Arent Andriessen

  Noted events in his life were:

• Court, 3 Aug 1648. ⁷⁸² Jan Barentsz Poest caused Cornelis Segersz to be asked in court by the director whether he, Cornelis Segersz stood by the words which he on the first of siad month addressed to him, Jan, in the presence of Aernd Andriesz, pouwels Noorman and the servant of the aforesaid Aernt, accusing him, Jan, of being a rascal and a thief and the greatest liar at present in the colony, which aforesaid accusations Cornelis Segeresz even at the time of the examination promised to prove by severql witneses, but afterwards before the said director was obliged to take back, stating that he knew naught of the said Jan but what was honorable and good.

B.V. Slichtenhorst, Director

• Court. Rem Jansz, residing in Fort Orange, declares that on the 20th of September 1650, it happened that a certain Tapaen savage, at the house of arent Andriesz, unasked and unexpectedly said to him: "You Dutchmen have now been selling guns long enough to the Maquas, for they came to us last summer and made presents in order that we should help them to kill you when the ice was on the water. they also went to the savages to the south and offered them a large nootas of seawan, whereupon they promised to lend them the helping hand."

Minutes of the Court of Rensselaerswyck, 1648-1652
Albany: The University of the State of New York, 1922, 237 pgs.

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