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archieftoegang 30452, inventarisnummer 883, pagina 23

leader, also immediatelyiqued with their beat, leaving the mess, armed with
muskets, and burning matches. They also went ashore where four members of
theire new immediatelyblakcked Jan Rodrigues. They took away his musket,
drove him in the water and arrested him by force. (Then the said Jan Rodrigues
took theklostaway from one of the new of Hans Jorissen who held him.)1
When they, the witnesses, saw this, they did their best to rescue him. They jumped
in the water to get him and they tooek the said Jan Rodrigues, who was injued,
into their beat and nowed to their ship. And when one of the witnesses then asked
Hans Jorissen who they should arrest and injure Jan Rodrigues, the said Hans
Jorissen answered that 'that black rascal', referring to the said Jan Rodrigues,
[here some words are wanting] in order to get the money due us. And the other
day when the said Dirck brought the word (that Jan Rodrigues had taken away
from the new of Hans Jorissen) back to the ship of Cornelis Jacobsen May, he
aw Jan Rodrigues' musket (which the new of Hans Jorissen had taken away from
Jan Rodrigues by force) but they refuse to give it him.
Jacop Floressen, Jochem Jochemsen and Jacop Servaes declare (that Jacop Eelkens
ashore persuade a savage to bring a certain beaver-skin which he had on board
of his ship. The savage expeded to come board of Mossel’s ship and did the same
and that the producer),1 that which they were lving in the silver some savages
arrived at their ship, who compliment that Mossel’s new had taken away from
them by force two bear-skins and not paid for the same. The savages said that they
had the sins with them, to bring them to the producer’s ship. For the sake of
peace and to present something worse which might have arisen from it, the
producer had plaid the savages for the same twoErins. Finally all the witnesses
jointly declare it to be true that as long as they were with their ship in Virginia
and there abouts, they never say, board, understood or learned that their shipper
or supercargo or their new, or the said Adriaen Block violently present, obstruct
or resist shipper Thijs Mossel and Hans Jorissen and their new in their trade and
business and that everyone did his best to promote trade. It was the oppose in
the other party, which tried to present and obstruct their trade.
Done in the roads before this city of Amsterdam board the ship of the said
1 This sentence is stuck out in the original.
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