Document: Dutch colonial council minutes, 4-25 January 1646

Resolution on the receipt of a writing from rev. Mr. Bogardus, which is declared absurd and irrelevant, again calling on him to answer the above charges, on pain of being prosecuted as a rebel and contumax. [1646];Resolution, on receipt of a paper sent by dom Bogardus filled with unprofitable subterfuges, that he be again summoned. [1646];Court proceedings. Oloff Stevensen (van Cortland) vs. rev. Everardus Bogardus, slander; defendant answers in writing. Abraham Pietersen, miller, vs. Gysbert Opdyck, commissary, slander, in accusing plaintiff of having stolen wheat; defendant produces affidavits in support of the charge; copies of evidence to be furnished plaintiff. [1646]