Translation
Declaration of Maria de Truy concerning Mark Menloff
Maria de Truy, wife of Jan Peeck, testified in council before some officials of Vlissinge and Mr. D. Provoost that some Indians had told her about the killing of the hog. The one Indian named Sasse [ ] asked her why the Englishman named Merck Menloff was to be executed. She replied, because he had killed hogs in the woods. The Indian said that there were Indians near the white stone and that they had killed a hog and skinned it [ ] half of it with them, leaving the other half behind because [ ] an Englishman through the woods with a gun . . .
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. . . and declared that an Indian [ ] to his house [ ] offered to bring him pork [ ] ordered him, if the Indian brought him pork [ ] to remain in his house and [ ] to inform the director-general. For which the director-general, Petrus Stuyvesant, informed the authorized officials of Vlissingen in council that Merck Menloff is being held prisoner since several days ago.