Sentence. Laurens Duyts, of Holstein, for selling his wife, Ytie Jansen, and forcing her to live in adultery with another man, and for living himself also in adultery, to have a rope tied around his neck, and then to he severely flogged, to have his right ear cut off, and to be banished for 50 years.

Identifier
NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1051

Date Original
November 25 1658

Language
Dutch

Source
New York State Archives. New Netherland. Council. Dutch colonial council minutes, 1638-1665. Series A1809. Volume 8.

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