Document: Complaint of Pieter van der Linde and others about the dog of Nicolaes Sloper which roams the woods and kills their goats

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_049a
Description

Complaint. Peter van der Linde, Barent Dircksen and Teunis Cray, against Nicolaes Sloper's dog, which roves the woods and kills their goats. [1643]

Document Date
1643-04-09
Document Date (Date Type)
1643-04-09
Document Type
Complaint

Translation
Translation

[ Pi ]eter van [ der ] Linden, aged 48 years, Barent Dircksen, baker, aged sbout 43 years, and Tonis Cray, aged 42 years, jointly complain to the honorable fiscal as follows:

That Nicolaes Sloper has long since been ordered by the honorable director and council of New Netherland to kill or do away with his dog, because the dog was in the habit of killing goats and bucks, which order the above named Sloper has not obeyed, so that said Sloper’s dog and the miller’s dogs[1] have bitten and devoured many goats and bucks, said dogs going daily hunting in the woods. The persons aforesaid offer to confirm this by oath and request that provisionally the aforesaid dogs may be done away with. Done the 9th of April 1643.

Pieter Linde
Barent Dircksen
Tonis Cray
Cornelis van Tienh.

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Meaning probably, the dogs of Abraham Pietersen, the miller.
References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York.  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A0270/NYSA_A0270-78_V2_049a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.

Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Provincial Secretary register of the Provincial Secretary (Series A0270 _ 1642-1660)
Item
049a
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/10990