Document: Sentence of Gerrit Tides, servant of director Stuyvesant

Whereas Gerrit Tides van Norden in East Friesland, about 33 years old, trumpeter and household servant of the honorable director-general, presently a prisoner, [ ] (still [ ] married and has a wife) in the aforesaid lord general's house [ ] deflowered and made pregnant a [ ] young girl named Anna Thymens, one of the aforesaid lord general's maids; and whereas, in addition to the adultery, has brought dishonor, scandal and shame to his master's house, against whom the fiscal, Cornelis van Tienhooven, as plaintiff and law officer, has brought legal action; therefore, the director-general of New Netherland, having heard the charge of the fiscal and the confession of the prisoner, and having examined everything thoroughly, find the action to be of evil consequence which cannot be tolerated in just countries; thus, administering justice in the name of their High Mightinesses, the lords States-General of the United Netherlands, and the noble lords-directors of the General Chartered West India Company, have sentenced and condemned the aforesaid Gerrit Tides, as they hereby do sentence and condemn, to be brought to the place where justice is customarily administered and there to be severely beaten with rods, and in addition to pay the sum of 300 guilders to the [ ] of the deflowered maid. Done at the session of the honorable director-general and high council held in New Amsterdam, 27 October 1654; and was signed: P. Stuyvesant, N. de Sille, La Montangne.