Albany County ,Rensselaerswyck NyArchives Court.....Court, Minutes April 1648
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Source: Minutes Of The Court Of Rensselaerswyck
Written: April 1648

[3] Thursday, April 23 Anno 1648

  At the request of Cornelis Teunisz for an extension of time to render his
account, permission is granted him for the last time, without prejudice to our
previous order, to render his account on Tuesday next, without fail, on pain of
forfeiture of one pound Flemish, or six guilders.

  Quiryn Cornelisz remaining in default as regards the previous order, peremptory
order is hereby given that he be found and made to execute the same, according to
circumstances.

  The matter of Jacob Jansz Flodder, in regard to the contract of the new mill and
the two stallions, is put over to next Thursday. As to the payment for the kill,
two of us will be appointed to sign and give a receipt.

Extraordinary session, April 25 Anno 1648

  After Quiryn Cornelisz according to the previous judgment had been placed in
confinement, it was at Hans Vos's urgent request agreed to hold his bail and
suretyship valid, on condition of binding himself as principal for the
[appearance] of the person of [Quiryn Cornelisz] on Monday [week], being the 4th 
 of May of the year above written and for his proceeding with the case [       ]
whereupon [said Quiryn Cornelisz was released from] confinement.

[3v] Thursday; April 30 Anno 1648

  Upon the petition of Jan. Verbeeck and Jan Michielsz the following serves for
apostil: Their request, is, granted, namely, they may both with a helper, to the
exclusion of all others, take up the tailor's trade, binding themselves by
contract for the accommodation of the colony, provided that neither of them shall
be entitled to receive more than 36 stivers for a day's work and the helper 30
stivers. But as to the request that no one shall be allowed to take any work into
the fort, {1} we can not approve of this for reasons us thereunto moving.

  Cornelis Segersz is ordered to pay Reyer Stoffelsz, according to the assignment
by Adriaen vander Donck, the sum of 49 guilders within the space of six weeks, in
default whereof the said sum will be demanded of him by legal process. But if he
can prove within the aforesaid time that he does not owe Vander Donck anything,
this assignment will be of no value. On the other hand, from this date until the
next Reyer Stoffelsz: is debarred from exacting the first payment due to him.

  Jan Van Bremen {2} is condemned to pay the fine for {striking?] Hans Vos in 
[     ] wheat.

  {1} Meaning that the colonists of Rensselaerswyck should be prohibited from
employing a tailor in Fort Orange outside of the jurisdiction of the colony.

  {2} According to G. Beernink, De Geschiedschrijver en Rechtsgeleerde Dr. Arend
van Slichtenhorst en zijn vader Brant van Slichtenhorst, p. 170, Jan Dircksz van
Bremen came, not come from, the city of Bremen, in Germany, as theretofore
supposed, but from Amersfoort, in the province of Utrecht, van Bremen being the
family name. It is possible, however, that Mr. Beernink confuses him with Jan
Dircksz, Englishman, mentioned in these minutes under date of November 19, 1648,
who is given in the accounts of the colony as from Amersfoort. In Resolutions of
Brazil (W. I. Co. Oude Co., No. 68, Rijksarchief, The Hague), under date of Sept.
24, 1637, appears the following entry: "Jan Dircksz van Bremen, Constabel
(gunner), who came into the country on the ship Graeff Ernestus, fl. 64:-"


Additional Comments:
Figures within brackets represent the pages of the original manuscript. 
Elsewhere, brackets indicate material supplied by the editor.

Figures within {braces} represent foot notes

Extracted from:

MINUTES OF THE COURT OF
RENSSELAERSWYCK 1648-1652

Translated and edited by

A. J. F. VAN LAER
Archivist, Division of Archives and History

ALBANY
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
1922



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