USA > New York > Albany County > Albany > Early records of the city and county of Albany, and colony of Resselaerswyck, Volume 3 > Part 3
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58
To the Right Honorable, the Valiant Director General, and the Honorable Council of New Netherland :
Jan Juriaensen Becker, with due reverence, humbly shows, that owing to recent changes of fortune, he, the petitioner, not knowing what else to do, has engaged in the business of a tapster, in which he has invested nearly all his real and personal property for himself and his family; therefore, the petitioner applies to your honors. humbly beseeching and praying that your honors may please to look with compassion upon your petitioner (being a former employee of the company ) and employ him as a clerk in the service of the com- pany, either at the Esopus, here, or elsewhere, wherever your honors may think it advisable; or in case your honors for the present can not employ him in the service, that the petitioner may then be per mitted to keep school, to teach the youth reading, writing, etc., upon which he awaits a favorable decision.
Your Honors' willing servant. (was signed ) J: BECKER
Done at Amsterdam, in New Netherland, this day, 15 August 1660.
Voted to make this apostil: Fiat schoolkeeping. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Date as above.
Although thus authorized to keep school, Becker seems for a while to have continued in the business of a tapster for on August 31st he was fined 30 guilders for having entertained people in his tap house after nine o'clock and tapped during the sermon and 10 guilders for "having behaved offensively to the officer." Not unlikely, Becker never opened school in New Amsterdam, but came immediately to Beverwyck and there succeeded Van Upendam, who, as we have seen, is last mentioned as a schoolmaster under date of September 1, 1600. At all events, Becker seems to have taught school at Beverwyck before the surrender of the province to the
+ 21
NOTARIAL PAPERS I AND 2, 1660-1696
English in 1664, for in a license granted to him by Governor Love- lace on May 16, 1670, it is stated that " Whereas Jan Jeurians Beecker had a Graunt to keep ye Dutch school at Albany for ye teaching of youth to read & to wryte ye which was allowed of and confirmed to him by my predecessor Coll. Richard Nicolls," imply- ing that Nicolls found Becker in possession of a grant to teach school at Albany. The same license of 1670 provides that Becker " who is esteemed very capable that way shall be ye allowed school- master for ye instructing ye youth at Albany & partes adjacent he following ye said Imployment Constantly & diligently & that no other be admitted to interrupt him It being to be presumed that ye said Beecker for ye youth & Jacob Joosten who is allowed of for ye teaching of ye younger children are sufficient for that place." Mean- while Governor Lovelace had on November 1, 1669, also granted to Jan Juriaensen Becker a commission to be public notary at Albany, which reads in part as follows: "Whereas It is thought con- venient that there should be a publique Notary at Albany as form- erly in which place at present there is no person to Execute that office. . How this statement is to be reconciled with the known fact that Adriaen Jansen van Ilpendam practised as a notary public at Albany as early as July 12, 1669, it is difficult to explain unless we assume that Governor Lovelace's commission merely quotes Becker's petition of an earlier date. Nothing seems to indi- cate that Becker exercised the functions of a notary public before September 10, 1684, when he was commissioned as such by Gov- ernor Thomas Dongan. The supposition is therefore not unwar- ranted perhaps that as long as Van Ilpendam remained in possession of the principal notarial business, Becker found it necessary to sup- port himself by teaching school. That as such he was judged thoroughly capable we have seen from Lovelace's commission, but evidence is not lacking that also in other ways he had gradually won the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens. On Septem- ber 29, 1689, he was chosen treasurer of the city of Albany, to suc- ceed Jan Bleecker, who was named in the Dongan charter of July 22, 1686, " to be the present chamberlain or treasurer." May 27, 1691, Jan Becker was sworn as justice of the peace of the city and county of Albany and on October 14, 1692, he was once more sworn as city treasurer, in which office he was succeeded the next year by Johannes Appel. Becker was again sworn as treasurer on Octo- ber 14, 1696, and October 14, 1697. He died in 1698 and was sur- vived by two children, a son Jan, or Johannes, whose signature as a witness appears on most of the documents executed before the
22
EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
elder Becker, and a daughter named Martina, who had married at Albany on September 3, 1002, Willem Hoogen, of Kings county. To Martina, who in an explanation attached to Becker's will of August 31. 1004. is described as a most devoted daughter, who " from her youth onward rendered great service in the household and to her mother, in health and sickness, yes, to the hour of her death, whereby she saved much money," Becker left his house and lot, one half of the garden behind the old fort and most of his per- sonal property, while to his son Jan he bequeathed the other half of the garden, his clothing and a sum of one hundred guilders in seawan. Another son of Becker and his wife Marie Adriaens. named Jeuriaen, who was baptized on September 1, Toco, at New Amsterdam, seems to have died young. On November 25, 1608. after Becker's death, an inventory was made of his papers at the house of his son-in-law Willem Hoogen. This inventory, which is printed at the beginning of Becker's record, gives a list of fifty-one documents, of which ten are at present in the Albany county clerk's office, nine being in the Notarial Papers that are printed in this vol- nie, and the tenth. namely the will of Direk Teunissen van Vechten. dated April 4, 1087, being in the volume of Wills, which will be printed later. On the date of the inventory, these fifty-one docu ments were entrusted to Johannes Groenendyck, sheriff, for safe keeping and on July 11, 1704, by order of Johannes Schuyler, mayor, they were with the exception of four papers tone of which is the above mentioned will of Van Vechten, turned over to the clerk's office by Delia, Groenendyck's wife. Leaving these last papers out of account, it appears that there are now, according to the list. thirty eight papers missing. Whether these disappeared at an early date with other records kept by Secretary Robert Livingston, or were lost in more recent times, is not known. Considering that practically all the papers of the Dutch notaries were originally in the form of loose sheets or separate quires, it is on the whole fortunate that so large a portion of the records has been preserved.
A word remains to be said in regard to the translation- which. like those of the preceding volumes, were made many years ago by the late Prof. Jonathan Pearson of Schenectady. Throughout the volume these translations have been carefully revised by comparison with the originals in the Mbany county clerk's office, many changes having been made in the text and many notes added. Names like Jansen and Cornelissen which Professor Pearson had written ont in full, butt which in the originals appeared like Jausz and Cornelisz.
23
NOTARIAL PAPERS I AND 2, 1660-1696
the final s being not, as is sometimes thought, the first letter of the word soon, but a general mark of contraction, the same as is used at the present day in the conventional symbol vis, for videlicet, have been spelt as in the original text, especial pains having been taken to reproduce as faithfully as possible the exact form of signatures. Marks used in the place of signatures have been rendered as in the preceding volume by a simple X. the value of such marks being considered no greater than that of actual signatures and therefore not calling for exclusive reproduction of the marks in facsimile. Practically all the material in the volume is new in the sense that it has not been printed heretofore, either in the original Dutch or in translation, the only exception being that three or four documents have in whole or in part been published in volume 13 of the Docu- ments Relative to the Colonial History of New York and that brief entries of a few wills have appeared in the Calendar of Wills, 1626- 1836, compiled by Berthold Fernow.
Of the historical value of the Notarial Papers enough has been said, but it may be added that their publication once more empha- sizes the need of translation and publication of the court records for the corresponding period. As many of the bonds and contracts in the present volume were the result of judgments or afterwards gave rise to litigation and practically all the depositions in the vol- ume were used in connection with judicial proceedings, it will be readily seen that the relation between the present papers and the court records is most intimate and that the full import of one set of records can not be understood without reference to the other. January 1916 A. J. F. VAN LAER
COLLATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Both volumes of Notarial Papers are composites in the sense that each volume, besides the whole or the greater part of the record of one notary, contains a portion of the record of another notary and a few miscellaneous papers. The first volume consists largely of the record of Dirck van Schelluyne which is composed of four distinct registers or protocols, each covering approximately a year's time and having its own paging or numbering of documents and, except . the first, also an index. In addition to these original series of num- bers, the first volume has two systems of pencil pagings, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the volume, which differ from each other in that in the first system the blank pages are as a rule omitted, whereas in the second system they have been counted in. The second volume, which consists mainly of the record of Adriaen van llpendam, has no original paging, the documents being written on single or double sheets of paper which do not seem to have been bound together until a comparatively recent date. . Throughout the volume there is a consecutive series of pencil numbers which, like that at the bottom of the first volume, takes account of the blank pages and appears to be in the handwriting of Professor Pearson. Contrary to what might be expected, Professor Pearson has in the text of the translations inserted the numbers which appear at the top of each volume, disregarding in so doing the more accurate pencil paging at the bottom of the first volume which he himself appears to have affixed. In the following synopsis of the contents of the Notarial Papers all three pagings of the first volume have been given for convenience of reference. The order of the synopsis is the same as that of the translations and differs from the actual arrangement of the original papers only herein that the documents on pages 1 2 and 173 84 (renumbered 496-97 and 19-30) of the first volume and on pages 115-269 of the second volume, which were misplaced in binding, have been restored to their proper chronologic places in the respective volumes.
[21]
25
NOTARIAL PAPERS I AND 2, 1660-1696
Notarial Papers, volume I Part I, protocol of Dirck van Schelluyne, August 17, 1660-Decem- ber 31, 1661
Pencil paging
Original paging
at top
Pencil paging at bottom
I. . .. .
496
479
2 (blank)
497
180
3-18.
(3-18)ª
3-18
19-22.
31-34
31-34
23-24 (missing)
25-39.
35-49
35-49
40 (blank)
50
41-63.
50-72
51-73
64 (blank)
74
65-69.
73-77
75-79
70 (blank)
80
71-75.
78-82
81-85
76 (blank )
86
77. .
83
87
78 (blank)
88
79-89.
84-94
89-99
90 (blank)
100
91. . .
95
IOI
92 (blank)
102
93. . . .
96
103
94 (blank)
IO_
95-99.
97-10I
105-109
100 (blank )
.
IIO
IOI. .
102
III
102 (blank)
(103-72)b
113-82
173-84.
19-30
19-30
185-87.
173-75
183-85
188 (blank).
176-82
187-93
196 (blank)
194
197-204
183-90
195-202
@ No actual pencil paging, the original paging taking its place. Between this group and the next are inserted by mistake pages 173-84, now numbered 19-30, which are noted below.
è No actual pencil paging, the original paging being left to do duty instead.
II2
103-72.
186
189-95. .
2f.
EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Part 2, protocol of Direk van Schelluyne, January 7-December 19. 1662
Original numbers referring to documents
Pencil raging at top at bottom
Pencil paging
1 30. .
191-221 203-33
30 (repeated )-75
222-07 234 79
70. 93.
208-85
270- 87
94 (blank page )
280
288
index to part 2.
287 88 280-90
Blank.
280-90
291-92
Part 3. protocol of Dirck van Schelluyne, January 13-December 20.
1603
Original numbers referring
to documents
Pencil paging at top
Pencil paging at bottom
I II.
291 310
203 312
Index to part 3.
311 12 313-14
12-30.
327 -03 (364 omitted ) 315-51
37 04.
305-402
352-80)
Blank.
-103
390
Part 1. protocol of Dirck van Schelluyne, January 16 -November 24 December 4. 1004
to documents
at top
Pencil paging at bottom
Index to part
404 105 391-92
I-12, 14-48
400-77 393 40-4
13
405
Blank.
483
460
!'art 5. minutes of Adriaen van Hpendam and other papers, Febru ary 25 March 7, 1667-November 1. 1000
Pemil paging
No original pagina at top
Pencil palivo at bottom
Document attested by V. I.
Ang. 16, 160g 484 85
107 68
Document written by V. S.
February 7 March 25.
486-87
landets a mistake for old and new style date February 25 March 7.
Pencil paging
27
Pencil puging at top
Pencil paging at bottom
Document attested by V. I.
Feb. 18, 1667/8.
488
471
Blank page 480
472
Document attested by Wil- lem Bogardus, Oct. 23, 1668 ..
490-91
473-74
Blank pages
492-93
475-70
Document attested by V. I. July 12, 1669
494-95ª
477-78
Record of V. I., June 22,
1670-Nov. 11, 1675. ... Blank pages.
498-545
481-528
546-47
529-30
Letter from V. I. to Dam-
mas Guldewaghen, June 19, 1676.
548
531
Same to same, Sept. 19. 1678 ..
549
532
Letter from V. I. to Jan Sybingh, June 19, 1676 .. Same to same, Sept. 19, 1678.
550
533
551
534
Record of V. I., April 8,
1676-Jan. 29, 1676/7. ..
552-603
535-86
Agreement between Cor-
nelis Michielsen and
Jan van Loon, Nov. I. 1696.
604
587
Blank page
605
588
Record of V. I., Jan. 6-12.
1676 7
606-16
580-99
Notarial Papers, volume 2 Part I, minutes of Adriaen van Hpendam and other papers, Novem- ber 26, 1669-February 23, 1685,6
Pages
Record of V. I. Nov. 26, 1660-Sept. 15, 1676.
115-269
Record of V. I. Jan. 6, 1676/7-Mar. 16, 1679 '80 I-113
Blank page
II4
" For pages 496-97, forming first leaf of the record of Dirck van Schel- luyne, see beginning of the list.
NOTARIAL PAPERS I AND 2, 1660-1696
No original paging
28
EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
Record of V. 1. Feb. 24, 1679/80 May 26, 1680. . Blank page
Pagse 270-80 28-
Letter from V. I. to Dammas Guldewaghen, Nov. 4. 1681 .. 288-89
Same to same ( Oct. or Nov. ) 1682. Blank page 201
290
Record of V. I. June 2, 1680-June 9, 1685.
202-512
Blank pages
513-15
Letter from V. 1. to Madam Sybingh, Oct. 2. 1685. . 516-17 Blank pages 518-19
Record of V. I. June 1, 1685 Feb. 23, 1685, 6. 520-32 Blank pages 533-35
Document attested by Robert Livingston, Dec. 13, 1684 536-37
Blank pages
538 39
Part 2, minutes of Jan Becker, April 2. 1685-July 23. 1600
Dates of documents Pages
540-42
Blank.
543
Oct. 19, 1686
544-45
April 30, 1687
545
Feb. 26, 1689.90
546-48
Blank
549
Mar. 7. 1688/9 Blank
550
Mar. 24. 1685 [1685 6?]
552-54
Blank.
555
April 23. 1689
550-58 559
July 23. 1600
500-01
Blank.
562-63
June 24. 1000
504-06
Blank
507
Sept. 1, 1685
568 70
Blank .
571
Nov. 0, 1080
572 74
Blank 575
Document attested by Robert Livingston. April ;. 1695 576-77
April 2. 1685
551
Blank.
NOTARIAL PAPERS Volume I 1660-1677
Bond of Isbrant Eldertsen to Adriaen Jansen Croon
[ 1] 1[On this day, the] 17th of August 1660, appeared before me, Dirck van Schelluyne, notary public, and before the hereinafter named witnesses, Isbrant Eldertsz, dwelling in the colony of Rens- selaerswyck, who acknowledged that he was well and truly indebted to Adriaen Jansz Croon in the sum of thirty-two guilders or four good beavers reckoned at eight guilders apiece, growing out of the matter of wages earned of the subscriber to his satisfaction, which said four good beavers he, the subscriber, promises to tender and pay to said Adriaen Jansz Croon or order punctually in or before the month of July 1661, binding therefor his person and property, nothing excepted, subjecting the same to all courts and judges. Thus done and executed in the colony of Rensselaerswyck, in pres- ence of Mr Cornelis van Breuckele and Claes Jacobsz, master car- penter, called as witnesses hereto.
Corne. van Sch [lick] 2 Claes Jacobse 3
This mark X was made by ISBRANT ELDERTSZ, aforenamed D. V. SCHELLUYNE, Not. Pub. 1660
Lease of a farm at Claverack from Abraham Staets to Christoffel Davidts and Henrick Eyed
[3] On this day, the 17th of August 1660, appeared before me, Dirck van Schelluyne, notary public, and before the hereinafter named witnesses, Mr Abraham Staets, trader in Beverwyck, of the first part, and Christoffel Davidts 5 and Hendrick Eets,6 farmers, of
1 The first leaf of the volume has by mistake been bound after page 495, the recto and verso being renumbered in pencil 495 and 497.
2 Cornelis Anthonissen Schlick, from Breuckelen; see l'an Rensselaer Bowier Mss, p. 255-56, 809.
3 Claes Jacobsen Groesbeek, alias van Rotterdam.
4 Page 2, renumbered in pencil 497, is blank. An abstract of this lease is in Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist. N. Y., 13:186.
5 An early settler of Rensselaerswyck and afterwards of the Esopus. About him, see L'an Rensselaer Bowier Mss, p. 819-20, and Olde Ulster, 1914, 10:97-108.
6 Nothing seems to be known about this man. To judge from his signa- ture, he was probably a Scandinavian.
[29]
30
EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
the second part, who acknowledged. he, the aforesaid Mir Abraham Staets, that he had leased, and they, Christoffel Davids and Hen- drick Eets, that they had hired of him a certain farm belonging to the lessor, lying in the Claverack,1 known to the lessees. for the period of three following years beginning on the first day of October next ensuing and ending on the last day of September .\". 1603. upon the following conditions :
The lessor promises to deliver to them with the farm four oxen, the risk whereof, save in case of manifest neglect. shall be borne equally by both parties ; six cows at halves as to the increase accord- ing to the custom of this country; six sows, for each of which the lessees shall each year deliver to the lessor a shout to be selected in the month of September and which from that time shall be at the risk of the lessor, and if the lessor leave the shoats there for the winter he shall satisfy the lessees therefor.
The lessor also promises to deliver to the lessees the farming implements which are on the farm and which they need, whereof an inventory shall be made.
The lessees shali be holden at their own expense to build up with stone the cellar walls under the dwelling house.
And as rent and for the use of the aforesaid farm the lessees promise to pay, making themselves as principal lessees jointly and severally liable for the whole, the first two years 150 guilders each year and the third year 200 guilders, each time punctually.
[4] Finally, it is covenanted and agreed that while the lessor is to deliver the aforesaid farm provided with a good fence, a comfort- able dwelling house, together with barn, rick and farm implements in good condition and repair, the lessees shall be holden to keep the same in repair and at the end of their lease to deliver everything back in as good condition as they received it at the beginning of the Jease. Furthermore, the lessor promises to make just compensation for whatever improvements the lessees may make to the farm.
1 Mlarch 25. 1607, Captain Abraham Staets received confirmatory patent tor "a certain Neck of Land, neare unto Albany, commonly called and knowne by the Indyan name of Cickhekawick, lying and being on the North side of Klever. ck, on the East side of the River, Striking along the great Kill, to the first great fall of water, and from thence to the fishing place, where there is a Tree Mark't with the Letter .1. Bounded on the one side. by the River, and on the other by the great Kill, containing two hundred Acres of Land, or there about, bee it more or lesse; which said Neck of Land, Capt Abraham Starts did heretofore Purchase of the Native Indyan Proprietors, by the Approbacon and consent of the late Dutch Governor Petrus Stuyvesant, and had also a Patent or Groundbriefe, for the same. bearing date the i7th day of March 1054" E. M. Ruttenber, Indian Goo- graphien Names, p. 50, referring to this patent of March 25. Ity, says " Major Staats had made previous settlement on the tract under lease from Van Rensselaer." This is apparently an error.
31
NOTARIAL PAPERS I AND 2. 1660-1696
dwelling house, barn and rick; likewise, in case of deterioration, the lessees are to be indebted and liable for the same to the lessor according to the finding of impartial men mutually chosen thereto by the parties.
For the performance and fulfilment of what is hereinbefore writ- ten, parties on both sides, each as far as he is concerned, bind their persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all courts and judges.
Thus done and delivered in Beverwyck in New Netherland, in the presence of Mr Jacob de Hensie. chirurgeon, and Pieter Loock- ermans, as witnesses hereto called.
J. Dehinsse
Pieter Loockermans
ABRAM STAAS This mark C D was made by Chris- toffel Davidtsz, aforesaid HENRICK EYED D. V. SCHELLUYNE, Not. Pub. 1660
Settlement of accounts between Dirck Jansen Croon and Jan Nack
[5] On this day, the 21st of August 1660, appeared before me Dirck van Schelluyne, notary public, and before the hereinafter named witnesses, Dirck Janssz Croon 1 and Jan Nack,? who acknowledged that he, Jan Nack, having faithfully served him, Croon, now for three years according to contract dated the 27th of February 1657, they, the appearers, had completely adjusted and settled accounts with each other regarding the hire or wages which he, Jan Nack, has earned of him, Croon, during the three years, as follows:
Jan Nack acknowledges hereby that Dirck Jansz Croon has paid on his account at Amsterdam in Holland, in Holland money
to his mother the sum of . 30
also .10
to himself there
IO
and also
50
Total in Holland money 130
1 Dirck Jansen Croon was a carpenter by trade; see L'an Rensselaer Borier Mss. p. 840.
2 Jan Nack is referred to in the city records under date of November 7, 168, as a trader and gunstockmaker. He was at that time one of the " assistants." or members of the common council, and refused to support the city government in opposing Jacob Leisler and his party; see Joel Munsell, Annals of Albany, 2: 112.
32
EARLY RECORDS OF ALBANY
paid to him here forty-one and a half beavers, agreed upon together at seven guildlers the beaver, amounts 10 .. fl 200-10
So that Jan Nack must yet have from Dirck Jansz Croon according to the said contract, in Ilolland money, clear . 179-10
Total fl 600-0
Which said one hundred and seventy nine guilders and ten stivers Dirck Jansz Croon promises to pay him in Holland when he shall have safely arrived there; but as on the other hand Dirck Jansz Croon must have of Jan Nack ten and a [6] quarter beavers, there will be retained and deducted from the fl 179, 10 due to Jan Nack so much as the beavers shall sell for in Holland this year.
Wherewith they, the appearers, shall be fully paid and satisfied. neither party having any further claim against the other, and they promise that they will never do nor cause to be done anything con- trary hereto in any manner, either by or without resorting to law. for which they bind their respective persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all courts and judges. Thus done and executed in the colony of Renselaerswyck in the presence of the Honorable Jeremias van Renselaer, director of said colony, and Jacob de Ilinsse, chirurgeon, as witnesses hereto called.
DIRCK JANSEN CROON JAN NACK
Jeremias van Rensselaer J. Dehinsse, chirurgeon
D. V. SCHELLUYNE, Not. Pub 1660
Power of attorney from Rutger Jacobsen to Capt. Thomas Willet. Cornelis Steenwyck and Johannes Withart to sell his real estate on Manhattan island
17| On this day, the 21st of August 1600, appeared before me. Dirck van Schelluyne, notary public, and before the hereinafter named witnesses, Mr Ruth Jacobsz, trader in Beverwyck, and declared that by these presents he constitutes and appoints the Hon orable Capt. Thomas Willet, Cornelis Steenwyc, schepen of the city of Amsterdam in New Netherland, and Johannes Withart, trader, jointly and severally his special attorneys to sell the principal's
33
NOTARIAL PAPERS I AND 2, 1600- 1696
house, lot and land on Manhatans island, according to the patents and muniments [of title] thereof, to the best advantage of the principal, whether by private contract or at vendue and public sale to the highest bidder;1 thereafter the stipulated or promised pur- chase money to receive, acquittance for the same to grant, the own- ership of said house, lot and lands to vest in the buyer and the principal to divest and dispossess thereof and furthermore all things to do that may be needful or to them may seem advisable; promising at all times to hold valid whatever shall be done and performed in the matter by said attorneys, without any contradiction; it being provided that the attorneys shall recover and take out of the pro- ceeds of the sale of said house, lot and lands the amount which he honestly owes them, each pro rata to his debt; if the amount falls short the principal promises to make up the rest, if there is anything left the attorneys shall turn over the balance or the surplus to the principal together with a proper accounting of their transactions and receipts. Done and delivered in the village of Beverwyck, in the presence of Folckert Jansz and Barent Reyndertsz as witnesses hereto called.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.