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Simon Dircksen Pos, was one of Minuet's council in 1624; died in 1649. Jan Tyssen, trumpeter, Fort Orange.
Andries Carstenssen, millwright.
Laurens Laurenssen,
Barent Tomassen, sawyers.
Arendt van Curler, was a magistrate of the colony until the time of his death, and one of the leaders of the settlement at Schenectady, 1641. Jacob Jansen Stol, succeeded Hendrick Albertzsen as ferry-master at Beverwyck.
Mertin Gerrittsen van Bergen, married Neeltje Meynderts; his oldest son was Gerrit; his second, Myndert van Bergen. In the year 1668, he had a lease of Castle Island, called after him, Martin Gerritsen's Island, and in 1690 he lived south of that island, on the west side of the river. He had property in Katskill, Coxsackie, and Albany, of which place he was magistrate for a long time.
Claes Arissen.
Roeloff Jansen van Maesterlandt, wife and family; came out as farmer to the Patroon, at $ 72 a year. The Rev. Ev. Bogardus, of New Amsterdam, married his widow. Claes Claessen, his servant. Jacques Spierinck.
Jacob Govertsen. Raynert Harmensen.
Bastiaen Jansen Krol, Fort Orange.
Albert Andriessen Bradt, de Noorman, married Annetje Barents, by whom he had eight children, viz. Barent; Eva, (who m. Roeloff Swartwout;) Storm; Engeltje, (who m. Teunis Slingerland, of Onisquathaw;) Gisseltje, (who m. Jan van Eechelen;) Andries, Jan, and Dirck. The tradition is, that one of the above children was
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Settlers of Rensselaerswych from 1630 to 1646.
born on ship-board, on the passage out, in the midst of a heavy storm, in consequence of which he was called Storm van der Zee. Barent Albertsen succeeded his father, in 1672, as lessee of the water privileges on the Normans Kill, for which he was to pay $ 150 a year; and Slingerland succeeded, in 1677, as lessee of the farm which his father had occupied until then on the above stream. Albert de Noorman died 7th June, 1686, and Swartwout, mentioning the oc- curence, says :- he was "een van de oudste en eerste inwoonders der colonie Rensselaerswyck." At the time of his decease, he was proprietor of some lots and houses on the island of Manhattans. It was after this man that the creek south of Albany was called the Noormans Kill. Many of his descendants are still met with in and around the latter city.
1631.
Maryn Adriaensen van Veere. This was the freebooter who afterwards played so prominent a figure in Kieft's time.
Thomas Witsent.
Gerrit Teunissen de Reus, schepen, had a well-stocked farm in Greenbush,
Cornelis Teunissen van Westbroek.
Cornelis Teunissen van Breukelen, Raedts persoon; the descendants of this man now call themselves van Brackelen.
Johan Tiers.
Jasper Ferlyn.
Gerrit Willems Oosterum,
Cornelis Maessen van Buren Maassen (in Galderland) and Catalyntje Martensen, his wife, came out in the ship Rensselaerswyck. In the passage out was born their first child, Ilendrick; had besides him, four other children, viz. Martin, Maas, Steyntje, and Tobias, all of whom were living in the colonie in 1662. Steyntje married, 1663, Dirck Wessels, "free merchant here." The father had a farm at Papskenea. He and his wife died in 1648, and were both buried on the same day ! (Beyde op eenen dagh zyn begraaven. MS.)
Cornelis Teunissen Bos, bouwknecht to Cornelis Maassen, was commis- sary at Fort Orange previous to 1662.
1634.
Jan Labbadie, carpenter, native of France, was subsequently commissary to the Patroon, and after that held a like office at Fort Orange, under the company. He married the widow of Mr. Harman van der Bogaert. He came out previous to this year, and was part owner of the Garce.
Robert Hendricksen.
Adriaen Gerritsen.
Lubert Gysbertsen, wheelwright. Jan Jacobsen.
Jacob Albertzen Planck, officier, sheriff. Hendrick Cornelissen.
Joris Houten, Fort Orange.
Jan Jansen Dam, or Damen; married Ariaentje Cuvel. He removed subsequently to New Amsterdam, where he was elected one of the Eight Men; amassed considerable wealth, and was one of the owners of the privateer La Garce. In 1649-50 he went to Holland with C,
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Settlers of Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646.
van Tienhoven, to defend Stuyvesant against the complaints of Van der Donck and others, and died on his return, 18th June, 1651. He does not seem to have had any children. He had three brothers, Cornelis Jansen, Cuyper; Cornelis Jansen Damen; and Willem Jansen Damen; and two sisters, Neiltje, and Hendrickje. He adopted the son of the last-named sister- Jan Cornelis Buys-who assumed his name, having been left 600 Car. guilders. Jan Damen, at his death, willed 400 Car. guilders to the poor of Bunick, province of Utrecht. The inventory of his personal property fills ten folio pages in the records.
1635.
Jan Terssen van Franiker. Jan Cornelissen, Carpenter.
Juriaen Bylvelt. Johannes Verbeeck; Raedt Persoon, 1658, 1661.
1636.
Barent Pieterse Koyemans, alias Barent the Miller, entered the service of the first Patroon, at 30 guilders a year. Three brothers accom- panied him to Rensselaerswyck in 1636 : viz. David, Jacob, and Arent, who was a lad. It is presumed that they came originally from Utrecht. Barent worked in the Patroon's grist-mill until 1645, in the fall of which year he took charge, with Jan Gerritsen, his part- ner, (who came out with him,) of the Patroon's saw-mills, being al- lowed 150 gl. each a year for board, and 3 stivers a cut for every plank they sawed. He remained in this employment until 1647, having cut between three and four thousand boards in that time. Previous to 1650, he lived a little south of the 5th or Patroon's creek, and in 1655 took a nineteen years' lease of a farm of maize-land at 24 gl. per annum. In 1657 he rented, in company with Cornelis Theunis van Breukelen, for three years, the Upper Mills, (as the mills on the Patroon's creek were called, in contradistinction to those on the Norman's kill,) which he leased on his own account in 1660 for 13 years. This lease expired in 1673, about which time he purchased, by consent of the Commissioners at Albany, from the Katskill Indians, a large tract of land, some twelve or fifteen miles south of that city, on the west side of the river. The place had been known, for many years previous, as offering peculiar advantages for the erection of saw-mills, Cryn Cornelissen and Hans Jansen having erected saw-mills on the creek immediately north of Beeren Island as early as 1651. Coeymans had, no doubt, these advantages in view when he made his purchase, which began at a point on the shore called Sieskasin, opposite the middle of Jan Ryersens island called by the Indians Sapanakock, and ran south to the mouth of Pieter Bronck's kill, as Coxsackie creek was then called. Following up this creek to its head, the line then went west until it struck the head of the waters falling into the Hudson, all the land on which be- longed to the Katskill Indians, the waters flowing west to the Scho- harie creek being the property of the Mohawks. The line then went
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Settlers of Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646.
northerly to the bounds of Rensselaerswyck, and thence returned to the Hudson River. A patent was obtained for this tract, twelve miles deep and some eight or ten front, from Gov. Lovelace, on 7th April, 1673. But falling as it did within the original bounds of Van Rens- selaer's colonie, Coeymans purchased out the Patroon's claims, 22d Oct., 1706, agreeing to pay a quit-rent of nine shillings a year, and he finally obtained letters patent from Queen Anne, confirming the whole to him and his heirs forever, 6th Aug., 1714. This purchase now constitutes the ancient town of Coeymans, in the county of Albany .- Barent Pietersen had five children-Andrcas, Samuel, Peter, Ariantje, and Januitjc. Andreas moved to the Raritans, New Jersey, where he purchased a considerable tract of land, and where some of the Coeymans still residc. Peter married twice : by his first wife he had Mayica, who married Andreas Witbeck; and Elizabeth, the wife of Jacob van Allen. By his sccond wife, Charlotte Amelia Drawyer, hc had Gerritje, who married John Barclay, mayor of Albany; Anne Margaret, who married Petcr Ten Eyck, and Char- lotte A., who married John Bronck. Mrs. Abraham Verplanck of Coeymans is grand-daughter to this Mrs. Bronck. All the descend- ants of Barent Coeymans, after the first generation in a direct line, were females. Owing to this singular circumstance, the family name is now extinct in this state.
Pieter Cornelissen van Munnichendam, millwright.
Dirck Jansen van Edam. Mauritz Jansen, vanBroeckhuysen. Arent Andriessen van Frederickstad, Michel Jansen, S
This Michel brought out his wife and two children. Van Tienhoven says he came out as a "boereknecht," or servant. He amassed a fortune in a few years, in the fur-trade, but not being able to agree with the head men of the colonie, he removed, in 1646, to the island of Manhattans. He purchased Eversten Bout's farm in Pavonia, with some stock, for 8,000 gl., and was appointed one of the delegates to Holland in 1649, against the colonial administration, but owing to the unsettled state of his private affairs he could not accept that appointment. It was in a room in this man's housc, in New Am- sterdam, that Van der Donk wrote his celebrated "Vertoogh," or Remonstrance against the maladministration of affairs in New Netherland.
Jacob Jansen van Amsterdam.
Simon Walings van der Belt; was killed at Pavonia, in 1648, by some savages from the south.
Gysbert Clæssen van Amsterdam.
Hans Zevenhuyzen.
Adriaen Hubertsen.
Cristen Cristyssen Noorman van Vlecburgh and wife.
Rynier Tymanssen van Edam. Thomas Jansen van Bunick.
Tys Barentsen Schoonmaker van Edam. Cornelis Tomassen, smith, and wife.
Arent Steveniersen, wife and two children; he married, anno 1637, the widow of Cornelis Tomassen, by whom he had two other children. Johan Latyn van Verduym. Claes Jansen van Nykerk.
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Settlers of Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646.
Rutger Jacobsen van Schoenderwoerdt; married in New Amsterdam, anno 1646, Tryntje Jansen van Briestede, (who died at her son's in Rosendal, in 1711). By her he had two daughters and one son. Margaret, one of the daughters, married, in 1667, Jan Jansen Bleeck- er, who came from Meppel, province of Overyssel, to America, in 1658, and was the ancestor of the present highly respectable Bleecker family in this state. Rutger Jacobson was a magistrate in Rensselaerswyck as early as 1648, and continued to fill that office as late as 1662, and perhaps later. He owned a vessel on the river in 1649, in which year he rented, in partnership with Goosen Ger- rittsen, the Patroon's brewery, at 450 gl. a year, payable in addition one guilder for every ton of beer which they brewed. This duty amounted in the first year to 230 gl., and in the following season they worked up 1,500 schepels of malt. On the 3d of June, 1656, he laid the corner-stone of the "new church," in Beverswyck, and we find him subsequently part proprietor of Pachonakelick, called by the Dutch Mohican's, or Long Island, below Bethlehem. He had the character of an upright citizen, and to his credit it must be add- ed, he rose by his honest industry from small beginnings.
Ryckert Rutgerson; was engaged, when he first came out, at 130 gl. per annum for a term of 6 years. In 1648 he took a 6 years' lease of Bethlehem Island, at 300 gl. per annum, besides the tenths. He re- ceived three horses, and two or three cows on halves, and the Pa- troon was to build him a barn and dwelling-house, he cutting and drawing the timber, and boarding the carpenters. He was exempt from rent and tithes for the first year. In 1652 he surrendered his lease to Jan Ryersen, after whom this island has since been named. N. B. The Settlers of 1636 came out in the ship Rensselaerswyck, hav- ing sailed from Holland on the 1st October of that year.
1637.
Jan Michaelsen van Edam, tailor, and his boy,
Pieter Nicolaussen van Nordinge,
Teunis Cornelissen yan Vechten, succeeded Michel Jansen on his farm in 1646, and lived in 1648 in the south end of Greenbush.
Burger Joris, smith,
Jan Ryersen; the island situate opposite the junction of the towns of Bethlehem and Coeymans, on the Hudson, was called Jan Ryersen's island, in consequence of this man having lived there in 1652.
Abraham Stevensen, surnamed Croaet, a boy.
Cornelis Teunissen van Merkerk.
Goosen Gerritsen van Schaick; married, 1st, Gerritje Brants, daughter of Brant Peelen; 2d, in July, 1657, Annetje Lievens. He was a brewer in the colonie in 1649, in which year he accepted, after a good deal of solicitation, the office of magistrate, or Gerechts per- soon. Was afterwards one of the part owners of Nachtenack, the Indian name for the site of the present village of Waterford, Saratoga county.
Willem Juriaensen Bakker, was banished from the colonie in 1650, at the age of seventy years, in consequence of his repeated misdeeds,
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Settlers of Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646.
1638.
Jan Dircksen van Amersfoort.
Gerrit Hendricksen.
Wybrant Pietersen.
Cornelis Leendertsen.
Willem Meynten.
Francis Allertsen, cooper.
Martin Hendricksen van Hamelwaard.
Roeloff Cornelissen van Houten.
Adriaen Berghoorn.
Volckert Jansen. Jacob Jansen Nostrandt.
Christoffel Davits; lived in 1650 on a farm at Dominie's Hoeck, now called Van Wie's Point.
Claes Jansen Ruyter.
Jacob Flodder, his man.
Gysbert Adriaensen van Bunick; came out in the Key of Calmar.
Teunis Dircksen van Vechten; came out with wife, child, and two ser- vants, in the "Arms of Norway," and had a farm in 1648 at Green- bush, north of that occupied by Teunis Cornelissen van Vechten. He is referred to in 1663 as "an old inhabitant here."
1639.
Jacob Adriaensen van Utrecht. Ryer Stoffelsen.
Cryn Cornelissen; obtained a license in 1651 to erect a sawmill in com- pany with Hans Jansen van Rotterdam, on what is now Coeyman's Creek.
Adam Roelantsen van Hamelwaard; previously a schoolmaster in New Amsterdam.
Sander Leendertsen Glen; married Catalyn Doncassen. He was one of the Indian traders at Beverswyck, and finally moved to Scotia, near Schenectada, of which tract he obtained a patent from Gov. Nicolls, in 1665. Reference is made probably to this gentleman by the French in their account of the burning of Schenectady, anno 1690, in the following terms: "At daybreak some men were sent to the 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 defensive, 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. Johan Poog. Gilles Barentsen. Claes Jansen van Breda. Class Tyssen.
Cornelis Spierinck.
1640.
Nys Jacobsen.
Jannitje Teunissen.
Jan Teunissen, carpenter.
Teunis 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 Juriaen- sen; owned a tile kiln in Beverswyck, and died in 1662.
Hendrick Fredricksen.
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Settlers of Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646.
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 Keyne van Houtten. Jan Cornelissen van Houtten. 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 Sche- nectada, was so called after one of his sons, Jacques, to whom it was granted, 13th Nov., 1662, by Director Stuyvesant.
Claes Gysbertsen.
Jacob Wolfertsen.
Joris Borrelingen, Engelsman. Claes Jansen van Ruth.
Tcunis de Metselaer.
Cornelis Cornelissen van Schoonderwoerdt, alias "Vosje."
1642.
Dominie Johannes Megapolensis, Jun., Matheld Willemsen, his wife,
Hellegond, Dirck, Jan, and Samuel, their children. Samuel 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 Gev. Stuyvesant one of the commissioners to negotiate with the British the articles relating to the capitulation of the Province .- Rev. Dr. De Witt. 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 character of "een eerlyk ende vroom Jongman"-an honorable and virtuous young man.
Cornelis Crynnesen.
Cornelis Hendricksen van Es, Gerechts persoon or magistrate. His daughter, Elizabeth, 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 be- longing to him, (Cryn), and a stud belonging to Van der Donk, 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.
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Settlers of Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646.
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 respectable 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, Hendrick Dries, her brother.
his wife.
Albert Jansen, van Amsterdam. Jan Jansen Flodder, carpenter.
Geertje Mannix, widow, and two children.
Pieter Wyncoop, commis ..
Nicolaus Koorn, sergeant or wachtmeester; 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 Weelysburgh, on Castle island; married Bregje Jacobsen, by whom he had six children; Cornelis, Claes, Seger, Jannitje, Neltje, and Lysbeth. The last named married François Boon, without her parents' oonsent, and was disinherited, having been left by will only .€1 Flemish. Seger married Jannitje Teunissen van Vecthen, 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 Creyne 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.
Adrian Willemsen; banished for theft in 1644.
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 Schenectady, where he became proprietor of some land, His widow married Sweer Teu- nissen van Velde.
Richard Brigham.
Lambert van Valckenburg,
Jacob Jansen Schermerhorn, married Jannitje, daughter of Cornelis Se- . gers. He was a prominent trader in Beverwyck in 1648, when he was arrested, by Stuyvesant, on a charge of selling fire-arms and ammunition to the Indians, His books and papers were seized, and
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Settlers of Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646.
himself removed a prisoner to Fort Amsterdam, where he was sen- tenced 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 Stuyvesant to the States General .. Claes Teunissen, 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," situate 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 origin- al Dutch name, and is now owned by Joachim Staats, Esq.
1646.
Jan Jansen van Bremen; lived in Bethlehem, and moved, anno 1540, to Katskill.
Harman Mynderts van der Bogaert, arrived in New Neterland, anno 1631, as surgeon 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 at- tempted, 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 oc- casionally wrote his name Harmanus à Boghardij. He came, I be- lieve, 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 bouwerie in 1649, described as lying- " north of Stoney point, being the north half of the Flatt."
Tomas Higgens. Jan Willemsen Scuth.
Wolf Nyssen; executed. Willem Leendertsen, brass-founder.
Pieter Bronck; built a tavern in Beverwyck, in 1651, which was then the third at that place; afterwards lived at Coxackie, 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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Sentence of Willem Juriaensen Bakker.
SENTENCE OF WILLEM JURIAENSEN BAKKER.
As the minute in the Gerechts rolle, or court register, of the sentence pronounced against this public disturber will afford some idea of the strictness of the police in those days, we are tempted to translate it .- O' Callaghan's Hist. of N. Netherland, p. 437.
" Their worships, the Commissioners and Council of the colonie of Rensselaerswyck, having duly considered and weighed the demand of the Honorable Director, as prosecutor against Willem Juriaensen Bakker, and finding that he was already banished out the colonie by their Worshipful Court, on the 4th February, 1644; and afterwards because that he at- tempted on the Lord's highway with a knife to stab the person of Antonie de Hooges, then commis to the Noble Patroon, whereby he, in as much as in him lay, did commit a murder, for which he, on the 28th August, 1647, was banished from the colonie; and he having by petition prayed for a respite, which was granted to him, he pledged all his goods, and also subjected himself to the banishment of his person, should he happen to insult any person within or without the court, or to do any thing that should be displeasing, or worthy of punishment. Therefore, the Honora- ble Prosecutor, recapitulating the same, has set forth, to wit, that he, the Delinquent, hath so frightened and shocked a certain woman, [Saertje Cornelis, wife of Thomas Sanderssen Smith], that according to her com- plaint, she hath miscarried; Secondly, that he hath unjustly 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 Prosecutor with it. Besides, being summoned on account of these enormities, he did openly insult the Honorable Prosc- cutor here, saying, 'I must bury you; I am summoned before the court; I must hang.' Moreover have we been assured by 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 murderer as far as his intentions are concerned, a defamer, a contemner of law and justice, and a disturber 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 Juriaensen, is hereby banished out the district and jurisdiction of this colonie, from now 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, g.c., in College, this 18th July, 1650, to the knowledge of me,
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