Gisbert Philipsen Was Killed in the Esopus.

Gisbert Philipsen Was Killed
in the Esopus.

[FROM JOHAN VAN TWILLER]
[                              ]⁶⁰⁴
[                              ] that you have not yet collected [the outstanding debts], which is a considerable time since I left there. I trust that you [will be] pleased to collect them and that you will send over to your brother as aforesaid everything that [is due to me] personally as soon as possible, for before [my departure?] I gave you power of attorney ⁶⁰⁵ to do all that was to be done and to sell all that was to be sold. I am surprised that I have not had the honor of receiving a line from you, inasmuch as I wrote to you, and I can only conclude from it that those letters did not reach you. I trust that this will be delivered to you and that I shall then have the pleasure of getting a letter from you.
    I met Jan Bastiaensen ⁶⁰⁶ at Utrecht, but learned little news from him. I am sending you herewith an account [of Symen Groot], which you will please collect [
                                                 ] also one beaver, which [
         ] agree and also the hire of [the gray mare] of Arent the Noorman. All the kettles which I left behind are charged to my account. What has been received for them is due to me personally. Herewith I am sending [         ] to Hendrick Jansen Reur. I have learned here that Gisbert Philipsen ⁶⁰⁷ was killed in the Esopus. If there is any money or merchandise left, please demand on my account the sum of one [         ] guilders, arising from a bill of exchange payable by Jan Thomassen which he held and which is enclosed herewith. You can add the interest and it must be counted as being payable here.
    There is no news here, except that on the 23d [of February?] my sister Engel was married to a preacher who is stationed here at Nyckerck, ⁶⁰⁸ and they were married by the minister at Putten. I have also [
                                         ] ⁶⁰⁹
This 9th day of March 1662
[At] Nyckerck
                                 JOHAN VAN TWILLER

Addressed:
    Mr Jeremias van Rensselaer
     Director of the colony of Rensselaer Wyck
        in New Netherland
By a friend whom God conduct
_______________

    ⁶⁰⁴ Several lines destroyed. Compare letter from Jan van Twiller dated March 18, 1663.
    ⁶⁰⁵ Another power of attorney from Jan van Twiller to Jeremias van Rensselaer, executed at Amsterdam on April 8, 1664, before Notary Justus van de Ven, is among the Rensselaerswyck manuscripts.
    ⁶⁰⁶Jan Bastiaensen van Gutsenhoven.
    ⁶⁰⁷ Gysbert Philipsen van Velsen, killed by the Indians between September 29 and November 25, 1659. Doc. rel. to Col. Hist. N.Y., 13:117; Court Minutes of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, 2:231.
    ⁶⁰⁸ Rev. Johannes Carolinus. See his lettter of March 9/19, 1663.
    ⁶⁰⁹ Several lines destroyed.

Source:

Van Laer, A. J. F., (translated and edited by), Correspondence of Jeremias van Rensselaer 1651-1674, Albany, University of the State of New York, 1932, pp. 279-280.

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