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ened anl shocked a certain woman, [Saertje Cornelis, wife of Thomas Sanderssen Smith,] that ac- cording to her complaint, she hath miscarried; Secondly, that he hath anjastly censured some honorable people, among others some of the Worshipful Court here, asserting, as relates to the agreement between him and Jan van Hoesem, that they had written a falsehood ; Thirdly, having been quietly spoken to about the purchase of two beasts, he, entering the house, called out that he had a knife in his sleeve, and that, if he were meddled with, he should pay the Honorable Prosecu- tor with it. Besides, being summoned on account of these enormities, he did openly insult the Honorable Prosecutor here, saying. 'I must bory you; I am sammoned before the court; I must hang.' Moreover have we been assured hy trustworthy persons, that he hath said to certain females who were proceeding to partake of the Lord's Supper, 'Is it a bit of bread you want ? Come to my house and I'll give you a whole loaf ;' and divers other things. [On being asked his age, ' to the contempt of the court, he said he was about twenty-one, though it is known to us that he is at least seventy years of age.'] WHEREFORE, he being a blasphemer, a street-scold, a mur- derer as far as his intentions are concerned, a defamer, a contemner of law and justice, and a dis- turber of the public peace, their Worships of the court aforesaid have adjudged and sentenced, as they do hereby sentence and adjudge, that the aforesaid sentence of banishment shall stand fast, and he, Willem Jariaensen, is hereby banished ont the district and jurisdiction of this colonie, from nnw henceforth and forever, to leave by the first vessel, and never more to return, on pain of corporal punishment: all with costs of court. Thus sentenced, &c., in College, this 18th July, 1650, to the knowledge of me,
"A. OF HOOOES, Secretary.
"27th July, 1650. Resolved, that Willem Juriaensen shall be conveyed on board of Rutger Ja- cobsen, and then released, Rutger Jacobsen promising to give him a passage in his yacht to the Manhattans."
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dwelling of Mr. Sander, who was Major of the place at the other side of the river. He was not willing to surrender, and began to put himself on the defen- sive, with his servants and some Indians. But as it was resolved not to do him any harm, in consequence of the good treatment which the French had formerly experienced at his hands, M. d'Iberville and the great Agniez proceeded thither alone, promised him quarter for himself, his people and property, whereupon he laid down his arms on parole."
Pieter Jacobsen and wife.
Gilles Barentsen.
Cornelis Spierinck
Johan Poog. Claes Jansen van Breda. Claes Tyssen.
1640.
Nys Jacobsen.
Jannitje Teunissen.
Jan Tennissen, carpenter.
Tennis Jacobsen van Schoenderwordt, brother to Rutger Jacobsen ; had 90 gl. a year salary for the first three years, and 100 for the next three. He became a trader in 1651.
Andries Hubertsen Constapel van der Blaes ; married Annetje Juriaensen ; owned a · tile kiln in Beverswyck, and died in 1662.
Andries de Vos, brother-in-law to Barent Pieterse Coeymans ; was Gerechts persoon, or magistrate, in 1648.
Adriaen Teunissen van der Belt. Jan Creynen.
Jan Jansen van Rotterdam ; was killed in the Indian war, 1644.
Jacob Jansen van Campen. Cornelis Kryne van Houtten.
Jan Cornelissen van Hontten. Claes Gerritsen.
1641.
Adriaen van der Donck, officier, or Sheriff.
Cornelis Antonissen van Slyck, alias Broer Cornelissen, was the first patentee of Katskill, anno 1646. Van Slyck's Island, opposite Schenectada, was so called after one of his sons, Jacques, to whom it was granted, 13th Nov., 1662, by Director Stuyvesant.
Claes Gysbertsen.
Joris Borrelingen, Engelsman. Claes Jansen van Ruth.
Jacob Wolfertsen.
Teunis de Metselaer.
Cornelis Cornelissen van Schoonderwoerdt, alias " Vosje."
1642.
Dominie Johannes Megapolensis, Jun., Matheld Willemsen, his wife,
Hellegond, Dirck, Jan, and Samnel, their children. Samnel M., the last named son, was sent to Harvard College in 1657; spent three years there, and then proceeded to the University of Leyden, where he was licensed, in 1662, as a minister, and obtained the degree of M. D. On his return, he became Collegiate pastor of the church at New Amsterdam, and was appointed by Gov. Stuyve- sant one of the commissioners to negotiate with the British the articles relating to the capitulation of the Province. Rev. Dr. De Witt.
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Abraham Staes, surgeon.
Evert Pels van Steltyn, brewer, and wife ; lived at the Mill Creek, Greenbush.
Cornelis Lambertsen van Doorn. Joachim Kuttelhuys van Cremyn
Johan Helms van Baasle.
Juriaen Bestval van Luyderdorp, ( near Leyden.)
Claes Jansen van Waalwyck. Paulus Jansen van Gertruydenburgh.
Hans Vos van Baden, court messenger ; was sheriff's constable in New Amsterdam in 1661.
Lucas Smith van Ickemsburgh ; left the colonie in the spring of 1646, with the char- acter of " eea eerlyk ende vroom Jongman"-an honorable and virtuous young man.
Cornelis Crynoesen.
Cornelis Hendricksen van Es, Gerechts persoon or magistrate. His daughter, Eliza- beth, married one Banckers. "Cryn Cornelissen declares that, in the spring of 1643, while conveying some of the guests, on the ice, to the wedding of Van Es's daughter, a mare belonging to him, (Cryn,) and a stud belonging to Van der Donck, were drowned in the neighborhood of Black, or Horse's point-(omtrent de Swarte, ofte Paerde Hoeck)-for which he understands Van der Donck received 150 guilders ($60) from the wedding party." MS.
Cornelis Gerritsen van Schoonderwoerdt.
Wm. Fredericksen van Leyden, free carpenter.
Antonie de Hooges, commis, afterwards Secretary of the Colonie. His daughter, and only child, says Bensen, " married Herman Rutgers, the ancestor of the respect- able family of the name among us." De Hooges died 1658. The well-known promontory in the Highlands was called Anthony's Nose, after him. Johan Holmes.
Juriaen - van Sleswyck.
Johan Corstiaenssen, mariner.
Hendrick Albertsen ; second time of his coming out. He was the first ferrymaster in Beverwyck; died in 1648 or 1649.
Gertrude Dries van Driesbergen, his wife. Hendrick Dries, her brother.
Albert Jansen, van Amsterdam. Jan Jansen Flodder, carpenter.
Geertje Mannix, widow, and two children. Pieter Wyncoop, commis.
Nicolaus Koorn, sergeant or wachtineester ; succeeded Van der Donck as Sheriff. Adriaen Cornelissen van Bersingeren. Arendt Teunissen van Luyten.
Cornelis Segers van Voorhoudt ; succeeded Van der Donck on the farm called Wee- lysburg, on Castle island ; married Bregje Jacobsen, by whom he had six chil- dren ; Cornelis, Claes, Seger, Jaunitje, Neltje, and Lysheth. The last named married François Boon, without her parents' consent, and was disinherited, hav- ing been left by will only £1 Flemish. Seger married Jannitje Teunissen van Vechten, and was killed, anno 1662, by Andries Hubertsen in a brawl. Many of the Segers family are still residents of the county of Albany.
Jacob Aertsen Wagenaar.
Jan Creyno van Houtten.
Jan Dircksen, Engelsman, van Amersfoort.
Herry de Backer. " I have known a gunner, named Harry de Backer, who killed at one shot from his gun, eleven gray geese out of a large flock." Van der Donck. Adriaen Willemsen ; hanished for theft in 1644.
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1643, 1644, 1645.
Pieter Hertgers van Vee, was one of the commissaries of the court at Fort Orange in 1654; died in Holland, 1670.
Abraham Clock.
Jan Barentsen Wemp, removed subsequently to Schenectada, where he became pro- prietor of some land. His widow married Sweer Teunissen van Velde Richard Brigham.
Lambert van Valckenburg.
Jacob Jansen Schermerhorn, married Jannitje, daughter of Cornelis Segers. He was a prominent trader in Beverwyck in 1648, when he was arrested, by Stuyve- sant, on a charge of selling fire-arms and ammunition to the Indians. ITis books and papers were seized, and himself removed a prisoner to Fort Amsterdam, where he was sentenced to banishment for five years, and the confiscation of all .
his property. By the interference of some leading citizens the first part of the sentence was struck out, but his property was totally lost. These proceedings against Schermerhorn formed, subsequently, a ground of complaint against Stuy- vesant to the States General.
Claes Teunnissen, alias " Uylenspiegel."
Gysbert Cornelissen van Wesepe ; called also Gysbert op de Berg, from the fact of his having lived on a farm called the " Hooge Berg," sitnate on the east side of the river, a little below Albany, which he rented in 1649 at 300 gl. a year. This farm still retains its original Dutch name, and is now owned by Joachim Staats, Esq.
1646.
Jan Jansen van Bremen ; lived in Bethlehem, and moved, anno 1650, to Katskill. Harman Mynderts van der Bogaert, arrived in New Netherland, anno 1631, as sur- geon of the company's ship the Eendracht ; he continued in the company's service to 1633, after which he resided in New Amsterdam until appointed commissary to Fort Orange. He was highly respected, though from all accounts he appears to have been of an irascible temper. An instance is mentioned of his having attempted, in the excitement of a high quarrel, when both appear to have been in a violent passion, to throw the Director-general out of a boat in which they were sailing on the river ; he was, it is added, with difficulty prevented from accomplishing his purpose. He occasionally wrote his name Harmanus à Boghar- dij. He came, I believe, to a violent death in 1649. Carl van Brugge succeeded him as commissary at Fort Orange
Jan van Hoosem. Hendrick Westercamp.
Jacob Herrick.
Jan Andriessen van Dublin, leased a bonwerie in 1649, described as lying " north of Stoney point, being the north half of the Flatt."
Tomas Higgens. Wolf Nyssen ; executed. Willem Leendertsen, brass-founder.
Jan Willemsen Scuth.
Pieter Bronck ; built a tavern in Beverwyck, in 1651, which was then the third at that place ; afterwards lived at Coxsackie, the creek at which place was called by the Dutch, Peter Bronck's kill.
Tomas Kenningh. Jacob Jansen van Stoutenburgh.
Jan de Neger ; Scherprechter, or hangman to the colonie.
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I. Legal Custom against the abuse of outstanding accounts in the Colonie of Rensselaerswyck.
[From the Rensselaerswyck MSS.]
N. B. No latitude to be given to the consciences or discretion of the Boors, but the law to be stringently enforced.
Here follows the Act.
1643, Sept .- Lawful custom against the abuses of outstanding accounts, as well for Principal Masters of Bouweries as for others.
For the redress of the abuses and faults in the Colonie of Rensselaerswyck, the in- struction given by the Lord Patroon, anticipating many things which have fallen into decay, and among these principally the falling off in liquidated accounts, must be specially observed in form and manner in the drawing up of said accounts.
Whereupon it comes to he considered, who they are who are hound or not, to make up these accounts.
That the farmers and inhabitants of the colonie should think that the Commissary of the Lord Patroon should be obliged to make them out for them, is wrong. For he is by no means in the employ of private individuals, hut in that of the Patroon. His duty, therefore, is only to take up, provisionally, in the name of the Patroon, all ac- counts in the colony, and to supervise these : therennto adding his advice and opinion, and afterwards to send them over to the Lord Patroon, for his approval, examination, or rejection.
Although he is accountable specially to the Patroon, so is he so far accountable to the inhabitants, that he must deliver to them the accounts of such property as is under his administration, whether store goods or others, which they receive from him. But as regards the accounts of property under the management and direction of the Bouwmeesters, (farmers,) and all others who have administration of any property, be- longing in whole or in part to the Patroon or the Company, such must not be made out by him, but must he handed in by them to him.
For as it is just that each one should vindicate his own acts, so another cannot know what is withont his knowledge ; what in this regard is right or wrong. Where- fore it necessarily follows then, as is customary throughout the whole world :-
That all farmers or others who hold any of the Patroon's property, must make out their own accounts, and deliver them to the Patroon or his commissary to examine them. Should they say that they are not qualified for this, then they ought not to have accepted or undertaken it, much less allow it to run on for several years, lest otherwise the impossibility, the inconvenience, or the loss to result therefrom, may fall on them, and they remain bound, notwithstanding, to render the account.
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It is not an impossibility, but a perverse covetousness to defraud the Patroon, and then to sit on a cross-road ;* intending that every thing that they, in this matter, can conceal from him, shall remain concealed, and that he shall know nothing thereof.
That it has also been feasible for them, and is always so, shall appear. But that they design something else thereby, that shall also quickly come to light.
Under the cloak of this simplicity, lurk the following foul deeds :
I. That they become trustees of goods under their administration and direction, of which they must render reckoning, without giving in an account.
II. That they may make out their outlays and expenses according to their own pleasure.
III. That they may include in the expenses of the bouwerie, their own personal expenses which they incur for clothing, furniture, and unlawful drink.
IV. That they can embezzle as much wheat and other produce as they please.
All which the Patroon disclaiming, as inconsistent with right and conscience, so it is a failure, not only in the manner of the accounts, hut they thereby alter their con- tracts and their promises.
They have given promises to him in accordance to the first article of the conditions of Gerrit de Reus, deceased, whereunto all contracts refer, until the arrival of the farmers from Breda, which agreement of the late Gerrit de Reus, as regards the pre- emption of the grain, they knew well, strictly, and [paper is here destroyed] to plead, as there were copies thereof in the country, to which copies, as well as to the original remaining with him, he, the Patroon, [paper here also destroyed] is appealing. And it will be found in the beginning thereof, that they are bound under oath, on pain of losing their wages and effects, that neither they, nor their people, shall trade in any forbidden peltries of otters or beavers, nor obtain any such in presents or otherwise, without his, the Patroon's, express consent.
So that all such as have done so, have forfeited their effects, unless they have sub- sequently obtained the consent of the Lord Patroon, proving which to him, he shall approve thereof, provided they fulfil the conditions on which he granted it to them :
Namely, half the profits each time they trade and barter. They must, therefore, render upright account and declaration of what they have gained thereupon, and account for his half. As they now say that they cannot render such account, so he, the Patroon, insists, according to their contract, on the confiscation of their effects ; giving them the choice to take one or the other, and that, moreover, from year to year, and this is the first.
Coming now to the remaining points of their own contracts which they invert :
Brant Peelen and Cornelis van Brenckel are for themselves personally bound to render an account for the goods brought by the Key of Calmar and the Arms of Nor- way, among which were divers goods which they traded for beavers, whereof Arendt van Curler writes, that not twelve pelts have come into his hands. They remain, besides, hound and accountable as security for Arendt van Curler, whom the Patroon sent over only as assistant, and they promoted as commissary under their bond, as appears by their own hand.
Further, they invert all these following points. According to their contract, they are bound to defray, out of the common produce and profits :
I. The wages of their servants and boys.
* En daermede op eenen kruys wech te zetten.
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II. Next, the food.
III. Next, their own expenses, as regards the board in the bouwerie, according to thei: contract ; but in no way for drink, but simply for wages and diet ; obliging them, as far as drink is concerned, to make shift, like other Boors, with milk, with ordinary beer ; in the harvest, with extraordinary good beer, and for the remainder, whatever the river affords.
IV. That they have undertaken to pay, out of the general produce, all wear of wagons, ploughs ; in fine, all damages and losses.
Of all which the most of them are in arrear, leaving not only the wages of the ser- vants to fall on the Patroon, who with trouble hath obtained these for them, but they take, also, on account, without paying any money, such cargoes as the commissary, Arendt van Curler, delivers to them.
From which it appears clearly, that over and above all their dehauches in wine and strong drink, every one would fain claim, and hath much to demand by way of de- duction. And though the Patroon hath advanced their outfit, furnished them with dwellings, cattle, wagons, and plonghs, for the first time ; necessaries of food and shoes, linens and woollens, as the manifests sent by him can prove, still, instead of the returns of his necessaries and profits from the bouweries, he hath large sums to pay which he never intended. Forbidding his commissary to make any deductions to masters or servants, inasmuch as the masters should have first made out and com- pleted the accounts of their servants, (knechts,) and that from year to year and afterwards, the masters should draw up their own accounts in the following manner, charging him, the commissary, not to move his hand, another time, to give any ac- count except of what he hath issued. But to demand, in the name of the Patroon, [paper worn away.] All outstanding accounts shall be made up in said [colonie] by the farmers and other residents.
Firstly, those who settle on half profit and loss, shall afterwards make up their ac- counts :
I. And give in, every year, uprightly, the whole amount of grain and other pro- duce obtained that year from the houwerie ; and those who neglect to do so, shall incur fine and damages.
II. Item, what they received from the swine which they sold ; from milk, hutter, and other sources.
III. Item, what grain they delivered to freemen in the colonie and sold.
Herefrom must be deducted, and by them be paid, according to their contract :
I. The wages of the farm-servants, with the 16 fl. yearly for the Patroon.
II. The food for themselves and people.
III. The wear of wagons, ploughs, repairs of houses, harns, palisades, (fences,) and other such things.
This being deducted, make out an account of what then remains ; exhibiting to the Patroon, or his commissary, his lawful half which falls to him, deducting beforehand his future tenths.
What now regards the lawful half of the remainder, the future farmer must sub- tract from that the following :-
I. What he had for himself each year for cloths and house furniture ;
II. What he yearly had from the Patroon's store for himself and his servants, which he shall stop in return ;
III. What he and his people yearly consumed in wine and strong drink, whereof
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the Patroon is not bound, according to contract, to pay his half ; the Patroon under- standing peremptorily, that all the wines which are drunk in the colonie, and paid for in grain, or other common effects, shall not be deducted from the general stock, much less from his share, but from his who hath consumed them, whether man or woman, master or man, having promised no one such (drink,) much less such a flood as many have used.
And as regards the increase of the cattle, each farmer shall pertinently give in an account of what have yearly died ; what have been added, and what have been dis- posed of ; and the Patroon understands the price of the pre-emption of the cows is to be estimated by those which calve in their third year, and not in the second, as the val- uation on the part of the company, as regards the pre-emption, is understood of cattle which calve in their third year. So that those calving in their second year, gradual- ly pining away, and producing poor stock, are to be entered only on the half, or what- ever else is most proper .*
And whereas the farmers commonly have recourse to perverse means, and enter on crooked courses, as for example :- When corn becomes less in quantity (scarce) and more in demand, then many of them have sent a great deal away, and sold it higher than the pre-emption price, or delivered it on their own authority to the compa- ny's servants, without receiving special payment therefor, or special bills of exchange, or an assignment to be received in hand, but so delivered it up in gross. There- fore the Patroon resolves, as is just, that [MS. here destroyed] such wheat as is de- livered, in this manner, to the company, is not considered as fulfilling [erasement ;] all the effect thereof [will come] on his purse. Warning, to this end, the farmers that, from the beginning until this time, being now in the thir [teenth] year, 1,500 guilders in money have only once been received, in all that time ; the remainder has been expended in goods and provisions delivered to the farmers, and the people of the colonie have entered down the same in parcels of two to three thousand guil- ders, without naming man or horse. Which accounts must first be rightly analyzed, as to who have carried away those parcels, or not ; making no exceptions and taking no excuses from one or the other: " I have not had this ; I have not had that ;" every one being willing, by assertion, to clear himself ; and inasmuch as some will be more in debt than others, 80 must it be first cleared up, or adjusted, whence those moneys are to be received. For what the one hath delivered, and the other hath re- ceived, that must be found out by those who had (the goods) and not by the Patroon. Nor can any money be charged to the Patroon which has not been received at his counter. Particularly not, if such has, withont his consent, been delivered or sent to the company, who have accepted that on the general account of the colonie, as it ap- pears ; and such farmers had done better to have immediately proposed their payment there.
And whereas grain is now somewhat less in demand, and will apparently be some- what lower in price, so the Patroon hereby again warns the farmers who have run- ning accounts, that they shall not hand in their statements (haere leverancie) in gross, but separately :-
I. The tenths ;
II. What is for the servants' wages, and what for the yearly expenditure ;
* Sulx dat die op haer tweedejaer kalvende, allengskens verkleynen, en kleynen aert voortbren- gende, maer op de helfte, ofte wat meer behooren genomen te worden.
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III. The thirds or halves coming to the Patroon.
Which is done that their just income may every year be correctly known, and they may not come to any loss.
The number of muds [four bushels] shall be handed in to the Patroon's commissary, demanding of him, if he, in the name of the Patroon, accepted or refused the pre-emp- tion right, whereupon the commissary shall have to regulate himself according to the order of the Patroon, and according to the expected prices and sales, which he may be able to obtain for it in cash, goods, or peltries, without credit. On the contrary, should he refuse the right of pre-emption, the farmers are at liberty to do their best by it ; and this is the legal choice of the pre-emption. But that the farmers should wish to crowd np the commissary and overload him with produce, when it is low in valne, and when at a higher price, sell the same, as many have done-that is io no wise the intention of the Patroon. Warning all farmers to watch over their people therefore, and not to deliver any mixed grain ; that is to say, whereof the tenths, the thirds, or halves, according to contract, are not separated or paid.
Coming now to the conclusion :- The Patroon declares that he will not accept any accounts which include several years ; but that every farmer, or whoever he be, shall deliver in to him yearly account of the year's profits, as well for them as for him.
That also all commission accounts (leverancien) whereof they have not received special payment, or which have not come into the Patroon's counter, must run [origi- nal destroyed] in the general account until all out-[original destroyed] are sepa- rated.
That none of the inhabitants hath or can have any free or private goods, except such as have rendered their yearly and proper accounts.
And as they possibly may complain of this ; the Patroon hath much greater cause to complain, who has not received any accounts from them in all this time. That they should call on the Patroon's commissary is wrong. It has already been stated, that he is not in their service, but in the Patroon's employ ; that he is not bound to make out theirs, but the Patroon's accounts; and that every person, be he who he may, as well the Patroon's commissary as all other contractors, farmers, yearly or daily servants, each shall make out his own account. The commissary is specially enjoined to account to the Patroon ; and all others, none excepted, shall account to the commissary for his examination first, and afterwards for the approbation of the Patroon.
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