Translation
Declaration of Marten Ael and Abraham Newman that Jochem Pietersen Kuyter had gone to Manhattan with two soldiers when his house was burned
Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Marten Ael, sergeant, aged about forty years, and Abraham Nieuman, soldier, aged 34 years, who at the request of the Honorable Mr. Willem Kieft, director general of New Netherland, jointly attest, testify and declare that they lay in garrison at Jochim Pietersen’s when his house burned down, at which time his servants stood sentry, there being in all four soldiers and five farm-hands, two of whom were threshers. Jochim Pietersen had gone to the Manhatans and had taken with him two soldiers. All of which the deponents have confirmed on oath before the fiscal, the 29th of November 1644, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
References
Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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