Individual Details

Court case

"The following persons were punished in the following way for stealing wreckage - (strandroof): -
George Smit, of Neurenburg, soldier.
Claas Bomb, of Funningen, sailor
Both had to stand under the gallows with the rope round their necks. Afterwards they were scourged, branded, and chained for 15 years.
Reynier Jansz de Haan, of Amsterdam, and Claas Wagtendorp, both sailors; to be scourged, branded and chained for ten years.
The burgher Cornelis Brits, and Dionisia Hummel, wife of the burgher Pieter Brand, as aiders and abetters in the above thefts, were to stand on the place of execution and look on whilst the punishments were being inflicted. Brits was further to remain in irons for two years as a convict, and the woman placed for ten years in the slave lodge to work at the public works with the slaves. "