Document: Dutch colonial council minutes, 3-24 October 1641

Court proceedings. Borger Jorissen vs. Jacob Roy, gunner, for debt; judgment for plaintiff. The same vs. fiscal Van der Huyghens, for damage done to plaintiff's house by the imprudent firing of a cannon by skipper Symonsen; defendant says that plaintiff had forgiven the skipper; he is ordered to prove that assertion. Jan Damen vs. Lyntje Adams's wife, Thomas Coninck and Jan Platneus; all for slander. [1641];Court proceedings. William Bredenbent, deputy sheriff, vs. Hendrick, the tailor, Borger Jorissen et al., for fees for impounding their goats, &c.; judgment for plaintiff; defendants ordered to pay him 10 guilders pound money and 10 guilders damages. [1641]