The magazine of American history with notes and queries . public affairs. It was the duty ofthe Schout to personally perambulate the city, and enter complaints againstall such miscreants as disregarded police regulations. We find him in fre-quent collisions with disorderly and unruly persons. One Jasper Abra-hamson was arrested for forcibly entering a house and demanding with * An exquisitely beautiful gold chatelaine, worn at this period by Mrs. Peter Vanderveen, wasin a somewhat romantic manner discovered in 1875, in possession of one of her descendants, inNewark, New Jersey, by the author,
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . public affairs. It was the duty ofthe Schout to personally perambulate the city, and enter complaints againstall such miscreants as disregarded police regulations. We find him in fre-quent collisions with disorderly and unruly persons. One Jasper Abra-hamson was arrested for forcibly entering a house and demanding with * An exquisitely beautiful gold chatelaine, worn at this period by Mrs. Peter Vanderveen, wasin a somewhat romantic manner discovered in 1875, in possession of one of her descendants, inNewark, New Jersey, by the author, and an engraving of it made, by permission, for The Historyof the City of New York. Vol. I., p. 251. f The earliest known map of New York (1664), rescued from the European archives by GeorgeH. Moore, This map is apparently derived from the same survey as the elaborately col-ored map familiarly known among historical scholars as The Dukes Plan, and is believed tobe the more correct of the two.—Ed. WALL STREET IN HISTORY ^TOWNE OF 3\€-w:Yobk 3*5. 3 ID WALL STREET IN HISTORY violence food and liquor, particularly liquor. Upon trial he was sentenced to be fastened to a stake, and severely scourged, and a gash to be madein his left cheek or jaw, and then to be banished from the city for twenty-five years, and pay costs. Another significant instance was that of Mes-sack Martens, charged with stealing. He confessed to having climbedover the palisades and taken five or six cabbages from a garden, but it wasthought he was much more deeply implicated. On a subsequent day, theprisoner being again brought forward, was examined by torture, as to howmany cabbages, fowls, turkeys, and how much butter he hath stolen ; whohis abettors and co-operators have been. Answering, he persists in hisreply that he did not steal any butter, fowls, or turkeys, nor had any abet-tors ; being again set loose, the Schout demands that for his committedtheft voluntarily confessed, he shall be brought t
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