Translation
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.
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.