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Municipal Archieves, Amsterdam
Notarial articles, no. 843
Notary Jan Corn. Hoogeboom
1636 February 25
On the 25th of February Anno Domini 1636, appeared
before me, etc., Cornelis Martsen van Buren,aged 30
years and has at the request of Ybel Hendricxdughter,
relict of Hans Joriss Hontum declared and testified
that it is true: That he, the witness was for more
than four and a half years in the service of Seignior
Rentselaer in New Netherland as firm labourer and has
�ariums homo in November last; Declared moreover
that in the same time that he, the witness lived there,
it was forbidden by the said Hontum by means of an edict
posted at the order of the authorities, that no one
should make so hold as to traffic or barter with the
savages; Testament also that in April Anno Domini
1634, about eight or ten daye afterEaster, the exact
day being undermined, the aforesaid Cornelis van der
Vorst had come to visit the said Hontum at Fort Orange
and having made very tegether they had crossed the
river to view the dwelling and the farmstead of Rent-
selaer where he, the witness dwelt and there, being
merry tegether they came torouvree with word in
ailian, always in a tongue which he, the
witness could not understand; and among other goods
Van der Vorst Declaered that some that had a seal on the
council were rogues; And that Hontum thereupon asked
him three times whather he had said that those of the
council were rogues; whereupon the aforesaid Cornelis
van der Vorst said: Yes, a part of the commit have
dealt with me as rogues; And that thereupon the said
Hontum stuck the same Van der Vorst against the hand
so that the blood sprang from his rose; That there-
upon the said Van der Vorst drew his gun [sword] and closing
with Hontum ran him through the breast so that the same
instantly required;
But he, the witness has neither understood the
language, nor had he seen the blow stuck or the word
thrust homme, because he, the witness had at one time
absented..