Mentioned in Jean Hasbrouck’s 1712 will, Gerritt is known to have been enslaved in New Paltz, NY by that year. Gerritt also features prominently in a record relating to an August 1714 meeting of Esopus sachems and magistrates of Ulster County. The two groups met to renew the Nicolls Treaty (done annually), and also to investigate a rumor brought forward by the Esopus. The colonial magistrates asked an “Indian boy” what he knew about a warning from “Gerritt the negro man of Jacob Hasbrouck” regarding an attack by the “Christians.” The colonial magistrates denied there was any truth to the rumor and offered the Esopus the chance to choose Gerritt’s punishment for spreading it. No record of Gerritt beyond 1714 has been found, leaving us to wonder what became of him after this meeting.