall  remain  away  from  the  Bench  until  he  shall  have  set- 
tled and  adjusted  this  matter  with  the  Schout. 

Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  produces  a  written  certificate  against  defendant,  signed 


104  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

by  Haruien  Jansen  and  Aert  Teunissen,  dated  November  19,  1663. 
Defendant  wants  the  witnesses  to  appear,  and  desires  them  to  affirm 
their  deposition  under  oath.  He  also  offers,  if  the  attestors  affirm 
the  aforesaid  declaration  under  oath,  to  pay  for  the  killed  pig,  and 
will  also  sue  for  damage  caused  by  the  pigs  to  his  corn. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  produce  the  aforenam- 
ed attestors  in  Court,  at  the  next  session,  to  affirm  their  declaration 
there  under  oath. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  that  defendant,  on  his  default  of  pay- 
ment for  land  sold  him,  return  the  land,  the  time  for  payment  hav- 
ing expired  in  the  month  of  April,  1663. 

Defendant  replies  that  plaintiff  has  not  delivered  a  deed  of 
the  land  to  him,  and  that  he  will  pay  plaintiff  after  the  deed  has 
been  executed  to  him,  as  he  has  made  part  payment  thereon  to  the 
plaintiff. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  re- 
mainder of  the  money  due  for  the  land,  plaintiff  to  deliver  to  de- 
fendant a  perfect  deed  and  conveyance  of  the  land. 

Paulus  Paulussen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Eva  Swartwout,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  requests  that  defendant  furnish  proof,  pursuant  to  his 
complaint  of  November  6,  and  produces  as  his  witnesses,  Gerret 
Fooken  and  Pieter  Cornelissen,  who  depose  that  they  did  not  per- 
sonally hear  that  plaintiff  stole  twelve  chickens  from  her,  but  thai 
they  heard  that  she  said,  while  plaintiff  chased  a  hen  out  of  the 
bam,  "Whoever  would  do  the  one  would  also  do  the  other." 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  bring  better  proof, 
by  a  written  declaration. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit  files  with  the  Court  an  inventory  of  the 
estate  left  by  his  brother-in-law,  Jan  Albertsen  van  Steenwyck, 
made  November  14,  1663,  and  requests  that,  besides  him,  a  curator 
of  the  said  estate  and  a  guardian  of  the  minor  children  be  ap- 
pointed. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that,  whereas,  Domine  Harmanut 
Blom,  and  the  Consistory,  Allert  Heymans  Roose,  have,  through 
the  Village  Messenger,  forbidden  the  rendering  of  an  account  of 
the  aforementioned  estate,  to  the  Honorable  Court,  and  whereas 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  105 

this  matter  has  not  yet  been  decided,  the  petitioner  must  therefore 
wait  until  a  decision  shall  have  been  rendered  by  the  Supreme 
Magistrates,  when  he  will  then  receive  aid. 

On  November  26,  1663,  Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit  appeared  before 
the  Honorable  Court  here,  and  again  filed  with  it  the  inventory  of 
the  estate  left  by  Jan  Alberse  van  Steenwyck,  made  November  14, 
last,  with  the  further  request  that  the  Honorable  Court  please  ap- 
point, besides  him,  a  curator  of  the  aforenamed  estate  and  a  guar- 
dian of  the  minor  children,  because  at  the  last  session  (as  the  Court 
had  declined  to  have  said  estate  administered  by  it),  the  appearer 
was  referred  to  Domine  Blom  and  the  Consistory,  Allert  Heymans, 
and  though  he  went  to  them,  they  again  referred  him  to  the  Hon- 
orable Court  here,  saying,  after  having  read  the  aforesaid  inven 
tory,  that  they  did  not  want  to  have  anything  to  do  with  the  estate, 
as  there  were  heirs. 

The  Honorable  Court,  by  a  majority  of  votes,  decides  to  ap- 
point and  hereby  appoints,  besides  the  appearer,  Evert  Pels  as 
curator  for  the  estate  left  by  Jan  Albertsen  van  Steenwyck,  and 
Hendrick  Jochemsen  as  guardian  of  the  minor  children,  for  the 
purpose  of  administering  the  above  estate  according  to  law.  Thus 
done  at  the  session  of  Schout  and  Commissaries  at  Wildwyck,  the 
day  and  year  above  mentioned. 

The  Commissary,  Thomas  Chambers,  for  reasons  of  his  own, 
did  not  vote  in  the  above  case. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  December  4,  1663. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Albert  Gysberts,  Thom- 
as Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissaries. 

Gysbert  van  Imborch,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  produces  an  account  against  defendant  for  the 
Bum  of  one  hundred  and  ninety-eight  gldrs.,  in  zeewant.  Defendant 
admits  the  debt,  and  says  he  is  willing  to  pay,  and  requests  time. 

Whereas,  plaintiff  refuses  time  for  payment,  defendant  is  or- 
dered to  satisfy  him. 

Eechtje  Gerrets,  plaintiff,  vs.  Christiaen  Niessen  romp,  de- 
fendant.   Both  absent.    Both  in  default. 


106  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  plaintifiE,  vs.  Jonas  Rantsou,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  five  schepels  of  wheat 
Defendant  answers  he  has  an  account  against  the  plaintiff. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  both  parties  to  produce  written 
accounts  at  its  next  session. 

Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht. 
defendant.  Absent.  Plaintiff  refusing  to  pay  thirty-six  stivers 
towards  the  amount  agreed  to  be  paid  for  the  Court  room,  none  of 
the  parties  summoned  by  him  will  be  admitted  within. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjerck  Clae- 
sen de  Wit,  defendant.  Plaintiff  submits  a  written  complaint 
against  defendant  relating  to  a  former  complaint  before  the  Hon- 
orable Court  on  November  20,  and  demands  in  regard  thereto  that, 
as  defendant  did  not  settle  with  the  Schout,  plaintiff,  for  the  of- 
fenses committed  by  him,  he  be  punished  by  banishment  and  con-  • 
fiscation  of  his  estate.  Plaintiff  also  shows  a  certificate  regarding 
the  offenses  committed  by  defendant,  signed  November  13,  1663  by 
Lambert  Huybertsen  and  Pieter  Hillebrants. 

Defendant  demands  that  the  certificate  be  sworn  to  by  the  at- 
testants, before  the  Honorable  Court,  and  further  says  that  Pietei 
Hillebrants,  one  of  the  attestants  to  said  certificate,  is  his  witness 
and  consequently  cannot  be  permitted  by  the  Court  to  swear  to  the 
certificate. 

Lambert  Huybertsen  and  Pieter  Hillebrants,  having  been  sum- 
moned before  the  Honorable  Court  to  swear  to  their  certificate, 
are  prepared  to  swear  to  the  same,  but  their  oath  is  prevented  by 
defendant  himself,  who  is  not  willing  that  they  should  take  it 
before  the  Honorable  Court. 

The  defendant  requests  the  Court  to  allow  him  four  days* 
time  to  adjust  this  matter  with  the  plaintiff. 

The  Honorable  Court  grants  defendant's  request. 
Roelof  Hendricks,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jacobs,  defendarrt). 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  amount  of  forty-five  sche- 
pels of  wheat  and  seventeen  gldrs.,  in  zeewant,  and  shows  defend- 
ant's obligation  for  the  same,  five  schepels  of  wheat  and  one  schepel 
of  oats  having  been  credited  thereon.  He  demands  payment  of  the 
balance. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  107 

Pieter  Cornelissen,  representing  his  partner,  Pieter  Jacobsen. 
admits  the  debt.  Defendant  is  ordered  to  pay  plaintiff  the  balance 
of  the  obligation. 

Juriaen  Westphael  asks  to  be  allowed  to  appear  before  the 
Court  and,  having  entered,  requests  the  Honorable  Court  to  admin- 
ister the  estate  of  Ilendriek  Jansen  Looman,  deceased,  as  he  is  stab- 
ling a  horse  which  belonged  to  the  aforesaid  Looman,  and,  winter 
being  near  at  hand,  this  will  cause  great  expense  to  the  estate  of  the 
deceased. 

The  Honorable  Court  resolves  that,  as  Domine  Blom  and  the 
Consistory  forbade  Juriaen  Westphael,  the  appearer,  and  other 
[representatives  of]  devoluted  estates  from  rendering  an  account 
to  the  Court,  as  stated  to  this  Honorable  Court  on  November  6, 
last,  by  the  Consistory  AUert  Heymans  Roose,  Domine  Hennanus 
Blom  and  the  Consistory,  Allert  Heymans,  must'legally  remove 
the  injunction  from  the  estates,  and  that,  after  such  removal,  the 
appearer  will  be  aided  by  the  Honorable  Court 

Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  appearing  before  the  Honorable  Court, 
requests  that  justice  be  done  him  in  his  case  against  Albert  Gysbert- 
sen,  and  that  therefore  his  appeal  from  the  said  judgment  rendered 
November  20,  last,  be  entered. 

The  Honorable  Court  resolves,  after  plaintiff  requested 
permission  to  appear  and  had  had  his  opponent,  Albert  Gysbertsen. 
summoned  to  appear  before  the  Court,  as  shown  by  the  Court  Mes- 
senger's record,  that  plaintiff's  request  be  refused,  for  the  reasons 
heretofore  mentioned,  in  that  he  is  not  willing  to  do  the  proper 
thing  about  the  Court  room,  for  which  he  himself  voted,  and  that 
he  has  forbidden  several  parties  summoned  by  him,  to  appear  with 
him  before  the  Honorable  Court,  and  also  because  he  himself  has 
neglected  the  appeal. 

Regarding  the  undated  letter  brought  to  the  Honorable  Court 
by  the  Court  Messenger,  signed  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hermanns  Blom, 
by  the  authority  of  the  Consistory,  containing  a  request  for  a  copy 
of  a  previous  letter  sent  to  him  and  which  he  had  returned  to  the 
Honorable  Court  refusing  the  request  therein  contained,  the  Hon- 
able  Court  deems  it  therefore  unnecessary  to  return  again  the  copy 
asked  for  by  his  Reverence  for  the  purpose  of  renewing  the  request. 

Evert  Pels,  having  requested  to  be  admitted,  demands  of  the 


108  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

Honorable  Court,  after  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit  had  summoned  him 
four  times  before  the  Court  and  did  not  himself  even  appear  the 
fourth  time,  that  costs  may  be  awarded  to  hira  by  the  Honorable 
Court,  to  be  paid  by  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  and  also  further  makes 
claim  for  the  damage  done  last  summer  by  Tjerck  Claesen  de Wit's 
pigs  to  the  corn  on  appearer's  land. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  the  appearer  shall,  at  its 
next  session,  present  to  it  a  written  demand  herein  against  his 
party,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit. 

Arent  Teunissen  asks  the  Honorable  Court  for  a  lot  in  the  vil- 
lage of  Wildwyck,  as  he  intends  to  take  up  his  abode  here. 

The  Honorable  Court  will  determine  upon  a  vacant  spot  for 
him  in  the  village  of  Wildwyck. 

The  Honorable  Court  agrees  to  the  proposition  made  by  the  En- 
sign, Cristiaen  Niessen,  dated  December  3,  1663,  and  to  the  resolu- 
tion relative  thereto  passed  by  the  Council  of  War,  concerning  the 
setting  up  of  new  and  renewing  of  the  old  palisades  around  the 
village  of  Wildwyck,  within  three  days,  and  agrees  to  the  same  and 
will  attend  to  its  duty  in  the  matter  and  notify  the  inhabitants 
thereof  through  the  Village  Messenger.  If  any  damage  occurs  to 
any  of  the  inhabitants  in  the  meanwhile  because  of  the  erection,  or 
if,  through  the  Ensign  and  Council  of  War,  expenses  should  be 
incurred,  the  Honorable  Court  will  come  to  their  assistance,  so  as 
to  reimburse  their  expenses. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  December  18,  1663. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit, 
Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissaries. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Joosten,  Court 
Messenger,  defendant.  Plaintiff  prays  the  Honorable  Court  that, 
whereas,  he  has  not  as  yet  received  from  the  defendant,  the  Court 
Messenger,  one-half  of  the  fees  for  summonses,  as  is  the  custom  in 
New  Netherland,  and  the  defendant  has  refused  and  still  refuses 
the  same  to  him,  the  Honorable  Court  be  pleased  to  act  in  this 
particular. 

Defendant  answers  he  is  not  willing  to  give  the  Secretary  one- 
half  of  the  fees  for  summonses. 


1663  J  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  109 

The  Honorable  Court  finds  in  favor  of  plaintiff,  and  orders 
defendant  to  give  up  to  the  Secretary,  at  each  session  of  the  Court, 
one-half  of  the  fees  for  summonses. 

The  foregoing  having  been  read  to  the  defendant,  he  again  an- 
swers that  he  is  not  willing  to  pay  the  Secretary  one-half  of  the 
fees  for  summonses, 

Jan  Broersen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  five  and  one-half  schepels  of 
wheat,  due  for  wages  for  work  done  on  the  barn  of  the  Noble  Lord 
Director  General,  and  says  defendant  set  him  to  work.  Defendant 
denies  he  set  plaintiff  to  work. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  prove,  at  its  next 
session,  that  defendant  set  him  to  work. 

Albert  Gerretsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  says  that  defendant  set  him  to  work  on  the  barn  of  the 
Noble  Lord  Director  General  and  that  he  earned  at  the  said 
work  nine  schepels  of  wheat,  of  which  three  schepels  have  been 
paid.  He  also  demands  from  defendant  a  sack  which  he  loaned 
him  to  receive  grain  in. 

Defendant  denies  having  set  plaintiff  to  work,  but  promises  to 
return  the  sack. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  prove,  at  its  next  ses- 
sion, that  defendant  set  him  to  work. 

Albert  Gerretsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annetje  Tacks,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  under  a  contract  dated  Decem- 
ber 16,  1662,  payment  of  the  amount  of  three  hundred  and  thirty- 
eight  guilders,  heavy  money,  payable  in  grain,  according  to  the  con- 
tract aforesaid.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  and  that  she  has  paid 
on  the  same  the  value  of  eight  schepels  of  wheat  and  five  schepels  of 
peas. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff,  pursu- 
ant to  her  admission  and  obligation. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Ranstou,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  amount  of  five 
schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  says  he  owes  plaintiff  four  and  one- 
half  schepels  of  wheat,  and  that  plaintiff  has  attached  nineteen 
guilders,  in  seewan,  with  Christiaen  Andriesen  the  soldier. 


110  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1663 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  prove  he  did  not  re- 
ceive the  attached  nineteen  guilders,  in  seewan,  from  Christiaen 
Andriesen. 

Henderick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defend- 
ant.   Absent.    Default. 

Henderick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  amount  of  two 
hundred  and  ninety-nine  guilders,  sixteen  stivers,  as  per  obligation 
signed  by  Jacob  Jansen  Stol,  deceased,  upon  which  forty-six  guild- 
ers have  been  paid,  leaving  a  balance  of  two  hundred  and  fifty- 
three  guilders,  sixteen  stivers,  to  be  paid  in  wheat,  at  three  guild- 
ers per  schepel. 

Geertuyd  Andriesen,  wife  of  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  admits  the 
debt,  and  promises  to  pay  plaintiff  in  installments,  as  she  is  indebt- 
ed to  others  besides  him. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff. 

Echje  Gerrets,  plaintiff,  vs.  Christiaen  Niessen  romp,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  submits  proofs  against  defendant  that  her  pillow  is 
in  his  hands,  the  proofs,  dated  November  20,  1663,  being  signed  by 
Magdalena  Dirricks  and  Willem  van  Vredenborg. 

Defendant  says  that  the  certificate  signed  by  Magdalena  Dir- 
ricks is  false,  and  wants  both  certificates  confirmed  under  oath. 
He  further  says  that  his  wife's  words,  uttered  while  sick  and  delir- 
ious, cannot  be  received. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  produce  the  attestants 
in  Court,  at  its  next  session. 

Evert  Pels,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  Westphael,  defendant.  The 
matters  between  the  parties  remaining  unsettled,  the  Honorable 
Court  notifies  them  that  they  will  receive  a  special  hearing  tomor- 
row, and  that  their  papers  will  be  examined  at  such  place  as  they 
may  agree  upon. 

Tomas  Chambers,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roelof  Swart,  Cornells  Barens- 
sen  Slecht,  and  Jan  Jansen  van  Amersfort,  guardians  of  the  minor 
children  of  Mattys  Jansen,  deceased,  defendants.  Plaintiff  prays 
that  he  may  be  legally  released  from  the  lease  of  the  lands  hired  by 
him  from  the  guardians,  or  defendants,  as  he  cannot  utilize  them  in 
these  troubloos  times. 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  Ill 

Roelof  Swartwout  and  Cornelia  Barentsen  Slecht  request  an 
extract  of  the  application,  as  Jan  Jansen  Amersfort,  the  third 
guardian,  is  now  absent,  and  ask  time  to  answ,er. 

The  Honorable  Court  allows  defendants  until  its  next  session 
to  answer  the  application. 

Thomas  Chambers,  the  Commissary,  Captain  of  the  Burghery, 
intends,  after  Christmas,  to  organize,  muster  and  officer  the  Burgh- 
ery, because  some  of  the  petty  officers  have  died,  and  some  have 
entered  the  service  of  the  Honorable  Company.  He  requests  the 
determination  of  the  Court  thereon. 

The  Honorable  Court  grants  the  aforesaid  request  of  the 
above  named  Captain  of  the  Burghery. 

Jacob  Boerhans,  Collector,  will  please  pay  to  Jacob  Joosten, 
Court  Messenger,  fifty  guilders,  in  seewan,  out  of  the  excise  on 
wines,  and  credit  his  account. 

Wildwyck,  this  December  18,  1663. 

The  Reverend  Consistory,  in  answer  to  the  Court's  note  of  No- 
vember 4,  Sunday,  sent  to  it  through  Juriaen  Westphael,  by  order 
of  the  Honorable  Court,  replies  that  it  is  really  astonished  that  the 
Honorable  Court  meets  on  Sunday,  as  there  are  enough  other  dayi 
in  the  week,  and  this  is  the  reason  why  the  Magistrates*  pew  in  the 
Church  is  vacant  Sunday  morning  and  afternoon,  and  that  the  Con- 
sistory cannot  legally  release  the  estates  because  they  came  to  it  ec- 
clesiastically (not  that  it  was  seized  by  the  Consistory,  as  the  Hon- 
orable Court  dares  falsely  to  assert  in  its  note),  and  consequently  it 
cannot,  under  the  circumstances,  release  the  same.  (Below  was 
written)  In  the  name  and  by  the  authority  of  the  Reverend  Con- 
sistory. (Signed)  Hermanns  Blom.  (In  the  margin)  December 
18,  1663,  at  Wildwyck. 

Jacob  Joosten,  Court  Messenger,  gives  notice  of  appeal  in  the 
case  between  him  and  the  Secretary,  Mattheus  Capito,  decided  De- 
cember 18,  last.    Dated  December  27,  1663. 

Extraordinary  Session,  held  Thursday,  December  27,  1663. 

Present:  Marten  Cregier,  Captain  Lieutenant,  President; 
Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert  Gysberts,  Tjerck  Clae- 
sen  de  Wit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissaries. 


112  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1665 

Marten  Cregier,  Captain  Lieutenant,  in  the  name  of  the  Noble 
Lord  Director  General,  P.  Stuyvesant,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  "West- 
phael,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  remaining  debts  due 
to  the  Noble  Lord  Director  General  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  amounting 
to  ten  hundred  and  four  guilders,  as  per  account,  payable  in  winter 
grain,  beaver's  value,  upon  which  there  have  been  delivered  one 
hundred  and  five  schepels  of  oats,  and  requests  a  speedy  payment 
thereof. 

Defendant  admits  the  debt,  and  says  he  is  willing  to  pay. 
The  Honorable  Court  orders  him  to  pay  the  aforementioned 
amount  to  plaintiff. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roelof  Swartwout,  defend- 
ant.   Absent.    Default. 

Albert  Gerritsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  amount  of  six  schepels  of 
wheat  for  work  done  and  earned  on  the  house  and  barn  of  the  Hon- 
orable Lord  Director  General,  and  produces  as  witness,  pursuant 
to  the  order  made  by  the  Honorable  Court  December  18,  last,  Jan 
Broersen,  who  testifies  he  heard  that  Ariaen  Gerritsen  contracted 
with  plaintiff  for  said  work  by  the  day,  and  that  he  promised  plain- 
tiff to  pay  him  therefor. 

Defendant  admits  he  set  him  to  work,  and  says  he  is  willing 
to  pay  him  if  the  Honorable  Lord  Director  General  will  approve  of 
it,  as  the  repairs  were  made  on  his  Honor's  house. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
demanded  six  schepels  of  wheat,  and  that  defendant  recover  from 
the  lessor  because  the  work  was  done  on  his  house. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  vs.  Juriaen  Westphael, 
defendant.  The  Provisional  Schout  submits  his  demand  in  writing. 
It  reads  as  follows : 

Whereas  defendant,  Juriaen  Westphael,  on  October  9,  last, 
substituted  himself  for  the  below  mentioned  persons,  his  workmen, 
who  violated  the  ordinance  proclaimed  and  published  on  August  4, 
last,  providing  that  no  one,  without  permission  and  a  proper  con- 
voy, should  venture  out  to  mow,  cart,  or  do  any  other  work,  and 
were  detected  by  the  former  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout,  my  prede- 
cessor: 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  BECOBDS  OP  KINGSTON.  113 

Antoni  Crupel,                                 for  twice,  75  fl. 

Henderick  Hendericksen,  having  twice,  75  fl. 

Jan  Gerretsen,  violated  twice,  ^     75  fl. 

Jacob  Stoutenborch,                        the  once,  ^J^^^S  25  fl. 

Jan  Broersen,  aforesaid  twice,  ^^g^    75  fl. 

Jacob  Barents  Cool,                       ordin-  once,  25  fl. 

Jan  Jansen  van  Oosterhout,          ance  twice,  75  fl. 

Amounting  to  a  total   of 425  fl. 

say  four  hundred  and  twenty-five  guilders,  which  the  defendant 
was  condemned  to  pay,  and  the  defendant,  on  October  30,  last,  ap- 
peared before  the  Honorable  Court,  for  the  second  time,  for  said 
persons,  and  was  again  ordered  to  pay  the  full  amount  of  the  fine, 
whereupon  he  gave  notice  of  appeal; 

The  defendant  is  therefore  asked  by  the  Provisional  Schout  to 
show  the  Court  forthwith  what  he  has  accomplished  in  his  appeal  to 
the  High  Court  at  the  Manhatans,  the  appeal  not  having  been  re- 
ceived there.  The  Provisional  Schout,  plaintiff,  concludes  that  the 
defendant,  Juriaen  Westphael,  should  be  ordered  to  pay  the  afore- 
said demands  and  fines,  with  costs,  and  that '  execution  thereon 
issue. 

Defendant  hereupon  says  he  can  not  answer,  as  the  promises 
made  to  him  in  regard  to  harvesting  his  corn  were  not  fulfilled, 
and  says  he  has  done  nothing  in  the  appeal. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  above 
named  fines,  unless  he  agrees  with  the  Schout  upon  a  settlement. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  de- 
fendant. The  Provisional  Schout  submits  a  written  demand 
which  reads  as  follows : 

Whereas,  the  defendant,  Aert  Jacobson,  appeared  on  October 
9,  last,  before  the  Honorable  Court,  with  his  son  Gerret,  his  daugh- 
ter, and  his  servant,  Andries,  he  having  with  them  violated  the 
ordinance  proclaimed  and  published  on  August  4,  last,  providing 
that  no  one  should  venture  out  to  mow,  cart,  or  do  any  other  work, 
without  permission  and  a  proper  convoy,  and,  through  the  Schout, 
Boelof  Swartwout,  my  predecesor,  fines  were  imposed  on 
The  defendant,  of  75  fl. 


114  THE  DUTCH  BECOBOS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

His  son  Gerret,  "  75  fl. 

His  daughter,  "  25  fl. 

His  servant  Andries,  "  25  fl. 

amounting  to  a  total  of  200  fl.,  say  two  hundred  guilders, 
which  amount  defendant  was  ordered  to  pay  the  aforesaid  plaintiff, 
and  the  defendant  having  appeared  for  the  second  time  before  the 
Court  on  October  30,  last,  for  himself  and  the  aforenamed  persons, 
regarding  the  aforesaid  fines,  gave  notice  of  appeal ;  the  defendant 
is  therefore  asked  by  the  Provisional  Schout,  the  plaintiff,  to  show 
forthwith  what  he  has  done  in  his  appeal  before  the  High  Court 
at  the  Manhatans,  the  appeal  not  having  been  received  there.  The 
Provisional  Schout,  the  plaintiff,  concludes  that  the  defendant, 
Aert  Jacobson,  should  be  condemned  to  pay  the  foregoing  demands 
and  fines,  with  costs,  and  that  execution  issue  thereon. 

Defendant  answers  that  he  did  not  prosecute  the  appeal. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  above  men- 
tioned fines,  unless  he  agrees  with  the  Schout  upon  a  settlement. 

Evert  Pels,  plaintiff  vs.  Juriaen  Westphael,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  three  hundred  and  seven- 
teen guilders,  five  stivers,  and  submits  in  proof  several  documents, 
and  requests  payment  thereof  with  costs.  Defendant  requests  that 
the  documents  be  examined. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  the  papers  and  documents 
of  both  parties  shall  be  examined,  in  the  presence  of  the  Provi- 
sional Schout,  Mattheus  Capito,  by  two  members  of  the  Court, 
Thomas  Chambers  and  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  who  are  authorized 
to  make  such  examination,  and,  if  possible,  to  settle  the  matter,  and, 
if  they  can  not  do  so,  to  report  in  writing  at  the  next  Court. 

Jan  Broersen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  from  defendant  five  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat, 
for  wages  in  helping  to  carry  and  carrying,  and  in  other  work  done 
on  the  house  of  the  Honorable  Director  General.  Defendant  says 
he  paid  plaintiff  fourteen  schepels  of  oats  as  wages. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  parties  to  settle  and  liquidate 
their  accounts  between  themselves,  and  one  to  pay  what  may  be 
due  the  other. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  retiring  Schout,  requests  that,  as  Juriaen 
Westphael  and  Aert  Jacobson,  pursuant  to  the  judgment  rendered 


1663]  THE  DUTCH  EECOEDS  OP  KINGSTON.  115 

for  violating  the  ordinance  of  August  4,  last,  have  not  paid  their 
fines,  he,  Swartwout,  the  appearer,  may  be  permitted  to  himself 
exact  said  fines,  and,  in  case  no  amicable  settlement  is  made  there- 
of, that  compulsion  may  follow. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  whereas,  the  Provisional 
Schout,  Mattheus  Capito,  has  summoned  the  unwilling  persons, 
Juriaen  Westphael  and  Aert  Jacobson,  to  appear  before  it  regard- 
ing said  fines,  as  to  which  the  Court  has  rendered  judgment,  the 
retiring  Schout,  Swartwout,  and  the  incoming  Provisional  Schout, 
Capito,  may  divide  said  fines  between  themselves,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  be  received  under  an  amicable  adjustment. 

Allert  Heymans  appears  before  the  Honorable  Court,  and  re- 
quests that  the  minister,  Hermanns  Blom,  be  paid  his  salary,  be- 
cause, he  says,  the  Consistory  has  made  default  thereon.  He  also 
shows  the  contract  made  between  the  minister  and  some  of  his  con- 
gregation, dated  March  4,  1661. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  the  contract,  dated  March  4, 
1661,  between  the  minister  and  some  of  his  congregation,  was  en- 
tered into  for  the  period  of  a  single  current  year.  For  the  rfi- 
maining  years  still  to  come  the  congregation  shall  agree  with  the 
minister  about  his  salary,  to  be  on  a  reasonable  basis,  and  they 
shall  meet  at  the  minister 's  convenience. 

Albert  Gerritsen  shows  the  Court  an  extract  from  the  minute^ 
of  December  18,  1663,  against  Annetje  Tack,  in  reference  to  a  sum 
of  three  hundred  and  eighteen  guilders,  heavy  money.  He  hais 
had  three  summonses  served  for  the  payment  of  said  allowed  claim, 
and  requests  that  execution  may  issue  for  the  same. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  Provisional  Schout,  Mattheus 
Capito,  to  issue  such  execution. 

Extraordinary  Session,  Saturday,  December  29,  1663. 

Present:  Marten  Cregier,  Captain  Lieutenant,  President; 
Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Thomas 
Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissaries. 

Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roelof  Swartwout,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  submits  to  the  Honorable  Court  a  petition  in 
which  he  requests  that  defendant  restore  to  him  a  horse  which  hr 


116  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1663 

bought  from,  and  for  which  he  paid,  defendant  who  removed  it 
from  the  stable  without  plaintiff's  knowledge.  Plaintiff  further 
submits  a  receipted  account. 

Defendant  admits  he  verbally  sold  a  horse  to  plaintiff,  to  be 
delivered  and  paid  for  within  six  weeks,  the  said  horse  to  be  at 
defendant's  risk,  and  that,  after  the  lapse  of  six  weeks,  plaintiff 
made  no  payment  to  defendant.  Defendant  also  demands  copy 
of  the  account  submitted. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  furnish  defendant 
with  a  copy  of  the  account,  and  at  the  same  time  to  adjust  the 
same  in  the  presence  of  the  Provisional  Schout,  Capito,  if  possible,. 
and,  if  not,  to  bring  their  case  before  the  Honorable  Court  again 
at  its  next  session,  as  usual. 

Extraordinary  Session,  held  Monday,  December  31,  1663. 

Present:  Marten  Cregier,  Captain  Lieutenant,  President; 
Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Thomas 
Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissaries, 

Whereas,  the  account  between  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff, 
and  Roelof  Swartwout,  defendant,  has  been  adjusted  by  the  Honor- 
able Court,  which  has  found  that  Tjerck  Claesen  remains  indebted 
to  Roelof  Swartwout  for  the  purchased  horse  in  twenty-four  sche- 
pels  of  wheat,  the  Honorable  Court  therefore  orders  Roelof 
Swartwout  to  deliver  the  purchased  horse  to  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit 
within  ten  days,  the  receiver  to  pay  the  balance  of  twenty-four 
schepels  of  wheat  on  receipt  of  the  horse,  which  is  to  be  at  Roelof 
Swartwout 's  risk  until  its  delivery  and  the  receipt  of  the  wheat, 
and  if  Roelof  Swartwout  can  justly  claim  anything  more  as  due 
from  Tjerck  Claesen,  he  may  summon  him  to  appear  before  the 
Court.    Tjerck  Claesen  deWit  is  ordered  to  pay  the  costs  herein. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  January  15,  1664. 

Present:  Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert  Gys- 
bertsen, Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van 
Imborch,  Commissaries. 

Henderick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defend- 
ant.   Absent.    Default. 


\ 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  117 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Rantsou,  defendant. 
Absent.    Default. 

Mattys  Roelofsen,  plaintiff.  Absent.  Default,  vs.  Aert  Mar- 
tens  Doom,  defendant. 

Jan  Broersen,  plaintiff.  Absent.  Default,  vs.  Ariaen  Ger- 
retsen,  defendant. 

On  January  21,  the  following  note  was  handed  to  the  minister, 
Hermanus  Blom: 
.    Rev.  Mr.  Hermanus  Blom. 

Whereas,  on  the  evening  of  January  2,  last,  Paulus  Cornel- 
isen,  Jacob  Jansen,  alias  long  Jacob,  Cornelis  Brantsen  Vos,  and 
Ariaen  Huybertsen,  came  to  an  agreement  with  the  Provisional 
Schout  to  pay,  for  the  violations  committed  by  them,  the  sum  of 
one  hundred  and  seventy  guilders,  in  seewan,  of  which  eight  guild- 
ers are  for  costs,  leaving  one  hundred  and  sixty-two  gilders,  one- 
third  whereof  is  due  to  the  Church,  your  Reverence  will  also  re- 
ceive thereby  two  schepels  of  wheat,  besides  seven  schepels  of 
wheat  of  last  week,  making  in  all  nine  schepels  of  wheat,  reckoned 
at  six  guilders  per  schepel,  forwarded  on  account  of  the  Church  at 
Wildwyck,  being  the  legal  one-third  of  one  hundred  and  sixty- 
two  guilders.     Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  2l8t  day  of  January,  1664. 

(Signed)  Mattheus  Capito. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  January  29,  1664. 

Present:  Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert  Gys- 
bert,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Im- 
borch.  Commissaries. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  in  the  name  of  Her- 
manus Blom,  minister,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  Westphael,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  fl.  64:6:12,  heavy  money,  the 
balance  of  the  salary  of  the  aforesaid  minister,  for  the  past  years 
1661  and  1662.  Defendant  admits  the  debt.  The  Honorable  Court 
orders  defendant  to  pay  the  above  debt. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  one  hundred  and  eight  guilders, 
heavy  money,  the  balance  of  the  salary  of  the  aforenamed  minister 
for  the  yean  1661  and  1662.    Defendant  admits  the  debt. 


118  THB  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  above 
debt. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aeltje  Claes,  defendant.  Absent 
Default. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Lootman,  defendant.  Plaintiff 
demands  from  defendant  ten  guilders,  heavy  money,  the  balance  of 
the  salary  of  the  aforenamed  minister  for  the  year  1662.  Defend- 
ant denies  the  debt,  saying  that,  as  he  is  in  the  service  of  the  Com- 
pany, he  is  not  obliged  to  contribute  to  the  minister's  salary. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  satisfy  the  afore- 
said demand,  because,  though  he  is  in  the  service  of  the  Honorable 
Company,  he  is  also  domiciled  here. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mattys  Roelofsen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  from  defendant  ten  guilders,  heavy  money,  the  bal- 
ance of  the  salary  of  the  aforenamed  minister  for  the  year  1662. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  above  debt. 
The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  defendant 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  fl.  17:2:4,  the  balance  of  the 
aforesaid  minister's  salary  for  the  years  1661  and  1662.    Defend- 
ant admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  above  debt. 

The    Same,    plaintiff,    vs.    Harmen    Hendericks,     defendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  fl.  19:6:8,  the  balance  of  the 

aforesaid  minister's  salary  for  the  years  1661  and  1662.    Defend* 

ant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  above 
amount. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jacobs,  defendant.  Absent. 
Default. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  AUert  Heymans  Roose,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  eleven  guilders,  heavy  money, 
the  balance  of  the  aforesaid  minister's  salary  for  the  year  1662. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  learns  that  defendant  owns  a  double  lot. 
He  must  pay  for  the  double  lot  twenty  guilders,  being  in  propor- 
tion to  other  single  lots  which  must  pay  ten  guilders,  towards  the 
minister's  salary,  and  in  addition  one  guilder,  for  acreage  money. 


1664J  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  119 

The  aforementioned  balance  amounts  to  twenty-one  guilders,  which 
he  is  ordered  to  pay,  in  heavy  money. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Broersen,  defendant,.  Absent.  De- 
fault. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Barents  Cool,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  ten  guilders,  heavy  money, 
being  the  balance  for  the  salary  of  the  aforenamed  minister  for 
the  year  1662.    Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  above  debt. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ilenderick  Martensen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  ten  guilders,  heavy 
money,  balance  of  the  aforenamed  minister's  salary  for  the  year 
1662.  Defendant  denies  he  is  indebted  for  the  minister's  salary. 
and  says  that  he  is  in  the  service  of  the  Company,  and  therefore 
not  obliged  to  contribute  to  the  minister's  salary.  He  further 
says  that  he  has  nothing  to  pay  with,  having  been  taken  captive  by 
the  savages. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforenamed 
demand,  for,  though  in  the  service  of  the  Honorable  Company,  he 
nevertheless  has  a  house  and  lot  here. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Antoni  Crupel,  defendant.  Plaintiff 
demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  fl.  12:10,  heavy  money,  being 
the  balance  of  the  minister's  salary  for  the  years  1661  and  1662. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  foregoin? 
debt. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Boerhans,  defendant.  Plaintiff 
demands  from  defendant  the  sura  of  ten  guilders,  heavy  money, 
being  the  balance  of  the  minister's  salary  for  the  year  1662.  De- 
fendant says  that  during  the  troubles  here  his  house  was  set  on 
fire  and  he  was  not  able  to  save  anything  from  the  house,  and  it  is 
therefore  impossible  for  him  to  pay. 

The  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid  demand. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Jansen  van  Oosterhout,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  ten  guilders,  heavy  money, 
being  the  balance  of  the  minister's  salary  for  the  year  1661.  De- 
fendant admits  the  debt,  and  says  that  Albert  Gysbertse  undertook 
to  pay  the  same  for  him  in  the  year  1661. 


120  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid 
demand. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Henderick  Cornelissen  lyendtae- 
jer  [ropemaker],  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant 
the  sum  of  twenty-five  guilders,  heavy  money,  being  balance  of  the 
minister's  salary  for  the  year  1662.  Defendant  admits  the  debt 
and  says  that  twenty-four  guilders,  light  money,  were  assigned  to 
Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht,  and  nine  guilders,  light  money,  to  Al- 
bert Gysbertsen,  totaling  thirty-three  guilders,  light  money. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid 
demand. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  in  the  name  of  the  cura- 
tors of  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen  van  Steenwyck,  plaintiff,  vs. 
Jan  Claesen  deWit,  defendant.  Plaintiff'  demands  from  defendant, 
in  his  absence,  for  his  guardians,  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  one 
guilders,  light  money,  for  goods  bought  from  the  estate. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  one  of  the  guardians  present,  being  one 
of  the  heirs  of  the  aforesaid  estate,  offers  himself  as  surety  and 
principal  for  his  brother  Jan  Claesen  deWit,  for  the  above  men- 
tioned amount,  to  secure  any  balance  if  his  share  be  not  sufficient, 
adding  the  guardian,  Henderick  Jochemse,  as  surety. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  as  Jan  Claesen  deWit  is  a 
co-heir  of  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen,  the  suretyship  of  his 
brother  Jan  [Tjerck]  Claesen  deWit,  and  of  Henderick  Jochem- 
sen,  the  curators  of  the  estate,  be  accepted  for  the  said  amount. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  eight  hundred  and 
fifty-two  guilders,  eleven  stivers,  light  money,  for  goods  bought 
from  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen  van  Steenwyck. 

Defendant  admits  the  debt,  and  says  that  he  is  co-heir  of  the 
aforesaid  estate,  and  offers  to  pay  if  his  share  should  b€  less;  he 
also  offers  as  sureties  for  the  aforesaid  amount  the  curator  Evert 
Pels,  who  is  present,  and  the  guardian,  Henderick  Jochemsen. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that,  as  defendant  is  co-heir  in 
the  aforesaid  estate,  he  shall  furnish  security  for  the  aforesaid 
amount. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Barents  Ameshof,  defendant. 
Absent    Default. 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  BEGOBDS  OF  KIN08T0K.  121 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Teunissen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  sixty-four  guilders  light 
money,  for  goods  bought  from  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen.  De- 
fendant admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid 
amount. 

The  Same,  plaintiff  vs.  Ariaen  G^rretsen,  defendant.  Absent. 
Default. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mattys  Roelofsen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  eight  guilders,  light 
money,  for  goods  bought  from  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen.  De- 
fendant admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforenamed 
demand. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Dirrick  Hendericks,  defendant.  Ab- 
sent.   Default. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and 
thirty-one  guilders,  ten  stivers,  light  money,  for  goods  bought  from 
the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen,  two  hundred  and  eight  guilders,  ten 
stivers,  light  money,  for  one-half  of  the  lot  purchased  from  him 
for  and  on  account  of  Jeronimus  Ebbingh,  for  which  he  is  surety, 
together  amounting  to  three  hundred  and  forty  guilders,  light 
money.    Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid 
demand. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Jansen,  alias  long  Jacob,,  defend- 
ant.   Absent.    Default. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Lambert  Huybertsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  forty-three  guilders, 
ten  stivers,  light  money,  for  goods  bought  from  the  estate  of  Jan 
Albertsen.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  and  requests  fourteen  days' 
time. 

The  Honorable  Court  allows  defendant  fourteen  days'  time  to 
pay  the  aforesaid  amount. 

Christiaen  Niessen,  in  the  name  of  the  Honorable  Lord  Di- 
rector General,  Petrus  Stujrvesant,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  "West- 
phael,  defendant.    Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  for  the  Hon- 


122  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

orable  Director  General  aforenamed,  payment  of  the  sum  of  ten 
hundred  and  four  guilders,  heavy  money,  beaver's  value,  being  an 
old  balance  due  for  rent  and  otherwise,  and  requests  that,  as  he  has 
attached  all  his  goods,  no  corn  be  permitted  to  leave  defendant's 
house  until  he  shall  have  paid  the  Lord  General.  Defendant  ad- 
mits the  debt,  but  says  he  has  a  counter  claim  for  a  portion. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  attachment  to  continue,  and 
that  defendant  shall  pay  plaintiff,  before  any  other  of  his  creditors. 

Christiaen  Niessen,  in  the  name  of  the  Honorable  Lord  Direc- 
tor General,  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  de- 
fendant. Absent.  Default.  Plaintiff  says  he  attached  defendant's 
property,  and  gives  notice  thereof. 

The  Honorable  Court  agrees  and  declares  said  attachment  is 
valid. 

Hendrick  Jochemsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  presents  an  account  against  defendant  for  for- 
ty-four guilders,  two  stivers,  in  light  money,  for  the  wages  of,  and 
expenses  incurred  by,  his  son,  and  for  sixty  schepels  of  oats  on 
account  of  Prans  Pieterse,  which  he  attached  March  28,  1662.  De- 
fendant admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
above  amount. 

Evert  Pels,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  the  sum  of  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty-six  guilders,  heavy  money.  Defendant  denies  the 
debt  and  answers  he  has  a  counter  claim. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  parties  to  adjust  their  ac- 
counts, and,  if  they  cannot  do  so,  that  each  party  shall  submit  his 
claim  in  writing  at  the  next  session  of  the  Court. 

Mattys  Roelofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Hillebrants,  defendant. 
Absent.    Default. 

Mattys  Roelofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  defendant. 
Absent.    Default. 

Mattys  Roelofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  thirty-one 
schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  and  requests  plain- 
tiff to  allow  him  three  weeks'  time. 

The  Honorable  Court  grants  defendant  the  requested  time. 


1664]  THB  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  123 

Mattys  Roelofsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Rut  Albertsen,  defendant.    Ab- 
sent.   Default. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jonas  Bantsou,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  again  demands  from  defendant  five  schepels  of  wheat, 
as  already  demanded  in  this  Court  on  December  18,  1663.  Defend- 
ant says  that  plaintiff  attached  nineteen  guilders  which  were  with 
Christiaen  Andriesen,  and,  as  the  latter  is  dead,  defendant  re- 
quires plaintiff  to  make  oath  whether  he  has  not  received  it,  and 
then  offers  to  pay  to  plaintiff  four  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat 
which  he  admits  he  owes  him. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  declare  under  oath 
that  he  did  not  receive  the  nineteen  guilders  from  Christiaen  An- 
driesen, nor  in  any  other  manner  to  be  out  the  said  nineteen  guild- 
ers. Defendant  is  ordered,  if  the  oath  is  taken,  to  pay  plaintiff 
four  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat.  The  plaintiff  declines  to 
make  oath. 

Nicolaes  Goselingh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  defendant. 
Absent.    Default. 

Nicolaes  Goselingh,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  two  schepels  of  wheat. 
Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff. 
Jan  Pietersen  Muller  presents  to  the  Honorable  Court  a  power 
of  attorney  from  Wouter  Albertsen,  residing  at  Fort  Orange,  to 
collect  from  the  estate  of  Willem  Jansen  Seba,  deceased,  a  quantity 
of  nine  schepels  of  wheat.  He,  at  the  same  time,  shows  the  obliga- 
tion of  Willem  Jansen  Seba,  and  requests  payment  out  of  the  sold 
property  of  Willem  Jansen  Seba,  deceased. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  February  12,  1664. 

Present:  Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert Gys- 
bertsen,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissaries. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Thomas 
Chambers,  defendant.  Plaintiff  presents  a  petition  regarding  n 
quarrel  with  Paulus  Cornelissen,  which  occurred  in  the  house  of 
Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  and  states  that  they  came  to  blows.  He 
asks  that  defendant  be  condemned  therefor  to  pay  a  double  fine  of 
one  hundred  guilders,  he  being  a  judge,  in  whom  this  is  unseemly. 


124  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Defendant  admits  having  used  his  fist  once,  and  leaves  the 
matter  to  the  Honorable  Court. 

The  Honorable  Court  having  seen  the  Schout's  complaint, 
and  that  not  more  than  one  blow  was  struck,  condemns  defendant 
to  pay  a  fine  of  twelve  guilders,  to  be  duly  applied. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Paulus  Cor- 
nelisen,  defendant.  Plaintiff  presents  a  petition  showing  that,  at 
the  house  of  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  defendant  came  to  blows  over  a 
dispute  with  Thomas  Chambers,  and  requests  that  the  defendant 
be  condemned  therefor  to  pay  a  fine  of  fifty  guilders.  Defendant 
says  he  does  not  know  anything  about  this. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  bring  proof  at  its 
next  session. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Mattheu 
Blanchan,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  a  fine  of  fifty  guilders 
from  defendant  because,  after  the  second  beating  of  the  drum,  he 
churned  some  milk  on  the  day  of  fasting  and  prayer.  Defendant 
answers  that  the  drum  beat  only  once,  and  that  he  had  no  milk  for 
his  calf,  and  he  never  in  his  life  did  this  before. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  examined  the  Schout's  complaint 
and  the  answer  of  the  defendant,  orders  defendant  to  pay  six 
guilders,  one-half  for  the  Church. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  in  the  name  of  the  min- 
ister Hermanns  Blom,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aeltje  Claesen,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  the  sum  of  ten  guilders,  heavy  money,  from 
the  defendant,  being  the  balance  of  the  minister's  salary  for  the 
year  1662.  Defendant  answers  that  the  building  lots  (should  be  ex- 
empt, she  having  paid  for  her  land. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid 
demand,  because  no  money  was  taken  from  her  for  her  land  in  the 
year  1662,  but  only  for  the  building  lots 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jacobsen,  defendant.  Second 
default. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Broersen,  defendant.  Plaintiff 
demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  twenty  guilders,  heavy  money, 
being  the  balance  for  the  minister's  salary  for  the  years  1661  and 
1662.    Defendant  admits  the  debt,  but  says  that  Albert  Gysbertsen 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  125 

undertook  to  pay  ten  gmlders,  heavy  money,  in  1661.  He  further 
says  he  is  not  able  to  pay  this  year. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid 
demand,  and  that  he  may  commence  suit  against  Albert  Gysbertsen 
on  his  claim. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  in  the  name  of  the  cura- 
tors of  Jan  Albertsen  van  Steenwyck,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Ger- 
retsen,  defendant.    Second  default. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Dirrick  Hendericksen,  defendant. 
Second  default. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tomas  Hermensen,  defendant.  Ab- 
sent.   Default. 

Walran  duMont,  plaintiff,  vs.  Lambert  Huybertsen,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  sixty  guilders,  heavy  money 
for  one  year  house  rent,  and  twenty-seven  guilders,  heavy  money, 
for  smithing.  Defendant  presents  a  counter  claim  amounting  to 
one  hundred  and  one  guilders,  ten  stivers,  heavy  money. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  that  defendant,  having  occupied 
only  one-half  of  the  house,  shall  pay  plaintiff  forty  guilders,  heavy 
money,  for  one  year's  house  rent,  and  also  the  twenty-seven  guild- 
ers, heavy  money,  for  smithing,  making  in  all  sixty-seven  guilders, 
heavy  money,  and  then  that  plaintiff  shall  pay  defendant  thirty- 
four  guilders,  ten  stivers,  heavy  money,  being  the  balance  of  de- 
fendant's counter  claim. 

Evert  Pels,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  presents  his  whole  account  against  defendant  for  the  sum 
of  five  hundred  and  forty-one  guilders,  seventeen  stivers.  Defend- 
ant shows  a  counter  claim  still  incomplete. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  parties  to  go  to  good  men,  name- 
ly, Allert  Heymans  Roose  and  Cornells  Barentse  Slecht,  to  adjust 
the  accounts  on  both  sides,  if  possible,  and,  if  not,  to  again  refer  to 
the  Court. 

Aert  Martensen  Doom,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornells  Barentsen 
Slecht,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  fifty  guild- 
ers, heavy  money,  being  his  share  of  the  salary  of  the  former 
Reader,  Andries  Vandersluys,  five  sieves  and  five  reels  and  two 
winnowing  baskets,  received  from  his  predecessor,  Jacob  Jansen 
Stol,  deceased.    Defendant  answers  he  does  not  know  whether  he 


126  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON,  [1664 

paid  the  above  debts,  as  he  settled  accounts  with  his  predecessor. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  parties  to  settle  their  accounts. 

In  regard  to  the  request  of  the  Ensign,  Christiaen  Niessen, 
made  to  the  Honorable  Court,  in  reference  to  paying  the  woodchop- 
pers,  builders  and  carters  of  the  palisades  for  filling  in  the  open 
spaces  between  the  palisades  near  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht's 
and  the  main  guard  house,  the  Collector,  Jacob  Boerhans, 
is  ordered,  out  of  the  excise  money,  to  pay  to  the  Ensign  afore- 
named the  sum  of  forty-one  schepels  of  wheat. 

Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  February  12,  1664.         , 

■  Petition  or  request  of  the  Reverend  Consistory  to  the 

;  Honorable  Magistrates  of  this  place. 

The  Reverend  Consistory  here,  for  the  sake  of  their  office  and 
for  conscience  *  sake,  request,  with  due  submission,  of  the  Honorable 
Magistrates  of  this  place,  that  the  public,  sinful  and  scandalous 
Bacchanalian  days  of  Fastenseen*,  coming  down  from  the  heathens 
from  their  idol  Bacchus,  the  God  of  wine  and  drunkenness,  being 
also  a  leaven  of  popery,  inherited  from  the  pagans,  which  the  Apos- 
tle, in  1  Cor.  5,  admonishes  true  Christians  to  expurge,  may,  while 
near  at  hand,  be  proscribed  in  this  place  by  your  Honors,  by  prop- 
er ordinances,  while  we  admonish  against  and  publicly  reprehend 
those  abominations,  so  that  through  God's  grace  and  blessing  we 
shall  mutually  have  done  our  duty,  and  we  may  thereby  do  some 
good  for  this  place  and  its  inhabitants,  their  bodies  as  well  as  their 
souls, — the  more  so  as  we  are  passing  through  such  woeful  times  of 
God's  judgment  over  us  in  this  place,  inflicted  because  of  our  sins 
— and  so  that  we  may  not,  through  such  scandalous  sins  of  Fasten- 
seen, and  sinful  doing,  continue  to  irritate  the  Lord  and  still  fur- 
ther call  down  his  judgments  upon  us,  for  we  are  still  under  his 
rod,  and  his  sword  of  war  still  threatens  us  yet  more  to  try  the  land 
and  its  inhabitants.    And  shall  then  the  inhabitants  be  gay  in  their 
sins,  while  the  land  mourns,  and  we  are  called  on  every  month  to 
fast,  te  weep  and  to  mourn  1  Joel  2.    Therefore  it  is,  that  the  Rever- 
end Consistory  desire  of  the  Honorable  Court,  that  our  prayer 
may  be  heeded  and  taken  to  heart,  we  being  foster  fathers  of  God's 


*     ShroT*  Tti«adar  or  ICardi  Oras 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  127 

Church  and  congregation,  so  that  thus  sin  and  abomination  may 
the  more  and  more  be  banished  from  this  newly  developing  com- 
munity, to  the  glorification  of  God's  name  and  the  edification  of  this 
community,  as  well  as  the  happiness  and  welfare  of  the  place,  upon 
which  we  must  depend.  In  the  meantime  we  commend  you  to  God 's 
keeping,  and  may  He  bless  your  office  and  persons. 

Below  was  written,  In  the  name  of  the  Reverend  Consistory. 
(Signed)  Hermanus  Blom.  (In  the  margin)  February  12,  1664, 
at  Wildwyck. 

To  the  petition  or  request  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hermanus  Blom 
and  the  Reverend  Consistory  to  the  Honorable  Court,  the  follow- 
ing answer  was  given: 

The  Honorable  Court  will  be  glad  to  comply  with  said  request, 
80  far  as  its  instructions  permit. 

The  Honorable  Court  at  Wildwyck  hereby  again  admonishes 
tb«  retiring  Commissaries,  to  please  make  out  their  accounts  of 
the  village  of  Wildwyck,  within  two  weeks,  as  they  were  also 
judicially  ordered  to  do  on  May  22,  1663,  the  which  has  been  hin- 
dered or  delayed  by  the  war,  so  that  the  Honorable  Lord  Director 
General,  upon  his    arrival,  may    see  the  state  of  this  place. 

The  Collector,  Jacob  Boerhans,  is  ordered,  out  of  the  excise  on 
wine,  to  pay  Aert  Martensen  Doom  forty-two  guilders  in  seewan, 
light  money,  for  room  rent  of  the  Honorable  Court  here,  and  to  en- 
ter it  in  the  accounts.  , 

Done,  this  February  12,  1664. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  February  26,  1664. 

Present:  Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert  Gys- 
•bertsen,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Tomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Im- 
borch.  Commissaries. 

Tomas  Harmense,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  quantity  of  fifty  schepels  of 
wheat  for  assigned  debts.  Defendant  admits  the  debt  but  says 
he  is  not  able  just  now  to  pay. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff's  afore- 
said demand. 


128  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Tomas  Harmensen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  the  sum  of  thirty-five  guilders,  in  see- 
wan,  from  defendant,  for  goods  delivered,  and  for  one  and  one- 
half  days'  wages,  Geertruyd  Andriesen,  in  the  absence  of  her  hus- 
band, the  defendant,  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court,  except  Thomas  Chambers,  orders  de- 
fendant to  pay  plaintiff's  aforesaid  demand. 

Thomas  Harmensen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Henderick  Albertsen,  de- 
fendant. Absent.  Default,  Plaintiff  has  attached  four  schepeU 
of  wheat  of  defendant's,  in  the  hands  of  Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht, 
and  gives  notice  thereof. 

The  Honorable  Court  allows  said  attachment  as  valid, 
Albert   Gysbertsen,    plaintiff,    vs.    Coenrad    Ham,  defendant. 
Absent.    Default. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff*,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  two  fimmen  [or  vimmen,  plural 
of  vim,  the  equivalent  of  a  stack  of  104  to  108  sheaves]  of  oats 
which  he  loaned  defendant  last  winter.  Defendant  admits  this, 
but  says  he  has  a  counter  claim  aorainst  plaintiff. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  parties  to  liquidate  their  claims,. 
or,  otherwise,  that  defendant  shall  submit  his  counter  claim  to  the 
Court  at  its  next  session. 

Gysbert  van  Imborch,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
four  guilders,  nineteen  stivers,  in  seewan,  from  defendant,  as  per 
account  rendered,  and  also  a  quantity  of  eight  schepels  of  wheat, 
for  account  of  plaintiff's  wife,  for  merchandise  delivered.  De- 
fendant admits  the  debt,  but  also  says  that,  during  the  war  with 
the  savages,  he  drove  the  savages  from  plaintiff's  house. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid 
claim  of  plaintiff, 

Gysbert  van  Imborch,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annetje  Tacks,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  two  hun- 
dred and  thirty-four  guilders,  eight  stivers,  in  beavers,  as  per  ac- 
count rendered,  allowed  by  the  Schepens  under  date  of  Decem- 
ber 21,  1662,  among  which  are  included  twenty-six  guilders,  eight 
stivers,  in  beavers,  for  interest  on  two  hundred  and  sixty-four 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  129 

guilders,  in  beavers,  and  requests  that  the  horse  called  "Blackie" 
[het  Swartje]  be  sold,  at  her  expense,  under  execution. 

Defendant  admits  the  debt,  but  says  she  is  not  able  at  pres- 
ent to  pay  plaintiff,  as  she  already  lacks  bread,  pork,  meat,  etc.,  in 
her  household,  and,  further,  that  most  of  her  crops  were  left  on  the 
field  last  harvest  because  of  the  war. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  requested  defendant  to  furnish 
security,  which  she  knows  not  where  to  obtain,  and  plaintiff  not  be- 
ing willing  to  give  her  an  extension,  orders  defendant  to  pay  plain- 
tiff's aforesaid  demand. 

Christiaen  Niessen,  substituted  for  the  Honorable  Lord  Direc- 
tor General,  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  according  to  obli- 
gation issued  by  him,  due  IMarch  next,  payment  of  sixty  schepels  of 
wheat,  of  which  thirty-four  have  been  paid,  leaving  a  balance  of 
twenty-six  schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  and 
promises  to  pay  plaintiff  at  the  specified  date. 

Paulus  Cornelisen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annetje  Tacks,  defendant. 
Plaintiff'  presents  an  account  against  defendant,  amounting  to  two 
hundred  and  forty-one  guilders,  ten  stivers,  in  seewan,  and  eight 
beavers,  for  money  advanced  and  provisions  sold  and  furnished  to 
her  last  harvest.     Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
aforesaid  amount. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  in  the  name  of  the  cura- 
tors of  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen  van  Steenwyck,  plaintiff  vs. 
Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  de- 
fendant security,  as  ordered  by  the  Honorable  Court,  January  29, 
last,  for  goods  bought  from  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen  van  Steen- 
wyck, deceased,  to  the  amount  of  eight  hundred  and  fifty-two 
guilders,  eleven  stivers,  light  money,  and  requests  that  defendant 
be  compelled  to  furnish  the  same. 

Evert  Pels,  the  curator,  and  Henderick  Joehemsen,  the  guard- 
ian, also  hereby  request  the  Court  to  be  discharged  from  their 
curatorship  and  guardianship,  as  they  cannot  agree  with  defendant 
who  is  a  joint  guardian.  They  further  request,  in  case  they  be  not 
discharged,  that  the  Honorable  Court  please  sustain  them. 


130  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Defendant  says  he  has  not  been  unreasonable  about  furnishing 
security,  and  that  last  week,  he,  with  the  plaintiff  and  the  curator, 
Evert  Pels,  called  at  the  house  of  the  guardian,  Henderick  Jochem- 
sen,  and  this  matter  was  not  then  arranged. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  defendant,  on  his  own  ac- 
count as  well  as  of  those  for  whom  he  became  bondsman,  shall  fur- 
nish security  for  the  full  amount,  satisfactory  to  the  curator, 
Evert  Pels,  and  the  guardian,  Henderick  Jochemsen,  and  further 
orders  the  curator.  Evert  Pels,  and  the  guardian,  Henderick  Joc- 
hemsen, to  look  more  closely  after  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen  van 
Steenwyck,  so  that  no  one  shall  be  deprived  of  his  rights. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  the  sum  of  fifty  guilders,  light  money,  from  defend- 
ant, for  goods  bought  from  the  estate  of  Jan  Albertsen  van  Steen- 
wyck, and  requests  execution  on  non  payment.  Defendant  admits 
the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  satisfy  plaintiff  with- 
in twice  twenty-four  hours,  and,  in  case  of  default,  that  execution 
against  his  property  shall  issue. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  in  the  name  of  Hermanns  Blom,  minister, 
vs.  Pieter  Jacobsen,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  the  sum  of  ten 
guilders,  heavy  money,  from  defendant,  being  the  balance  of  thi 
minister's  salary  during  the  year  1662.  Defendant  admits  the 
debt,  and  promises  to  pay  this  week. 

The  Same,  plaintiff,  vs.  Paulus  Cornelisen,  defendant.  Plain- 
tiff demands  a  fine  from  defendant,  pursuant  to  previous  summons. 
Defendant  denies  he  fought  with  Thomas  Chambers.  Plaintiff 
adduces  in  evidence  the  acknowledgement  of  Thomas  Chambers, 
and  demands  judgment  thereon. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  submit  proof. 

Request  of  Hermanns  Blom,  minister. 

I,  the  undersigned,  once  more  and  for  the  last  time,  request  of 
the  Honorable  Court  here  (as  I  have  even  several  times  before 
this  verbally  requested  at  its  sessions,  yea,  even  the  other  day, 
through  my  Elder)  to  know,  in  writing,  whether  or  not  it  in- 
tends to  collect  and  pay  me  my  salary,  earned  for  religious  duties 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  REGOBDS  OF  KINGSTON.  131 

performed  by  me  in  this  place  for  the  congregaton;  if  yea,  that  it 
is  already  high  time,  and  if  not,  that  the  Honorable  Court  be  pleas- 
ed to  give  me  an  apostile,  so  that,  in  due  time,  I  may  acquaint  the 
Supreme  Magistrates  with  it,  and  complain  to  them  that  the  Hon- 
orable Court  here  does  not,  as  in  duty  bound,  follow  the  orders,  re- 
ceived from  the  Supreme  Magistrates,  to  collect  my  earned  salary, 
and  that  it  does  not,  through  its  political  power,  legally  attend  to 
and  press  the  matter,  and  has  not  done  so  to  date.    The  Lord  Coun- 
cillors may  thereby  then  see  that  the  fault  lies  not  alone  with  the 
congregation,  but  more  so  with  the  Court  here.    The  Lord  Council- 
lors will  then  well  be  able  to  judge  how  it  comes  that  my  salarj'  has 
not  been  collected  and  paid  to  me,  much  less  that  it  is  not  legally 
enforced  and  insisted  upon.    To  which  request,  I,  the  undersigned, 
shall  expect  from  the  Honorable  Court  a  written  answer,  to  use  at 
the  proper  time  before  the  Lord  Councillors.    Which  complaint  tc 
the  Supreme  Magistrates,  the  Honorable  Court  can  still  prevent.    I 
leave  it  to  the  judgment  of  the  Honorable  Court  here  itself  wheth- 
er it  is  not  a  sad  and  grievous  thing  that  a  minister  of  the  Word  of 
God  is,  as  here,  compelled,  with  such  trouble  and  pains,  to  seek  for, 
and  request  of  and  through  the  Court,  his  long  since  earned  salary, 
the  which  has  never  been  seen  or  heard  of  anywhere  in  Christen- 
dom. 
February  26,  1664,  at  Wildwyck. 

(Signed)  Hermanns  Blom. 
Apostile  on  the  above  request:    The  Honorable  Court  will  dc 
its  duty,  as  far  as  possible,  to  compel  those  reluctant,  and  those 
who,  following  their  voluntary  promise,  are  behind  in  their  pay- 
ment of  the  salary.     Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  February  26,  1664. 

Pursuant  to  the  foregoing  order,  the  Court  Messenger  is  direc- 
ted and  ordered  to  remind  the  inhabitants  of  this  place  of  the  ar- 
rearage of  the  ministers  salary,  and  also  to  admonish  them,  under 
pain  of  execution,  to  carry  out  their  promises  to  pay  the  minister's 
salary  for  the  year  1663.    Wildwyck,  this  February  26,  1664. 

Extraordinary  Session,  held  Saturday,  March  1,  1664. 

Present:  Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert  Gys- 
bertsen,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Im- 
borcb,  Oommissaries. 


132  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

The  Honorable  Court  having  seen  and  read  the  signed  request 
of  the  Council  of  War,  dated  February  29,  last,  answers,  first,  that 
the  severity  of  the  winter  season  does  not  permit  any  digging  of 
the  ground  to  fill  in  vacant  spaces  with  palisades,  though  the  palis- 
ades obtained  for  this  purpose  lie  here  ready,  and  that  the  Honor- 
able Court  will  do  its  duty  by  admonishing  those  on  whose  side  the 
open  spaces  will  have  to  be  filled  in,  and  also  by  taking  care  to  have 
the  gates  properly  closed.  To  the  second  request,  concerning  the 
issuance  of  orders  to  keep  the  inhabitants  under  arms,  and  to  fur- 
nish a  guard  for  the  one  post  near  Ilenderick  Jochemsen's  gate, 
the  Honorable  Court  requests  and  orders  the  Captain  of  the  Burg- 
hery,  Thomas  Chambers,  to  call  the  citizens  to  arms,  and  at  the 
same  time  to  properly  man  the  one  post  aforesaid,  with  as  little 
trouble  as  possible,  and  as  he  and  his  burgher  Council  of  "War  shall 
think  proper.  Thus  done  in  our  extraordinary  session  at  Wild- 
wyek,  this  March  1,  1664. 

The  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen, 

Teerck  Claszen  de  Witt, 
Gysbert  van  Imbroch. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imborch  has  caused  to  be  legally  attached 
the  wheat  of  Gerret  Fooken,  so  that  it  may  not  be  alienated  until 
he  shall  have  been  paid,  and  gives  notice  of  said  attachment,  this 
March  1,  1664. 

Henderick  Jochemsen  has  caused  to  be  legally  attached  five 
schepels  of  wheat,  in  the  hands  of  Pieter  Comelissen  Molenaer 
[Miller],  belonging  to  Abraham  Stevensen,  alias  Crawaet,  and  gives 
notice  of  said  attachment,  this  March  1,  1664. 

The  Honorable  Court  allows  the  validity  of  said  attach- 
ment, this  March  11,  1664. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  March  11,  1664. 

Present:  Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout;  Albert  Gys- 
bertsen, Tjerck  Claesen,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch, 
Commissaries. 

Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteyling,  deacon,  presented  to  the  Honor- 
able Court  here  an  account  showing  that  of  the  Church  money 
one  hundred  and  fifty-five  guilders,  three  stivers,  seewan,  and  from 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  133 

the  poor  money,  three  hundred  and  fifty-nine  guilders,  in  see  wan, 
amounting  together  to  five  hundred  and  fourteen  guilders,  three 
stivers,  seewan,  have  been  expended  for  building  the  parsonage 
here,  and  thereupon  asks  where  he  can  obtain  payment  thereof. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that,  as  there  is  no  money  in  the 
treasury,  and  the  Commissaries  have  no  authority  to  provide  the 
means,  the  deacon  be  requested  to  give  an  extension  until  the  arri- 
val of  the  Honorable  Lord  Director  General,  for  the  purpose  of 
then  seeing  by  what  means  the  above  amount  may  be  paid. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  the  sum  of  twenty  guilders,  four 
stivers,  in  sewant,  due  for  scriverner's  wage  from  defendant  for 
account  of  Juriaen  Westphael,  and  says  that  defendant  engaged 
him. 

Defendant  says  that  Juriaen  "Westphael  must  pay  the  expen- 
ses. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  the  aforesaid 
demand  to  plaintiff,  and  that  he  may  bring  suit  against  Juriaen 
Westphael. 

Evert  Pels,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen  Westphael,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  as  per  signed  obligation  dated 
December  28,  1663,  the  amount  of  two  hundred  and  sixty-two 
guilders,  five  stivers,  heavy  money,  and  also  twenty  guilders,  four 
stivers,  in  seewan,  for  scrivener's  wage,  and  two  guilders,  eight 
stivers,  in  seewan,  for  the  Court  Messenger.  Defendant  says  he 
has  nothing  to  say  against  the  demand. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
aforementioned  demand,  after  the  attachment  in  behalf  of  the  Lord 
Director  General  by  Christiaen  Niessen  shall  have  been  satisfied, 
said  attachment  having  taken  place  on  his  Honor's  own  land. 

Evert  Pels,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  defendant. 
Absent.    Default. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  two  fimmen  for  vimmen,  plural 
of  vim,  the  equivalent  of  a  stack  of  104  to  108  sheaves]  of  oats 
which  he  loaned  him  last  winter.  Defendant  answers  that 
he  ploughed  three  days  for  plaintiff,  who  replies  that  de- 
fendant ploughed  two  and  one-half  days  for  him,,  and  produces  Ju- 


134  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

riaen  Westphael  who  says  that  defendant  on  the  first  day  worked 
about  eight  or  nine  hours  in  the  field,  and  as  to  the  other  two  days 
he  can  not  say  anything.  Plaintifi'  further  says  that  he  again 
ploughed  one  and  one-half  days  for  defendant,  but  defendant  says 
he  ploughed  one  day. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  parties  to  adjust  their  dispute 
before  two  good  men,  or,  otherwise,  to  aga.n  appear  before  the 
Court  with  their  proofs  and  accounts. 

Andries  Pietersen  van  Leeuven,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornelis  Barent- 
sen  Slecht,  defendant.    Absent.    Default. 

Andries  Pietersen,  soldier,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Martensen  Doom, 
defendant.    Absent.    Default. 

Gysbert  van  Imborch,  plaintiff,  vs.  Thomas  Harmensen,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  four  schepels  of  wheat, 
and  to  secure  payment  has  laid  an  attachment  therefor  with  Aert 
Martensen  Doom.  Defendant  admits  owing  him  as  aforesaid,  and 
asks  that  the  same  be  deducted  from  his  wages  for  harvesting,  and 
also  presents  divers  accounts  of  eleven  schepels  of  wheat  and  two 
schepels  of  peas,  being  wages  for  harvesting,  six  schepels  of  wheat 
and  five  schepels  of  wheat  for  guarding  the  shop  of  Annetje  Tacks, 
and  two  schepels  of  peas  for  threshing.  He  also  says  that  plain- 
tiff, through  the  Schout,  forbade  him  to  thresh,  whereupon  he 
ceased,  and  thereupon  on  the  following  day  plaintiff  said,  "Why 
don't  you  keep  on  threshing?";  that  then  he  continued  threshing 
and  delivered  the  grain  to  plaintiff's  loft.  Further,  that  plaintiff 
promised  him  board,  with  others,  in  case  Annetje  Tacks 
refused  him  board.  Plaintiff  denies  he  forbade  defendant  to  thresh, 
but  had  him  forbidden  to  furnish  grain  to  any  one  else  than 
himself;  whereupon  the  defendant  answered  that  Annetje  Tacks 
would  not  board  him ;  thereupon  plaintiff  said  that  if  she  would 
not  do  so,  he  would. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  parties,  finds,  conform- 
ably to  the  judgment  for  plaintiff  rendered  October  23,  1663,  that 
Annetje  Tacks  should  neither  use,  decrease  nor  alienate  any  of  the 
grain,  without  the  knowledge  and  consent  of  plaintiff  aforesaid, 
and  that  plaintiff  must  deliver  to  defendant  six  schepels  of  wheat 
for  wages  earned  during  harvest,  and  two  schepels  of  peas  for 
wages  for  threshing,  and  that  he  may  deduct  from  defendant  the 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  135 

four  schepels  of  wheat,  and  that  defendant  may  claim  the  remain- 
ing five  schepels  of  wheat  from  Annetje  Tacks. 

Gysbert  van  Imborch,  plaintiff,  vs.  Gerret  Pooken,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  a  quantity  of  thirty  three  and 
one-half  schepels  of  wheat  due  him  from  defendant  and  his  partner 
Jan  Gerretsen,  in  which  sura  are  included  six  schepels  of  wheat  for 
shaving  and  doctor's  bill  for  Jan  Gerrets,  for  a  whole  year.  lie 
also  demands  from  defendant  himself  two  schepels  of  wheat  for 
doctor's  fee  during  his  sickness  after  said  time. 

Defendant  submits  a  receipt  showing  that  he  paid  plaintiff  six- 
teen and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat,  and  further  says  that  he  can 
not  pay  for  his  partner  who  was  killed  by  the  savages  during  the 
late  troubles.  He  also  claims  damages  from  plaintiff  for  his  outlays 
for  wages  and  board,  caused  by  plaintiff  attaching  his  grain  on 
March  1,  so  that  he  could  not  properly  thresh  it. 

The  Court,  having  heard  the  respective  parties,  decides  that 
defendant  shall,  in  accordance  with  the  foregoing  demand,  pay 
plaintiff  the  just  half  of  the  goods  received,  and  in  addition  the  two 
schepels  of  wheat  for  doctor's  fee  for  himself  during  his  sickness, 
and  that  defendant  has  no  claim  against  plaintiff  for  preventing 
him  threshing,  as  he  only  attached  the  grain  so  that  it  could  not  be 
alienated. 

Paulus  Cornelisen  demands  from  the  Honorable  Court  the  sum 
of  one  hundred  and  eight  guilders  in  seewan,  for  bricks  furnished 
for  the  parsonage.  The  Honorable  Court  answers  that,  as  the  books 
of  the  retired  Commissaries  have  not  yet  been  written  up,  it  there- 
fore does  not  know  how  much  money  there  is  in  the  treasury. 

Paulus  Comelissen  requests  execution  against  Annetje  Tacks 
under  the  judgment  entered  February  24,  1664,  served  by  the  Court 
Messenger  after  citation,  summons  and  renewal.  The  Doorkeeper 
is  directed  to  proceed  with  the  execution. 

The  mark  (x)of  Albert  Gysbertsen, 
:  ,  Thomas  Chambers, 

TiERCK  Claszen  deWitt, 
Gysbert  van  Imbroch. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Paulus  Cor- 
nelissen,  defendant.  The  Provisional  Schout,  Mattheus  Capito, 
plaintiff,  pursuant  to  the  order  of  the  Court  that  he  submit  proof, 


136  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

submits,  in  addition  to  the  previous  admission  of  Thomas  Chambers, 
a  certificate  signed  by  Sergeant  Jan  Peersen,  reciting  how  the  mat- 
ter occurred  and  that  the  defendant  came  to  blows  with  Thomas 
Chambers.  Defendant  answers  that  he  does  not  know  anything 
about  it,  and  that  he  was  drunk. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  settle  with  plaintiff, 
otherwise  judgment  will  be  rendered  by  the  Court. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Provisional  Schout,  again  requests  of  the 
Honorable  Court  that,  to  enable  him  to  be  released  by  the  curator 
Evert  Pels  and  the  guardian  Henderick  Jochemsen  with  respect 
to  the  auction  sale,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  as  ordered  February  26, 
last,  be  compelled,  on  his  own  account  as  well  as  for  those  for 
whom  he  became  surety  and  guardian,  to  give  security  for  the 
goods  purchased  and  received  by  him  from  the  estate  of  Jan  Al- 
bertsen  van  Steenwyck. 

The  curator  Evert  Pels  and  the  guardian  Henderick  Jochem- 
sen also  request,  in  addition,  that  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  joint 
guardian,  give  security  for  the  entire  amount,  on  his  own  account 
as  well  as  for  those  for  whom  he  has  become  surety. 

The  joint  guardian,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  says  that  he  is  ready 
to  give  security  for  the  goods  received  and  purchased  by  him,  and 
that  the  account  presented  by  him  should  be  accepted  in  reduction, 
but  that  he  will  not  give  bond  for  his  brother  Jan  Claesen  and  his 
sister  Amarens  Claesen,  as  he  is  already  bound.  He  adds  that  he 
was  twice  at  Henderick  Jochemsen 's  house  to  give  security. 

The  plaintiff,  and  the  curator.  Evert  Pels,  say  that  it  is  true 
that  they  were  at  the  aforesaid  house  with  the  joint  guardian 
Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  but  that  Tjerck  Claesen  still  did  not  produce 
any  sureties. 

The  Honorable  Court  having  learned  that  the  curator  Evert 
Pels  and  the  guardian  Henderick  Jochemsen,  without  its  knowledge, 
extended  to  May  1,  of  the  current  year,  the  time  of  Amarens  Clae- 
sen to  pay  for  the  goods  purchased  from  the  aforesaid  estate,  and 
that  they  were  also  herein  contented  with  the  security  given  by  her 
brother,  Tjerck  Claesen,  who  signed  as  principal  bondsman,  where- 
by the  Honorable  Court  has  been  slighted  with  regard  to  its  prev- 
ious judgment  rendered  February  26,  last,  it  is  therefore  hereby 
ordered  that  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  within  twice  twenty-four  hours, 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  137 

give  security  on  his  own  account  for  the  goods  purchased  and  re- 
ceived by  him  from  the  aforesaid  estate,  to  be  satisfactory  to  the 
curator,  Evert  Pels,  and  the  guardian,  Henderick  Jochemsen. 

To  the  account  presented  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Ilermannus  Blom, 
signed  by  Commissaries  Evert  Pels,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  and  Al- 
bert Gysbertsen,  for  moneys  expended  by  his  Reverence  for  mate- 
rials and  wages  for  the  parsonage  here,  the  Honorable  Court  an- 
swers: As  there  is  no  money  in  the  treasury,  his  Reverence  is 
therefore  asked  to  wait  until  the  arrival  of  the  Honorable  Lord  Di- 
rector General,  for  the  purpose  of  then  devising  with  his  Honor  the 
means  whereby  the  said  account  may  be  paid. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imborch  requests  execution  against  Annetje 
Tacks,  under  the  judgment  rendered  February  26,  last,  after  service 
by  the  Court  Messenger  of  citation,  summons  and  renewal. 

The  Doorkeeper  is  directed  to  proceed  with  the  execution. 
The  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen, 

TiERCK  Claszen  deWitt, 
Thomas  Chambers. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commissary,  asks  the  Court  whether 
Gerret  Fooken  may  dispose  of  the  estate  of  his  deceased  partner,  Jan 
Gerretsen,  being  the  crops  of  the  year  1663. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imborch  gives  notice  that  he  will  appeal  from 
the  judgment  rendered  against  Gerret  Fooken  March  11.  Done  at 
Wildwyck,  this  March  12,  1664. 

Deed  by  Jan  Broersen  and  Jan  Jansen  van  Oosterhout  to 
Thomas  Chambers. 

On  March  21,  of  the  year  1663,  appeared  before  me,  Mattheus^ 
Capito,  Secretary  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  Jan  Broersen  and  Jan 
Jansen  van  Oosterhout,  who  declare  that  they  have  deeded,  ceded 
and  conveyed,  as  they  hereby  deed,  cede  and  convey,  to  Thomas 
Chambers,  a  parcel  of  land  situate  on  the  Esopus,  below  the  village 
of  Wildwyck,  five  morgens  [about  two  acres  each],  two  hundred  and 
thirty  rods,  in  extent,  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  land  of  the  chil- 
dren of  Mattys  Jansen,  deceased,  and  on  the  south  by  the  land  of 
Mattheus  Capito ;  all  as  given  and  granted  to  the  aforesaid  grantors 
by  letters  patent  thereof  dated  April  25,  1663,  and  signed  by  the 
Director  General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland,  to  which  aforesaid 
parcel  of  land,  the  said  Jan  Broersen  and  Jan  Jansen  van  Ooster- 


138  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

hout  have  not  reserved  to  themselves  any  other  right  of  action  or 
claim,  but  have  absolutely  renounced  and  ceded  the  same  for  the  use 
of  the  above  named  Thomas  Chambers,  agreeing  that  the  aforesaid 
parcel  of  land  shall  be  received  by  him,  and  that  he  may  make  the 
same  use  thereof  as  of  all  his  other  patrimonial  possessions,  save  the 
Lord's  right,  in  conformity  with  what  is  mentioned  in  the  afore- 
said letters  patent;  the  aforesaid  grantors,  Jan  Broersen  and  Jan 
Jansen  van  Oosterhout,  promising  never  to  revoke  this  deed  and 
conveyance,  nor  in  any  manner,  by  themselves  or  anyone  else,  to  do 
or  cause  to  be  done  any  act  in  derogation  of  the  same,  submitting 
their  persons  and  estates,  real  and  personal,  present  and  future, 
nothing  excepted,  to  the  jurisdiction  of  all  courts  and  judges.  And 
these  grantors,  have  personally  signed  hereunder  in  the  presence 
of  Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Commissaries  of 
this  village,  witnesses  hereto  invited  and  requested. 
Done  at  Wildwyck  the  day  and  year  aforesaid. 

The  mark  (x)  of  Jan  Broersen,  made  by  himself, 

Jan  Jansen, 
The  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen,  made  by  himself , 
TiERCK  Claszen  deWitt. 
In  my  presence.     To  which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 

Letter  to  the  Lord  Director  General  and  Lord  Councillors 
of  New  Netherland, 

Honorable  Very  Worthy  Sirs : 

As  it  is  customary  among  well  regulated  governments  to  change 
magistrates  every  year,  and  the  annual  change  of  magistrates  of 
this  village  occurs  in  the  month  of  May,  the  Provisional  Schout  and 
the  Commissaries  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck  have  therefore  noted 
the  most  honorable,  suitable  and  able  persons  among  the  inhabi- 
tants of  this  village,  and  have  made  up  a  nomination,  so  that  your 
Honorable  Worships  may  select  two  out  of  the  four  mentioned  be- 
low. 

The  nominated  persons  are  the  following:  Jan  Willemsen 
Hoochteylingh,  Comelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  Aert  Jacobsen,  Hender- 
iek  Jochemsen. 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  139 

Concluding  herewith,  we  commend  your  Very  Honorable  Wor- 
ships, with  our  greetings,  to  God's  protection,  and  remain 

Your  Very  Honorable  Worships' 
Humble  Servants, 

(Signed)  Mattheus  Capito,  the  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbert- 
sen,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  Van  Im- 
borch. 

Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  March  27,  1664. 

On  March  28  Jan  Evertsen  gives  notice  of  an  attachment  by 
the  Court  Messenger  at  Aert  Jacobsen's,  having  attached  two 
brandy  kettles  belonging  to  Hester  Douwesen,  widow  of  Barent 
Gerretsen. 

On  March  29,  Jan  Pietersen  Muller,  under  power  from  Wou- 
ter  Albertsen  Backer,  at  Fort  Orange,  gives  notice  of  an  attachment 
by  the  Court  Messenger  at  Aert  Jacobsen's,  having  attached  five 
schepels  of  wheat  of  the  wheat  from  the  sale  of  the  cows  of  Evert 
Prys. 

We,  the  undersigned,  Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Gysbert  van  Im- 
borch.  Commissaries  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  make  known  that 
there  appeared  before  us  Pieter  Jacobsen  van  Holsteyn  and  Pieter 
Comelisen,  both  partners,  and  inhabitants  in  the  village  of  Wild- 
wyck. who  acknowledge  that  they  really  and  truly  owe  to  the  wor- 
thy Nicolaes  Meyer,  merchant  at  the  Manhatans,  the  amount  of  six- 
ty-one schepels  of  good  winter  wheat,  with  four  years'  interest 
thereon,  being  ten  per  cent,  annually,  due  in  the  month  of  Novem- 
ber of  this  current  year,  on  their  promise  to  pay  said  sixty-one 
schepels  of  wheat,  with  four  years'  interest,  in  the  month  of  Novem- 
ber next,  and  to  deliver  the  same  to  the  aforesaid  Nicolaes  ^leyer,  at 
the  Manhatans,  free  of  expense  and  damage,  and  to  have  the  same 
measured  by  the  sworn  City  Measurer.  And  to  carry  out  these 
presents,  the  appearers  obligate  themselves,  and  specially  mort- 
gage their  mill,  situated  at  Wildwyck,  and  they  also,  in  general, 
submit  their  persons  and  goods,  real  and  personal,  present  and 
future,  nothing  excepted,  to  the  jurisdiction  of  aU  courts  and 
judges.  And  the  appearers,  with  us,  have  personally  subscribed 
these  presents. 


140  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  March  31,  1664. 
The  mark  of  (x)  Pdeteb  Jacobsen,  made  by  himself, 
The  mark  of  (x)  Pieter  Cornelissen,  made  by  himself, 
The  mark  of  (x)  Alberv  Gysbertsen,  made  by  himself, 
Gysbert  van  Imbroch. 
In  my  presence.     To  which  I  certify. 

Mattiieus  Capito. 
I,  Nicolaes  d  Meyer,  acknowledge  having  received  in  all,  from 
what  is  to  be  received  on  the  foregoing,  seventeen  schepels  of  wheat, 
in  part  payment  of  the  interest,  say  seventeen  schepels  of  wheat. 

Nicolaes  d  Meyer,  1664, 
20  Nov. 

We,  the  undersigned,  Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Tjerck  Claesen 
deWit,  Commissaries  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  make  known  that 
on  this  date  appeared  before  us  the  worthy  Juriaen  Westphael, 
resident  of  Wildwyck,  who  acknowledges  and  declares  that  he  is 
really  and  truly  indebted  to  Mr.  Nicolaes  de  Meyer,  burgher  and  in- 
habitant of  the  city  of  Amsterdam  in  New  Netherland,  for  the  quan- 
tity of  eighty  schepels  of  good  and  pure  winter  wheat,  twenty- 
eight  schepels  of  oats,  and  six  good  whole  merchantable  beavers,  to- 
gether with  thirty-three  guilders,  three  stivers,  in  seewan,  due  for 
merchandise  and  goods  delivered,  with  ten  per  cent,  per  annum 
interest  thereon  from  July  9,  1663,  to  final  payment.  And  he  prom- 
ises to  pay  the  aforesaid  sums  in  two  installments,  one-half  on  Oc- 
tober 1,  of  the  current  year,  and  the  other  half  on  March  1,  of 
the  next  year,  1665,  with  interest  thereon,  said  amounts  in  grain 
and  otherwise,  as  above  mentioned,  to  be  delivered  at  the  Man* 
hatans,  without  expense  or  damage.  For  the  purpose  of  carrying 
out  these  presents,  the  appearer  specially  mortgages  his  land,  sit- 
uated below  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  between  the  land  of  Thomas 
Chambers,  across  the  Great  Kill,  and  the  land  of  Aert  Martensen 
Doom  and  the  lot  lying  in  Wildwyck  near  the  lot  of  Albert  Hey- 
mans  Roose,  on  the  one  side,  and  next  to  the  lot  of  Tjerck  Claesen 
deWit,  on  the  other  side,  being  the  appearer 's  whole  lot,  all  of 
which  he,  the  appearer,  says  is  unencumbered  and  unrestricted, 
and  also  in  general  [he  mortgages]  his  person  and  estate,  real  and 
personal,  present  and  future,  nothing  excepted,  submitting  the 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  141 

same  to  the  jurisdiction  of  all  courts  and  judges.  And  the  appear- 
er,  with  us,  has  thereupon  personally  signed  these  presents.  Done 
at  Wildwyck,  this  April  1,  Anno  1664. 

The  mark  of  (x)  Juriaen  Westphael,  made  by  himself, 
The  mark  of  (x)  Albert  Gysbertsen,  made  by  himself, 
Tierck  Claszen  deWitt. 
In  my  presence.     To  which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  April  1,  Anno  1664. 

Present :  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout ;  Albert  Gerretsen,  Tjerck 
Claesen  deWit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  Commis- 
saries. 

Frederick  Philipsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Wyntje,  wife  of  AUert  Iley- 
mans,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  fifty-nine 
schepels  of  wheat,  and  the  expenses  therewith,  for  which  an  obliga- 
tion was  delivered  on  May  4,  1662.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  but 
does  not  know  how  much  it  is,  and  says  he  has  a  counter  claim  for 
carting  goods. 

The  Honorable  Court  having  heard  the  parties,  and  taking  into 
conisderation  that  defendant's  husband  is  absent,  he  having  gone  to 
the  Manhatans,  orders  the  parties  to  liquidate  their  accounts  be- 
tween themselves,  and  that  defendant  on  his  admission  of  indebted- 
ness pay  plaintiff  the  balance  of  the  account. 

Jan  Pietersen  Muller,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant. 
Plaintiff,  under  power  of  attorney  from  Wouter  Albertsen,  at  Fort 
Orange,  demands  from  defendant  five  schepels  of  wheats  he  having 
attached  the  aforesaid  five  schepels  of  wheat  in  the  hands  of  Aert 
Jacobsen.    Defendant  admits  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  declares  the  attachment  valid,  and  orders 
defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the  aforesaid  demand. 

Jan  Evertsen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hester  Douwesen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  amount  of  seventy-five  guild- 
ers, in  beavers,  fourteen  schepels  of  good  winter  wheat,  forty-four 
guilders  in  sewan,  under  a  previous  judgment,  dated  June  5,  1663, 
for  which  he  has  lawfully  caused  to  be  attached  two  brandy  kettles 
in  the  hands  of  Aert  Jacobsen.  He  gives  notice  of  the  attachment, 
and  requests  execution  thereunder.  Defendant  admits  the  debt,  but 
requests  four  months'  time. 


142  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

The  Honorable  Court  declares  the  attachment  valid,  and,  as 
plaintiff  does  not  extend  her  time,  the  foregoing  request  of  plain- 
tiff is  granted. 

Johanna  de  Laet,  wife  of  Jeronimus  Ebbingh,  plaintiff,  vs. 
Comelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  de- 
fendant payment  of  the  sum  of  twelve  hundred  twenty-one  guilders, 
sixteen  stivers,  in  beavers,  due  for  rent  May  1,  of  the  year  1663,  and 
requests  payment  thereof. 

Defendant  admits  the  foregoing  demand,  and  says  he  paid  on 
account  thereof  thirty-five  schepels  of  wheat,  and  the  stiver  money. 
The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  satisfy  plaintiff  for 
the  balance  of  the  foregoing  demand. 

Plaintiff  further  requests  that  the  estate  and  possessions  of  de- 
fendant be  inventoried,  so  that  she  may  be  paid  in  full.  She  also 
requests  that  the  purchase  made  yesterday  by  Frederick  Philipsen, 
of  the  lot  at  Wildwyck,  be  annulled,  and  that  she  be  preferred  with 
respect  thereto,  as  also  with  respect  to  the  assignment  made  by 
defendant  to  Frederick  Philipsen  of  about  three  hundred  guilders 
to  be  received  from  the  Honorable  Company,  regarding  which  she 
also  attached  all  of  defendant's  property. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  plaintiff  shall  be  preferred 
as  to  defendant's  goods  which  are  on  plaintiff's  own  soil  and  land, 
and  shall  also  be  permitted  to  have  the  same  inventoried.  Regard- 
ing the  purchase  yesterday  by  Frederick  Philipsen  from  defendant 
of  the  lot  at  Wildwyck,  the  same  is  to  remain  valid,  but  plaintiff 
may  bring  suit  against  Frederick  Philipsen  for  the  purchase  money 
and  on  the  assignment  to  Frederick  Philipsen  of  about  three  hun- 
dred guilders,  due  from  the  Honorable  Company.  The  attachment 
made  by  plaintiff  of  the  goods  on  her  own  soil  is  also  declared  valid 
by  the  Honorable  Court. 

Jacobus  Backer,  under  power  of  attorney  from  the  Honorable 
Lord  Director  General,  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen 
Westphael,  defendant.  Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  payment 
of  the  sum  of  ten-  hundred  and  four  guilders,  by  virtue  of  a  pre- 
vious judgment,  dated  December  27,  1663,  and  says  that  one  hun- 
dred and  six  schepels  of  winter  wheat  have  been  paid  on  the  same. 
Requests  execution  for  the  balance. 

The  Honorable  Court  grants  plaintiff's  said  demand  for  execu- 
tion. 


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Hester  Douwesen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornelis  Barentse  Slecht,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  on  balance  of  account, 
twenty-one  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  admits  the 
debt,  but  says  he  paid  on  the  same  five  schepels  of  wheat  and  one 
guilder  in  seewan. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
balance  of  said  demand. 

Hester  Douwesen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Pieter  Jacobsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  thirty-four  and  one-half  schepels 
of  wheat,  pursuant  to  a  previous  judgment  and  sentence,  dated 
June  5,  1663,  and  requests  payment.  Defendant  admits  the  debt, 
but  says  he  delivered  seven  schepels  of  wheat  on  account. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
balance,  pursuant  to  the  said  judgment. 

Hester  Douwesen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant.  Ab- 
sent.   Default. 

Hester  Douwesen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Aert  Jacobsen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  as  balance  of  account,  seventeen 
schepels  of  wheat.  Defendant  answers,  he  paid  to  the  cooper,  for 
a  tub  belonging  to  both  of  them,  four  schepels  of  wheat  as  her  half 
share,  and  also  that  he  delivered  to  her  one-quarter  of  a  keg  of  beer. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  parties  to  have  their  accounts 
adjusted  by  impartial  men,  if  possible,  or  otherwise  to  again  apply 
to  the  Court. 

Hester  Douwesen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Willem  van  Vredenborch,  de- 
fendant.   Absent.    Default. 

Nicolaes  Meyer,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Jansen  van  Amersfort,  de- 
fendant. Absent.  Default.  As  the  defendant  is  absent,  plaintiff 
requests  that  an  extraordinary  session  may  be  ordered  for  his  bene- 
fit against  defendant.  The  Honorable  Court  grants  plaintiff's  fore- 
going request. 

Nicolaes  Meyer,  plaintiff,  vs.  Harmen  Hendericksen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  twenty-seven  guilders,  ten  sti- 
vers, in  beavers,  to  be  paid  in  wheat  at  market  value  at  Wildwyck, 
and  to  be  delivered  at  the  Manhatans,  according  to  obligation,  and 
also  demands  fourteen  guilders,  ten  stivers,  in  seewan,  according  to 
the  same  obligation.  Requests  payment  and  expenses  thereunder. 
Defendant  admits  owing  plaintiff  the  aforesaid  amounts. 


144  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
aforesaid  amounts,  according  to  obligation,  and  to  pay  the  Court 
expenses  here. 

Dirrickje  Jans,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Jansen  van  Amersfort,  de- 
fendant.   Absent.    Default. 

Ensign  Christiaen  Niessen  complains  to  the  Honorable  Court, 
that  Jacobus  Backer  purposes  to-day  to  send  out  one  Mattys  Roelof- 
sen,  without  previous  notice  to  the  Council  of  War  and  Honorable 
Court  here,  and  that  he  told  him  that  he  had  authority  from  the 
Honorable  Lord  Director  General  to  send  him  to  the  mountains  and 
therefore  forbids  the  aforenamed  Ensign  to  detain  him.  "Where- 
upon the  Honorable  Court  forbids  Mattys  Roelofsen  or  his  people, 
under  penalty  of  arrest,  to  travel  from  this  place  in  a  canoe  to  any 
savage  nation,  unless  Jacobus  Backer  can  show  the  Magistrates  or 
Council  of  War  here  orders  from  the  Supreme  Magistrates. 

Jacobus  Backer,  appearing  before  the  Honorable  Court  with 
Mattys  Roelofsen,  in  consequence  of  the  foregoing  order  against 
Mattys  Roelofsen,  whereby  he  and  his  are  directed  not  to  travel  in 
a  canoe  to  any  nation  of  savages,  answers  that  he  has  a  special 
order  from  the  Honorable  Lord  Director  General  to  dispatch  said 
Mattys  Roelofsen  to  the  mountains,  and  that  he  is  not  obliged  to 
show  said  order  to  the  Magistrates  or  Council  of  War  here,  unless 
they  are  authorized  thereto,  as  his  order  must  remain  secret,  and 
he  assumes  responsibility  for  all  the  consequences. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  the  foregoing  statement  of 
Jacobus  Backer,  permits  him  to  execute  the  secret  order  received 
by  him. 

Jacob  Joosten,  Court  Messenger,  asks  the  Honorable  Court  for 
thirty  or  forty  guilders,  in  seewan,  for  his  services. 

As  there  is  no  money  in  the  treasury,  the  petition  is  denied 
for  the  present. 

The  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout,  shows  the  Court  three  ordi- 
nances which  he  brought  from  the  Manhatans,  one  concerning  the 
desecration  of  the  Sabbath,  the  second  concerning  lessees  and  lessors 
of  land,  the  third  concerning  the  fencing  in  and  impounding  of 
cattle,  and  requests  that  the  same  be  published  and  also  that  the 
previous  ordinances  of  August  4,  1663,  be  renewed  and  published. 
The  Commissaries  consent  that  the  ordinances  taken  along  by 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  145 

the  Schout  be  read  and  posted,  also  that  the  ordinance  dated  Au- 
gust 4,  1663  be  renewed  and  published. 

Jan  Hendericks  van  Bael,  plaintiff,  vs.  Hermannus  Blom,  de- 
fendant.   Absent.     Default. 

Albert  Gerretsen  asks  of  the  Honorable  Court  that  execution 
may  continue  against  Annetje  Tacks,  as  the  barn  has  been  adver- 
tised for  sale  under  execution  on  April  3,  next. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  Doorkeeper,  after  the  expira- 
tion of  the  time,  to  continue  the  execution,  as  usual. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  defendant.  Ab- 
sent.   Default. 

Henderick  Jochemsen  states  to  the  Honorable  Court  that  the 
Burgher  Guard  meets  at  his  home,  which  is  therefore  used  as  a 
guard  house,  in  consequence  of  which  he  is  deprived  of  his  liberty 
because  of  the  quarrels  of  the  guardsmen,  and  he  is  also  not  able 
to  use  his  house  as  he  wishes.  He  asks  the  Honorable  Court  to 
please  direct  the  guard  to  remove  from  his  house. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  foregoing  request,  agrees 
with  the  aforesaid  Henderick  Jochemsen  that,  as  there  are  no  mate- 
rials for  a  guard  house  at  hand,  and  no  money  at  present  in  the 
treasury  to  purchase  materials  and  build  a  guard  house,  the 
Burghery  may  one  month  longer  use  his  house  for  the  Burgher 
Guard,  and  promises  to  pay  him  therefor  twenty  guilders,  in 
zeewan. 

Cornells  Barentse  Slecht  petitions  the  Court  to  be  permitted  to 
build  on  the  lot  of  Aert  Jacobsen  Otterspoor,  beyond  the  Mill  Gate, 
as  his  term  expires  May  next,  and  he  must  have  a  dwelling  house. 

The  Honorable  Court  refers  to  its  previous  decision. 

Mr.  Gysbert  van  Imborch  petitions  the  Honorable  Court  that 
the  execution  against  Annetje  Tacks  may  be  continued,  as  Albert 
Gerretsen  has  delayed  the  execution  against  his  sold  horse. 

The  Honorable  Court  adheres  to  its  judgment  rendered  March 
11,  last. 

On  this  April  3,  Jan  Evertsen  declares  he  has  attached  in  the 
hands  of  Pieter  Jacobsen  the  balance  of  the  money  the  latter  owes 
Hester  Douwesen,  so  as  to  obtain  thereby  full  payment  from  Hester 
Douwesen,  against  whom  he  has  been  granted  execution  upon  two 
kettles  in  the  hands  of  Aert  Jacobsen  and  also  on  his  entire  demand 
of  April  1,  1664. 


146  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664* 

We,  the  undersigned,  Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Tjerck  Claesen  de 
Wit,  Commissaries  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  make  known  that 
before  us  appeared  the  worthy  Jan  Jansen  van  Amersfort,  inhabi- 
tant of  Wildwyck,  who  acknowledges  that  he  really  and  truly  owes 
Mr.  Nicolaes  deMeyer,  burgher  and  inhabitant  of  the  city  of  Am. 
sterdam  in  New  Netherland,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  twelve 
guilders,  in  beavers,  at  eight  guilders  a  piece,  with  ten  per  cent,  per 
annum  interest  thereon  from  March  27,  of  the  year  1662,  to  final 
payment,  and  also  the  sum  of  ninety-seven  guilders,  in  seewan,  with 
ten  per  cent,  per  annum  interest  thereon  from  April  3,  of  the  year 
1664,  to  final  payment,  which  aforesaid  two  amounts,  the  aforesaid 
sum  of  one  hundred  and  twelve  guilders,  in  beavers,  with  interest 
thereon,  and  the  ninety-seven  guilders,  in  seewan,  or  wheat,  the 
Bchepel  reckoned  at  six  guilders,  at  the  option  of  the  above  named 
Nicolaes  de  Meyer,  the  appearer  promises  to  pay  to  the  aforesaid 
Nicolaes  de  Meyer  in  the  month  of  October  of  the  current  year, 
free  of  expense  or  damage,  at  the  Manhatans.  For  the  carrying 
out  of  these  presents,  he,  the  appearer,  specially  mortgages  his 
house  and  lot  situated  in  Wildwyck,  and  his  farm  land  lying  below 
the  village  of  Wildwyck,  which  he,  the  appearer,  says  is  unencum- 
bered, and  also,  in  general,  his  person  and  other  estates,  real  and 
personal,  present  and  future,  placing  the  same  under  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  all  courts  and  judges.  And  thereupon  the  appearer,  with 
U8,  personally  signed  these  presents.  Done  at  Wildwyck  this  April 
3,  1664. 

Jan  Jansen, 
The  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen, 

TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt. 
In  my  presence.    To  which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 

On  November  24, 1666,  the  foregoing  mortgage  was  satisfied  by 
substitution  of  Capt.  Tomes  Chamberssen,  and  by  an  accepted  obli- 
gation binding  himself  to  pay  at  the  earliest  shipping  opportunity. 

Nicolaes  d  Meyer. 
To  me  known. 

Matthbub  Capito,  Seeretary. 


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Hester  Douwesen  requests  execution  against  Pieter  Jacobsen, 
pursuant  to  judgment  rendered  April  1,  after  the  Court  Messenger 
served  three  citations. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  Doorkeeper  to  proceed  with  the 
execution. 

The  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen, 

TiERCK  Claszen  de  "Witt, 
Thomas  Chambers, 
Gysbert  van  Imbroch. 

Johanna  de  Laet,  wife  of  Jeronimus  Ebbing,  has  legally  placed 
with  Frederick  Philipsen  an  attachment  upon  the  purchase  money 
for  a  lot  bought  by  him,  at  Wildwyck,  from  Cornelis  Barentsen 
Slecht,  and  gives  notice  of  the  aforesaid  attachment. 

Jacob  Burhans,  Collector  of  the  Excise,  has  legally  placed  with 
Aert  Jacobsen  an  attachment  against  Hester  Douwesen  who  has  a 
claim  against  Aert  Jacobsen,  and  gives  notice  of  the  aforesaid  at- 
tachment. 

On  April  3,  Anna  Bloems  attached,  through  the  Court  Messen- 
ger, two  brandy  kettles  in  the  hands  of  Aert  Jacobsen,  belonging  to 
Hester  Douwesen,  and  gave  notice  this  day. 

On  April  4,  Paulus  Cornelissen  attached,  through  the  Court 
Messenger,  everything  that  Hester  Douwesen  might  have  at  Pieter 
Jacobsen 's. 

On  April  4,  while  engaged  with  the  Secretary  at  Cornelis 
Barentsen  Slecht 's  house,  a  dispute  arose  between  the  Schout,  Uoe- 
lof  Swartwout,  and  the  Commissary,  Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  and, 
following  it,  blows  were  struck.  The  aforesaid  Schout  drew  his 
sword  against  the  Commissary,  and  challenged  him  to  come  outside. 
Wherefore,  the  Commissary,  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  demands,  on  thfe 
Lord's  account,  &  fine  from  both.  There  were  present,  Ensign  Chris- 
tiaen  Niessen,  Nicolaes  de  Meyer,  and  Commissary  Thomas  Cham- 
bers. 

We,  the  undersigned,  Albert  Gysbertsen  and  Tjerck  Claesen  de 
Wit,  Commissaries  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  make  known  that 
before  us  appeared  the  worthy  Roelof  Swartwout,  resident  of  Wild- 
wyck, who  acknowledges  that  he  really  and  truly  owes  Mr.  Nico- 
laes de  Meyer,  burgher  and  inhabitant  of  the  city  of  Amsterdam  in 
New  Netherland,  the  amount  of  thirty-five  schepels  of  winter  wheat, 


148  THB  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

due  for  merchandise  and  goods  received,  with  ten  per  cent,  inter- 
est thereon  per  annum,  from  December  3,  of  the  year  1663,  to  final 
payment.  And  he  promises  to  pay  said  thirty-five  schepels  of  win- 
ter wheat  to  the  aforesaid  Nicolaes  de  Meyer  at  the  Mauhatans,  on 
October  1,  of  the  year  written  below,  free  of  expense  or  damage. 
And  for  the  carrying  out  of  these  presents,  he,  the  appearer,  binds 
and  especially  mortgages  his  house  and  lot,  situated  at  Wildwyck, 
and  his  lands  lying  below  the  new  village,  and  also,  in  general,  his 
person  and  goods,  real  and  personal,  present  and  future,  noth- 
ing excepted,  submitting  them  to  the  jurisdiction  of  all  courts  and 
judges.  And  the  appearer,  with  us,  thereupon  personally  signed 
these  presents,  at  Wildwyck,  this  April  4,  of  the  year  1664. 

ROELOOP  SWARTWOUT, 

The  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen, 

TiERCK  Claszen  de  Witt, 
In  my  presence.     To  which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 
The  foregoing,  signed  by  Roelof  Swartwout,  annuls  all  obliga- 
tions entered  into  up  to  this  date,  from  which  I  discharge  him 
through  this,  my  signature,  when  the  foregoing  is  paid.    Done  at 
Wildwyck,  this  April  4,  1664. 

Nicolaes  d  Meyer. 
To  my  knowledge.    To  which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 

Election  held  March  31,  1664,  by  a  plurality  of  votes,  for  the 
purpose  of  sending  two  delegates  from  the  village  of  Wildwyck  to 
the  Manhatans,  to  a  formal  Assembly. 

Whereas,  according  to  a  written  invitation  of  the  Director 
General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland  to  the  Schout  and  Com- 
missaries here,  dated  March  18,  last,  it  was  requested  that  two 
delegates  from  our  village  of  Wildwyck  be  sent  to  a  formal  gath- 
ering of  an  Assembly,  the  Schout  and  Commissaries  have  there- 
fore called  upon  us,  the  undersigned  inhabitants  of  Wildwyck,  to 
meet  together  on  the  day  named  below,  to  select  two  able  persons 
of  the  community,  and  to  depute  them  as  delegates  to  the  said| 
meeting  which  is  to  take  place  on  April  10.  We  have  therefore 
■elected,  by  a  plurality  of  votes,  the  worthy  persons,  Thomas  Cham- 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  149 

bers  and  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  to  whom  we  hereby  give  full  power 
and  authority  to  do  what  may  be  necessary  for  the  common  in- 
terest and  that  of  this  place,  and  also  to  act  in  any  matter  as  shall 
seem  to  them  advisable,  confirming  what  they,  the  delegates  may, 
according  to  their  obligation,  have  lawfully  done  for  the  common 
welfare.  For  which  purpose  we  have  personally  subscribed  to 
these  presents,  at  Wildwyck,  this  March  31,  1664. 

(Signed)  The  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjerck  Claesen 
deWitt,  Cornelia  Barentsen  Slecht,  Evert  Pels,  Albert  Gysbertsen, 
the  mark  (x)  of  Juriaen  Westphael",  the  mark  (x)  of  Jan  Wil- 
lemse  Hoochteylingh,  Aert  Jacobs,  the  mark  (x)  of  Ariaen  Gerrte- 
sen  van  Vliet,  the  mark  (AMD)  of  Aert  Martensen  Doom,  the 
mark  (x)  of  Pieter  Jacobsen,  the  mark  (x)  of  Mattys  Roelofsen, 
the  mark  (x)  of  Jan  Broersen,  the  mark  (x)  of  Jacob  Barents  Cool, 
Henderick  Jochemsen. 

Accords  with  the  original.     To  which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 

On  April  11,  Emmetje  Volckerts,  to  obtain  her  dues,  legally 
attached,  in  the  hands  of  Aert  Jacobsen,  everything  that  Evert  Prys 
can  claim  of  Aert  Jacobsen,  and  gives  notice  of  the  attachment. 

We,  the  undersigned,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  and  Gysbert  van 
Imborch,  Commissaries  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  make  known 
that  before  us  appeared  the  worthy  Albert  Gysbertsen,  inhabitant 
of  Wildwyck,  who  acknowledged  that  on  the  date  below  named,  he 
bought  and  received  from  the  worthy  Cornelis  Wyncoop  two 
horses  for  the  sum  of  four  hundired  guilders  in  wheat,  the  schepel 
to  be  reckoned  at  forty-five  stivers.  Which  aforesaid  four  hun- 
dred guilders  the  appearer  receives  at  ten  per  cent  interest  per 
annum,  for  four  successive  years,  commencing  on  the  day  below 
written  and  ending  May  1,  1668,  and  on  his  promise  to  pay  annual- 
ly to  said  Cornelis  Wyncoop  the  interest  due,  and  to  return  the 
principal,  with  annual  interest,  at  the  close  and  expiration  of  the 
four  years.  For  the  carrying  out  of  these  presents,  he,  the  ap- 
pearer, binds  and  specially  mortgages  twenty  morgens  [about  two 
acres  each]  of  arable  land,  lying  below  the  village  of  Wildwyck  and 
between  the  landa  of  Aert  Jacobsen  and  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit, 
which  he,  appearer,  says  is  unencumbered  and  unrestricted;  and 


160  THS  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

also,  in  general,  he,  the  appearer,  binds  his  person  and  other  es- 
tate, real  and  personal,  present  and  future,  nothing  excepted,  sub- 
mitting the  same  to  the  jurisdiction  of  all  courts  and  judges,  and 
thereupon  the  appearer  with  us  personally  signed  these  presents. 
Done  at  Wildwyck,  this  May  1, 1664. 

This  is  the  mark  (x)  of  Albert  Gysbertsen, 

TiERCK    ClASZEN   DE  WlTT, 

Gysbert  van  Imbroch. 

On  this  May  5,  1664,  before  the  honorable  Court  at  Wildwyck, 
there  being  then  present  the  Schout,  Roelof  Swartwout,  and  the 
Commissaries,  Albert  Gysbertsen,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Thomas 
Chambers  and  Gysbert  van  Imborch,  appeared  the  worthy  persons, 
Jan  Comelisen  vander  Heyde  and  Paulus  Cornelisen,  attorneys  for 
Maritje,  widow  of  Jan  Barentsen  Wemp,  and  informed  the  afore- 
said Honorable  Court  of  the  following  Lord's  acknowledgement, 
with  the  request  to  enter  the  same  in  the  minutes.  It  reads  word 
for  word  as  follows: 

Before  me,  Cornelis  van  Ruyven,  Secretary  in  the  service  of 
the  Honorable  Chartered  West  India  Company  in  New  Netherland, 
appeared  the  worthy  Aert  Piertesen  Tack  who,  in  the  presence  of 
the  Honorable  Lord  Councillors  deSille  and  Johan  de  Decker,  ac- 
knowledged that  he  is  really  and  truly  indebted  to  the  worthy 
Jan  Barentsen  Poest  as  follows: 

For  two  horses,  in  beaver's  value fl.  600 

Another  horse,  106  schepels  of  wheat,  or  in  beavers fl.  318 

For  a  cow fl.  115 

Also  in  beavers , fl.  200 

Total,  in  beavers  or  beaver's  value ,. . . .  fl.  1233 

Also,  for  sewant  received fl.  300 

Which  sum  of  twelve  hundred  and  thirty-three  guilders,  in 
beavers,  or  its  value,  and  three  hundred  guilders  in  seewant,  the 
said  Aert  Pietersen  receives  and  promises  to  pay  to  the  aforesaid 
Jan  Barentsen  or  his  attorney,  within  three  years,  paying  each 
year  a  just  third,  with  ten  per  cent,  interest  thereon  from  this  day. 
To  secure  the  aforesaid  Jan  Barentsen  Poest  in  the  full  payment 
hereof,  he,  the  appearer,  mortgages  and  binds  his  farm  lying  in 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  151 

the  Esopus,  between  Tjerck  Claesen's  and  Jan  Willemsen  Schoon's, 
together  with  the  dwelling  house,  barn  and  loft,  four  horses  and  one 
cow,  and  all  other  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging,  nothing 
excepted,  and  also  all  his  estate,  real  and  personal,  present  and 
future,  submitting  the  same  to  the  jurisdiction  of  all  judges  and 
courts.  In  witness  whereof,  these  presents  were  subscribed  by  the 
appearer  in  the  presence  of  the  above  mentioned  Lord  Councillors 
at  Fort  Amsterdam  in  New  Netherland,  April  1,  1662.  (Below 
stood)  To  my  knowledge,  Cornells  van  Ruyven. 

After  comparison,  this  has  been  found  to  agree  with  the  origi- 
nal.    To  which  I  certify. 

Mattheus  Capito,  Secretary. 

Ordinary  Session,  held  Tuesday,  May  6,  1664. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Albert  Gysbertsen, 
Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Thomas  Chambers,  Gysbert  van  Iraborch, 
Commissaries. 

Johanna  de  Laet,  wife  of  Jeronimus  Ebbingh,  plaintiff,  vs. 
Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht,  defendant.  Plaintiff  states  that,  as 
the  lease  of  the  defendant  has  expired,  she  would  like  to  arrange 
with  him  concerning  what  has  been  sown  on  the  land,  about  which 
they  can  not  agree. 

Defendant  requests  that  what  shall  be  now  found  by  impar- 
tial men  to  have  been  sown  may  be  appraised.  The  Honorable 
Court  grants  defend^ant's  request. 

Plaintiff  further  demands  from  defendant,  in  addition  to  the 
'  bills  recently  presented,  eight  hundred  guilders,  according  to  con- 
tract, for  rent  from  the  year  1663,  just  passed. 

Defendant  presents  an  account  against  plaintiff  for  damage 
done  and  sustained  d'uring  the  said  period,  through  the  troubles 
caused  by  the  savages,  amounting  to  the  sum  of  twenty-eight  hun- 
dred and  fifty  guilders,  and  maintains  that  he  is  not  liable  for  the 
payment  of  the  full  rent. 

Mrs.  de  Laet,  above  mentioned,  and  Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht, 
request  the  Honorable  Court,  as  arbiters  and  good  men,  to  give 
a  decision  to  their  mutual  satisfaction,  in  the  foregoing  matter  of 
the  rent  for  the  last  year  of  the  lease.  "Whereupon  the  aforesaid 
Honorable  Court,  as  chosen  arbiters,  have  decided,  and  it  is  mutual- 


152  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

ly  agreed  by  the  parties,  that  Cornelis  Barentse  Slecht  shall  pay 
Mrs.  deLaet,  as  rent  for  the  last  year,  the  sum  of  five  hundred 
guilders,  in  beavers  or  com,  beaver's  value,  according  to  the  con- 
tract. 

Mrs.  deLaet  shows  an  extract  from  the  record  of  the  minutes 
of  the  session  of  the  Director  General  and  Councillors  in  New  Neth- 
erland,  held  April  17,  1664,  wherein  she  asked  for  an  attachment 
of  the  moneys  due  from  the  Honorable  Company  to  Cornelis  Bar- 
entsen  Slecht,  which  attachment  was  declared  valid  by  their  Right 
Honorable  Worships,  and  thereupon  requests  that  Cornelis  Barent- 
sen  be  directed  to  give  her  an  assignment  [order]  on  the  Company 
for  the  remaining  money  attached  by  her,  still  held  by  the  Com- 
pany. 

To  this  the  defendant,  Cornelis  Barentsen  Slecht,  answers,  that 
he  is  not  able  to  give  an  assignment,  as  he  has  already  made  an 
assignment  to  some  one  else,  viz.,  Frederick  Philipsen,  of  about 
three  hundred  guilders,  in  sewant,  but,  if  any  more  should  be 
debited  to  him  on  the  books  of  the  Honorable  Company,  she  shall 
.receive  it  from  the  Honorable  Company. 

Mrs.  deLaet  further  requests  that  the  judgment  rendered 
April  1,  last,  against  the  aforesaid  defendant,  be  enforced  by  exe- 
cution. 

Defendant  answers  that  the  sown  grain  must  first  be  appraised, 
and  maintains  that  until  then  the  execution  must  be  delayed,  so  as 
to  determine  what  he  then  must  pay  in  satisfaction. 

The  Honorable  Court  refers  the  parties  to  good  men,  to  be 
selected  by  themselves,  as  mutually  requested,  to  appraise  what 
has  been  sown,  and  after  the  appraisal  to  make  up  accounts  on  both 
sides.  And  plamtiff  is  also  authorized  to  proceed  with  the  exe- 
cution against  defendant  for  what  may  then  appear  to  be  due  for 
the  rent.  "Whereto  also  the  Doorkeeper  is  directed  by  the  Honorable 
Court  to  act  accordingly. 

The  Honorable  Court  having  seen  the  request  of  Cornelis  Bar- 
entsen Slecht  to  the  Director  General  and  Council  of  New  Nether- 
land,  dated  November  17,  1663,  and  the  letter  written  concerning 
the  same  by  their  Right  Honorable  Worships,  the  petitioner  is, 
in  consequence  thereof,  ordered  to  show  that  Aert  Otterspoor,  from 
the  lot— 

[End  of  Volume  I,  as  extant— page  336.] 


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[Part  of]  BOOK  II 

[Court  Records,  June  24,  1664— November  18,  1664.] 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  June  24,  1664. 
Present:     Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Thomas  Chambers,  Gys- 
bert  van  Imbroch,  Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  Henderick  Jo- 
chemsen.  Commissaries. 

The  Schout  shows  the  Honorable  Court  the  note  of  the  Coun- 
cil of  War  at  Wildwyck,  dated  June  23,  1664,  as  more  at  large  ap- 
pears in  the  original.  The  Schout  also  shows  to  the  Honorable 
Court  a  note  of  Captain  Lieutenant  Marten  Cregier,  dated  June 
13,  1664,  from  which  it  appears  that  the  Honorable  Court  has  been 
pleased  to  delay  the  farming  out  of  the  tapster  excise  until  the  fur- 
ther order  of  the  Director  General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland. 
Juriaen  Westphael,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendant. 
:    Both  absent.    Both  in  default. 

Juriaen  Westphael,  plaintiff,  absent,  default,  vs.  Tjerck  Clae- 
sen  deWit,  defendant. 

Tjerck  Claesen   deWit,  plaintiff,   vs.  Roelof  Swartwout,  de- 
fendant. 
"  Plaintiff  demands  sixty  guilders,  in  beavers,  from  defendant, 

for  pasturing  three  cows,  also  a  bridle  loaned  him  last  year,  valued 
at  sixteen  guilders  in  beavers,  also  a  quantity  of  wood  valued  at 
three  schepels  of  wheat  and  three  guilders  in  seewan.  Defendant 
denies  pasturing  three  cows,  but  admits  that  plaintiff  pastured  two 
cows  for  him,  and  promises  to  return  the  bridle  and  pay  the  value 
of  the  quantity  of  wood.  He  admits  he  owes  the  three  guilders, 
in  seewan. 

Plaintiff  replies  that,  as  a  fine  due  to  defendant,  he  had  to 
;    pasture  one  cow,  but  was  compelled  therefor  to  pasture  four  cows 
for  him.    To  this  the  defendant  answers  that  he  has  a  counter 
;    claim. 

i  The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  submit  his  counter 

/    elaim  at  its  next  session. 


154  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Cornelis  Barentaen  Slecht, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  requests  that  defendant,  as  in  duty  bound,  shall 
and  demands  payment  therefor,  or  another  canoe  instead. 

Defendant  admits  he  borrowed  the  canoe,  and  that  he  did  not 
return  it;  adds  that  it  was  taken  by  Jan  Willemsen's  man  and 
was  used  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  had  to  be  on  the  arable  land. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  that  all  of  those  who  have  land 
across  the  Kill  shall  indemnify  the  plaintiff,  or  else  substitute 
another  canoe,  otherwise  to  apply  to  the  Court. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjerck  Claesen  de 
Wit,  defendant. 

Plaintiff,  by  a  petition  to  the  Honorable  Court,  requests  that 
he  be  sustained,  he  having  been  scornfully  treated  by  defendant, 
as  appears  by  the  petition,  dated  May  6,  1664. 

Defendant  admits  he  was  fined  in  the  field,  but  says  that  the 
Ensign  promised  a  permanent  convoy,  and  when,  early  one  morn- 
ing, his  people  went  out  to  look  for  their  horses,  the  convoy  did 
not  follow.  The  Ensign  and  the  Schout  were  at  that  time  with  the 
convoy  on  Thomas  Chambers'  land  to  examine  the  burnt  palisades 
set  on  fire  by  a  soldier.  On  their  return,  the  Ensign  and  the 
Schout  both  became  intoxicated  and  then  agreed  that  the  Schout 
should  go  with  the  convoy  to  fine  the  defendant  for  ploughing 
in  the  field.  Defendant  denies  he  called  plaintiff  names  or  threat- 
ened  him. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  plaintiff  to  submit  his  proofs  in 
writing. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Foppe  Barents,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  fifteen  schepels  of 
wheat,  according  to  obligation,  dated  May  8,  1664.  Defendant 
admits  the  debt,  but  says  that  as  soon  as  he  receives  his  money 
from  Tjerck  Claesen  he  will  pay  plaintiff. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen, 
defendant.  Plaintiff  requests  that  defendant,  as  in  duty  bound,  shall 
testify  to  the  truth  before  the  Honorable  Court,  with  reference 
to  the  differences  between  plaintiff  and  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  re- 
garding the  pasturing  of  plaintiff's  cows,  concerning  which  de- 
fendant testifies  and  declares  that  he  knov^  that  Tjerck  Claesen 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  155 

deWit  promised  to  pasture  two  cows  for  plaintiff,  for  which  plain- 
tiff was  not  to  advance  Tjerck  Claesen  any  money. 

Albert  Gysbertsen  requests  that  he  be  permitted  to  dig  a  saw- 
pit  in  front  of  his  lot. 

The  Honorable  Court  grants  petitioner's  request,  upon  condi- 
tion that  he  cover  the  saw-pit  every  evening,  so  that  no  accident 
may  occur  therefrom  to  man  or  beast,  and  that  he  fill  it  up  before 
harvest  time. 

Foppe  Barents,  plaintiff,  vs.  Evert  Pels,  Allert  Heymans  Roose, 
absent,  and  Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht,  defendants. 

Plaintiff  demands  from  defendants  the  sum  of  fifteen  guilders, 
eleven  stivers,  in  seewan,  being  the  balance  for  carpenter  work 
on  the  parsonage  at  Wildwyck. 

Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht,  appearing  alone,  says  that  judg- 
ment may  be  rendered  and  recorded  against  them,  as  Evert  Pels, 
in  Foppe  Barents'  presence,  so  verbally  instructed  him. 
*   ,  The  Honorable  Court    finds    that,    as    the    retired    Commis- 

saries have  never  been  willing  to  render  an  accounting  to  the  newly 
installed  Commissaries,  and  the  new  Commissaries  know  nothing 
about  the  receipts  and  expenditures,  the  credits  or  the  debits,  the 
newly  installed  Commissaries  are  therefore  not  willing  to  accept 
any  bills  until  the  retired  Commissaries  have  rendered  their  ac- 
counts. 

And  for  cause,  the  appearers,  Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht 
and  Evert  Pels,  are  ordered  by  the  Honorable  Court  to  pay  the 
aforesaid  demand  of  the  plaintiff  who  is  a  country  man  and  a 
stranger,  and  therefore  must  not  be  delayed. 

Cornells  Barentsen  Slecht  requests  the  Honorable  Court  to 
please  show  him,  after  adjournment,  where  he  may  erect  his  dwell- 
ing house. 
I  The  Schout  requests  that,  as  many  complaints  have    reached 

him  regarding  Henderick  Jansen  Looman's  estate,  the  Honorable 
Court  please  order  the  curators  of  the  said  estate  to  render  to  it  an 
/     accounting  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures. 

I  The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  curators  of  the  estate  of  Hen- 

/       derick  Jansen  Looman  and  Willem  Jansen  Seba  to  render  at  its 
,        next  session  an  accounting  of  their  curatorships. 


156  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Jan  Cornelisen  van  der  Heyde  asks  the  Honorable  Court  to 
permit  him  to  take  along  with  him  the  horses  for  account  of  Aert 
Pietersen  Tack,  pursuant  to  directions  from  his  mother-in-law, 
Marietje  Meynderts. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  petitioner  must  proceed  ac- 
cording to  law  against  the  estate  of  Aert  Pietersen  Tack. 

Paulus  Cornel issen  requests  payment  for  the  goods  furnished 
for  the  parsonage  at  Wildwyck,  and  the  freight. 

Jacob  JoGsten,  Court  I^Iessenger,  requests  payment  for  his  ser- 
vices, or  else  to  be  released  from  such  service. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  the  petitioner  to  send  in  his 
bill  to  it. 

Extraordinary  Session,  Thursday,  July  10,  1664. 

Present:  Roelof  Swartwout,  Schout;  Gysbert  van  Imborch, 
Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  Henderick  Jochemsen,  Commissar- 
ies. 

Sweerus  Teunissen,  successor  of  Jan  Bnrentsen  Wemp,  de- 
ceased, requests  the  Honorable  Court  to  permit  him  to  obtain  his 
money  from  Aert  Pietersen  Tack  who  has  absented  himself  from 
this  place,  as  he  is  his  principal  creditor.  And  he  further  requests 
that  the  real  and  personal  estate  of  Aert  Pietersen  Tack  be  sold 
under  execution  to  satisfy  his  mortgage,  especially  as  the  risk 
of  the  horses,  cattle  and  grain  in  the  field  operates  to  the  prejudice 
of  the  creditors.  Among  these  horses,  also,  is  a  mare,  two  years 
old,  delivered  by  his  predecessor,  Jan  Barentsen  Wemp,  to  Aert 
Pietersen  Tack,  on  the  condition,  previously  stipulated  in  a  con- 
tract dated  September  7,  1661,  that  the  purchaser  should  keep  said 
mare,  at  the  seller's  risk,  for  six  years  and  then  return  it  to  the 
seller.  Wherefore,  he,  Sweerus  Teunissen,  requests  possession  of 
the  horse  and  that  Aert  Pietersen  Tack's  claim  be  rated  by  im- 
partial men.  Requests  speedy  justice  with  reference  to  the  fore- 
going, as  he  is  a  stranger. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides,  that,  as  Aert  Pietersen  Tack  has 
absented  himself,  and  his  wife,  not  wishing  to  have  anything  fur- 
ther to  do  with  the  estate,  has  had  an  inventory  made  thereof, 
he  shall  be  summoned  according  to  law,  either  by  ringing  of  bell  or 
on  holidays.    But  having  learned  that  the  grain  in  the  field,  the 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  157 

horses  and  the  cattle  are  held  at  great  risk  to  the  creditors,  the  Hon- 
orable Court  therefore  decides  to  sell  these  at  auction  to  the  highest 
bidder  next  Monday,  July  14,  and  to  hold  the  proceeds  on  deposit 
as  provisional  security.  The  real  estate,  the  Honorable  Court  de- 
cides, shall,  after  due  citation  and  non  appearance  of  Aert  Pieter- 
sen  Tack,  be  sold  at  auction  to  the  highest  bidder.  Regarding  the 
request  for  the  possession  of  the  mare,  the  Honorable  Court  de- 
cides that  said  claim  shall  be  appraised  by  impartial  appraisers, 
and  for  that  purpose  Evert  Pels  and  Aert  Jacobsen  are  chosen  to 
appraise  the  same  as  near  as  possible  according  to  its  value ;  all  this 
being  in  accordance  with  the  contract  relating  thereto. 

Extraordinary  Session,  Monday,  July  14,  1664. 

Present:  Willem  Beeckman,  Schout;  Thomas  Chambers,  Gys- 
bert  van  Imbroch,  Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  Henderick  Joc- 
hemsen,  Commissaries. 

The  Commissioner  and  Schout,  Willem  Beeckman,  exhibits  the 
commission  and  instructions  given  to  him  by  the  Honorable  Lord 
Director  General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland. 

In  clauses  seven  and  eight  of  these  instructions  provisions  re- 
garding the  farming  out  of  the  tapster  and  burgher  excise  are 
included,  which  farming  out  is  postponed  to  a  more  propitious 
time  because  of  the  troublous  and  deplorable  condition  of  the  coun- 
try. 

The  Honorable  Schout  suggested  that  the  fortifications  be 
properly  completed  and  repaired,  as  the  savages  are  again  gath- 
ering up  the  river.  Also  that  six  or  seven  of  the  free  men 
should  watch,  as  the  garrison  at  present  is  weak.  It  was  resolved 
to  commence  work  tomorrow. 

It  was  further  suggested  by  Captain  Thomas  Chambers,  that 
the  free  men  are  entirely  unprovided  with  powder  and  shot,  and 
he  therefore  requested  of  Commissioner  Beeckman  that  powder 
and  shot  be  furnished.  This  was  agreed  to,  upon  condition  that,  if 
the  Director  General  and  Council  require  payment  therefor,  the 
same  shall  be  made;  which  was  accepted,  and  that  the  seven  or 
eight  men  are  to  watch. 

Swerus  Teunissen,  appearing,  requests  that  the  sale  of  the 
grain  lying  in  the  field,  and  the  horses  and  cattle  of  his  debtor,  Aert 


158  THE  DUTCH  REC0BD8  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Pietersen  Tack,  may  proceed,  according  to  the    decision    of    the 
Court,  dated  July  10. 

Thomas  Chambers  says  he  was  not  present  on  July  10,  and 
is  of  opinion  that  Aert  Pietersen  Tack  must  first  be  condemned 
according  to  law,  ere  his  property  can  be  sold  under  execution. 

Mr.  Gysbert,  Jan  Willemsen  and  Henderick  Jochemsen  are 
of  the  same  opinion,  but  for  reasons  set  forth  in  the  decision  of 
July  10,  adhere  to  their  resolution. 

The  matter  having  been  reviewed,  it  is  decided,  for  cause,  that 
the  sale  shall  proceed,  if  reasonable  prices  are  obtainable  thereat. 

On  July  14,  the  eleven  schepels  of  sown  wheat  and  the  ad- 
ditions in.  the  field,  together  with  the  horses  and  cattle,  were 
offered  for  sale  at  auction,  but  were  withdrawn  by  the  Honorable 
Court,  as  their  value  could  not  be  reached  or  realized  and  this  would 
be  very  prejudicial  to  the  general  creditors.  And  Swerus  Teunis- 
sen  asks  that  the  horses  and  cattle  be  held  back  until  the  time  ap- 
pointed for  the  sale  of  the  farm,  the  which  is  consented  to. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  July  22,  1664. 

Present:  Willem  Beeckraan,  Schout;  Thomas  Chambers,  Gy8» 
bert  van  Imbroch,  Jan  Willem  Hoochteylingh,  Henderick  Jochem- 
sen, Commissaries. 

Juriaen  "Westphael,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  and 
Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendants.  Plaintiff  demands  a  balance  of  one 
hundred  and  twenty -seven  and  one-half  schepels  of  wheat  from  de- 
fendants as  curators  of  the  estate  of  Henderick  Jansen  Looman,  ap- 
pointed by  the  Honorable  Court. 

Defendants  refer  to  their  account  book,  exhibited  to  the  Hon- 
orable Court,  wherefrom  it  appears  that  there  are  more  creditors, 
and  the  estate  apparently  will  be  in  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  plaintiff  shall  receive  the 
whole  of  his  claim  relating  to  the  horse,  and  that  for  the  balance 
of  his  account  he  must  share  with  the  other  creditors. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roelof  Swartwout,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  still  insists  upon  his  former  demand  of  June  24, 
1664.  Defendant,  pursuant  to  the  order  of  the  Honorable  Court, 
exhibits  a  counter  account. , 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  159 

The  parties  are  referred  to  Evert  Pels  and  Allert  Heymans, 
to  bring  about,  under  the  supervision  of  Commissary  Henderick 
Jochemsen,  an  agreement,  if  possible,  or,  otherwise,  to  report  to 
the  Honorable  Court. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Gysbertsen,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  still  demands  a  fine  from  defendant  for  violating  the 
ordinance  with  reference  to  not  going  out  to  plough  or  work  without 
a  convoy. 

Defendant  says  he  is  ready  to  prove  that  he  asked  Ensign 
Niessen  for  a  convoy,  which  the  latter  promised  but  did  not  send. 

The  case  is  adjourned  to  the  next  session. 

Farming  of  the  Burgher  Excise. 

Terms  and  conditions  upon  which  the  Messieurs  Schout  and 
Schepens  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  in  New  Netherland,  with 
the  approval  of  the  Right  Worshipful  Lords,  the  Director  General 
and  Council  of  New  Netherland,  intend,  according  to  the  laudable 
custom  and  order  of  our  Fatherland,  to  farm  out  to  the  highest  bid- 
der the  burgher  excise  on  wine  and  beer  to  be  consumed  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  aforesaid!  village,  by  all  officers  as  well  as  by 
ordinary  burghers,  except  the  Supreme  Government  and  Minister? 
of  the  Divine  Word. 

The  one  who  becomes  Farmer  of  the  said  excise  shall  receive 
from  all  officers  as  well  as  ordinary  burghers  and  inn-keepers,  none 
but  those  hereinbefore  mentioned  excepted,  as  excise  for  the  wine* 
and  the  beer  to  be  consumed  by  them : 

For  an  anker  of  brandy,  Spanish  wine,  distilled  waters  or 
others  of  the  same  quality,  thirty  stivers. 

For  an  anker  of  French  wine,  Rhine  wine,  wormwood  wine  or 
others  of  the  same  quality,  fifteen  stivers,  a  hogshead  to  be  reckon- 
ed as  five  ankers. 

For  a  tun  of  good  beer,  one  guilder. 

For  a  tun  of  small  beer,  six  stivers. 

Larger  or  smaller  casks  in  proportion. 

The  impost  shall  be  laid  and  the  excise  be  paid  to  the  Farmer, 
between  August  17,  1664,  and  August  10, 1665.  No  excise  shall  be 
received  after  the  date  last  above  mentioned. 


160  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  (1664 

The  excise  shall  be  paid  to  the  Farmer  in  good  braided  sewan, 
at  twelve  white  or  six  black  beads  for  one  stiver. 

The  Farmer  must  promptly  every  three  months  pay  the  lawful 
quarter  of  the  amount  promised  for  the  farming,  in  good  current 
payment,  at  twelve  white  or  six  black  beads  for  one  stiver. 

The  Farmer  must  furnish  for  the  promised  farming  price  two 
sufficient  money  sureties. 

Tjerck  Claesen  bids 
Tomas  Harmens  bids 
Tjerck  Claesen  bids 
Tomas  Harmens  bids 
Evert  Pels  bids 
Received  fl.  3  seewan       Roelof  Swartwout  bids 
Received  fl.  3  seewan        Evert  Pels  bids 
Received  fl.  3  seewan        Tomas  Harmensen  bids 
Received  fl.  3  seewan  "  "  bids 

Received  fl.  6  seewan  Roelof  Swartwout  bids 
Received  fl.  6  seewan  Tomas  Harmensen  bids 
Received  fl.  6  seewan  "  "  bids 

Received  fl.  9  seewan  "  "  bids 

Being  put  up  at  [Dutch]  auction,*  with  a  limit  of  three  hun- 
<lred  guilders,* •  (received  another  nine  guilders  seewan),  Tomas 
Harmensen  becomes  the  Farmer  for  the  sum  of  three  hundf ed  and 
fifty-seven  guilders,  and  furnishes  as  sureties  Tjerck  Claesen 
deWit  and  Walran  du  Mont,  jointly  and  severally,  as  principals, 
all  of  whom  together  have  subscribed,  this  August  16,  1664,  at 
Wildwyck. 

(Subscribed)     Tomas  Harmens,  Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  Wal- 
ran du  Mont. 
(Below) 
In  my  presence. 

Wellem  Beeckman. 

On  this  August  18,  Evert  Pels  and  Albert  Heymans  reported, 
in  regard  to  the  arbitration  between  Roelef  Swartwout  and  Tjerck 
Claesen  deWit,  that  there  was  no  prospect  of  bringing  about  an 
agreement  between  them. 


fl. 

50 

fl. 

76 

fl. 

100 

fl. 

125 

fl. 

160 

fl. 

176 

fl. 

200 

fl. 

226 

fl. 

260 

fl. 

276 

fl. 

800 

fl. 

826 

fl. 

850 

*The  auctioneer  beginning  with  a  high  price,  and  gradually  reducing 
it  till  he  receives  a  bid. 

••Afl  the  lowest  price. 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  161 

The  Schout  and  Schepens  here  give  notice  and  command,  that 
henceforth  no  inn-keeper  or  vender  of  wine  and  beer  shall  be  al- 
lowed to  sell  until,  following  the  custom  in  our  Fatherland,  he 
shall  have  obtained  from  the  Honorable  Court  a  license  for  said 
business,  which  every  inn-keeper  shall  renew  quarter  yearly  and 
for  which  he  shall  pay  every  time  for  the  use  of  the  respective 
judges  one  pound  Flemish,  under  penalty  of  suspension  of  his  busi- 
ness for  open  and  wilful  neglect.  Done  at  Wildwyck  this  August 
19,  1664. 

The  Schout  and  Schepens  further  order  that  those  who  make  a 
business  of  brewing  and  of  distilling  brandy,  shall  henceforth  no 
longer  tap  or  sell  wine  by  measure,  on  pain  of  confiscation  of  the 
broached  liquor  and  fine  of  fifty  guilders  for  each  violation  dis- 
covered. Done  at  Wildwyck,  August  19,  1664,  (Signed)  Willem 
Beeckman. 

It  was  resolved  by  the  Honorable  Court  at  Wildwyck  that  the 
burghery  and  inhabitants  shall  again  keep  watch,  as,  owing  to  trie 
approach  of  the  English,  the  militia  have  been  relieved  therefrom 
by  the  Director  General  and  Council.  Done  at  Wildwyck,  this 
September  1,  1664.     (Signed)  Willem  Beeckman. 

Extraordinary  Session,  Wednesday,  September  4,  1664. 

Present :  Willem  Beeckman,  Schout ;  Gysbert  van  Imbroch, 
Jan  Willerasen  Hoochteylingh,  Henderick  Jochemsen,  Commissaries. 

On  the  proposition  made  by  the  Honorable  Schout  what  to  do 
in  case  the  English  should  approach  our  village  of  Wildwyck,  it  is 
resolved  that,  at  the  discharge  of  a  cannon,  all  the  burghery  shall 
repair  to  the  head  watch,  there  to  receive  further  orders,  and  that 
in  the  meantime  the  Honorable  Schout,  together  with  the  Honor- 
able Court,  shall  seek  to  parley  with  said  English  beyond  the  gates. 
Meanwhile,  the  burgher  officers  are  recommended  to  ascertain 
what  powder  and  shot  there  are  among  the  burghery,  as  we  can  not 
tell  how  the  savages  will  act  in  these  circumstances.  Thus  done  by 
the  Schout  and  Commissaries  at  Wildwyck,  the  day  and  year  above 
mentioned. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  October  7,  1664. 
Present;    Willem  Beeckman,  Schout;  Thomas  Chambers,  Jan 
Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  Commissaries. 


162  THE  DUTCH  BECOBDS  OP  KINOSTON.  [1664 

Emmetje  Volckerts,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jacob  Barentsen  Cool,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  an  amount  of  thirty- 
five  sehepels  of  wheat,  two  guilders,  ten  stivers,  in  sewan,  whereof, 
according  to  her  account,  one  schepel  of  wheat  and  four  guilders, 
ten  stivers,  have  been  paid. 

Defendant  and  his  wife  deny  a  portion  of  the  debt,  and  there- 
upon submit  items  of  a  counter  reckoning. 

The  Honorable  Court  directs  the  parties  to  Roelof  Swartwout 
and  "Walran  du  Mont,  good  men,  to  bring  the  parties  to  an  agree- 
ment, if  possible,  and,  if  not,  to  report  to  the  Honorable  Court. 

Walran  du  Mont,  plaintiff,  absent,  default,  vs.  Jacob  Barent- 
sen Cool,  defendant. 

Walran  du  Mont,  plaintiff,  absent,  default,  vs.  Dirrick  Hen- 
dericksen,  defendant.    Absent.    Default. 

Jan  Tyssen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Annetje  Ariaens  Tack,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  for  wages  for  two  and  one-half 
months,  seventy  guilders,  heavy  money,  Eind  thereupon  has  attached, 
at  Thomas  Chambers',  as  many  sehepels  of  wheat  as  long  Jacob,  the 
defendant's  servant,  has  earned  with  the  aforesaid  Thomas  Cham- 
bers. 

Defendant  refers  the  matter  to  the  estate,  because  the  wages 
earned  by  the  plaintiff  were  earned  under  her  husband,  and  ^e 
maintains  that  the  wages  earned  by  her  servant  with  Thomas 
Chambers  are  due  to  her. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that,  as  the  wages  of  defendant's 
servant,  earned  with  Thomas  Chambers,  were  concealed,  the 
same  shall  be  transferred  to  the  estate,  and  plaintiff  shall  stand  on 
a  par  with  the  other  creditors  after  the  sale  of  Aert  Pietersen 
Tack's  property. 

Thomas  Harmensen,  plaintiff,  vs.  Sara  Gillissen,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  full  fine  due  for  smuggling, 
and  also  the  wine  he  found  with  her  at  her  place. 

Defendant  answers  she  did  not  know  that  there  was  so  much 
wine  in  the  anker,  that  there  should  have  been,  according  to  her 
mother,  about  twenty  cans  of  wine,  and  now  there  have  been  found 
about  twenty-four  cans. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  the  wine  to  be  a  prize,  and  there- 
ai>on,  on  the  Farmer's  demimd  for  two  hundred  guilders,  impoM 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  BECOEDS  OF  KINGSTON.  163 

upon  the  defendant  a  fine  of  one  hundred  guilders  in  sewan,  to 
be   duly  applied. 

Mattheus  Capito,  plaintiff,  vs.  Jan  Lootman  and  Michael  Ver- 
brugge,  defendants. 

Plaintiff  says  that  some  time  ago,  at  the  house  of  Walran  du 
Mont,  he  was  insulted  by  the  defendants,  who  said  he  had  caused 
them  loss  by  overcharging  their  account  with  the  Company. 

Michael  Verbrugge  answers  that  in  his  account  there  have  been 
deducted  by  the  Honorable  Secretary  van  Ruyven  a  blanket  and 
two  pair  of  fine  stockings,  which  he  should  have  received  from 
Mattheus  Capito  in  the  Esopus,  as  appears  by  his  books. 

Jan  Lootman  answers  that  about  one  hundred  guilders  were 
deducted  on  his  account,  and  that,  complaining  about  this,  the 
Honorable  Secretary  van  Ruyven  referred  to  the  books  at  Esopus 
or  the  keeper  thereof. 

The  parties  are  referred  to  the  bookkeeper  of  the  Honorable 
Company  and  to  the  Honorable  Secretary  van  Ruyven,  in  order  to 
settle  their -differences. 

Tjerck  Claesen  deWit,  plaintiff,  vs.  Roelof  Swartwout,  defend- 
ant. Plaintiff  sues  for  the  pasturing  of  three  cows,  according  to 
the  demand  of  June  29,  last. 

Defendant  admits  that  plaintiff  pastured  two  cows  for  him, 
for  which  he  ought  to  pay  like  any  one  else,  and  that  plaintiff  was 
to  pasture  two  more  cows  for  him,  in  payment  of  the  fine  due  from 
him,  under  an  agreement  with  him  made  in  the  presence  of  Albert 
Gysbertsen  who,  on  June  29,  last,  testified  and  stated  before  the 
Honorable  Court,  and  now  confirms  under  oath,  that  Tjerck  Clae- 
sen was  to  pasture  for  defendant  two  cows  in  payment  of  the  fine 
due. 

The  Honorable  Court  again  refers  the  parties  to  the  decision 
of  Everts  Pels  and  Allert  Heymans,  good  men,  to  bring  the  parties 
to  an  agreement,  if  possible,  or  else  to  report  to  the  Honorable 
Court. 

Roelof  Swartwout,  plaintiff,  vs.  Tjerck  Claesen  de  Wit,  de- 
fendant. Plaintiff  declares  he  has  attached  fifteen  schepels  of 
wheat  of  Foppe  Barents  in  the  hands  of  defendant,  whereupon  de- 
feudant  told  the  Village  Messenger  that  he  had  assigned  to  his 
brother-in-law,  Jan  Tomassen,  at  Fort  Orange,  his  claim  on  ac- 


164  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

count  of  the  aforesaid  fifteen  schepels  of  wheat  of  Foppe  Barentsen. 

Defendant  admits  that  he  verbally  assigned  the  above  men- 
tioned fifteen  schepels  of  wheat  to  his  brother-in-law,  Jan  Tomassen. 

Roelof  Swartwout  further  says  that  for  this  he  also  lawfully 
arrested  Foppe  Barentsen,  and  that  said  Foppe  Barentsen,  after 
said  arrest,  went  away. 

Extraordinary  Session,  Saturday,  October  18,  1664. 

Present:  Willem  Beeckman,  Schout;  Thomas  Chambers,  Gys- 
bert  van  Imbroch,  Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  Commissaries. 

The  Honorable  Schout  asks  how  the  minister's  salary  is  to  be 
paid. 

It  is  resolved  that  the  old  and  first  book  of  the  retired  Com- 
missaries be  first  made  up,  so  as  to  show  the  situation  to  the  newly 
appointed  Commissaries.  It  is  further  resolved,  that,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  previous  order  of  the  Honorable  Director  General, 
every  resident  householder  shall,  for  each  year  of  the  past  four 
years,  contribute  towards  the  minister's  salary  one  guilder  for 
every  morgen,  and  other  inhabitants  ten  guilders,  heavy  money,  in 
wheat,  for  every  single  lot  at  Wildwyck,  the  schepel  to  be  reckoned 
at  fifty  stivers,  and  that  the  inhabitants  shall  be  commanded  here- 
in to  make  payment  within  three  weeks,  on  pain  of  [issuance  of] 
execution. 

The  Honorable  Schout  submits: 

1.  That  it  is  necessary  to  send  some  of  the  Honorable  Judges 
to  the  Manhatans,  to  ask  of  the  Governor  there  a  warrant  of  au- 
thority for  the  continuance  of  the  Court  here. 

2.  Also,  that  the  farming  of  the  beer  and  wine  excise  be  con- 
tinued until  the  village  debt,  caused  by  the  heavy  wars,  shall  have 
been  paid. 

3.  Further,  that  the  delegates  arrange  with  the  Governor 
there  with  reference  to  the  quartering  of  soldiers  at  Wildwyck. 

4.  And  further,  that  the  delegates  also  ask  for  linen  and 
blankets  for  the  soldiers  quartered  here,  who  have  made  request 
therefor,  as  the  inhabitants  here  are  unable  to  provide  them  there- 
with, because  a  great  deal  has  been  destroyed  by  the  heavy  war. 

5.  Also,  that,  pursuant  to  the  articles  of  peace  concluded 
with  them,  the  savages  be  not  permitted  to  come  or  trade  on  thii 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECOEDS  OF  KINGSTON.  165 

side  of  the  Kill  near  the  Redoubt,  nor  on  the  lands  about  the  village. 
Upon  the  foregoing  propositions,  there  are  chosen  from  the 
Magistrates  the  Honorable  Officer,  Willem  Beeckmen,  and  Schepen, 
Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  who  are  herewith  commissioned  and 
authorized  to  promote  the  said  propositions  with  the  Governor  at 
New  York,  as  they  are  considered  necessary  for  this  place. 

The  Commissary,  Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  requests  that  as,  at  the 
late  Assembly,  he  and  Thomas  Chambers,  delegates  for  the  village  of 
Wildwyck,  incurred  expenses  and  lost  their  own  time,  the  money 
be  promptly  paid  them  by  the  inhabitants,  according  to  contract 
with  the  latter,  as  also  their  expenses  for  clerical  work  at  the  Man- 
hatans. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  the  inhabitants  be  ordered 
to  pay  the  foregoing  demand  and  debt,  within  fourteen  days. 

Ordinance  forbidding  trade  with  the  savages  on  this  side 
of  the  Kill  near  the  Redoubt. 

"Whereas,  the  Honorable  Court  at  Wildwyck  has  been  informed 
that  some  of  the  residents  here  have  attempted  to  sell  to,  or  buy 
from,  the  savages,  meats  or  other  merchandise  on  this  side  of  the 
Kill  near  the  Redoubt,  by  which  acts  the  savages  have  been  encour- 
aged to  show  themselves  in  and  near  the  village  and  dwelling  houses 
here,  in  violation  of  the  wholesome  articles  of  peace,  the  Honorable 
Court,  therefore,  in  order  to  guard  against  any  calamity,  hereby 
prohibits  any  one  here  to  attempt  to  trade  with  the  savages  on  this 
side  of  the  above  named  Kill,  under  a  penalty  of  one  hundred 
guilders  for  the  first  offense,  double  for  the  second,  and  arbitrary 
punishment  for  the  third,  one-third  of  the  above  stated  fine  to  go 
to  the  informer.  Thus  enacted  at  a  meeting  of  Schout  and  Schep- 
ens  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck,  this  October  18,  1664. 

October  20,  1664. 

The  Magistrates  of  the  village  of  Wildwyck  again  announce 
that  all  those  importing  any  strong  drink  into  this  place  shall,  be- 
fore delivering  the  same  to  any  house,  obtain  a  permit  from  the 
Farmer,  and  then,  before  being  allowed  to  sell  the  same  at  retail, 
obtain  from  the  Secretary  a  license  and  pay  therefor  six  guilders, 
and  to  the  Farmer  the  excise.  Said  license  must  also  be  renewed 
every  three  months  by  those  who  hold  them,  who  shall,  each  time, 
pay  one  pound  Flemish  therefor. 


166  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  October  21,  1664. 

Present:  Willem  Beeckman,  Schout;  Thomas  Chambers,  Gys- 
bert  van  Imbroch,  Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  Commissaries. 

Henderick  Comelissen,  rope  maker,  plaintiff,  vs.  Sara  Gillis- 
sen,  defendant.  > 

Plaintiff  says  that  defendant's  mother  is  indebted  to  him  in 
the  sum  of  forty  guilders,  in  sewan,  and  six  schepels  of  wheat,  un- 
der an  assignment  by  Jan  Barentsen  Ameshof , 

Defendant  answers  that  she  is  not  indebted  to  defendant,  and 
that  plaintiff  must  therefore  look  to  her  mother  for  the  aforesaid 
claim. 

The  Honorable  Court  denies  plaintiff's  claim  on  the  defendant. 
And  if  defendant's  mother  should  have  any  goods  or  outstanding 
debts  here,  plaintiff  may  then  attach  said  debts  and  goods,  and 
pursue  his  claim  thereon. 

Magdalena  Dirricks,  plaintiff,  vs.  Dirrick  Storm,  defendant. 
Plaintiff  says  that  defendant  has  appropriated  the  effects  of  the 
barber,  Marten  van  der  Ilage,  and  that  plaintiff  claims  thereof 
three  schepels  of  wheat  as  pay  for  washing,  as  her  husband  was 
referred  by  the  said  barber  at  the  Manhatans  to  these  very  goods. 

Defendant  in  reply  exhibits  a  letter  of  attorney  from  Marten 
van  der  Hage  regarding  the  seizure  of  the  chest,  and  says  that  he 
paid  said  van  der  Hage,  at  the  Manhatans,  about  thirty  guilders 
above  his  claim  of  the  twenty-eight  guilders. 

Defendant,  having  been  asked  whether  he  is  willing  to  accept 
the  trunk  and  to  pay  plaintiff's  claim,  answers,  No,  and  says  that 
he  wishes  to  speak  with  plaintiff  about  it,  and  thereupon  stepped 
out. 

Dirrick  Storm,  plaintiff,  vs.  Albert  Jansen  van  Steenwyck, 
defendant.  Plaintiff,  under  a  power  of  attorney  from  R^elof  Har- 
mensen,  demands  from  defendant  payment  of  three  schepels  of 
wheat. 

Defendant  admits  his  indebtedness  to  Roelof  Harmensen  and 
adds  that  Roelof  Harmensen  also  gave  a  power  of  attorney  to  An- 
dries  Pietersen,  who  accepted  it. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  defendant  pay  to  plaintiff 
the  aforesaid  demand,  for  the  reason  that  Andries  Pietersen  did 
not  prosecute  his  case  before  the  Honorable  Court. 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  167 

Whereas,  the  old  retired  Commissaries  have  several  times  been 
admonished  to  liquidate  the  village  accounts,  they  are  therefore 
hereby  again  ordered  and  directed  either  to  do  so,  or  to  have  the 
same  done,  within  eight  days,  under  penalty  of  fifty  guilders. 

Whereas,  the  Honorable  Schout  and  Schepens  of  the  village  of 
Wildwyck  feel  concerned  over  the  delay  in  making  up  the  village 
accounts,  and  understand  that  Roelof  Swartwout,  retired  Schout, 
is  negligent  in  giving  up  papers,  and  information  relative  thereto, 
said  Roelof  Swartwout,  is  therefore  ordered  immediately  to  deliver 
up  all  such  account  papers  and  documents  relating  to  the  village  of 
Wildwyck,  and,  with  the  old  Commissaries,  to  report  to  the  Secre- 
tary, to  make  up  the  old  accounts  of  the  village. 

Jacob  Jansen  van  Etten,  farm  hand  of  Aert  Pietersen  Tack, 
requests  that  he  also  be  paid  out  of  the  estate  of  Aert  Pietersen 
Tack,  according  to  account  rendered. 

Honorable  Mr.  Beeckman. 

Whereas,  the  Commissaries  understand  that  your  Honor  has 
been  ordered  to  send  to  the  Manhatans  the  powder  and  shot  belong- 
ing to  the  Honorable  Company  still  here,  we,  the  Commissaries, 
therefore,  deeming  its  necessary  to  the  welfare  of  the  village,  re- 
quest that  your  Honor  be  pleased  to  leave  the  packages  of  powder 
and  shot  here,  until  the  English  Governor  at  the  Manhatans  shall 
have  sent  us  other  packages  of  powder  and  shot,  because,  among 
the  congregation  or  inhabitants  here,  no  powder  or  shot  can  be 
found  or  procured,  so  that,  in  case  of  unexpected  danger  from  the 
savages,  the  inhabitants  may  be  provided  therewith.  Awaiting 
your  Honor's  written  and  immediate  reply. 

Done  at  Wildwyck  at  a  meeting  of  the  Commissaries,  this  Oc- 
tober 27,  1664. 

On  October  27,  Evert  Prys  lawfully  attached  [property  of] 
Jonas  Rantsou,  and  hereby  gives  notice  of  said  attachment.        , 

Under  date  of  November  6,  Comelis  Cornelissen  Vernoy  law- 
fully attached  twenty  guilders,  in  sewan,  in  the  hands  of  Jan  Jan- 
sen Oosterhout  for  Jonas  Rantsou,  and  hereby  gives  notice  thereof. 

Extraordinary  Session,  Friday,  November  14,  1664. 
The  OfRcer,  Willem  Beeckman,  reported    to    the    Honorable 
Court  what  had  been  accomplished  by  him  and  th€  Commissary, 


n I  <  "t )  l(  mi li  i  Tw  iliri  n  itfir  fmtf  ■' ' i  l  ir^*«iiiii'.,i.Watf<  in  i.-talU iiirh  i 


168  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  at  the  Manhatans,  with  the  Governor 
General,  and  thereover  showed  the  Court  a  Warrant  given  him  by 
the  aforesaid  Governor.  The  Honorable  Court  thereupon  resolved 
to  publish  said  Warrant  to  the  community,  which,  translated  from 
English  into  Dutch,  reads  as  follows:— 

Regarding  the  welfare  and  the  tranquility  of  matters  in  the 
Esopus,  the  following  instructions  are  hereby  ordered  to  be  pub- 
lished and  observed: 

1.  That  the  present  officers  and  Schepens  shall  on  all  occa- 
sions, as  heretofore,  be  obeyed  as  authorities,  until  the  contrary 
appears  over  my  signature. 

2.  That  the  minister's  arrears  be  promptly  paid,  and  he  shall 
continue  his  service  as  heretofore. 

3.  That  no  one  shall  sell  brandy  or  liquor  to  the  savages,  un- 
der penalty  of  five  hundred  guilders. 

4.  That  the  Indians  or  savages  shall  be  permitted  to  peace- 
fully enter  the  Esopus  or  the  village  of  Wildwyck  during  the  day 
time,  to  sell  venison  and  other  merchandise,  and  that  no  evil  or 
injury  be  done  them,  because  I  have  agreed  with  the  Sachems,  for 
themselves  as  well  as  for  their  subjects,  that  no  injury  or  violence 
shall  be  done  to  the  subjects  of  his  Majesty  of  England. 

5.  That  the  soldiers  shall  be  quartered  by  the  Magistrates  in 
the  houses  of  the  inhabitants,  to  whom  I  shall  give  good  pay,  to  be 
fixed  by  agreement. 

6.  That  the  inhabitants  and  the  soldiers  shall  dwell  together 
in  amity  and  friendship,  so  that,  in  occasions  op  time  of  need, 
they  may  act  together  as  one  man. 

7.  In  case  any  difference  should  occur  between  a  soldier  and 
an  inhabitant,  the  same  shall,  after  complaint  to  the  officers  or 
Magistrates,  be  settled  and  decided  by  the  officers  and  Magistrates 
alone. 

Given  over  my  signature,  October  26,  Old  Style,  1664,  at 
Port  James,  in  New  York. 

(Signed)    Richard  Nicola  [Nicolls]. 

It  was  also  proposed,  and  thereupon  resolved,  that,  by  public 
notice  to  the  inhabitants  here  of  the  mischief  and  damage  that  may 
result  from  fire,  the  householders  living  near  the  Mill  gate  shall 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON.  169 

be  forbidden  to  carry  their  straw  and  rubbish,  for  the  purpose  of 
being  burnt,  close  to  the  village  palisades,  but  shall  rather  take 
the  same  across  the  Mill  dam.  Whereupon  the  following  placard 
was  posted : 

Whereas,  experience  teaches  us  the  impropriety  of  throwing 
out  straw  and  rubbish  and  of  burning  the  same  close  by  the  pali- 
sades, wherefrom  great  danger  from  fire  may  be  expected,  the 
Schout  and  Schepens  therefore  order  that  straw  and  rubbish  shall 
be  carted  across  the  Mill  dam  by  those  living  near  the  Mill  gate, 
under  the  penalty  heretofore  fixed  for  that  purpose.  Further,  all 
inhabitants  here  are  directed  to  clear  the  streets,  within  four  days, 
of  straw  and  rubbish,  so  that,  through  the  carrying  of  a  light  or  the 
blowing  out  of  a  pipe  of  tobacco,  a  conflagration,  such  as  the  one 
at  Amersfort  on  Long  Island  (God  shield  us),  may  not  occur.  And 
every  one  must  attend  every  week  to  the  said  clearing  and  cleaning 
of  the  streets  of  the  straw  in  front  of  his  lot,  undier  penalty  of  ten 
guilders'  fine.     Let  every  one  guard  against  damage. 

Ordinary  Session,  Tuesday,  November  18,  1664. 

Present:  Willem  Beeckman,  Schout;  Thomas  Chambers, 
Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  Jan  Willemsen  Hoochteylingh,  Henderick 
Jochemsen,  Commissaries. 

Gysbert  van  Imbroch,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen  Gerretsen,  defend- 
ant. 

Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and 
forty-eight  guilders,  nine  stivers,  in  sewan,  according  to  bill  ren- 
dered. 

Defendant  admits  the  debt,  and  says  he  is  not  able  now  to 
pay  it. 

The  Honorable  Court  orders  defendant  to  pay  plaintiff  the 
aforesaid  sum. 

The  Honorable  Mr.  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  plaintiff,  vs.  Juriaen 
Westphael,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  pursuant  to  settlement  of 
August  14,  last,  fifteen  hundred  and  sixty-five  guilders,  six  stivers, 
in  grain,  beaver's  value,  and  requests  payment  of  the  amount  of 
eleven  hundred  and  sixty-five  gilders,  six  stivers,  now  due  to  the 


170  THE  DUTCH  BECOEDS  OP  KINGSTON.  [1664 

knowledge  of  the  Commissaries,  and  sufficient  security  for  the  re- 
maining four  hundred  guilders,  with  the  costs  thereof. 

Defendant  being  absent,  he  is  represented  by  his  wife, 
who  exhibited  the  contract  of  lease,  and  says  that  the  said  contract 
was  not  carried  out  by  the  lessor. 

Plaintiff  replies  that  a  waiver  of  re-examination  of  the  accounts 
was  made,  to  the  knowledge  of  the  Commissaries,  on  April  26,  1662, 
and  that  according  to  extracts  from  the  minutes,  dated  December 
27,  1663  and  April  1,  1664,  defendant  did  not  deny  the  debt. 

The  Honorable  Court,  having  heard  parties,  orders  defendant 
to  pay  plaintiff's  above  mentioned  demand,  as  he  did  not  deny  the 
debt  on  December  27,  1663,  nor  take  any  exception  to  the  contract, 
and  also  because,  on  April  1,  1664,  execution  on  the  claim  was 
granted  to  plaintiff.  "Wherefore  execution  is  again  allowed  to 
plaintiff  for  the  sum  of  eleven  hundred  and  sixty-five  guilders,  six 
stivers,  besides  the  costs  herein. 

The  Honorable  Mr.  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  plaintiff,  vs.  Ariaen 
Gerretsen,  defendant. 

Plaintiff  demands  from  defendant,  first,  seven  hundred  and 
fourteen  guilders,  in  sewan,  by  virtue  of  the  Commissaries'  exam- 
ination, and,  further,  two  years'  rent  due,  amounting  to  eight  hun- 
dred guilders,  in  grain,  beaver's  value,  according  to  contract  of 
lease,  also  butter  from  three  cows  for  two  years,  sixteen  pounds 
for  each  cow  each  year,  also  two  sows,  also  one  cow  slaughtered  by 
defendant,  and  requests  payment  or  execution,  with  the  costs 
thereof. 

Defendant  exhibits  against  the  plaintiff  an  account  charged  to 
the  Honorable  Company  for  sixty-four  guilders,  in  beavers,  and 
three  hundred  and  sixty-nine  guilders,  in  sewan,  also  a  claim  of 
two  hundred  and  thirty-four  guilders,  with  still  other  claims 
against  plaintiff,  personally,  being,  first,  that  plaintiff  did  not  fur- 
nish a  suitable  house  and  barn  to  defendant,  and,  second,  the  in- 
terest for  the  damage  done  to  his  grain,  spoiled  by  water,  and 
floated  away  at  the  time  he  was  impressed  at  the  old  fort  of  the 
savages;  also,  third,  the  interest  for  the  damage  done  to  his  com, 
destroyed  in  the  fields  by  pigs,  as,  because  of  the  strict  orders,  he 
<30ttld  not,   without  a  convoy,  properly  harvest  his  crops;  and, 


1664]  THE  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON.  171 

fourth,  that  he  has  been  put  to  loss  by  sending,  under  orders, 
horses  instead  of  oxen,  up  north. 

Plaintiff  replying  hereto  says,  that,  personally,  he  is  not 
bound  to  pay  for  the  Honorable  Company,  and  that  defendant  per- 
sonally must  look  for  his  claim  to  the  Honorable  Company;  also 
that,  so  far  as  he  personally  is  concerned,  he  is  not  obliged  to  sup- 
ply defendant  with  a  barn  or  loft,  as  appears  by  the  contract  of 
lease,  and  that  the  damage  to  the  corn  in  the  field  does  not  concern 
him,  the  lessor,  and  also  that  he  was  not  bound,  according  to  con- 
tract, to  deliver  horses  to  defendant  as  claimed,  also  that  the  claim 
for  carting  some  wood  work  for  the  barn  has,  to  the  knowledge  of 
the  Schepens,  been  disposed  of  by  a  waiver  of  re-examination  of 
the  account. 

He  further  says  he  is  willing  to  pay  the  twenty-four  guilders, 
in  sewan,  for  carting  two  loads  of  planks,  but  that  defendant  must 
then  pay  interest  on  the  arrears. 

The  Honorable  Court  decides  that  defendant  must  look  to  the 
Honorable  Company  for  his  claim  of  sixty-four  guilders,  in  beav- 
ers, and  three  hundred  and  sixty-nine  guilders,  in  sewan,  and  also 
that,  as  to  the  further  claim  of  damage  in  the  field,  the  incon- 
venience of  the  barn  and  the  lease  of  a  bam  and  loft,  which  are  not 
mentioned  in  the  contract,  the  lessor  is  not  bound  to  provide  the 
lessee  with  a  bam  and  loft.  The  Honorable  Court  orders  de- 
fendant to  pay  plaintiff's  aforesaid  demand,  with  the  costs  herein, 
but,  in  case  defendant  can  prove  that  the  oxen  were  sent  to  Fort 
Orange  by  order  of  the  lessor,  the  damage  sustained  by  him  on  this 
account  shall  be  made  good  to  him  by  the  lessor,  after  being  taxed 
by  two  impartial  men. 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON 


ACCOUNTING  OP  ESTATES,  75, 
76,  78,  91,  99,  101,  104,  105,   155 

Accounts,  village,  70,  127,  155; 
Schout  ordered  to  deliver  up 
papers,  16  7;  CoramiasarieB  or- 
dered to  liquidate,  167 

Administration  of  estates,  73-75, 
99,  105,  107,  111,  130 

Adriensen,  Dirck,  34,  35,  49 

Aerdt,  Annetjen,  66.    See  Aerts 

Aersen,  Jan,  7,  16,  28,  60 

Aert,  Tomas,  102 

Aerts  (Aertse),  Annetje  or  An- 
netjen, 53,  55,  60,  62,  sued  for 
Blander,  62,  63;  fined,  63.  See 
Aerdt. 

Aertsen,  Aert,  14,  19 

Aertsen,  Gerret,  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  73,  fined,  79. 
See  Jacobsen 

Aertsen,  Hendrick,  72;  sued  (or  or- 
dinace  violation,  76;  fined,  94 

Aertsen,  WiUem,  73;  sued  for  or- 
dinance violation,  76. 

Albert  the  carpenter,  granted  build- 
ing lot,  8 

Albert,  Femmetje,  9 

Alberts,  Femraetjen,  3,  8,  20 

Albertse,  Storm,  41.  See  Albert- 
sen 

Albertsen,  Henderick,  128 

Albertsen,  Jan,  estate  of,  91,  120, 
121.     See  van  Steenwyck 

Albertsen,  Rut,  123 

Albertsen,  Storm,  17,  22,  24,  29. 
See  Albertse 

Albertsen,  Wouter,  resides  at  Fort 
Orange,  123,  141.    See  Backer 

Aldert  de  Rademakor,  7 

Amersfoort  (Ammersfoort),  Jan 
Jansen,  60,  111.  See  van  Amers- 
foort. 

Amersfort  (Ammersfoort),  Jan 
Barense,  sued  for  smuggling, 
89;   for  debt,  59.    See  Amerahof. 

Amersfort,  on  Long  Island,  con- 
flagration at,  169 


I  Amershof    (Ammershof),    Jan    Ba- 

rensen,   20,    47;    fined    for  smug- 
gling,   50;    sues,    58;    sued,    120; 
assigns   claim,    166.    See   Amers- 
fort 
Ameratede,    .Tan    Jansen,    12.     See 

Amersfoort 
Amsterdam,  city  of,  in  New  Neth- 

erhnd,  2,  140.  146,  147 
Andriea,  servant  of  Aert  Jacobsen, 

79,  113.  114 
Andrles  the  weaver,  25 
Andriesen,  Chriatiaen,  the  soldier, 

109;   dead,  123.    See  Andrlssen. 
Andriesen       (Andriessen),       Geer- 

truyt,  24;  27,  sued  for  ordinance 

violation,  93;  110.    See  Andrlsae 

and  Andrlssen 
Andrlsae,  Geertruyt,  sued  for  build- 
ing of  bridge,  25 
Andrlssen,  Christlaem,  24,  30 
Andrlssen,    Geertruyt,    10,    15,    24, 

28,  29,  31,  69.    See  Andriesen 
Anker,  defined,  17 
Appeals,  by  Ebbing,  26;   Blanchan, 

61;      deWitt,      107;      Westphael, 

113;    Aert    Jacobsen,    114;    van 

Imborch,  137 
Appointments,       Jacob       Joosten, 

Court  Messenger  and  for  Church 

service,  2 
Appraisers  appointed,  157 
Arbitrations,   7,    18,   20,   25,   56,  70, 

114,  134,  151,  152,   159,  160,  162, 

163 
Ariaens,   Annetje,    injunction   suit, 

91,  92.    See  Tack 
Ariaens,  Eochtje,  50 
Arlaensen,  Dirck,  16,  23 
Arrests,  8,  43,  45,  49,  53,  56,  76,  80, 

82,  95,  99,  100,  104,  164 
Assaults,  suits  for,  3,  11,  15,  17,  21, 

41,  56,  124,  136.  147 
Atsembly,  election  of  delegates  to 

an,  at  the  Manhatans,  148 
AR8*c:nment<i  of  claims,  86,  46,  68, 

142,  162,  163,  166 


y 


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INDEX  TO  DUTCH  EECOEDS  OF  KINGSTON. 


n 


Attachments,  3,  7,  9,  27-29,  31,  50, 
52,  55,  63,  67,  68,  109,  122,  132- 
134,  139,  141,  142.  145,  147,  149, 
163,  1G7 

Auction,  Bale  at,  157-160;  Dutch 
auction,  160 


BACKER,  JACOBUS,  142,  secret 
order  from  director  general  to, 
144 

Backer,  Wouter  Albertsen,  of  Fort 
Orange.     See  Wouter  Albertsen 

Backster,  Ymmetjen  de,  9 

Bail.  31,  53,  80.  88 

Bailiff,  a,  38 

Baker,  the,  9 

Barber,  the,  44,  166 

Barense,  Cornelis,  9,  33.  See 
Slecht 

Barens  (Barents,  Barentse,  Bar- 
entsen).  Fop  or  Foppe,  charged 
with  creating  disturbance,  4,  7; 
5,  8,  14,  21;  built  parsonage, 
abuses  Domino  Blom,  63;  154, 
155,  103.  164 

Barense,  Jacob.  19,  30,  38,  55 

Barent  the  ehoemnker,  27 

Barn,  170,  171 

Barrense,  Andries,  27 

Barsen.  Cornelis.  52.  See  Cornelis 
Barensen  Slecht 

Beads,  white  or  black,  as  pay- 
ment, 160 

Beeckman,  Willem,  commission  as 
Schout.  157;  158,  160,  161;  his 
proposals  regarding  English  ad- 
ministration, and  commissioned 
to  go  to  Manhattan  and  report. 
164-167;    169 

Beer,  31,  excise  license  on,  63; 
seizure  of,  79;  excise  payable 
on.  81;  farming  out  of  excise  on, 
159 

Bell,  ringing  of.  summons  by,  156 

Bestevaer,  47 

Blanchan  (Blansan),  Matheu.  Ma- 
theii9,Mathyue,  Mathys.  Mattheu, 
3,  suit  against  Pieter  van  Alen, 
7,  9,  10.  13;  against  Mathys 
Roeloofsen,  27,  28.  30,  32,  34,  54; 
charged  with  distilling  without 
license,  59;  flned.  60;  appeals, 
61;  fined  for  churning  milk  on 
fart  day,  124 

Blankets,  168,  164 


Bloems  (Bloms),  Anna,  attaches 
goods,  25,  147 

Blom,  Harmanus.  Domine.  com- 
plains of  Fop  Barense  for  abuse. 
63;  asks  payment  of  parsonage 
debt  and  his  salary,  70;  dispute 
regarding  estate  of  Willem  Jan- 
sen  Seba,  99,  101,  103;  re- 
garding Looman  estate,  107;  re- 
quest for  returned  copy  letter  to, 
refused,  107;  rebukes  Court  for 
writing  business  letter  on  Sunday, 
111;  salary  payment  considered, 
115;  letter  to,  enclosing  fines  due 
Church,  103.  117;  suits  for  salary, 
117-120,  124.  130;  petition  re- 
garding Fastenseen  celebration, 
127;  letter  as  to  non-payment  of 
salary.  130-131;  137.  145;  provis- 
ion for.  by  English.  164,  168. 

Board,  suits  for.  28,  33,  38.  134 

Boards  (planks),  2C,  33 

Doerhans  (Burhans).  Jacob,  7, 
hurt,  18,  20;  Collector  of  ex- 
olEo,  50,  63,  81;  Clerk,  85;  Col- 
lector, to  pay  Court  Messenger, 
111;  sued  for  minister's  salary, 
119;  to  pay  for  palisade  work, 
]2i>;  to  pay  Court  room  rent, 
127;  obtains  attachment,  147. 
See  Burhans 

Bondc,  8.  80;  bondsmen,  52.  See 
Sureties 

Bottomry  bond,  44 

Bouts,  Gertjen  or  Geertjen,  7,  66 

Bratander,  Jan  Janse,  20.  See  de 
BrabanJer 

Brandy,  3,  11.  15,  17,  22,  24,  30,  46, 
47,  50,  55,  59,  67,  73,  93;  brandy 
stills,  13;  brandy  kettles,  141, 
147;  excise  on,  158,  161;  sale  of, 
16S 

Brantppn,  Cornells,  77.    See  Slecht 

Breeches,  leather,  45;  74 

Breweries,  restriclion  against 
building,  59 

Brewing,  29,  59,  161;  brewing  ket- 
tle, 26,  74;  brewer's  helper,  74 

Bresjes.  Hendrick,  41.  See  Brles- 
Jeii 

Bricks,  26,  44,  57,  60,  61,  62 

Bridge,  building  of,  26;  79,  repair 
of,  98 

Drlel,  Fousion,  Toeryn,  Toesyn,  7, 
10,  18 


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INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON. 


Briesjes,  Hendrick,  42.     See  Brics- 

jen,  BreBjes 
Briesjen,        HenUrick,       41.      See 

BresjrB 
IroerseD,  Jan,  2,  14,  33;    sues  for 
rent,   49;    51,   57,   73,   78,   83,   84; 
sued  for  ordinance  violation,  90, 
109;    fired.   113;    aults,   114,   117, 
119;    Bued   for   minister's  salary, 
124;    deeds   his   farm,   137,    138; 
votes  for  d^/lepates  to  Assembly, 
149.     Soe  Brouwerseii 
'^      Broersen,    Heyltje    Jacobs,    a   wit- 
nesB,  83 
BrouwerBen,      Jan,      21,      22.     See 

Rroorsen 
Bruyn.  Huybrecht,  12;   does  mason 
work,  13;  the  mason,  14;  38,  54; 
sura  for  mason  work,  60,  61 
;  •*    Bruynsen,  Plater,  54,  72;   sued  for 
ordinance  violation,  76;  fined,  94. 
•    ^      See  van  Boheemen 
r  *  Burgher  guard,  145 

Burphery,  organization  of.  111; 
called  to  arms,  132;  use  of  pri- 
vate ho'iso  as  guard  house,  145; 
to  await  orders  against  English, 
16i 
BurRomasterB,  38 

Burhnns,    Jacob,    excise    Collector, 
attaches    claim,    147.     See    Boer- 
haus 
Buur,  Jan,  Z 

CANOE.  144.  154 

Caplto,  Mattheus.  secretary,  46,  47, 
71,  81,  85,  86,  99,  103,  138, 
141,  146,  148,  149,  151;  sues  for 
hall'  of  summons'  fees,  108;  case 
appealed.  111;  as  Provisional 
Schout  sues  for  fines,  112-115; 
ll«i,  117;  Bues  for  curator  of  van 
Steenwycks  estate,  120;  com- 
plains of  quarrel  between  Cham- 
>• —  bers  and  Cornellssen,  123-124, 
135,  127;  re  van  Steonwyck  es- 
tate, 129,  131,  132;  sues  forsacrl- 
vener'e  wage,  133;  lands  of,  137; 
138;  recommends  new  mas;iB- 
trates,  139;  sues  for  insult,  163; 
presides  or  Bite  as  Provisional 
Schout.  Ill,  116,  116,  117,  123, 
127,  131,  187 
Carpenter,  Albert  the,  8;  Hey 
Olferaen  the;  28;  as  experts, 
28;  work  of,  89 


Carstense,  Carsten,  25 

Carting,    wood,    11,   27,   28;    stone, 

32;  materials,  10;  palisades,  126 
Casporae  (Casperscn),  Casper,  12 
Catelyn  the  Walloon,  complains  of 

cov.'herder,  3 
Certificates  by  witnesses,  37,  39-41, 

02.  103,  104.  106,  110 
Chambers,  Thomas  or  Tomas,. 
signer  of  agreement  to  palisade, 
2;  Sergeant,  complained  of  for 
beating  Pieter  van  Alen,  3; 
charges  against  him  by  Poulus- 
sen,  5,  6;  sues,  40,  60;  sued,  51, 
G2;  witness,  53;  charged  with 
stealing  turnips,  54;  arbitrator, 
56;  session  of  Council  of  War 
held  at  house  of,  102;  asks  re- 
lease from  lease,  110;  Captain 
of  Burghery,  111,  132,  157;  fined 
for  unseemly  conduct,  as  Judge, 
in  fighting,  123;  complains  of  Cor- 
nellssen, 130,  136;  deed  to,  137, 
138;  lands  of,  140,  154;  elected 
delegate  to  Aseembly  at  Man- 
hatans,  148;  asks  reimbursement 
of  expenses  as  delegate,  166; 
nominated  Commissary,  32;  con- 
tinued, 69;  nominates  new  Com- 
missarieB,  138;  sits  as  Commis- 
sary, 70-72,  89,  94,  100,  103,  105, 
108,  114-117,  123,  127,  128,  131, 
132.  135,  137,  141,  147,  151,  153, 
157,  158,  161,  162,  164,  166,  169, 
See  Chamberssen 
Chambcrssen,  Tomas,  substituted 
as  mortgagor,  146.  See  Cham- 
bers 
Chickens,    suit    for    stealing,    102, 

104 
Child,   paternity   of.   suit  to  estab- 
lish. 36,  37,  39,  40,  57 
Christmas,  111 
City  Me-nsurer,  139 
Clabbort.  Margrita,  sues  for  rent,  T 
Claes    Aeitje  or  Altje,  asks  for  ad- 
minietration,    90;     inventory    or-- 
dered,  refers  to  Domlne,  99;  118 
Claesjen,  Altje,  sued  for  minister's 

salary.  124 
Clarsjen,  Amarens.     See  de  Wit 
Olaesien,  Jan.     See  de  Wit 
Claesen,  TJerck,  land  of,  150.    See 

de  Wit 
Clasen.  TJirick,  5.  7,  11,  12,  16,  29. 
Seo  ClasHcn  and  de  Wit 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  BBCORDS  OF  KINGSTON. 


IV 


Classen.  TJlrlck,  3-5,  11,  35,  41,  54, 

90,  32,  102.     See  de  Wit 
Classen,  Tjyrick,  4 
Coenradt  the  soldier,  3 
Collector  of  excise  the,  60,  63,  81, 

HI,  126,  127.  147 
Congregation,  41,  115 
Consistory,    the,    6,    101,    104,    107, 

111,  126,  147 

Constapel,  Altjen,  sued  for  petty- 
coat,  11.     See  Roeloofsen 

Constapel,  Muth^u  or  Mathys,  taps 
during  sermon,  4;  accused  of 
Ebsault,  11.     See  Roeloofsen 

Contempt  cases,  49,  83-85,  89,  92 

Convoy,  violations  of  ordinance 
providing  for,  72,  75-81,  90,  93, 
100,  112-115,  159 

Cool.  Jnc'ob  J3arents  or  Barensen, 
73,  78;  sued  for  ordinance  viola- 
tion, 90;  fined,  113;  sued  for 
minister's  salary,  119;  votes  for 
delegates  to  Assembly,  149;  162 

Cooper,  the,  143 

Cornelissen.  Hendrlck,  16,  17,  38, 
42,  sues  for  bricks,  44;  48,  rope 
maker,  16r> 

Cornelissen,  Paulas,  quarrel  with 
Thomas  Chambers,  123,  124,  130; 
129;  purchases  bricks  for  parson- 
ago,  135,  15G;  147,  150 

Cornelissen,  Pieter,  51,  53,  54,  57, 
70;  witness,  104;  107;  mortgage 
by,  139-140.     See  Molenaer 

Council  of  War,  79,  82,  85,  93-98, 
99,  102,  103,  10?,  132,  144,  153 

Country  mau,  Foppe  Barents,  n, 
155 

Court   Messenger.     See    Messenger 

Court,  poking  fun  at,  accused  of, 
48,  49 

Court  room,  rent  of,  52,  71,  106,  127 

Couwenhoven,  Pieter,  43 

Cow,  lease  of,  10;  sale  of,  29;  at- 
tachment of,  139;  pasturing  of, 
153,  154,  163 

Cowherder,   the,   complained    of,   8 

Craweat,  alias  Abraham  Stevenson, 
132 

Cregler,  Marten,  Captain  Lieuten- 
ant.  82-86,   94,   100,    102,   103,   111. 

112.  115,  116,  153.     See  Kregier 
Cruepel  (Crupel),  Anthony,  Antonl 

or  Antony,  30,  31,  58,  sued  for  or- 
dlnance  violation,  73;  fined,  113; 
■ued  for  miniBter's  salary,  119 


Curators  of  estate,  75,  76,  78,  91,  130, 

136.  137,  155,  158, 
Cushion  and  pillow,  suit  for,  100, 

110 


DAELDER,  DEFINED,  20 

Dale,  van,  Oroot  Woordenboek,  38 

de  Backster,  Ymmetjen,  9 

Deacon  of  village,  Albert  Qysbert- 
sen,   64 

de  Brabander,  Jan.  22.  See  Bra- 
bander 

de  Barbander,  Jan  Jansen,  51.  See 
de  Brabander 

Decker,  C.  W.,  38 

Decker.  Gerrit,  Councillor,  33 

de  Decker,  Johan,  Lord,  71,  72; 
Councillor,  150 

Deed  to  Thomas  Chambers,  137 

de  Lange,  Jacob  Jansen,  sued  for 
fine,  78;  asked  to  testify  87;  fined 
for  ordinance  violation,  98.  See 
Jacob  (long),  Jacob  Janse  or  Jan- 
sen 

d<J  Laet,  Johanna,  142.  See  Eb- 
bing 

do   Meyer,  Nlcolaes,  mortgages  to. 

-  140.  145,  147,  148.  See  Meyer  and 
d    Meyer 

de  Mont,  Wallera  or  Walraven,  54, 
63  .  See  duMont 

Deposit  In  Court  as  security,  65,  66, 
167 

de  Rademaker,  Aldert,  appointed 
arbitrator,  7 

dc  Reymer,  Pieter,  26 

de  SiUe,  Councillor,  150 

Deurwaarder,  defined,  38 

de  Walter,  Anthony,  51 
de  Wit,  Amarens  Claesen,  136 
de  Wit  (de  Witt),  Tjerck  Claesen, 
TJlrlck  Classen  or  Tierck  Claszen, 
appointed  Commissary,  32;  takes 
oath,  33;  witnesses  mortgages, 
47,  54,  140,  141,  146-150;  named  in 
suit  regarding  hiring  of  servant, 
68;  witnesses  deed,  138;  appolnt- 
M  administrator  of  estate  of  de- 
cedents killed,  74;  makes  inven- 
tory, 74-75;  named  as  a  prin- 
cipal, 90;  executor.  91;  cura- 
tor, 100;  conversation  with  Al- 
lert  Heymanse  Roose,  102;  sues 
for  restoration  of  unpaid  for  land, 
104;  sues  as  curator,  104; 
charged  with  publicly  Quarreli&g, 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  BEGOBDS  OF  EINOSTOK. 


•  and  Schout  asks  temporary  re- 
moval from  Bench,  but  case  set- 
tled, 103;  sues  for  killed  pig,  103- 
104;  flies  inventory  of  estate  of 
brother-in-law,  Jan  Albertsenvan 
Steenwyck,  104,  105;  refused 
hearing  against  Albert  Gysbert- 
sen  because  of  non  payment  of 
Court  room  rent,  107;  appeals 
against  Gysbertsen,  107;  attaches 
money,   109;    sues   for   return  of 

■  horse,  115,  116;  sues  for  debt  and 
declines  to  make  oath  of  non 
payment,  123;  security  demand- 
of,  129;  offers  security,  136;  signs 
parsonage  accounts,  137;  land  of, 
140,  161;  votes  for  delegates  to 
Assembly,  149;  bids  to  become 
Farmer  of  Excise,  160;  becomes 
surety  for  Farmer,  160;  suits  by, 
39.  52,  68,  108,  109,  112,  133,  145, 
153,  154,  158,  163;  suits  against, 
42,  45,  61,  108,  120,  128,  158; 
nominates  new  Commissaries, 
138;  sits  as  Commissary,  33,  35- 
37,  41,  43,  45,  48,  49,  53,  56.  57,  60, 
62,  65,  69-72,  75,  83,  84,  86,  89, 
94,  100,  108,  111,  116,  117,  127,  131, 
132,  141,  151.  See  Tjerck  Clae- 
sen,  Tjirick  Clasen  or  Classen 
151.  156.     See  deWit   (deWitt) 

de  Wit,  Jan  Claesen,  brother  of 
Tierck,  120,  136 

de  Witt,  Tierck  Claszen,  signature 
of,  45.  47,  49,  53,  56-60,  64,  67,  68, 
71,  132,  135.  137,  138,  141,  146-148, 
151,  156.     See  deWit  (deWitt.) 

d'Forest.  Isaack,  41 

Dircksen,  Jan  15.  See  van  Bree- 
man 

Dircksen,  Pieter,  2 

Dirricks,  Magdalena,  witness,  110; 
sues  for  washing,  166 

Distillling,  license  for,  59,  161 

d  Meyer,  Nicolaes,  receipts  for  in- 
terest on  mortgage,  140.  See  de 
Meyer 

Director  General,  1,  2,  6,  11,  32,  33, 
48,  52,  59.  69,  85,  86,  102,  103, 
112,  122,  137,  152,  153,  157,  159, 
164.     See  Stuyvesant 

Doctor,  44,  fee.  136.  See  Medical 
treatment  and  Physician 

Doorkeeper,  the  (dourwaarder),  de> 
fined.  38;  to  proceed  with  ezecu- 

.      Uon.  42.  136.  137,  146.  147 


Doom    (Dorn),   Aert  Martensen  or 
Mertense,  46,  54,  66,  67,  71,  72,  75, 
82,  87,   110,  117;   sued  for  minis- 
ter's  salary,    118,   122,    123,   125; 
Court  room  rent  to  be  paid  him, 
127,  128,  133;  land  of,  140;  votes 
for  delegates  to  Assembly,  149 
Doors,    making,   28 
Dowens     (Dowesen),     Hester,    30; 
charges  theft,  31;  attaches  goods, 
50;    sues   for  jewelry   sold,    56; 
attaches  horse,  67;   73;  widow  of 
Harent  Gerretsen,  her  goods,  at- 
tached.  139,   141;    143;    execution 
against,  145;  execution  for,  147 
Drum,  beat  of,  fine  for  working  af- 
ter, 124 
Dubo,  Lowys,  sued   for  freight,  9; 
sues,    24,    30,    31;    brother-in-law 
of  MatUieu  Blanchan,  59;  surety, 
61.    See  duBois 
duBois,   Lowys,    surety,   61.       See 

Dubo 
duMont,  Walleraven  or  Walran, 
sued  for  excise  license  fee,  63; 
attaches,  68;  sues  for  rent,  126; 
becomes  surety  for  Excise  Far- 
mer, 160;  sues,  162;  house  of. 
163.  See  deMont 
Dutch    auction,    farming   of   excise 

sold  at.  160 
Djtch  money,  payment  In,  43,  48 


EBBING  (EBBINGH.  EBING),  JE- 
RONIMUS.  sues  for  rent  and  land 
restitution,  26;  agrees  to  thresh- 
ing on  seized  land,  28;  land  of,  64, 
121;  husband  of  Johanna  de  Laet. 
142,  147,  151 

Ebbing  (Ebbingh),  Johanna  de 
Laet,  sues  Slecht,  142;  attaches 
his  money,  147;  seeks  agreement 
regarding  sowing.  151;  asks  as- 
signment of  claim  from  Slecht. 
and  execution,  152 

Ebel,  Pieter,  member  of  Council  of 
War,  83 

Elblngh.  Johanna.     See  Ebbing 

Eloctions,  32,  138,  ^,48.  See  Nom- 
inations 

Emmetjen,  9.  See  Ymmetjen  and 
Volckertss 

England,  his  Majesty  of,  168 

English,  approach  of  the,  161;  war. 
rant  of,  for  contiunuing  the  gor* 
ernment  at  Wildwyck,  168 


INDEX  TO  DXJTCH  BEOOBDS  OF  KINGSTON. 


VI 


EsopuB,  resolution  of  inbabitante  of, 
to  palisade  place,  1;  10,  38,  69, 
137,  163,  168 

Estates,  accounting  of,  75,  76,  78,  91, 
99,  101,  i04,  105,  155;  adminisUa. 
tion  of  73-75,  99,  105,  107,  111,  130 

Eversen,  Jan,  70.    See  Everteen 

Evert  de  Wachtsman,  8 

Evert  de  Waelsman,  6 

Evertsen,  Jan,  attacbes  brandy 
kettles,  39,  141,  145.  See  Ever- 
sen 

Executions,  issuance  of,  42,  99,  115, 
130,  135,  141,  142,  145,  147.  168- 
164,  170 

Excise,  farming  of,  153,  157,  159, 
160;  license,  63,  165;  beer,  81, 
159,  164;  Collector  of,  147,  165.; 
Farmer  of,  160,  165;  permit  from, 
165 

FARMER  OF  EXCISE,  160,  165 

Fasting,  day  of,  work  forbidden  on, 
124 

Feere,  Machiel,  sues  for  wages,  17. 
See  Maglel  Veree  or  Feree 

Femmetjen,  3,  4.     See  Alberts 

Fere,  Machiel,  18.  See  Feere  and 
Veree 

Feree,  Magiel,  suit  arbitrated,  14. 
See  Fere,  Veree 

Fimmen    (Vimmen),  defined,   128 

Fines.  20,  35,  55,  60,  63,  72,  73,  77, 
78.  79.  85.  89,  90.  92-98,  113-116, 
124,  162,  163 

Fire,  palisades  set  on.  by  soldier, 
154;   prevention  of,  169 

Flemish,  pound,  defined,  56 

Fooken,  Gerret,  witness,  104;  at- 
taches wheat.  132.  135;  partner  of 
Jan  Gerretsen,  137.     See  Vooken 

Fort  Amsterdam,  69,  151 

Fort  James.  168 

Fort  Orange.  8,  36,  91,  123,  139, 
141,  163,  171 

Fortifications,  repairs  of,  157;  fort- 
ress, 47;  the  old  fort,  170 

Freight,  3^,   143,   156 

GARRISON,  THE,  46,  157 
Gauge,  Court  goes  to,  wine,  69 
Garrets,   Echje,   Eechtje   or   Elsje, 

sues  for  a  cushion  and  pillow,  91, 

100,  105,  110 
Oerretse  (Gerritse),  Albert,  17, 109. 

See  Baerent  Genitse 


Gerretsen,  Albert,  requests  execu- 
tion, 145 

Ot-rretsen,  Ariaen,  orders  work  on 
Stuyvesanfs  bam,  109,  114,  117; 
121;  his  goods  attached,  122; 
123,  125,  129;  execution  against, 
130;  169.  See  Gerritsen  and  van 
Vliet 

Gerretsen,  Barent,  puts  up  brandy 
still,  13;  14;  fined,  20;  offers  to 
mortgage  house  for  debt,  41;  51; 
dead,  husband  of  Hester  Dowe- 
sen.  139.    See  Gerritsen 

Gerretsen  (Gerretse),  Jan,  partner 
of  Gerret  Fooken,  136 

Gerretsen,  Maerten,  37 

Gerrisen,  Barent,  23,  27.  See  Gerrit- 
sen 

Gerritse.  Baerent  or  Barent.  sued 
for  assault,  17;  sued  for  work,  33; 
sued  for  slander,  34;  35.  See 
Albert  Gerretse 

Gerritsen  Alberent,  17 

Gerritsen.  Albert,  sued  for  palis- 
ades for  lot  of,  12;  sues  for  wages, 
14;  witness,  16;  arbitrator,  18; 
66;  works  on  Stuyvesanfs  house 
112;  his  property  attached  for 
Stuyvesant,  122.     See  Gerretse 

Gerritsen.  Barent,  suit  against,  over 
mason  work,  12,  13,  14;  sued  for 
assault.  15;  called  scoundrel,  16; 
admits  assault,  17;  sued  for  brandy 
sold.  20;  sues  for  wine  sold  and 
to  substitute  carpenter  to  com- 
plete house,  23;  sued  on  con- 
tract to  build  his  house.  28;  33; 
sued  by  Schout  for  vindication  of 
honor,  34,  35;  sued  on  his  obliga- 
tion. 36;  sued  aiid  sues  under 
Judgment,  41,  44;  sued  for  poking 
fun  at  Court,  48,  49;  sued,  50,  58; 
lot  of,  69;  suits,  61-68,  70.  See 
Gerretsen 

Gerritsen,  Gommert,  a  witness,  16, 
49 

Gerritsen,  Jan,  sued  for  ordinance 
violation,  73,  77;  fined.  96  97; 
case  appealed,  113;  partner  of 
Gerret  Fooken,  135.  See  Jan  Ger- 
retsen 

Gerritsen.  Weynant,  sues  for  debt, 
10,  11 

Oillesen,  Sara,  sued  for  fine  for 
smuggling,  162;  suit  against  her 
on  claim  against  mother,  dismiss- 
ed. 166 


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INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON. 


Olass,  panes  of,  26 

Goselingh,  Nicolaes,  suit  by,  123 

Governor   at   Manbatana,    164,   167, 
168 

Graef,  Dlrck  Hendrlckeen,  2 

Guard  house,  3.  4,  80,  82.  86,  87,  126, 
145 

Guardians,  129,  130,  136.  137 

Guilder,  defined,  2 

Gun.  firing  of.  81.  82 

OyBbert,  Qysbertse  or  Gysbertsen, 
Albert,  suit  against,  16.  by.  19. 
against,  30;  elected  Commissary, 
32;  sits  as  Commissary,  32.  37,  41, 
43,  45,  47-50,  53,  56,  57,  60, 
62,  64,  66,  68,  69,  70,  71, 
67,  60,  62,  64,  65,  68,  69,  70,  71, 
72,  74,  75,  83,  84,  86,  100,  103. 
104.  Ill,  115,  117,  123,  127,  131, 
132,  135,  137,  161,  146,  148,-151, 
153;  sued  for  wages,  42,  122; 
sued,  44,  46,  110;  deacon  of  vil- 
lage, 64;  a  witness,  79;  ap- 
pointed administrator  of  es- 
tates of  decedents  killed, 
74;  makes  Inventory,  74;  cura- 
tor, 91;  accused  of  not  doing 
Justice  to  Roose.  92;  case 
against  Roose  referred  to  Stuy- 
vesant.  102;  sued  for  purchase 
price  of  land  105;  appeal  against 
him  in  land  case.  107;  agrees 
to  pay  minister's  salary  for  van 
Oosterhout  and  Broersen,  119, 
124;  sues,  128;  suit  regarding 
pasturing  of  cows,  154;  requests 
permit  to  dig  saw  pit,  155;  sued 
as  curator,  158;  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  159 


HAF,  WILLEM,  13 

Ham.  Coenrad  or  Coenraet,  24,  30, 
82,  33 

Hap.  Willem  Jansen.  4 

Harmense.  Marten,  160 

Harmense.  (Harmens),  Thomas  or 
Tomas,  127,  160 

Marmensen,  Marten,  166 

Harmensen,  Roelof,  166 

Harmensen,  Thomas  or  Tomas,  128; 
134;  becomes  excise  farmer,  160; 
sues  for  fine,  162 

Kendericks,  Dirrick.  121.  See  Hen- 
dricks 

Hendericks,  Harmen,  sued  for  ordi- 
nanc*  Tlolation,  72;   husband  of 


Magdalena,  80:    sued   for  mlnls^ 
ter's  salary,  118 

Hendericks,  Magdalena,  wife  of 
Harraen,  complained  of,  for  ob- 
structing  Schout   in  his  duty,  80 

Hendericksen,  Dirrick,  80,  125.  See 
Henderlcksen 

Hendericksen, '  Jan,^  75 

Henderick  the  sewant  braider,  3 

Hendericks,  Hilletje,  witness  and 
demands  rent  money,  91 

Hendericks,  Lucas,  78 

Hendericks,  Roelof,  106.  See  Hen- 
dricksen 

Hendricksen,   Claes,   44 

Hendricksen,  Dirrick,  162.  See 
Hendericksen 

Hendricksen,  Harmen  or  Hermen, 
17;  witness,  71.  80;  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation.  96.  See  Hen- 
dericksen 

Hendricksen,  Hendrick,  sued  for 
ordinance  violation.  73,  77,  97; 
fined,  113 

Hendricksen,  Philip,  sues  for  value 
of  bricks,  25 

Hendricksen,  Roeloof,  62;  sued  for 
wages,  66;  89.    See  Hendericksen 

Hermensen,  Barent,  demands  re- 
ceipt, 48 

Hermensen,  Marten  or  Merten,  38, 
44;  his  goods  attached,  60.  See 
Harmensen 

Harmensen,  Tomas,  125.  See  Har- 
mensen 

Herregrens  (Herregrins),  Gerrrlt, 
sues  for  wages,  37;  45 

Hcsobes  (Esopus),  38 

Hesopues    (Esopus),    10 

Heymankj,  Albert,  reports  as  arbi- 
trator, 160.  See  Roose  and  Albert 
and  Aldert  Heymanse 

Heymans,  Allert,  as  Consistory, 
107;  requests  payment  of  min- 
inter's  salary,  115;  arbitrator, 
159;  163.  See  Roose  and  Albert 
nnd   Aldert  Heymanse 

Heymans,  Wintje,  wife  of  Allert, 
141.    See  Roose 

Heymanse,  Albert,  charged  with 
using  false  weights,  43;  apology 
to  him  by  Pieter  van  Alen,  66; 
charges  Commisbaries  with  not 
doing  justice  to  him,  92;  inter- 
rogated regarding  Consistory  and 
Seba  estate,  101.    See  Roose 

Heymanse,  Aldert,  Commissanr.  4. 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON. 


vin 


25,  41,  57,  65;  promises  to  pay  a 
debt,  13;  demands  proof  of 
charges  of  using  false  weights, 
53.  See  Roose  and  Albert  Hey- 
mans 

Heymansen,  Aldert,  3,  6.  See  Roose 
and  Heymans  and  Heymanse 

Heymansz,  Alaerdt,  signature,  56. 
See  Roose  or  Roosa 

HUlebrants,  Gritedgen  or  Gritjen, 
sues  for  wages,  4,  9   <C    ST 

HUlebrantse  (Hillebrants/nT,  Pie- 
ter,  5,  12,  17,  19;  sues  for  brandy 
sold,  24;  30;  sued  for  brandy  sold, 
31;  35,  37;  sues  for  wages,  44; 
106,  122 

Holland,  44 

Hoochteylingb,  Jan  Willemsen,  dea- 
con, presents  church  accounts  for 
building  of  parsonage,  132;  nomi- 
nated Commissary,  138;  sits  as 
Commissary,  163,  156-158,  161, 
164,  166,  169;  votes  for  delegates 
to  Assembly,  149;  appointed  to 
obtain  from  Governor  at  Manhat- 
tan warrant  to  continue  govern- 
ment at  Wildwyck,  165;  report 
on  obtaining  warrant,  168 

Hoorenbeeck  (Hoornbeeck),  War- 
naer  or  Warrenaer,  sued  for  cost 
of  shoes,  28;  sues  for  wages  in 
shirts,  stockings  and  shoes,  42; 
sued,  54;  sued  for  ordinance  vio- 
lation, 73,  75,  98 

Hops,  sale  of,  33 

Horses,  71.  90,  92,  115,  116,  129. 
145,  149,  151,  154,  156-158,  171 

House,  building  of,  23,  28,  33,  34, 
112 

Houtsager,  Cornelia  Janaen,  25.  See 
Cornelia  Jansen 

Huyberta  (Huybertsen),  Ariaen, 
sued  for  ordinance  violation,  73, 
76,  77;  fined,  96;  fine  paid  to 
Church,  117 

Huybertsen,  Lambert,  witness,  106; 
sued  for  goods  bought,  121;  sued 
for  house  rent,  126 


INDIANS,  168    See  Savages 
Injunctions,  91,  92 
Inn-keeper,  161 
luterest,  32,  54,  170 
Inventory,  74,  104,  105,  106 
Iiacaen,  Arent,  9 


JACOB,  LONG,  87,  92,  117,  121.    See 

Jacob  Jansen  and  deLange 
Jacobs,  Aert,  73,  votes  for  delegates 
to  Assembly,  149 

Jacobs,  Grietje  (Jansen),  83 
Jacobs,  Heyltje  (Broersen),  83 

Jacobs  (Jacobse),  Pieter,  39,  40, 
160.     See  Jacobsen 

Jacobsen,  Aert,  5;  sued  for  wages, 
19;  32,  44,  62,  65,  66;  sued  on 
debt,  20,  22;  sued  for  goods  sold 
at  auction,  59;  sued  for  ordinace 
violation,  79;  fine  asked  and  ap- 
peals, 97;  his  farm,  102;  ordered 
to  pay  fine  as  appeal  was  not 
prosecuted,  113,  114;  disposition 
of  fine,  115;  nominated  Commis- 
sary, 138;  house  of,  139;  brandy 
kettles  of,  141;  sued,  143;  gar- 
nishee, 147;  land  of,  149;  ap- 
pointed appraiser,  157.  See  Ot- 
terspoor 

Jacobsen,  Gerret,  fined  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  113,  114 

Jacobsen,  Gerret  Aertsen,  fined  for 
ordinance  violation,  79 

Jacobsen,  Pieter,  corn  grinding 
charges  fixed,  4;  witness,  10;  suit 
against  for  breach  of  promise  of 
marriage,  35,  36,  52,  55,  57;  sued 
for  wages,  45;  a  witness,  71; 
partner  of  Pieter  Cornellssen,  107; 
sued,  124;  mortgages,  with  part- 
ner, mill,  being  described  as  van 
Holsteyn,  139-140;  garnishee,  145; 
execution  ordered  against,  147. 
See  Pieter  Jacobs  and  van 
Holsteyn 

Jacobsen,  Tennis,  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  73;  fined,  78 

Jan,  Doctor,  barbering  and  medical 
treatment,  44 

Jan  M.,  44 

Jan  the  weaver,  9 

Jans,  Coenraet,  sued,  24,.    See  Ham 

Juns,  Dirrickje,  sues,  144 

Jans,  Elsje  or  Elsjen,  wife  of  Hen- 
drick  Jochemse,  attaches  wheat, 
27;  sues,  30;  sued,  51;  witness, 
53,  54,  57;  fined  for  using  offen- 
sive language,  63 

Janse,  Jacob,  deLange,  sued  for  or- 
dinance violation,  73;  witness, 
87.  See  Jacob.  deLange  and 
Jansen 

Janse,  Jan,  3;  witness,  21.  See  Jan 
Jansen 


IZ 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON. 


Jansen,  Aert,  fined   for  firing  shot 

on  Sunday,  85 
Jansen,  Albert,  47 
Jansen,  Arent,  arrested  for   firing 

gun.  81 
Jansen,  Cornells,  sues,  IB,  25.    See 

Houtsager 
Jansen,  Qrietje  Jacobs,  a  witness, 

8? 

Jansen,  Harmen,  sues  for  passage 
money,  10;  witness,  104 
^  Jansen,  Jacob,  sued,  16,  19;  fined 
for  ordinance  violation,  100;  sued, 
121.  See  Jacob  (long),  Stouteh- 
burg,  Jacob  Janse,  and  deLange 

Jansen,  Jan,  2;  attached.  3;  sued,  8, 
14;  sues,  14;  garnishee,  50;  mort- 
gages his  house  and  lot;  de- 
scribed as  van  Amersfort,  signs 
Jansen,  146.  See  Amersfoort. 
van  Amersfoort  and  x&a  Ooster- 
hout 

Jansen,  Mathys,  dead,  110,  137,  138 

Jbnsen,  Pieter,  a  witness,  36 

Jansen,  Symen,  sues,  43.  Bee 
Romeyn 

Jansen,  Volckert,  71 

Jiinsen,  Willen,  2 

Jew,  Qysbert  van  Imbrogh  called 
a,  62,  66 

Jillesse  (Jillessen),  Pieter,  sues,  12, 
19.  43;  sued,  35 

Jochemse,  Elsje  Jans,  27 

Jochemsen,  Andries,  36 

Jochemsen  (Jochemse),  Henderlck 
or  Hendrlck.  attaches  and  sues, 
27;  sued,  48;  sues,  49,  60;  sued 
for  slander,  65;  sued  for  account- 
ing, 60-63;  sues,  69;  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  73;  sued,  77;  be- 
comes bondsman  and  mortgages 
his  property,  80-81;  house  used 
as  guard  house,  86;  house  of,  88; 
excused  for  ordinance  violation, 
98;  appointed  guardian,  105; 
sues,  110,  116;  guardian,  120; 
sues  for  wages,  122;  guardian, 
129;  130,  132,  136.  137;  nominated 
as  Commissary,  138;  votes  for 
delegates  to  Assembly,  149;  Com- 
missary, 153,  157-159,  161,  169 

Joosten,  Jacob,  appointed  Court 
Messenger,  2;  sues,  5,  19,  20;  at- 
taches com,  65;  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  72.  76;  fined,  77; 
sues,    92;    ordered    to   be    more 


faithful  in  duties,  93;  excused 
from  paying  fine,  96;  on  order  of 
Consistory  enjoins  rendition  of 
estates'  accounts,,  101;  dispute 
with  Secretary  regarding  feoB, 
108;  fees  as  Mesoonger  ordered 
paid,  111;  payment  of  fees  re- 
fused for  lack  of  funds,  144 

Judge,  unseemly  conduct  of,  la 
fighting,  fined  for,  188 

Juriaens,  Volckje,  32 

KERMIS,  37 

Ketelheem,  Jochem,  copy  of  letter 

from,  requested,  91 
Kettles,  savages  with,  81;  brewing, 

26;  brandy,  139 
Kill,  the,  69;   the  Great,  140;   164, 

165 
Kiln,  malt,  putting  up  of,  18 
Kiss.  84 

Kotz6,  J.  O.,  cited,  38 
Kregier,  Marten,  100.    See  Cregler 

LAMMERSE  (LAMMERSEN),  Jan, 
granted  building  lot,  4;  sued, 
10,  15;  witness,  16;  sues,  80,  88; 
sued,  39 

Laurence,  Claes,  68.  See  Louw- 
rence 

Lease^  of  farm,  suit  on,  26,  27,  110, 
151 

L*me,  sale  of.  26;  28 

Liquor.  39,  65.    See  Brandy,  Wine 

Loockermans,   Qoovert.   2 

Loockermans,  Pieter,  7 

Looman.  Henderick  or  Hendrlck 
Jans  or  Jansen.  sues  for  land, 
19;  suit  on  bill  of  sale,  69;  sued. 
61;  killed,  property  to  be  ad- 
ministered by  Court.  Inventory, 
74;  account  against  estate,  78, 
86.  91;  Court  requested  to  ad- 
mlnlstor.  Consistory  claiming 
right,  107;  curators  ordered  to 
uccnunt,  165;  curators  sued  for 
preference  claim,  158 

Lootman,  Jan,  2;  sued  for  wife's 
debt.  17;  for  freight  and  board, 
38;  for  minister's  salary,  118; 
for  insulting  Schout,  163 

Lots,  grants  of,  3.  4,  11,  12,  69,  108 

Louwrence,  Claes,  68.  See  Lau- 
rence 

Louwrens  the  soldier,  61 

Lumber.  28,  33 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH   RECORDS   OP   KINGSTON. 


MAERTENS  CLAESJEN.  sues,  35 
Magistrates'   pew,   vacant  on   Sun- 
day, complaint  of,  for  being.  111 

Malt  kiln,  erection  of,  13 

Manathans.     Manethans,     Manhat- 

N  ans,  Mathans,  10,  36,  38,  68,  113; 
139141,  143,  146,  164-168.  See 
Manhattan 

Manhattan.  10.  45.  114.  See  Man- 
athans 

Marriage,  promise  of,  suit  on,  37, 
40 

Martense,  Paulus.  sues  for  wages, 
44 

Martensen,  Henderick,  sued  for 
minister's  salary,  119    . 

Mason,  the,  14,  60,  61;  work,  13, 
60 

Mathysse,  Pleter,  for  wagea.  65 

Measurer,  City,  139 

Medical  treatment,  44.  See  Doctor 
and  Physician 

Mertense,  Aert,  sues  for  balance  of 
account,  67 

Mertense,  Hendrick,  sued  for 
wages,  30;  for  house  rent,  49 

Mertense,  WiUem,  sued  for  value 
of  bricks  and  planks,  25,  26; 
Commissaries  to  pay  for  lime 
of,  delivered  to  them,  27;  sues, 
30;  sues  for  freight  on  his  ves- 
sel, 38;  suit  on  obligation  to  him, 
54 

Messenger,  Court,  appointed,  2; 
6;  seizes  grain,  26;  duties  differ 
from  Doorkeeper,  38;  questions 
by,  50;  107;  dispute  as  to  his 
fees,  108;  payments  to,  ordered, 
111;  to  remind  inhabitants  about 
minister's  salary,  131;  133;  ser- 
vice of  citations,  etc.,  135,  137, 
147;  service  of  attachment  by, 
139;  asks  payment  for  services, 
144,  156 

Messenger,  Village  [2],  Jacob  Joos- 
tcn  mentioned  as,  93;  summons 
Domine  and  Consistory  to  ap- 
pear in  Court,  101 ;  acts  for  them 
to  enjoin  rendering  account,  108; 
informed  of  assignment,  163 

Meyer,  Nlcolaea,  139-143.  See  de 
Meyer 

Meynderts,  Marletje,  mother-in- 
law  of  Aert  Pletersen  Tack,  166 

Mill  dam,  169 

Mill  gate,  14i.  168 


Milk,  30;  fine  for  churning  of,  on 
fast  day,  124 

Minister,  salary  of,  request  for,  70, 
130;  suits  for.  117-120,  124,  130; 
contributions  to,  115,  131,  164; 
letter  regarding,  130-131;  letter 
about  Fastenseen  celebration, 
127;  to  pay  no  excise,  159;  Eng- 
lish provision  for,  164.  168 

Molenaer,  Pieter  Cornellssen,  gar- 
nishee,  132.     See  Cornellssen 

Morgen,  a,  defined,  137 

Mortgages,  io,  41,  46,  64,  139,  146, 
147.  149,  150.  156 

Mountains,  the,  secret  mission  to, 
144 

Mudde,  a,  defined,  25 

Muessen,  Jan,  agrees  to  thrash, 
grain,  67 

Muller.  Jan  Pietersen,  sues.  123; 
attaches,   139,  141 

Munnick,  Evert  Willem,  Sergeant, 
in  Council  of  War,  83,  84,  94 

Musjen,  a,  defined,  30 

NAILS,  33 

Now  Amsterdam,  2,  5,  38,  69 

New  Netherland,  2,  69,  89,  102.  103, 
103.  137,  138,  140,  146-148.  150. 
151.  157.  159 

New  York.  168 

Nicola  (Nicolls).  Richard,  his  war- 
rant to  continue  government.  168 

Nicolls,  Richard,  168 

NiesBen  (Nissen),  Christiaen,  sues 
for  Stuyvesant.  69,  121.  122,  129, 
133;  member  of  Council  of  War 
and  Ensign,  83,  84,  94;  suggests 
repair  of  palisades,  108;  pay- 
ment to  him  for  services  or- 
dered, 126;  complains  of  pro; 
posed  trip  to  mountains,  144;  a 
witness,  147;  asked  for  convoy, 
159.     See  Niszen  and  Romp 

Niszen,  Christyan,  his  signature,  61 

Nominations,  for  Commissary,  32, 
69,  138;  for  delegates  to  Assem- 
bly, 148.     See  Elections 

Norman,  Poulus  Poulussen  the,  a 
witness,  18.     See  Poulussen 

OATHS,  12,  13,  14,  33,  46,  57,  69, 

163;   declined,  123;  refused.  106 
Offlcer,   obstructing.   In   duty,   80 
Olfersen  (Olfertsen,  Olersen) ,  Hey, 
■ued.  14;  sues  for  assault,  16,  17, 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RBOOBDS  OF  KINGSTON. 


20;  suit  on  contract  for  carpen- 
ter work,  23,  28,  33,  34;  accused 
of  theft,  30,  31;  deceased.  Court 
to  administer  property  of,  73. 
Pec^  Roseblom 

Oosterhout.  Jan  Jansen,  garnishee, 
167.    See  van  Oosterhout 

Ordinances  against,  unlawful  tap- 
ping, D9;  ploughing  without  con- 
vey. 72,  73,  75-81,  93,  100,  159; 
Sabbath  dfpecratfon,  lessor  and 
leEsecf,  and  Impounding  cattle, 
144;  concerning  beer  excise  and 
wcir  cjtching,  61 

Ordlnanc>»  violations,  suits  for, 
72,  73,  76-81,  90,  93-100,  159 

Od'jibpoor,  Aort  Jucobsen,  lot  of, 
145.    See  Aort  Jacobsen 

Otterupoor,  Aert  Aertsen,  suit  for 
drinks,  12 

Oxen,  lease  of,  27.  28,  31,  32;  171 

PALISADES,  1,  12,  47,  52,  74,  88, 
1C8.  126,  132,  154,  169 

Parsonage,  40:  building  of,  63,  70; 
1S3,  137.  155,  15G 

Parys,  Evert,  sues  for  slander.  22; 
garnlFhee,  27;  sues  for  debt,  42; 
mrnoy  attached,  48,  49.  See 
Prys 

Paulussen,  Paulus  sues  for  slander, 
charged  with  stealing  chickens, 
101,  104.    See  Poulussen 

Peerssen  (Perssen),  Jan,  a  witness, 
f  ] ;  Sergeant,  of  Council  of  War. 
83-85,  94;  a  witness,  136.  See 
Person 

Pels,  Evert,  as  Comirissary,  .  3-6, 
911,  14-16.  1?,  21.  24.  ?5.28.  31, 
37,  41,  43,  45,  50,  r.3,  54,  56-61. 
64,  65,  67-69,  137;  claim  against 
his  assignee,  8;  sued,  7,  23.  (for 
price  of  house,  40),  51,  101,  114, 
128-130,  136,  141,  143,  45.  155; 
sufP,  24,  52,  112,  125;  asks  for 
copy  letter,  91;  curator,  120; 
Ljcodg  ottnched,  141;  votes  for 
dcla^atcfl  to  Assembly,  149; 
cbocen  appraiser,  157;  arbitrator, 
'5?,  163;  bids  to  become  Farmer 
of  Excise,  160.  See  Evert  de 
Waflsnian 

Person,  Jan,  55.    See  Peerssen 

Pettycoat,  suit  for  loaa*  of,  11 

Pew,  MagiBtrates',  vacant  on  Sun- 
day. Ill 


Fhllipssn,  Frederick,  sues,  141; 
annulment  asked  of  purchase  of 
lot,  142;  garnishee  as  to  purchase 
rn.onf  y,  147;  assignee  of  clainx, 
152 

Pietersen,  Basje  or  Baajen,  suet, 
5.  S 

Ploterae.  Frana,  122 

riefersen,  Andres,  the  soldier, 
sues,  134;  166.    See  van  Leeuven 

Pietersen,  Parent,  sues,  27 

Pleteraen,  Claes,  suad  for  excise 
license  fee,  03 

Piet-.Tsen,  Ueynier,  presents  ac- 
count, 86 

Flysicians  feon,  suit  for  expense 
o',  17;  for  doctor's  bill,  135.  See 
Doc'or 

Pi2?.  20,  34,  42,  81,  89,  104.  170 

Flanlzs,  sale  of.  150,  000,  26 

Plnsier,  contract  to,  61 

Plouj^h.  making  a,  19;  forbidden 
to,  without  convoy. — See  Ordi- 
nances 

Po(  fct,  Jan  Earensten,  mortgage  to, 
150 

Poor,  the,  fln-^s  to  Ro  to,  5,  8.  83, 
34,  35,  60.  63 

Pork,  pood  with  turnips,  54;  lack 
of.  1?9 

Pnvk'F,  Mr.,  10 

PoulusFcn.  Oommert.  sues  for 
wages,  64;  62 

Poulussen,  Poulus,  sued  for  as* 
Ban  It,  4;  sued,  5;  sued  for 
drinks.  8,  51;  a  witness,  18,  22. 
45,  53;  sued  for  barberlng  and 
medical  treatment,  44;  sues  for 
v^ares  49.  See  Norman,  the,  and 
Paiiluf-Eca 

Pound, Flemish,   deflnod,   56 

Fowdnr  and  shot,  157,  161,  167 

Praver.  day  of,  124 

Pry.^,  Evert,  sues,  10.  42,  48,  61; 
sued  14.  15,  19,  50,  G2;  sued  for 
ordinance  violation,  73;  at- 
tached, 139;  attaches,  1G7.  See 
J'arys 

RAD1J:MAK^R.  ALDEPiT  DE,  ar- 
bltrator,  7 

Pnnccu  (Tlanlfou),  Jonae,  Corpo- 
rrl.  challenged.  4;  sues  for  as- 
FPiilt,  11;  sued  for  debt.  12,  14; 
for  brandy  delivered,  16,  19,  22, 
30;  wine  delivered,  23;  sued,  24, 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  BEOORDS  OF  KINGSTON. 


XII 


42,  47,  107;  money  attached,  27, 
109,    117,    123,    167;    assignment 
of    claim    against    him    not   ac 
cepted,   58;    sued   for   excise   li- 
cense fee  on  wine,  63 

Reader,  Andries  Vandersluys,  the, 
salary  of,  126 

Real  estate,  sale  of,  at  auction, 
ordered,  157 

Rees,  WlUem  Andrlesso,  sued,  96 

Rent,  suit  for,  of  house,  7;  of 
farm,  26;  of  Court  room,  125;  of 
land,  151;  suit  for,  170;  defence 
in  suit  for,  49 

Restitution,  suit  for,  of  farm,  26; 
of  mare,  71;  of  cushion  and  pil- 
low, 100 

Roeloofsen,  Aeltje  Sybrants,  suit 
against,  for  contemptuous  con- 
duct, 83,  84,  8r.,  103.  See  Altje 
Sybrants  and  Altje  Constapel 

Roeloofsen,  Mathys,  sued  for  as- 
sault, 11;  trial,  21;  sues,  12, 15, 19, 
30,  33,  51,  117,  122,  123;  sues  for 
brandy  bought,  20;  for  debt,  23; 
32,  34,  41;  eued  for  slander,  24, 
35;  sued  for  lease  of  oxen,  27, 
28;  his  debt  guaranteed,  4G; 
fined  for  admitting  savages  to 
house  at  night  through  pali- 
sades, 52;  sued  for  expenses,  54, 
61;  sued  for  ruined  sacks  loaned, 
55;  sued  on  unaccepted  assign- 
ment of  claim,  58;  charged 
with  threatening,  62;  sued  for 
wages,  65;  sues  for  merchan- 
dise, 69;  sued  for  ordinance  vio- 
lation, 73;  his  wife  summoned 
for  contemptuous  conduct,  83, 
R4;  sued  for  minister's  salary, 
118;  sued  for  goods  sold,  121; 
dispatched  on  secret  mission 
to  mountains,  144;  votes  .for 
delegates  to  Assembly,  149.  See 
Constapel 

Roman  Dutch  Law,  cited,  38 

Romeyn,  Symen  Jansen,  asks  for 
attachment,  48.  Seer  Symen  Jan- 
sen 

Romp,  Christiaen  Nissen,  Ser- 
geant, authorized  to  pay  for 
grain  for  military,  2;  sued,  3; 
sues,  11,  14,  21,  29,  46,  67,  80; 
sues  for  slander,  24,  35;  sues  for 
proof  of  account.  34;  sued  for 
return  of  pillow  and  cushion,  91, 


ion.  106,  110;  a  witness,  18,  22; 
arbitrator.  56;  accuser,  57;  sure- 
ty.61.  See  Niessen,  Nissen,  Ni«- 
zcn 

Ronduyt  (the  Redoubt),  29,  89,  56, 
C9,  165 

Roosa,  Albert  or  Aldert  Heymanse, 
Commissary,  9,  11,  14,  15,  16,  18, 
21,  24,  28,  bl.  See  Roose,  Hey- 
mans,  Heymanse  Heymansenu 

Roose,  Alaerdt  Hoymansz,  signa- 
ture, 49,  50,  60,  64,  102.  See 
Roosa 

Roose,  Aldert  or  Allert  Heymanse, 
Commissary,  27;  re-elected  Con»- 
missaiy,  32;  Commissary,  34-37. 
43,  48,  50,  63,  56,  60,  62,  64,  65; 
lOldfT  of  Village,  64;  ansvv^r  to 
Schout's  suit,  102;  his  challenge 
concerning  two  Wappinger  sav- 
ages, 103;  called  the  Consistory,"^ 
104,  107;  sued  for  minister's  sal- 
ary, 118;  arbitrator,  125;  sued  for 
carpenter  work,  156.    See  Roosa 

Roose,  Arlaen,  sued  for  ordinance 
violation,  76;  excused  as  minor, 
96 

Roose  (Rose)  Jan,  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  76;  excused  as 
minor,  95 

Ropemaker,  120,  166 

Roseblom,  Hey  Olfersen,  sued  for 
freight  charge,  38.     See  Olfersen 

SABBATH,  THE,  11,  79,  89,  144, 
See  Sunday 

Salary,  minister's,  letter  and  re- 
quest about,  70,  130;  payment 
of,  requested,  115;  suits  for.  117- 
120,  124,  130;  provision  for,  164, 
168 

Savagep,  use  kettles,  21;  brandy 
sold  to,  22,  73;  admitted  to 
house  at  night.  62;  driven  from 
house.  128;  travel  to  their  na- 
tion forbidden,  144;  preparation 
atrainst  attack  by,  167.  See  In- 
dians 

Sawyer,  the,  11,  25 

Saw  pit,  digging  of,  allowed,  155 

Scheppl,  defined,  14 

Scbepmoes,  Sarah  Pieterse,  sues 
on  judgment,  38 

Schipper,  Reyner  Pietersen,  pre- 
sents account,  86 

School  money,  suit  for,  19 


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INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RECORDS  OP  KINGSTON. 


Schocn,    Jan    Wfllerascn.    land    of, 

151.     See  Jan  Willemsen 
Schout,    the.     See    Swartwout    and 

Caplto  and  Beeckman 
Schut,  Willem  Jansen,  deposition 
of,  84;  complaint  of  being  as- 
sailed for  testifying,  85 
Seba,  Willem  Jansen,  killed  during 
Indian  troubles,  74;  inventory 
of  his  estate  made,  74;  Slecht 
declines  to  render  account,  75; 
Slecht  ordered  to  render  ac- 
count. 76;  he  aslcs  to  leave  guard 
house  to  make  up  account,  80; 
further  time  asked,  91;  Consis- 
tory enjoins  rendering  account, 
100,  101;  a  payment  from  estate 
requested,  123;  curators  ordered 
to  render  account,  155 
Secretary,  the,  Capito.  47,  151;  van 

Ruyven,  163 
Sermon,  tapping  during,  complain- 
ed of,  4 
Servants,  49,  68,  79,  99 
Sewant  braider,  2 
Shirts,  42,  45 
Shoemaker,  the,  2,  27 
Shoes,  28,  42,  4t» 
Shop,  claim  for  guarding  a,  134 
Sieves,  125 

Simonsen,  Jan,  sued,  78 
Slander  suits,  16.  21.  22,  24,  31,  34, 

35.  37,  48,  53-55,  62.  63,  66.  72 
Slecht,  Cornells,  Cornelis  Baren, 
Barense  or  Barnentsen,  or  Cor- 
nelissen  Barentsem,  2;  as  Com- 
missary, 3-6,  9-11.  14-16.  21,  25- 
29,  31;  sues,  28;  claim  against, 
assigned,  36;  sued  for  wages,  43; 
sued  by  Stuyvesant,  52;  sues, 
59;  wife  mentioned,  72;  sued  for 
ordinance  violation  and  fined, 
75;  asked  to  render  account  of 
Seba  estate,  75;  declines  and  is 
arrested.  77;  objects  to  court's 
jurisdiction  or  fine,  77;  asks 
permission  to  leave  guard  house 
to  prepare  account,  80 ;  obtains 
extension  of  time,  91;  re- 
ports settlement  of  fine,  99; 
again  ordered  to  account,  100, 
101;  suit  against  him  suspended, 
106;  sued  as  guardian,  110,  111; 
sued  for  minister's  salary,  117; 
mentioned,  120;  sued  for  goods 
bought,     121;     arbitrator,     126; 


house  mentioned,  126,  147;  gar- 
nishee, 128;  sued.  134,  142;  nom- 
inated for  Commissary,  138;  peti- 
tions for  leave  to  build,  145.  See 
Sleght  and  Slegt 

Slecht,  Hendrick  Cornelissen,  sued, 
72;  sued  for  ordinance  violation, 
fined,  and  appeals,  74;  sued 
again  on  judgment  for  fine,  94 

Slecht,  Tryntje,  sued  for  slander, 
and  fined,  72 

Sleght,  Cornelis  Barense,  Commis- 
sary. 24:  sued  for  restitution  of 
land  leased.  26.     See  Slecht 

Slegt,  Cornelis  Barentse,  house- 
of,  3.     See  Slecht 

Snilt,  Jan  Aersen,  garnishee,   48 

Smith,  the,  Jan  Aersen,  60 

Smithing,  Jan  Aersen  sues  for,  29; 
Walran  duMont  sues  for,  125 

Smuggling,  suit  for,  39,  47;  wine 
confiscated  for,  50;  declared  a 
prize  for,  162 

Soap,  payment  for  a  keg  of,  68; 
inventoried,  74 

Soldiers,  39.  51.  69,  86,  109,  134. 
154.  164.  168 

Spanish  wine,  suit  for  sale  of,  23; 
cxcico  on,  159 

Stackpoles.    suit    for   carting.    24 

Stevensen.  Abraham,  alias  Craw- 
aet,  garnishee,  132 

Stiver,  defined,  4 

Stockings,  suit  for,  42 

Stoffels,  Machtelt,  sues.  3,  11 

Stol,  .Tacob  Jansen.  2;  69;  former 
Reader,  deceased,  125 

Stol,  Willem  Jansen,  sued,  5,  14, 
16,  26,  43;  harness  made  for  him, 
15;  his  Dutch  money  attached, 
48 

Storm,  Dirrick,  116 

Stoutenborch,  Jacob  or  Jacob  Jan- 
sen, sued  for  ordinance  viola- 
tion, 63;  case  appealed,  77;  ap- 
peal not  prosecuted,  113 

Stoutenburg,  Jacob  Jansen,  sued 
for  wages,  42 

Stoutenburgh,  Jacob,  sued,  43 

Straw  and  rubbish,  burning  of,  for- 
bidden near  palisades,  169 

Stranger,  a,  preference  given  in 
payment  on  suit  by,  155,  156 

Stuyvesant,  Petrus  or  Pieter,  des- 
ignates new  location  of  inhabi- 
tants of   Esopus   and   witnesse* 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINGSTON. 


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agreement  by  them,  1,  2;  sits  as 
head   of   Court   at   Wildwyck,   9, 
10;    selects   two   new   Commissa- 
ries,   332;     garnishee,    48;    gives 
power    of    attorney    to    sue,    52; 
suits  in  his  name,   112,  121,  122, 
142;     Christian     Niessen     substi- 
tuted in  suit  for  him,  129;  sues, 
169,    170.     See   Director    General 
Sunday,  non  observance  of,  79,  81, 
85,  93;    Court  rebuked   for  meet- 
ing on.  111.     See  Sabbath 
Supreme  Council,  32,  35,  59,  75 
Sureties,  8,  52,  61,  120,  136,  160 
Sutlers,  69 
Summons,   dispute   as   to   fees  for, 

108.  109 
Swarttwout],  Roeloof,  as  guardian, 

asked  for  release,  110 
Swartwout,   Eva,   wife   of   Roeloof, 
charges   theft   of  chickens,    101; 
submits  proofs,  104 
Swartwout,   Roeloof,  attests  agree- 
ment,   2;    presides    in    Court    as 
Schout,  4,  5,  9,  10,  11,  14,  15,  16, 
21,   24.    25,   27,    28,   31,   33,   34-37, 
43,   53,   56,  57,   64,   65,  67,  71,  72, 
75,  86,  89,  100,  103,  105,  108,  153, 
156;    sued,  11,  12,  16,  20,  29,   30, 
61,  158;  sues,  30,  58,  67;  witness 
to   mortgage,   46,   47;    garnishee, 
62;      guardian     mortgagee,     64; 
sues   for  fine  for  ordinance   vio- 
lation,   73,    76-79,    81,    92,    95-98, 
106,   159;    Inventory   of   Seba  es- 
tate made  before  him,  74;   com- 
plains of  being  hindered   in  du- 
ties, 80;  contemptuous  treatment 
of,    83;    prosecutes   case   of,    84, 
86;     interrogates    assailant,    87; 
makes   defendant   apologize,   S9; 
demands  fine  for  Sabbath  dese- 
cration, 89;  complains  of  Village 
Messenger,  92;   ordered  to  make 
inventory   and   report,   99;    chal- 
lenged  concerning   two   Wappin- 
ger  savages,  103;  sues  for  settle- 
ment of  fine,  106;   sued  as  guar- 
dian, 110;  his  successor  sues  for 
fine,  112,  113;  as  retiring  Schout 
asks   permission   to   exact   fines, 
114;     fees    to    be    divided,    115; 
mentioned,    116;    again    Schout, 
141;  ordinances  brought  by  him 
from  Manhattan,  144;  complain- 
ed of,  for  fighting,  147;  executes 
mortgage,    147,    148;    witnesBOB 


mortgage,  150;  sued  for  pastur- 
ing of  cows,  153,  163;  bids  to  be 
farmer  of  excise,  150;  appointed 
arbitrator,  162;  attaches  goods, 
163;  arrests  Fop  Barense,  164; 
ordered  to  give  up  Village  ac- 
counts and  documents  and  re- 
port to  Commissaries,  167 
Sword.  18,  147 

Sybrants  (Roeloofsen),  Altjen, 
sued  for  cost  of  hat,  21;  sued  for 
slander,  62,  66;  sued  for  con- 
temptuous conduct,  84;  fined,  85; 
part  of  fine  paid  to  church,  103 
Sybrantse  (Sybrantsen),  Bart,  sues 
for  freight  charge,  9;  for  pas- 
sage money,  10;  for  goods  sold, 
42.  See  van  den  Hout 
Symense,  Martha,  sues  for  wages, 

45 
Symensen,    Ariaen,     demands     re- 
ceipt for  debt  paid,  9 

TACK,    AERT    PIETERSEN,    wit- 
ness,    16;     sues,    22;     sued    for 
wages,  42,  49,  53;  sued  for  wages 
of  apprentice,  45;  mortgages  his 
grain,   46,   4r,    sued  on   his  obli- 
i      gation,  50;  his  lot  mentioned,  88; 
mortgages    his   farm    and   house, 
150;       son-in-law      of      Marietje 
Meynderts,  156;   hiS  property  or- 
dered sold  at  auction  to  satisfy 
creditors,  156,  167;   sale  ordered, 
after  objection,  to  proceed,   158. 
162;    an    account    presented    for 
payment,  167 
Tack,     Annetje     Arians,     wife     of 
Aert    Pietersen    Tack,    enjoined 
against  alienating  grain,  91,  92; 
sued   for   wages,    162.    See  An- 
netje Tack 
Tacks,  Annetje,   sued  on   contract, 
109;      execution     ordered,     115; 
sued  on   accounts,   and  payment 
ordered,  128,  129;   enjoined  from 
using  grain,   134,   135;    executipn 
against,  continued,  145.      See  A. 
A.  Tack 
Tannery,     permit     to     erect,     re- 
quested, 59 
Teunlssen,  Aert,  a  witness,  104 
Teunlssen,     Sweerus     or    Swerus, 
sues  Tack  and  attaches,  156,  157 
Teunnlssen,  Ariaen,  sued,  121 
Teunnissen,  Claesje,  estate  to  be 


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INDEX   TO  DUTCH  EECORDS   OF  KINGSTON. 


administered  by  Court,  90,  99 
Threshing,  16,  67,  68,  134 
Thomassen  (Tomassen),  Poulus,  a 

witness,  21;   sued  for  drinks  and 

goods,   51,  52;    sued   for   failure 

to  thresh  as  agreed,  67 
Thunes,  Classjen,  24 
Tobacco,    lighted    pipe    of,    as    a 

cause  of  conflagration,  169 
Tomassen,  Jan,  71,  163,  164 
Tomsen,  Paulas.     See  Thomassen 
Turkey,  a,  due  for  debt,  30 
Turnips,  good  with  pork,  54 
Tysen,    Jan,    sued,    80;    sues    for 

wages.  i62 

VAN  ALEN,  PIETER,  shoemaker, 
ordered  to  sell  wheat  to  military, 
2;  complains  of  beating  by  Ser- 
geant, 3;  sued,  7,  9,  14,  15;  or- 
dered to  pay  on  default,  10; 
fined  for  desecrating  Sabbath, 
11;  property  to  be  sold  under 
execution,  13;  sued  for  wages, 
and  described  also  as  van  Halen, 
17;  bond  and  mortgage  to,  24; 
ordered  arrested  for  charging 
use  of  false  weights,  43;  sues, 
47;  allowed  to  get  bail,  53;  de- 
nies charge  and  apologizes,  be- 
ing described  as  van  Halen,  55, 
66.  See  van  Halen 
.  ran  Amersfoiic  (Amersfoordt,  Am- 
mcrsfoort),  Jan  Janse  or  Jansen, 
sues,  13,  16;  sued  for  harness, 
15;  sued,  35,  144;  sued  for  wages, 
60;  sued  for  liquor,  65;  release 
asked  of  him  as  guardian,  110, 
111;  mortgages  his  house  and 
farm,  146.  See  Ammersfoort  and 
van  Hammersfoort 
van  Amerstede,  Jan  Jansen,  sued 
for  wages,  12.  See  van  Amers- 
foort 
van   Ameshof,   Jan    Barense,   sues, 

20.     See  Amershoff 
van  Bael,  Jan  Hendricks,  146 
van    Boheemen,    Pieter    Bruynsen, 

sues,  65.     See  Bruynsen 
van  Breemen,  Jan,  sued  for  boards, 
and  arrested,  S;   a  witness,  18; 
mentioned  as  with  Westercamp, 
40 
van  Breemen,  Jan  Dirlcksen,  sues, 
15,    65;    a   witness,    18,    21;    at- 
tached, 67 
T^Q  Campen,  Oerrreit,  sued,  8,  8,  9, 
'^  >0;  assigns  wheat,  13  I 


Van      Dale's       Orool      Woordenboek 

cited,  38 
van    den    Bergh,    Gysbert,    refuses 

consent  to  shipment  till  paid,  8 
van   der  Hage,   Marten,  a  barber, 

eflects  appropriated,  166 
van  der  Heyde,  Jan  Comelisen,  150. 

156 
van  der  Hout.  Barent  Sybrantaen, 
sues    for    freight,    38.    See    Sy- 
brantsen 
van  Dost,  Cornells  Jansen,  sues  for 

wages,  32 
van  Etten,  Jasob  Jansen,  requests 
payment  of  account  from  estate. 
167 
van   Eyckelen,  Jan   Janse  or   Jan- 
sen. sues.  7,  9 
van   Eyckelen,  Jan  Joosten,  appli- 
cation    to     attach     money,     re- 
ferred, 7 
van  Halen,  Pieter,  sued  for  wages, 
and  described  also  as  van  Alen 
17;   sued,  and  arbitrator  appoint- 
ed, 18;  gives  bond  and  mortgage 
to  Pieter  van  Alen,  24,   25;    de- 
mands   payment    for    shoes,    28; 
sued,  43,  71;  sues  for  shoes  made 
and   brandy    sold,    46;    after   ar- 
rest,   withdraws    charge    against 
Heymanse  and  apologizes,  55,  56, 
Cf.  van  Alen 
van  Hammersfoort,  Jan  Jansen,  a 
witness,     18.    See     van    Amers- 
foort  and  Jan  Janse 
van     Holsteyn,    Pieter     Jacobsen, 
mortgages    his    mill,    and    signs 
name     as     Jacobsen.     139.     See 
Pieter  Jacobsen 
van     Imborch,     Gysbert,     Commis- 
sary,   72,    79,    83,    84,    86,    89,   94, 
100,   103,  105,   108,   111,   114,  115, 
116.    117,   123,   127,   131,   132,   141, 
150.    151,     156;     a    witness,    79; 
sues   for  and  obtains  injunction, 
91;     sues,     128;     attaches,     134; 
sues    for    shaving    and    doctor's 
bill,  135;  appeals  ca?e,  137;   wit- 
nesses  mortgage,   139;    asks   for 
continuance    of    execution,    145; 
demands  fine  on  Lord's  account, 
147;   elected  delegate   to  Assem- 
bly, 149.    See  van  Imbroch,  Im- 
brock,  Imbrogh,  Imburgh 
van    Ihibroch,    Gysbert,    signature 
of,  70,  71,  92,  132,  135,  140,  14r, 
160;    as  Commissary,    168,    167, 


INDEX  TO  DUTCH  RECORDS  OF  KINQSTON. 


XVI 


158.  161,  164.  166.  169;  requests 
payment  of  expenses  as  delegate 
to  Assembly.  165.  See  van 
Imborch 

ran  Imbrock,  Gysbert,  mortgage 
to,  46-47;  settles  fine  for  Jan 
Jensen,  100.     See  van  Imborch 

van  Imbrogh,  Gysbert,  sues  for 
ruined  sacks,  51,  55;  appointed 
arbitrator,  66;  gives  Court  infor- 
mation, 60;  sues  for  expenses  of 
judgment,  61;  sues  for  vindica- 
tion of  honor,  being  called  a 
Jew  and  a  sucker,  62,  66;  Com- 
missary, 70.     See  van  Imborch 

van  Imburgh,  Gysbert,  selected  as 
Commissary  and  takes  oath,  69. 
See  van  Imborch 

van  Langesont,  Hans  Carrelsen, 
sued  for  trip  on  his  yacht,  36 

van  Lieeuven,  Andrios  Pietersen, 
sues,  134.  See  Andries  Pieter- 
sen 

van  Leeuvwcn.  Simon,  cited,  38 

van  Oostci-hout  (Oosthout),  Jan 
Jancen,  sued,  70;  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  73,  78,  90;  fined, 
113;  sued  for  minister's  salary, 
119;  deeds  his  land  to  Thomas 
Chambers,  137,  and  signs  Jan 
Jansen,  137,  138.  See  Ooster- 
hout  and  Jan  Jansen 

van  Ruyven,  Cornells,  secretary  of 
West  India  Company,  150;  at- 
tests copy  of  mortgage,  151;  re- 
fers accounts  to  bookkeeper,  163 

van  Steenwyck,  Albert  Jansen, 
sued,  166 

van  Steenwyck,  Jan  Albertsen, 
granted  lot  for  tannery  and  gar- 
den, 59;  inventory  of  his  estate 
filed,  104,  105;  suit  for  goods 
brought  from  his  estate.  120; 
curators  of,  sue,  125,  129;  closer 
attention  directed  to  be  given  to 
estate,  130.     See  Jan  Albertsen 

*van  Vliet,  Adrian  or  Ariaen  Gerret- 
sen,  a  witness,  71;  sued  for  or- 
dinance violation,  75;  votes  for 
delegates  to  Assembly,  149 

van  Vreedenburgh  (Vredenborch). 
Willen,  sued  for  excise  license 
payment.  63;  a  witness,  110. 
See  Vredenburgh 

van  Vridenborch.  Willem 

Vedder,  Hermen,  attaches  grain,  27 


Veere,     Magiel.     See     Veree     and 
Feere  and  Feree 

Venison,  sale  of,  by  Indians,  al- 
lowed. 165 

Verbeeck.  Jan.  65 

Verbrugge.  Michael  or  Michiel, 
sued  for  insulting  Schout,  163 

Verhagen.  Jesyntie.  sues.  38 

Verleet.  Mr.,  represents  Fop  Ba- 
rense,  63 

Vernoy,  Cornells  Comelissen.  at- 
taches money,  167 

Village  Messenger.  See  Messenger 

Vimmen,  defined,  128 

Vlamingh,  Pleter.  sues  for  wages, 
62 

Vogelsaugh,  Marcus,  bottomry 
bond  In  Holland  given  him,  44 

Voken,  Qerrett.  sues,  71.  See 
Fooken 

Volckerts  (Volckertss).  Emmetje 
or  Emmetjen,  requests  testi- 
mony, 53;  sues,  66;  attaches. 
149;    referred  to  arbitration,  162 

Volckertsen,  Jannetje,  sued,  61 

Vos,  Cornells  Brantsen.  sues  for 
wages,  8;  widow  sues  for  liquor 
sold  by  husband,  38;  sues,  41 

Vosburgh,  Geertruyt.  sues  and  ob- 
tains arrest,  8;  as  widow  sues  for 
liquor  sold  by  husband,  3S; 
sues.  41 

Vredenburgh,  Willem.  sues.  36. 
45;  attaches,  48;  sued,  60.  See 
van  Vreedenburgh 

WACHTSMAN.  EVERT  DE,  (the 
watchman),  sues,  8 

Waelsman,  Evert  de,  sues,  6.  See 
Pels 

Wages,  suits  for.  5,  8,  9.  12,  13.  16- 
19,  29,  37,  42,  67.  109,  122,  133, 
134,  162 

V.'alloon,  Catelyn  the.  3.  4 

Walter.  Anthony  de,  51 

Wappinger  savages,  challenge  con- 
cerning two,  102 

Washing,  suit  for,  166 

Watchers,  appointed,  52;  keeping 
watch,  161 

Weaver,  the,  Jan,  9;  Andries,  25 

Weights,  false,  use  of,  charged,  43, 
53,  56 

Wemp,  Jan  Barensen,  his  widow 
MaritJe  mentioned,  160;  de- 
ceased, 166 


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INDEX  TO  DUTCH  BECORDS  oV  KINGSTON. 


Wemp,  Maritje,  widow,  150 

Westercamp  (Westerkamp),  Grlet- 
jen  Hendricks,  sues  Pieter  Ja- 
cobsen,  35;  demands  why  he  de- 
nies child,  36;  produces  certifi- 
cate of  birth  and  demands  vindi- 
cation of  honor,  39;  defendant 
asks  to  be  released  from  her;  52; 
defendant  summons  her.  55;  de- 
fendant demands  justice  against 

■  her;  swears  he  is  not  father  of 
child,  57;  Court  decides  in  his 
favor,  but  orders  him  to  pay  for 
admitted  Intercourse,  57,  58 

Westgaelt,  Juriaen,  sued  for 
wages,  29.     See  Westphael 

Westgaer,  Juriaen,  sued  for  dis- 
charge of  servant,  4,  9;  surety, 
8.     See  Westphael 

Westhoesen  (Westhusen),  Jan,  a 
witness,  12,  13,  55 

Westhoeven,  Jan.  See  Westhoe- 
sen 

West  India  Company,   150 

Westphael      (Westphaelen,     West- 

■  vael),  Jeuriaen  or  Juriaen,  sued 
25.  29,  30,  32,  35,  36  44,  52;  sued 
for  slander,  34;  witness  with 
wife,  40;  garnishee,  67;  house 
mentioned,  74;  represents  em- 
ployees sued  for  ordinance  vio- 
lation, 77;  ordered  to  render  ac- 
count of  Looman  estate,  78;  asks 
release  of  Slecht  to  prepare 
account,  80;  becomes  his  surety 
to  return  on  release,  81;  repre- 
sents employees.  90;  copy  of 
letter  received  by  him  request- 
ed, 91;  apealed  from  fine  of  em- 
ployees, 97;  forbidden  to  pay 
anything  for  Seba  estate,  101; 
asks  Court  to  administer  Seba 
estate,  107;  special  bearing  to  be 
given  in  suit  of  Pels,  110;  de- 
livers note  of  Court  to  Consist- 
oiTi  11;  ordered  to  pay  fine  on 


non  prosecution  ow  appeal,  112; 
113;  payment  to  be  enforced,' 
115,  117;  sued  for  rent,  etc.,  by 
Stuyvesant,  121,  142,  169-171; 
sued  for  scrivener's  wage,  133; 
a  witness,  134;  gives  mortgage 
to  de  Meyer,  140,  141;  votes  for 
delegates  to  Assembly,  149; 
sues,  153,  158.  See  Westgaelt 
and  Westgaer 

Westvael,  Juriaen.     See  Westphael 

Wheelrlght,  the,  7 

Wildwyck,  46,  47,  73,  80-82,  84-88, 
99,  100,  102.  108.  117,  126,  127, 
131.  137-143.  146-150,  155,  156, 
159-161,  164,  165,  167-169 

Wildtwyck,  2,  8,  11,  14,  36,  63,  64. 
66 

Willemse  (Wlllemsen),  Dirck,  or 
Dirrick,  garnishee,  15;  reported 
killed,  property  to  be  adminis- 
tered, 74 

Wlllemsen.  Qerret,  Corporal,  a 
witness,   87 

Wlllemsen.  Jan,  sued,  7,  97;  sued 
for  wages,  17;  nominated  Com- 
missary, 32;  sued  for  goods 
bought  at  sale,  59;  sued  for  ordi- 
nance violation,  73,  78;  named, 
154;  Commissary,  158.  See 
Schoon,  and  Hochteyllngh 

Windows,  28 

Wine,  24,  39,  59.  63,  162 

Winnowing  baskets,  125 

Witnesses,  certificates  by,  37,  89- 
41.  62,  103,  104,  106.  110 

Wolf  catching,  ordinance  for,  81 

Woodchoppers,  126 

Wygerts,  Altje,  complains  to 
Schout  about  threats,  103 

Wynkoop,  Comelis,  mortgage  to, 
149. 

YACHT,  suit  for  trip  on,  86 
Ymmetjen    de    Backster,    attache! 
money,  9 


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