Jan Creoli en Manuel Congo

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Jan Creoli and Manuel Congo
(? - June 25, 1646) U.S.A.


Black slaves


When the 6th Director-General of the New Netherland Colony, present day New York County, was Willem Kieft, a Dutch merchant, the slaves Jan Creoli and Manuel Congo were indicted of "buggery" and tried. Jan Creol was choked to death in New Netherland, and his body tied to a stake and burned, for supposedly sodomizing a boy named Manuel Congo. The boy recieved "only" a flogging for his participation in the crime.

The 1646 Calendar of Dutch Historical Manuscripts reports the trial, conviction, and sentence on Manhattan Island, New Netherland Colony, of one Jan Creoli,


"a negro, [for] sodomy; second offenese; this crime being condemned by God (Gen., c. 19; Levit., c. 18:22,29) as an abomination, the prisoner is sentenced to be conveyed to the plave of public execution, and there choked to death, and then burnth to ashes."
On the same date the Calendar records the punishment mated out to

"Manuel Congo ... on whom the above abominable crime was committed," who has "to be carried to the place where Creoli is to be executed, tied to a stake, and faggots piled around him, for justice sake, and to be flogged; sencence executed."

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Jan Quisthout: New Netherland, May 13, 1660
Death sentence for "sodomy"

The council of the New Netherland Colony recorded the first proceedings in a sodomy case of an indentured servant and a soldier.[1]The council ordered that:
the indentures of Hendrick Harmsen, an orphan from Amsterdam, bound to Jan Quisthout [the soldier], be canceled, and that he be bound to another person.

On May 21, 1660, the council minutes recorded the "Indictment of said Quisthout, a native of Brussels.” And on June 17, the council minutes recorded a "Plea of guilty entered against Jan Quisthout van der Linde, a soldier accused of sodomy." The soldier's sentence was recorded on the same date:
Jan Quisthout van der Linde to be taken to the place of execution and there stripped of his arms, his sword to be broken at his feet, and he to be then tied in a sack and cast into the river and drowned until dead."

The council also sentenced Hendrick Harmensen,
the boy on whom Quisthout committed by force the above crime, to be privately whipped, and sent to some other place by the first opportunity.

Three years later on August 16, 1663, the "widow of Jan van der Linden" (apparently the same "van der Linde"), named Jannken Barents, petitioned the New Netherland Council "to surrender all claim to her late husband's estate in favor of his creditors," and to be "discharged from such liabilities."

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References

Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983) p.103
↑ 1660, May 13: New Netherland; Jan Quisthout and Hendrick Harmsen; O'Callaghan, p. 211 (Council Minutes, vol. 9, p. 251), p. 213 (same, p. 294-96, 298), pp. 251-52 (same, vol. 10, p. 275).
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