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Appointment of Isaac Grevenraet to be schout at Esopus, arrests for sedition, confiscation of furs belonging to Thomas Willett
From the nomination of the courts of Swaenenburgh, Hurley and Marbletown, the
Governor- General hath elected Isaac Grevenraet as Schout of said towns, and this day
in Council administered to him the oath as Schout.
Thomas Wandel having been
complained of and detained for some seditious words spoken against the government,
being this day examined, he denied the charge, notwithstanding Jan Jacobse, the
complainant, affirms the same in his presence. He is for the present released from
confinement, with a warning to be careful in future not to attempt anything against
the present government.
Jan Albertse being imprisoned for uttering some seditious
words against the government, but the proofs not being sufficient, he is released,
and ordered to be more careful for the future.
The Council having read and
considered the information of the Burgher watch of this city in the matter of the ten
packs of heaver belonging to Captain Thomas Wiliett seized by them about midnight,
between the 19th and 20th of this month, having been put on board a canoe with the
intention, as said Willet himself acknowledges, to export them without entering them,
in direct contravention of the laws and placards to that end enacted.
Whereupon
Captain Willet having been repeatedly summoned before the Council and asked what
could be brought forward in defence, answers, that he had in no wise tried to smuggle
those Beavers to defraud the public revenue, but only to save them from the general
seizure imposed on all his goods; requesting that they, for the reasons and motives
more fully set forth in his petition, and through commisseration, may be restored to
him, &c.
All which being considered by the Governor-General and Council, they
declare said seized and not entered beavers and peltries confiscate and forfeit,
agreeably to the pubhsiied placards, but he is excused this time, for reasons, from
further fines and penalties.
Dated Fort Willem Hendrick, 25th October, 1673.