RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 127
[Declaration of Claes van Elslandt and others that they saw the woman residing
on Old Jan’s plantation drive the Company’s cattle into the swamp]
[90a] [Before me], Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary [of New] Netherland, [appeared] Claes van
Elslandt, aged 44 years, Cosyn Gerritsen, aged 36 years, and Gerrit Jacobsen, aged 19 years, who
at the request of the honorable fiscal, Van [der] Hoykens, attest, testify and declare, in place and
with promise of a solemn oath if necessary and required, that it is true and truthful that they, the
deponents, having been sent by the honorable director to find the cattle belonging to the
Company and others, came to the plantation of Old Jan by the swamp, where they saw the
woman residing on Old Jan’s plantation drive the cattle with a stick into the said swamp, so that
the cattle were in it up to their backs, but as the cattle were strong and well in flesh, they finally
got through the swamp. All of which the deponents declare to be true and truthful. Done the
[blank] of November anno 1643, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Claes van Elslant
This is the X mark of Cosyn Gerritsen
Gerrit Jacobsen
[Agreement of Willem Turck to collect money from Philip Geraerdy
from the West India Company]
[90b] I, Willem Turc[k, supercargo] of the ship De Swarte Raven, acknowledge that [I have
received] from the hands of Philip Geraerdy an account against the West India Company of two
hundred and one guilders, three stivers, to collect the same from it. When the money shall be
received by Willem Turc, he shall, if he returns to New Netherland, invest the same in goods
according to the order given him, which goods shall then be at the risk of Philip Geraerdy; but if
said Willem Turc should not return to this country, he shall retain the money received by him in
his custody, subject to the order of Philip Geraerdy. Done the [blank] of November anno 1643,
in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Willem Turck
New Netherland Research Center New Netherland Institute