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Title: New Amsterdam and its people; studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.)
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recover two shirts, in the possession of an-other sailor, Jan Jansen from Hoorn. Upon the hearing, thedefendant Jansen protested, rather guardedly, that the shirtsresembled some he had bought in Holland. The court de-cided that as they had never discovered any fault in the plaintiffPietersen, the possession of the shirts should be given to him,and that if the defendant could not prove that the shirts be-longed to him, he should remain silent. The defendant Jan-sen, not being satisfied with this disposition of the case, thencommenced a suit against Pietersen, somewhat in the natureof an equitable bill of discovery, to compel him to disclosewhere he got the shirts. Pietersens answer to this was thathe purchased the shirts at Amsterdam, but was unable to sayin what street. The equities of this important matter havingbeen duly weighed by the Council, that body decided thatthey find not a particle of guilt in the defendant; where-fore the plaintiff is commanded to keep silent, on condition
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MEETING OF DELEGATES 183 that the defendant, when he goes to Holland, and shall havearrived at Amsterdam, remains bound to point out the shopwhere he bought the shirts Matters of a more important nature sometimes occupiedthe attention of the Director and Council. Here, in the falland winter of 1653, was held a meeting of delegates fromthe Dutch and English villages around New Amsterdam,1for the purpose of devising some plan of common defenceagainst threatened Indian attacks, the West India Companyfailing to provide adequate protection. The English dele-gates had additional grievances which they proceeded to airat this meeting, under the form of a M remonstrance, bothto the Director and Council and to the States-General ofthe Netherlands: — they were not as well treated as they ex-pected to be when they came to settle under the rule of theNew Netherland authorities; moreover, discriminations weremade against them and in favor of the Dutch. These men,some of whom—as the Middelburg o

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