Name | HOFFMIRE, Willem | |
Born | Abt 1636 | Brazil |
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Gender | Male | |
COUR | Sentence of William Hoffmeyer for conveying beer up the river and selling it to Indians Series: A1876 Scanned Document: NYSA_A1876-78_V16_pt2_0005 Whereas Willem Hoffmeyr, born in Brazil,1 aged about twenty years, in notorious disregard and contempt of the well meant ordinances and placards of the Director General and Council of New Netherland and in violation o the orders and directions of the commissary and magistrates of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck, has not hesitated to sell and peddle beer to the savage barbarians, as he without pain or duress confesses and admits that the, Willem Hofmeyer, at present in custody, once with two half barrels in a canoe and afterwards, on the 22d, 23d and 24th of July last past, with five half barrels of good and small beer mixed together, sailed up the river and sold and peddled the beer among the savages (notwithstanding the strict prohibition of the Director General and Council) and what is worse, had it sold and peddled for him by one savage to other savages; and whereas furthermore, in further contempt of court, the said prisoner, while he was being examined on account of the said offense and released on bail, has not hesitated the same day to admit 28 drunken savages to his house and contrary to the express prohibition and warning of the court to put out or sell beer to them, which disobedience, disregard, yes, contempt of good order and justice, as well as his frequent violations and transgressions of the well meant ordinances and placards of the Director General and Council of New Netherland issued and repeatedly renewed against the dangerous and harmful sale of [294] beer or wine to the savages, are matters of very evil and injurious consequences which in a land of justice, as an example to others, can and ought not to remain unpunished; therefore, the Director General together with the magistrates of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck, in the name and on the part of the High and Mighty Lords, the States General of the United Netherlands, and the Honorable Directors of the Chartered West India Company, administering justice in the ase, upon the complaint and demand of the officer and in view of his own free and voluntary confession, sentence and condemn the aforesaid Willem Hofmeyer, now in custody, as they sentence and condemn him derby, to pay a fine of five hundred guilders and to be banished from this country for the space of three years, he to remain in strict confinement until the judgment is satisfied. Thus done and sentenced at the session of the director General and the magistrates of Fort Orange. This day, the sixth of October 1656. P. Stuyvesant Rutger Jacobs Andries Herberts Jacob Jansen Schermerhoor[en] Philip Pietersen References Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New Netherland Documents Series: Vol. 16, part 2, Fort Orange Court Minutes, 1652-1660 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press: 1990).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website. 1. His name does not appear in Doopregister der Hollanders in Brazilie, 1633-54, published in Algemeen Nederlandsch Familieblad, 1888-89, vols. 5 and 6, but under date of January 9, 1647, is recorded the baptism of Sigismundus, son of Harman Hoffmeyer and Joanna Hoffmeyers. ———————————— Series: A1876 Scanned Document: NYSA_A1876-78_V16_pt2_0067 Ordinary Session held in Fort Orange May 29,1657 President, Johannes La Montagne Jacob Schermerhoom Philip Pietersen Abraham Staets Jan Tomassen magistrates Jochim de Backer, plaintiff, against Willem Hoffmeyr, defendant. The plaintiff demands that the defendant shall vacate his house, as he has sold it and must deliver it the last of May. The defendant says that the house is not the plaintiff’s but his own, as the plaintiff gave it to him at his wedding party for a lot which belonged to him by patent and on which the plaintiff built a house during the defendant’s minority, the plaintiff being his stepfather and guardian. The plaintiff produces a certain agreement entered into by the respectively chosen arbitrators from which it appears that the defendant released all his claim to the plaintiff for the sum of 700 odd guilders. The court, having examined the agreement accepted by both parties, adjudge that the plaintiff, by virtue of the said arbitration, has the right to have the house in question vacated and orders the defendant to vacate it within the specified time. References Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New Netherland Documents Series: Vol. 16, part 2, Fort Orange Court Minutes, 1652-1660 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press: 1990).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website. ——————————————- Actions of debt; William Hoffmeyer vs. Jochem Wesselsen Series: A1876 Scanned Document: NYSA_A1876-78_V16_pt2_0081 Ordinary Session Held in Fort Orange June 26,1657 President, J. Lamontagne Jacob Janssen Schermerhoom Philip Pietersen Abraham Staets Jan Tomassen Adriaen Gerritsen magistrates Willem Hofmeyer, plaintiff, against Jochim Wesselsen Backer, defendant. The plaintiff demands payment of the sum of six hundred guilders, according to the contract made between him and the defendant. The wife [Willem’s mother Geertruy], appearing instead of her husband, offers to pay according to the contract, to wit, if the plaintiff goes this year to Holland to pay in beavers; if not, to pay in sewant in the year 1658. The court orders the plaintiff to be satisfied with the terms of his contract. References Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New Netherland Documents Series: Vol. 16, part 2, Fort Orange Court Minutes, 1652-1660 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press: 1990).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website. [1] | |
Died | 1694 | Albany, Albany County, New York [2] |
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Person ID | I2914 | Shepard and John Tree |
Last Modified | 27 Apr 2018 |
Father | HOFFMIRE, Caspar | |
Mother | HIERONIMUS, Geertruy, b. Abt 1617, Albany, Albany County, New York , d. 9 Feb 1680, Albany, Albany County, New York (Age ~ 63 years) | |
Family ID | F2275 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family | TILTON, Mary, b. 1640, Kinkenburg, Greene County, New York , d. 1689, Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey (Age 49 years) | |||
Married | Abt 1656 | New Amsterdam | ||
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Last Modified | 2 Jan 2022 | |||
Family ID | F2274 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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