Document: Sentence of Iva Dircksen

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1057a
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Sentence. Iva Dircksen, for adultery, to be conducted to the place where justice is executed, and there to witness the punishments inflicted this day, and then to be banished for the term of 50 years.

Document Date
1658-11-30
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1658-11-30
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[several lines lost] has [ ] of Claes [ ] run away, condemned [ ] to work [ for which the ] fiscal claimed that she would be [ punished and ] banished outside this province. Having heard the claim of the fiscal and the confession of the said Iva Dircx, the director general and councilors of New Netherland, performing justice, condemned the aforesaid woman, as they hereby sentence and condemn her to be brought to the place where justice is commonly done, and that there she will watch the justice that will be done on that date, and further, [ that she will ] be and remain banished out of this province for the time of 50 years. Dated Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 30th of November anno 1658.

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/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1057a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (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.

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