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Extraordinary Session, held Monday, December 31, 1663.
Present: Marten Cregier, Captain Lieutenant, President; Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout; Albert Gysbertsen, Thomas Chambers, Gysbert van Imborch, Commissaries.
Whereas, the account between Tjerck Claesen de Wit, plaintiff, and Roelof Swartwout, defendant, has been adjusted by the Honor- able Court, which has found that Tjerck Claesen remains indebted to Roelof Swartwout for the purchased horse in twenty-four sche- pels of wheat, the Honorable Court therefore orders Roelof Swartwout to deliver the purchased horse to Tjerck Claesen de Wit within ten days, the receiver to pay the balance of twenty-four schepels of wheat on receipt of the horse, which is to be at Roelof Swartwout's risk until its delivery and the receipt of the wheat, and if Roelof Swartwout can justly claim anything more as due from Tjerck Claesen, he may summon him to appear before the Court. Tjerck Claesen de Wit is ordered to pay the costs herein.
Ordinary Session, held Tuesday, January 15, 1664.
Present: Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout; Albert Gys- bertsen, Tjerck Claesen deWit, Thomas Chambers, Gysbert van Imborch, Commissaries.
Henderick Jochemsen, plaintiff, vs. Albert Gysbertsen, defend- ant. Absent. Default.
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Tjerck Claesen de Wit, plaintiff, vs. Jonas Rantsou, defendant. Absent. Default.
Mattys Roelofsen, plaintiff. Absent. Default .. vs. Aert Mar. tens Doorn, defendant.
Jan Broersen, plaintiff. Absent. Default. vs. Ariaen Ger- retsen, defendant.
On January 21, the following note was handed to the minister, Hermanus Blom :
. Rev. Mr. Hermanus Blom.
Whereas, on the evening of January 2, last, Paulus Cornel- isen, Jacob Jansen, alias long Jacob, Cornelis Brantsen Vos, and Ariaen Huybertsen, came to an agreement with the Provisional Schout to pay, for the violations committed by them, the sum of one hundred and seventy guilders, in seewan, of which eight guild- ers are for costs, leaving one hundred and sixty-two guilders, one- third whereof is due to the Church, your Reverence will also re- ceive thereby two schepels of wheat, besides seven schepels of wheat of last week, making in all nine schepels of wheat, reckoned at six guilders per schepel, forwarded on account of the Church at Wildwyck, being the legal one-third of one hundred and sixty- two guilders. Done at Wildwyck, this 21st day of January, 1664.
(Signed) Mattheus Capito.
Ordinary Session, Tuesday, January 29, 1664.
Present : Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout; Albert Gys- bert, Tjerck Claesen deWit, Thomas Chambers, Gysbert van Im- borch, Commissaries.
Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout, in the name of IIer- manus Blom, minister, plaintiff, vs. Juriaen Westphael, defendant .. Plaintiff demands from defendant fl. 64:6:12, heavy money, the balance of the salary of the aforesaid minister, for the past years 1661 and 1662. Defendant admits the debt. The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the above debt.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant one hundred and eight guilders, heavy money, the balance of the salary of the aforenamed minister for the years 1661 and 1662. Defendant admits the debt.
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The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the above debt.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Aeltje Claes, defendant. Absent. Default.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Jan Lootman, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant ten guilders, heavy money, the balance of the salary of the aforenamed minister for the year 1662. Defend- ant denies the debt, saying that, as he is in the service of the Com- pany, he is not obliged to contribute to the minister's salary.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to satisfy the afore- said demand, because, though he is in the service of the Honorable Company, he is also domiciled here.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Mattys Roelofsen, defendant. Plain. tiff demands from defendant ten guilders, heavy money, the bal- ance of the salary of the aforenamed minister for the year 1662. Defendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the above debt.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Aert Martensen Doorn, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant fl. 17:2:4, the balance of the aforesaid minister's salary for the years 1661 and 1662. Defend- ant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the above debt.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Harmen Hendericks, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant fl. 19:6:8, the balance of the aforesaid minister's salary for the years 1661 and 1662. Defend- ant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the above amount.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Pieter Jacobs, defendant. Absent. Default.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Allert Heymans Roose, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant eleven guilders, heavy money, the balance of the aforesaid minister's salary for the year 1662. Defendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court learns that defendant owns a double lot. He must pay for the double lot twenty guilders, being in propor- tion to other single lots which must pay ten guilders, towards the minister's salary, and in addition one guilder, for acreage money.
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The aforementioned balance amounts to twenty-one guilders, which he is ordered to pay, in heavy money.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Jan Broersen, defendant,. Absent. De- fault.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Jacob Barents Cool, defendant. Plain- tiff demands from defendant the sum of ten guilders, heavy money, being the balance for the salary of the aforenamed minister for the year 1662. Defendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the above debt.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Henderick Martensen, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant the sum of ten guilders, heavy money, balance of the aforenamed minister's salary for the year 1662. Defendant denies he is indebted for the minister's salary, and says that he is in the service of the Company, and therefore not obliged to contribute to the minister's salary. He further says that he has nothing to pay with, having been taken captive by the savages.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the aforenamed demand, for, though in the service of the Honorable Company, he nevertheless has a house and lot here.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Antoni Crupel, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant the sum of fl. 12:10, heavy money, being the balance of the minister's salary for the years 1661 and 1662. Defendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the foregoing debt.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Jacob Boerhans, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant the sum of ten guilders, heavy money, being the balance of the minister's salary for the year 1662. De- fendant says that during the troubles here his house was set on fire and he was not able to save anything from the house, and it is therefore impossible for him to pay.
The Court orders defendant to pay the aforesaid demand.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Jan Jansen van Oosterhout, defend- ant. Plaintiff demands from defendant ten guilders, heavy money. being the balance of the minister's salary for the year 1661. De- fendant admits the debt, and says that Albert Gysbertse undertook to pay the same for him in the year 1661.
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The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the aforesaid demand.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Henderick Cornelissen lyendrae- jer [ropemaker], defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant the sum of twenty-five guilders, heavy money, being balance of the minister's salary for the year 1662. Defendant admits the debt and says that twenty-four guilders, light money, were assigned to Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, and nine guilders, light money, to Al- bert Gysbertsen, totaling thirty-three guilders, light money.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the aforesaid demand.
Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout, in the name of the cura- tors of the estate of Jan Albertsen van Steenwyck, plaintiff, vs. Jan Claesen de Wit, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant, in his absence, for his guardians, the sum of two hundred and one guilders, light money, for goods bought from the estate.
Tjerck Claesen de Wit, one of the guardians present, being one of the heirs of the aforesaid estate, offers himself as surety and principal for his brother Jan Claesen deWit, for the above meu. tioned amount, to secure any balance if his share be not sufficient, adding the guardian, Henderick Jochemse, as surety.
The Honorable Court decides that as Jan Claesen de Wit is a co-heir of the estate of Jan Albertsen, the suretyship of his brother Jan [Tjerck] Claesen deWit, and of Henderick Jochem- sen, the curators of the estate, be accepted for the said amount.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Tjerck Claesen deWit, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant the sum of eight hundred and fifty-two guilders, eleven stivers, light money, for goods bought from the estate of Jan Albertsen van Steenwyck.
Defendant admits the debt, and says that he is co-heir of the aforesaid estate, and offers to pay if his share should be less; he also offers as sureties for the aforesaid amount the curator Evert Pels, who is present, and the guardian, Henderick Jochemsen.
The Honorable Court decides that, as defendant is co-heir in the aforesaid estate, he shall furnish security for the aforesaid amount.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Jan Barents Ameshof, defendant. Absent. Default.
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The Same, plaintiff, vs. Ariaen Teunissen, defendant. Plain- tiff demands from defendant the sum of sixty-four guilders light money, for goods bought from the estate of Jan Albertsen. De. fendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the aforesaid amount.
The Same, plaintiff vs. Ariaen Gerretsen, defendant. Absent. Default.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Mattys Roelofsen, defendant. Plain- tiff demands from defendant the sum of eight guilders, light money, for goods bought from the estate of Jan Albertsen. De- fendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the aforenamed demand.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Dirrick Hendericks, defendant. Ab- sent. Default.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant the sum of one hundred and thirty-one guilders, ten stivers, light money, for goods bought from the estate of Jan Albertsen, two hundred and eight guilders, ten stivers, light money, for one-half of the lot purchased from him for and on account of Jeronimus Ebbingh, for which he is surety, together amounting to three hundred and forty guilders, light money. Defendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the aforesaid demand.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Jacob Jansen, alias long Jacob, defend- ant. Absent. Default.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Lambert Huybertsen, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant the sum of forty-three guilders, ten stivers, light money, for goods bought from the estate of Jan Albertsen. Defendant admits the debt, and requests fourteen days' time.
The Honorable Court allows defendant fourteen days' time to pay the aforesaid amount.
Christiaen Niessen, in the name of the Honorable Lord Di- rector General, Petrus Stuyvesant, plaintiff, vs. Juriaen West- phael, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant, for the Hon-
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orable Director General aforenamed, payment of the sum of ten hundred and four guilders, heavy money, beaver's value, being an old balance due for rent and otherwise, and requests that, as he has attached all his goods, no corn be permitted to leave defendant's house until he shall have paid the Lord General. Defendant ad- mits the debt, but says he has a counter claim for a portion.
The Honorable Court orders the attachment to continue, and that defendant shall pay plaintiff, before any other of his creditors.
Christiaen Niessen, in the name of the Honorable Lord Direc- tor General, Petrus Stuyvesant, plaintiff, vs. Ariaen Gerretsen, de- fendant. Absent. Default. Plaintiff says he attached defendant's property, and gives notice thereof.
The Honorable Court agrees and declares said attachment is valid.
Hendrick Jochemsen, plaintiff, vs. Albert Gysbertsen, de- fendant. Plaintiff presents an account against defendant for for- ty-four guilders, two stivers, in light money, for the wages of, and expenses incurred by, his son, and for sixty schepels of oats on account of Frans Pieterse, which he attached March 28, 1662. De- fendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay plaintiff the above amount.
Evert Pels, plaintiff, vs. Aert Martensen Doorn, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant payment of the sum of two hun- dred and fifty-six guilders, heavy money. Defendant denies the debt and answers he has a counter claim.
The Honorable Court orders the parties to adjust their ac- counts, and, if they cannot do so, that each party shall submit his claim in writing at the next session of the Court.
Mattys Roelofsen, plaintiff, vs. Pieter Hillebrants, defendant. Absent. Default.
Mattys Roelofsen, plaintiff, vs. Ariaen Gerretsen, defendant. Absent. Default.
Mattys Roelofsen, plaintiff, vs. Aert Martensen Doorn. defend- ant. Plaintiff demands from defendant payment of thirty-one schepels of wheat. Defendant admits the debt, and requests plain- tiff to allow him three weeks' time.
The Honorable Court grants defendant the requested time.
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Mattys Roelofsen, plaintiff, vs. Rut Albertsen, defendant. Ab- sent. Default.
Tjerck Claesen de Wit, plaintiff, vs. Jonas Rantsou, defendant. Plaintiff again demands from defendant five schepels of wheat, as already demanded in this Court on December 18, 1663. Defend- ant says that plaintiff attached nineteen guilders which were with Christiaen Andriesen, and, as the latter is dead, defendant re- quires plaintiff to make oath whether he has not received it, and then offers to pay to plaintiff four and one-half schepels of wheat which he admits he owes him.
The Honorable Court orders plaintiff to declare under oath that he did not receive the nineteen guilders from Christiaen An- driesen, nor in any other manner to be out the said nineteen guild- ers. Defendant is ordered, if the oath is taken, to pay plaintiff four and one-half schepels of wheat. The plaintiff declines to make oath.
Nicolaes Goselingh, plaintiff, vs. Ariaen Gerretsen, defendant. Absent. Default.
Nicolaes Goselingh, plaintiff, vs. Aert Martensen Doorn, de- fendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant two schepels of wheat. Defendant admits the debt.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay plaintiff.
Jan Pietersen Muller presents to the Honorable Court a power of attorney from Wouter Albertsen, residing at Fort Orange, to collect from the estate of Willem Jansen Seba, deceased, a quantity of nine schepels of wheat. He, at the same time, shows the obliga- tion of Willem Jansen Seba, and requests payment out of the sold property of Willem Jansen Seba, deceased.
Ordinary Session, Tuesday, February 12, 1664.
Present : Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout; Albert Gys- bertsen, Thomas Chambers, Gysbert van Imborch, Commissaries.
Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout, plaintiff, vs. Thomas Chambers, defendant. Plaintiff presents a petition regarding a quarrel with Paulus Cornelissen, which occurred in the house of Mr. Gysbert van Imborch, and states that they came to blows. He asks that defendant be condemned therefor to pay a double fine of one hundred guilders, he being a judge, in whom this is unseemly.
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Defendant admits having used his fist once, and leaves the matter to the Ilonorable Court.
The Honorable Court having scen the Schout's complaint, and that not more than one blow was struck, condemns defendant to pay a fine of twelve guilders, to be duly applied.
Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout, plaintiff, vs. Paulus Cor- nelisen, defendant. Plaintiff presents a petition showing that, at the house of Gysbert van Imborch, defendant came to blows over a dispute with Thomas Chambers, and requests that the defendant be condemned therefor to pay a fine of fifty guilders. Defendant says he does not know anything about this.
The Honorable Court orders plaintiff to bring proof at its next session.
Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout, plaintiff, vs. Mattheu Blanchan, defendant. Plaintiff demands a fine of fifty guilders from defendant because, after the second beating of the drum, he churned some milk on the day of fasting and prayer. Defendant answers that the drum beat only once, and that he had no milk for his calf, and he never in his life did this before.
The Honorable Court, having examined the Schout's complaint and the answer of the defendant, orders defendant to pay six guilders, one-half for the Church.
Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout, in the name of the min- ister Hermanus Blom, plaintiff, vs. Aeltje Claesen, defendant.
Plaintiff demands the sum of ten guilders, heavy money, from the defendant, being the balance of the minister's salary for the year 1662. Defendant answers that the building lots should be ex- empt, she having paid for her land.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the aforesaid demand, because no money was taken from her for her land in the year 1662, but only for the building lots
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Pieter Jacobsen, defendant. Second default.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Jan Broersen, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant the sum of twenty guilders, heavy money, being the balance for the minister's salary for the years 1661 and 1662. Defendant admits the debt, but says that Albert Gysbertsen
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undertook to pay ten guilders, heavy money, in 1661. He further says he is not able to pay this year.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay the aforesaid demand, and that he may commence suit against Albert Gysbertsen on his claim.
Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout, in the name of the cura- tors of Jan Albertsen van Steenwyck, plaintiff, vs. Ariaen Ger- retsen, defendant. Second default.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Dirrick Hendericksen, defendant. Second default.
The Same, plaintiff, vs. Tomas Hermensen, defendant. Ab. sent. Default.
Walran duMont, plaintiff, vs. Lambert Huybertsen, defend- ant. Plaintiff demands from defendant sixty guilders, heavy money for one year house rent, and twenty-seven guilders, heavy money, for smithing. Defendant presents a counter claim amounting to one hundred and one guilders, ten stivers, heavy money.
The Honorable Court orders that defendant, having occupied only one-half of the house, shall pay plaintiff forty guilders, heavy money, for one year's house rent, and also the twenty-seven guild- ers, heavy money, for smithing, making in all sixty-seven guilders, heavy money, and then that plaintiff shall pay defendant thirty- four guilders, ten stivers, heavy money, being the balance of de- fendant's counter claim.
Evert Pels, plaintiff, vs. Aert Martensen Doorn, defendant. Plaintiff presents his whole account against defendant for the sum of five hundred and forty-one guilders, seventeen stivers. Defend- ant shows a counter claim still incomplete.
The Honorable Court orders parties to go to good men, name- ly, Allert Heymans Roose and Cornelis Barentse Slecht, to adjust the accounts on both sides, if possible, and, if not, to again refer to the Court.
Aert Martensen Doorn, plaintiff, vs. Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant fifty guild- ers, heavy money, being his share of the salary of the former Reader, Andries Vandersluys, five sieves and five reels and two winnowing baskets, received from his predecessor, Jacob Jansen Stol, deceased. Defendant answers he does not know whether he
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paid the above debts, as he settled accounts with his predecessor.
The Honorable Court orders parties to settle their accounts.
In regard to the request of the Ensign, Christiaen Niessen, made to the Honorable Court, in reference to paying the woodchop- pers, builders and carters of the palisades for filling in the open spaces between the palisades near Cornelis Barentsen Slecht's and the main guard house, the Collector, Jacob Boerhans, is ordered, out of the excise money, to pay to the Ensign afore- named the sum of forty-one schepels of wheat.
Done at Wildwyck, this February 12, 1664.
Petition or request of the Reverend Consistory to the Honorable Magistrates of this place.
The Reverend Consistory here, for the sake of their office and for conscience' sake, request, with due submission, of the Honorable Magistrates of this place, that the public, sinful and scandalous Bacchanalian days of Fastenseen*, coming down from the heathens from their idol Bacchus, the God of wine and drunkenness, being also a leaven of popery, inherited from the pagans, which the Apos- tle, in 1 Cor. 5, admonishes true Christians to expurge, may, while near at hand, be proscribed in this place by your Honors, by prop- er ordinances, while we admonish against and publicly reprehend those abominations, so that through God's grace and blessing we shall mutually have done our duty, and we may thereby do some good for this place and its inhabitants, their bodies as well as their souls,-the more so as we are passing through such woeful times of God's judgment over us in this place, inflicted because of our sins -and so that we may not, through such scandalous sins of Fasten- seen, and sinful doing, continue to irritate the Lord and still fur- ther call down his judgments upon us, for we are still under his rod, and his sword of war still threatens us yet more to try the land and its inhabitants. And shall then the inhabitants be gay in their sins, while the land mourns, and we are called on every month to fast, to weep and to mourn ! Joel 2. Therefore it is, that the Rever- end Consistory desire of the Honorable Court, that our prayer may be heeded and taken to heart, we being foster fathers of God's
. Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras
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Church and congregation, so that thus sin and abomination may the more and more be banished from this newly developing com- munity, to the glorification of God's name and the edification of this community, as well as the happiness and welfare of the place, upon which we must depend. In the meantime we commend you to God's keeping, and may He bless your office and persons.
Below was written, In the name of the Reverend Consistory. (Signed) Hermanus Blom. (In the margin) February 12, 1664, at Wildwyck.
To the petition or request of the Rev. Mr. Hermanus Blom and the Reverend Consistory to the Honorable Court, the follow- ing answer was given:
The Honorable Court will be glad to comply with said request, so far as its instructions permit.
The Honorable Court at Wildwyck hereby again admonishes the retiring Commissaries, to please make out their accounts of the village of Wildwyck, within two weeks, as they were also judicially ordered to do on May 22, 1663, the which has been hin- dered or delayed by the war, so that the Honorable Lord Director General, upon his arrival, may see the state of this place.
The Collector, Jacob Boerhans, is ordered, out of the excise on wine, to pay Aert Martensen Doorn forty-two guilders in seewan, light money, for room rent of the Honorable Court here, and to en- ter it in the accounts.
Done, this February 12, 1664.
Ordinary Session, Tuesday, February 26, 1664.
Present : Mattheus Capito, Provisional Schout; Albert Gys- bertsen, Tjerck Claesen de Wit, Tomas Chambers, Gysbert van Im- borch, Commissaries.
Tomas Harmense, plaintiff, vs. Albert Gysbertsen, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant a quantity of fifty schepels of wheat for assigned debts. Defendant admits the debt but says he is not able just now to pay.
The Honorable Court orders defendant to pay plaintiff's afore- said demand.
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Tomas Harmensen, plaintiff, vs. Aert Martensen Doorn, de- fendant. Plaintiff demands the sum of thirty-five guilders, in see- wan, from defendant, for goods delivered, and for one and one- half days' wages. Geertruyd Andriesen, in the absence of her hus- band, the defendant, admits the debt.
The Honorable Court, except Thomas Chambers, orders de- fendant to pay plaintiff's aforesaid demand.
Thomas Harmensen, plaintiff, vs. Henderick Albertsen, de- fendant. Absent. Default. Plaintiff has attached four schepels of wheat of defendant's, in the hands of Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, and gives notice thereof.
The Honorable Court allows said attachment as valid.
Albert Gysbertsen, plaintiff, vs. Coenrad Ham, defendant. Absent. Default.
Tjerck Claesen de Wit, plaintiff, vs. Evert Pels, defendant. Plaintiff demands from defendant two fimmen [or vimmen, plural of vim, the equivalent of a stack of 104 to 108 sheaves] of oats which he loaned defendant last winter. Defendant admits this, but says he has a counter claim against plaintiff.
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