RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 157
By me, Symaen Joosen
This is the X mark of Abraham Jansz, made by himself
Carystyaen Pyetersen }
} witnesses
Antoni Crol }
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Report of referees in a case of dispute between Mr. Moor
and Mr. Wederley, respecting a bark]
[135c] Whereas Captain Jan Onderhil and Isaac Allerton have been authorized by the director and
council of New Netherland to settle and decide, according to the best of their knowledge, the
case of Mr. Moor 214 and Mr. Wederley; therefore, they declare after mature deliberation that they
find it to be [just] that half the bark shall remain Mr. Moor’s, provided he pay here to Mr. Wederley
two hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco, or the value thereof, leaving him, Mr. Wederley, to
settle his affairs with the knight In Virginia, 215 inasmuch as [ ] to bring [
] from England.
In testimony whereof this signed by us, the 26th of November 1644, in Fort Amsterdam in New
Netherland.
John Vnderhill
Isaac Allerton
[Declaration of Marten Ael and Abraham Newman that Jochem Pietersen Kuyter
had gone to Manhattan with two soldiers when his house was burned]
[135d] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Marten Ael,
sergeant, aged about forty years, and Abraham Nieuman, soldier, aged 34 years, who at the
request of the Honorable Mr. Willem Kieft, director general of New Netherland, jointly attest, testify
214 Edward Moor.
215 Sir Edmund Plowden; see [119a-119b].
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