There was one officer called a schout, very much the same as a mayor is in these days. ❋ Charles Hemstreet (N/A)
He sent the schout-fiscal as a prisoner to Holland, which was a foolish thing for him to do. ❋ Charles Hemstreet (N/A)
The schout came from the hill frome those that hoped no victorie upone the Engliss parte; the schout ryses, (we say,) "Thei flye, thei flie;" but at the first it could nott be beleved, till at the last it was clearlie sein, that all had gevin backis, and then begane a cruell slawchtter, (which was the greattar be reassone of the lait displeasur of the men of armes.) ❋ John Knox (N/A)
This did not worry the schout-fiscal much, as he had not been paid his salary in three years! ❋ Charles Hemstreet (N/A)
Many of the colonists did not take kindly to Governor Van Twiller's methods, and among them was Van Dincklagen, the schout-fiscal. ❋ Charles Hemstreet (N/A)
Then came the schout-fiscal, who worked still harder, being half sheriff, half attorney-general, and all customs officer. ❋ Charles Hemstreet (N/A)
Stuyvesant allowed the burgomasters and schepens to nominate their successors, but the city did not have a schout of its own until 1660. ❋ Henry Mann (N/A)
He told the schout-fiscal not to expect any more salary, that it would be stopped from that minute. ❋ Charles Hemstreet (N/A)
Thus, he made a new fort of earthen banks with stone bastions, enclosing within its walls not only the soldier's barracks, but also at first the governmental residence and public offices; he also built several windmills and the first church which was used solely as such, as well as houses for the dominie and for the schout-fiscal. ❋ Unknown (1906)
For nearly a year the city was suffered to retain its old form of government; then the schout, schepens, and burgomasters were changed for sheriff, aldermen mayor, and justices. ❋ Unknown (1906)
In the city itself the schepens, burgomasters, and schout again took the place of sheriff, mayor, and aldermen. ❋ Unknown (1906)
It was under Stuyvesant, in 1653, that the town was formally incorporated as a city, with its own local schout and its schepens and burgomasters whose powers and duties answered roughly to those of both aldermen and justices. ❋ Unknown (1906)
When the city charter was granted, he proceeded to appoint the first schout, schepen, and burgomasters who took office under it, instead of allowing them to be elected by the citizens, though this concession was afterward wrung from him. ❋ Unknown (1906)
As our guide, Gerrit, had some business here, and found many acquaintances, we remained over night at the house of one Geresolveert, [140] schout (sheriff or constable), of the place, who had formerly lived in Brazil, and whose heart was still full of it. ❋ Jasper Danckaerts (1898)
We were greatly pleased, while we were in the tavern, to see several persons there, representatives of the schout, [34] who were going the rounds in all the taverns of the city, to see whether there were any drunkards or whether any other disorderly conduct subject to the penalty of any fine was being practised. ❋ Jasper Danckaerts (1898)
Besides the _schout_, burgomasters, and schepens, the remonstrance was signed by Wilmerdonck and eighty-five of the principal inhabitants, among whom was Stuyvesant's own son, Balthazar. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)
Proclamation was made that New Amstel should for all the future be named New-_castle_, and that Gerrit Van Swearingen, the refractory schout, should yield up his noble property to Captain ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)
The Widow Cloos had come but recently from Holland, sent out by charity at the instance of her brother, Van Swearingen, the schout or bailiff of New Amstel colony. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)
The schout, his uncle, who was sheriff and chief of police in one, marched him up to the jail and presented him with a beautiful plaything -- a handle of wood with nine leather whip-lashes upon the end of it. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)
