Barent, Govert

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Barent, Govert		Nieuw Amsterdam (now New York)	Nieuw Nederland	1648

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Gunmaker at Nieuw Amsterdam which was from 1624 until 1664 the seat of the colonial government in Nieuw Nederland. Founded by Peter Minuit. On August 27, 1664 prior to the second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665-1667, the british under Richard Nicolls captured Nieuw Amsterdam in the name of Jakob, Duke of York who later bekame King Jakob II of england, Nieuw Amstedam was renamed New York on September 8, 1664. "Jacob Reinsen and Jacob Schermerhorn were a firm of merchants from Waterland, one of whom, Jacob Schermerhorn, was at Fort Orange, the other, Jacob Reintjes, was at Fort Amsterdam, who there bought powder, lead and guns, and sent them up to Schermerhorn, who supplied the Indians. it so happened that the Company's corporal, Govert Barent, having in charge such of the arms of the Company as required to be repaired or cleaned, sold to the before named Jacob Reintjes, guns, locks, gun barrels, &c., as by Jacob Reintjes's own acknowledged letters, written to his partner long before this came to light, and by the information of the corporal, can be proven. The corporal, seduced by the solicitation of Jacob Reintjes, sold him the arms as often as desired, thought the latter knew that the guns and gun barrels belonged to the Company, and not to the corporal. Therefore a parcel of peltries, (as many be seen in the accounts) bought, as appeared from the letters, with contraband goods, was confiscated. As the said Jacob Reintjes has been in this country since the confiscation, he would have made complaint if he had not been guilty, especially as he was sufficiently urged to do so by the enemies of the Company and fo the Director, but his own letters were withnesses against him. Joost de backer being accused by the above named corporal of having bought gun locks and gun barrels from im, and the first information having proved correct, he was therefore taken into custody, and his house searched according to law, in which was found a gun of the Company; wherefore he gave security (to answer,) for the claim of the Fiscal." See Library of Congress, U.S.A. The Representation of New Netherland concerning its Location, Productiveness and Poor Condition, presented to the Sates General of the Unitde Netherlands and printed at the Hague, in 1650, translated from the Dutch for the New York Historical Society by Henry C. Murphy and published in 1849 by Partlett & Welford, New York. The original work, a tract of forty-nine pages is titled of Vertoogh van Nieu Nederland Weghens de Ghelegentheydt, Vruchtbaerhydt, en Soberen Staet Desselfs. A second edition was of 100 pages and appeared in 1655 with the sacntion of the Campber of Amsterdam. An third edition was published in the following year. The "Company" was the Dutch West India Company which sold powder, lead and guns to the settlers and to the Indians which was discussed very controversial at the time. It is even said, that the Director of the Company even took guns from free men and sold them to the Indians. Director Stuyvesant, when he came to New Netherland, stopped the contraband trade in guns, Powder and Lead.

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Gunmaker at Nieuw Amsterdam which was from 1624 until 1664 the seat of the colonial government in Nieuw Nederland. Founded by Peter Minuit.

On August 27, 1664 prior to the second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665-1667, the british under Richard Nicolls captured Nieuw Amsterdam in the name of Jakob, Duke of York who later bekame King Jakob II of england, Nieuw Amstedam was renamed New York on September 8, 1664.

"Jacob Reinsen and Jacob Schermerhorn were a firm of merchants from Waterland, one of whom, Jacob Schermerhorn, was at Fort Orange, the other, Jacob Reintjes, was at Fort Amsterdam, who there bought powder, lead and guns, and sent them up to Schermerhorn, who supplied the Indians. it so happened that the Company's corporal, Govert Barent, having in charge such of the arms of the Company as required to be repaired or cleaned, sold to the before named Jacob Reintjes, guns, locks, gun barrels, &c., as by Jacob Reintjes's own acknowledged letters, written to his partner long before this came to light, and by the information of the corporal, can be proven. The corporal, seduced by the solicitation of Jacob Reintjes, sold him the arms as often as desired, thought the latter knew that the guns and gun barrels belonged to the Company, and not to the corporal. Therefore a parcel of peltries, (as many be seen in the accounts) bought, as appeared from the letters, with contraband goods, was confiscated. As the said Jacob Reintjes has been in this country since the confiscation, he would have made complaint if he had not been guilty, especially as he was sufficiently urged to do so by the enemies of the Company and fo the Director, but his own letters were withnesses against him.

Joost de backer being accused by the above named corporal of having bought gun locks and gun barrels from im, and the first information having proved correct, he was therefore taken into custody, and his house searched according to law, in which was found a gun of the Company; wherefore he gave security (to answer,) for the claim of the Fiscal."
See Library of Congress, U.S.A. The Representation of New Netherland concerning its Location, Productiveness and Poor Condition, presented to the Sates General of the Unitde Netherlands and printed at the Hague, in 1650, translated from the Dutch for the New York Historical Society by Henry C. Murphy and published in 1849 by Partlett & Welford, New York. The original work, a tract of forty-nine pages is titled of Vertoogh van Nieu Nederland Weghens de Ghelegentheydt, Vruchtbaerhydt, en Soberen Staet Desselfs. A second edition was of 100 pages and appeared in 1655 with the sacntion of the Campber of Amsterdam. An third edition was published in the following year.

The "Company" was the Dutch West India Company which sold powder, lead and guns to the settlers and to the Indians which was discussed very controversial at the time. It is even said, that the Director of the Company even took guns from free men and sold them to the Indians.

Director Stuyvesant, when he came to New Netherland, stopped the contraband trade in guns, Powder and Lead.