Document: Sentence of George Stevensen

and that it was not proved that [ ] shot or stole any hogs before or after the war, mercifully condemn the aforesaid prisoner to be brought to the place where justice is customarily administered, and there to be beaten severely with rods, branded and banished from the country. The fiscal's further charge is denied. Done at New Amsterdam, 8 December 1654.

At the session in Fort Amsterdam, present: Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant, Mr. Nicasius de Sille and La Montagne, high councillors, together with the mayors and schepens, have seen the charge of Fiscal Cornelis van Thienhooven against Joris Stevensz, born in Brugge, about 30 years of age,