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Identifier: dutchnewyork01sing (find matches)
Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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atisfied with their employ-ment are afforded a means and opportunity to runaway, therefore anybody who lodges or boards suchrunaways for more than twenty-four hours at the mostis to be fined one hundred and fifty florins, to be paidto whomsoever will make the complaint. In 1662, arunaway servant, a Turk, was hanged and after-wards beheaded, and his head was set on a stake atNew Amstel, for resisting arrest. In 1654, the West India Company consideratelythought of a scheme for taking a burden from theAlmshouse of this city and helping to increase thepopulation of New Netherland. They therefore wroteto Stuyvesant: We recommend you most seriouslyto take good care of the boys and girls sent from theOrphan Asylum and place them with good masters, On examining the ages of the children who arrivedin 1655 we must confess that the Amsterdam Alms-house of the day could not be accused of turning theinmates out into the world before they were of an ageto shift for themselves, the girls especially.
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■-Li DO o 2< Q wH <u oo Q - SERVANTS AND SLAVES 151 Girls Age Boys Age Tryntje Peters 23 Guillaume Roelant 17 Tryntje Jans 22 Francis Leigh 17 Jannitje Dircx 19 Mathys Coenratsen 16 Lysbet Jans 18 Hendrik Thomasen 14 Dieuwer Volcherts 16 Peter Stoffelsen 13 Annitje Pieters 17 Otto Jansen 13 Lysbet Gerrits 16 Jan Hendricksen 12 Debora Jans 15 Marritje Hendrik 16 Catalyntje Jans 13 If we follow the career of these waifs who weresent away to relieve the congestion of home charity,we shall find that a fair proportion of them followedthe example of the early pastors and schoolmasters indeveloping into undesirable citizens. The first to bepresented at court was Trintje Pieters, the eldest of all,who had scarcely landed before being sued (Aug. 23,1655) t)y Heyltie t Havens for insult. The winterhad hardly set in before the sixteen-year-old maiden,Marretie Hendrick, asked legal aid to settle a disputebetween herself and her master, Captain Francis Fyn,to whom she had been indentured,

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