Translation
Declaration of Gysbert de Wit that powder was smuggled on board the ship St. Pieter
Gysbert de Wit, aged fifty years, attests, testifies and declares, in place and with promise of a solemn oath if necessary, at the requisition of the fiscal, that he, the deponent, being on board the ship before Durickerdam,[1] saw Jan van Hoorn’s sloop bring to the ship St. Piter six kegs of powder which were not entered at Amsterdam, and in his opinion they are hidden aft, under the tiller, where there is a hole. The deponent offers to confirm this. Done the 13th of December 1644, on the island of Manhatans, 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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