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Declaration of Nicolaes Coorn regarding a statement made by Wilcock that a gold mine of which the Dutch were in search belonged to the crown of Sweden

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Nicolaes Coorn, officer[1] in the colony of Renselaerswyc, certifies at the request of the fiscal that Jan Jansen Cuyper told the deponent in conversation that, being in a tavern where there were many persons, he heard in the course of various conversations that Wilcock said to a Swede: “The mine or gold mine which the Dutch have been in search of does not belong to the Dutch, but to the crown of Sweden.” All of which he, Nicolaes, declares to be true. Done the 23rd of October 1645.

N: Koorn
Cornelis van Tienh.
Nicolaes Coorn was on August 26, 1643, commissioned commander and commis of Rensselaers Steyn. Shortly before the date of this document he had succeeded Adriaen van der Donck as officier, or schout, of Rensselaerswijck. See Minutes of the Court of Rensselaerswijck, 1648-52, pp. 10-11.

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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.