Document: Complaint against Jan Harmsen

Extraordinary Session Held in Fort OrangeJune 12,1660

Present:

Anderies HerpertsenSander LeendersenJan Verbeeck

La Montagne, in his capacity as officer, plaintiff, against Jan Harmsen, defendant.The plaintiff complains that the defendant, against the ordinance of the court of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwijck, has ventured to go into the woods and has brought out Indians with beavers.The defendant acknowledges that he has been in the woods to seek an Indian who had robbed him, but not for the purpose of attracting the Indians with beavers.The plaintiff requests that the defendant be examined on the following interrogatories:

Interrogatory of Jan Harmsen conducted at the request of the officer

To which answers Jan Harmsen refuses to swear, he refusing likewise to sign the statements made by him.The honorable court gives the defendant respite until the next court day and orders him to obtain at once a copy of his answers to the interrogatory to swear to it at that time.