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Order in regard to persons at Fort Orange accused by Pietersen

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[several lines lost] The fiscal also concludes that Pieter Pietersz, [      ] [i] Company’s Negro, according to his own confession, to have given away the Company’s gun powder to Jochgem de Backer and still four others, that he is condemned to be brought to the place where justice is customarily done, to be beaten there with rods as an example to others and moreover banished from Fort Orange.

Also, that Marritje Cornelis, step daughter of Dirck Theunissen, presently apprehended on suspicion of incest, might be sent from Fort Orange by the lord La Montagne in order to question her about what she knows of this matter. [marginal note:] fiat.

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Some text in the margin intended for insertion here is illegible, except for the phrase “… until further orders.”

References

Translation: Gehring, C., & Venema, J. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 8, Council Minutes, 1656-1658 Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press: 2018.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.