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Heindrick Jansen, smith
Acknowledged before me,
Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 120
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Declaration of Jan Warrensen and Hans Nelisen, two soldiers, respecting
an attack made by Indians on the colony of Achter Col]
[85a] [Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven], secretary in [New] Netherland appointed [by the
General] Chartered [West India] Company, appeared Jan Warrensen, aged twenty years, and
Hans Nelisen, aged thirty years, both soldiers in the service of the above mentioned Company,
who at the request of Mr. Johannes Winckelman and Cornelis Jansen Coelen, attest, testify and
declare, in place and with promise of a solemn oath if need be and required, that it is true and
truthful that they, the deponents, (being five soldiers strong), having been commanded by the
Hon. Director Willem Kieft to defend the colony of Achter Col, a very heavy attack was made
on the house by the Indians in the night between the seventeenth and the eighteenth of
September. We, the deponents, being strong five soldiers, five boys and one man who belonged
in the colony, defended ourselves until the Indians shot the house, in which we were obliged to
defend ourselves, on fire over our heads, when we were forced to abandon the house in
consequence of the heat and were only barely able to save ourselves in a canoe, taking with us,
of all the goods that were there, only our firearms. All [of which they declare to be true],
offering to confirm the same on oath. Done the 30th of October anno 1643, in Fort Amsterdam
in New Netherland.
Acknowledged before me,
This is the mark of [Jan] Warrensen
Hanns Niellszen
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Bond of Johannes Winckelman in favor of Jan Vigne
for moneys disbursed in wintering cattle]
[85b] I, the undersigned, Johannes Winckelman, agent of Mynder Meyndertsz van Keren,
hereby acknowledge that on the 14th of February anno 1642, I received from Jan Vienje the
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