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that if said son comes to die without leaving any lawful issue, then the children of said Susanna shall inherit said money on reaching their majority, till which time the same is to be taken good care of, and that the father, Barent Albertsz, shall not draw one stiver either of the principal sum or income thereof, for reasons the testatrix thereto moving; and if so be that said Barent Albertsz comes to die and said Susanna may need the money for her livelihood, she may then have the full ownership of the money and dispose thereof at her pleasure; but if the testatrix comes to die before her aforenamed son, Dirck Mayer, and said son demand the money, he shall not be denied the use and disposal thereof according to his pleasure. And if they, the testators, hereafter, by writing and under their own hands or signatures, or by word of mouth before two or more trustworthy witnesses, bequeath or devise anything and make a further declaration, or in the above- written conditions change, increase or diminish anything [536], they will and desire the same to be of the such force, virtue and effect, and by every person to be so esteemed and holden, as if in this will they were written and described. All which aforesaid conditions they, the testators, declare to be the last will and testa- ment of them both, desiring that hereafter the same may have full force and effect, whether as testament, codicil, donation, gift in anticipation of death, or otherwise, as the same may be most effective, notwithstanding that some formalities demanded by the laws and usage may not be fully observed herein, desiring that the utinost benetit herefrom may be enjoyed, and that one or more copies hereof in proper form may be made to be used as occasion may require.
Thus done and executed in New Albany at the house of the testators, in presence of the worthy Pieter Ryverdingh and David Pietersz Schuyler, trustworthy witnesses hereto called and bidden and who with the appearers and me, the notary, have subscribed these with their own hands, the year, month and day above written.
This is the mark X of JAN JANSZ NOORMAN, made by himself This is the mark + of MARITIE Dikek, made with her own hand
As witnesses : Pieter: Ryverdingh Davydt Schuyler
In presence of me, ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Notary Public
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Deposition of Adriaen van Ilpendam and others about efforts to settle a dispute between Hendrick Rooseboom and Robert Livingston
[537 blank ; 538] On this 28th day of January 1674, we the undersigned, Adriaen van Ilpendam, Pieter Jansz Loockermans and Dirck Bentsingh affirm and declare that we at the request of Heyndrick Rooseboom were asked this evening to go to Dominie Schaets and inquire if he, Dominie Schaets, would please go to Lievensteyn's1 to request of said Lievensteyn that the difference between said Rooseboom and said Lievensteyn might be adjusted ; whereupon said Dominie Schaets and Adriaen van Ilpendam went immediately to the lodging of said Lievensteyn. The foregoing we affirm to be true and are ready when requested to confirm the same by a solemn oath. In confirmation of which we have sub- scribed this with our own hands in Albany on the date above written.
ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM PIETER LOOCKERMANS DIRCK BENSEM
Additional deposition by Adriaen van Ilpendam
I, the undersigned, Adriaen van Ilpendam, aged 56 years, affirm and declare that yesterday evening, being the 28th of January, about bellringing, (at the request of Heyndrick Rooseboom) I went with Dominie Schaets to the house of Gabriel Thomasz where Lievenstyn lodged, and with much reasoning sought to induce Lievenstyn out of Christian love to adjust the matter and difference which occurred on the 26th of this month between him and Roose- boom at the house of Dominie Schaets, [stating] that said Roose- boom was heartily inclined thereto. But Lievenstyn would not consent thereto and gave for answer that expenses had been incurred and that the matter must be decided before the judges. The foregoing I affirm to be true, and am ready (if need be) to confirm the same by a solemn oath. Done in Albany this 29th of January 1673.
ADRIEN VAN ILPENDAM
1 Robert Livingston's
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Deposition by Roelof Jansen as to the price of Jan van Nes's farm [539] On this day, the 27th May 1675, appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in New Albany), Roeloff Jansz, aged about 29 years, who acknowledges that he has testified, as by these presents he does testify, without any dissimu- lation, for the sake of justice, at the request of Jan van Nes, that it is true and truthful that he, said Roeloff Jansz, in the month of April last, was sitting at the house of Jurriaen Teunisz, sewing, the precise day he does not well remember, when he heard Jurriaen Teunisz ask of Jan van Nes: "How much is the farm worth on which you dwell?" Whereupon Jan van Nes answered: "It is well worth 400 or 500 beavers "; to which Jurriaen said: "You shall not guess again." Then Jan van Nes replied: "There is a part of the land plowed which must be paid for." Again Jurriaen said, " that must be appraised." As one is bound to testify to the truth, especially when required, therefore the aforenamed deponent is ready, if need be, to confirm the foregoing by a solemn oath, and he has subscribed this in presence of me, the undersigned notary, with his own hand, in Albany, dated as above.
ROELEF JANSEN
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM Not. Pub.
Deposition of Willem Martensen Hues about three scowloads of brick delivered by him in 1668 to Balthasar de Haert at New York
[540] This day, the 20th of August 1672, appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in New Albany, Wil- lem Maertensz Iluys,1 aged about 56 years who without dissimula- tion or misleading of anyone hereby acknowledges that he has affirmed, as he does hereby, at the request of Lourens van Alen, that it is true and truthful that this deponent in the year 1668, with the scow of Emmetie Volckers, carried thirty thousand bricks in three loads from the Esopus and delivered the said 30,000 bricks to Mr Balthasar De Haert at New York. As one is bound to state the truth, especially when required to do so, this deponent is
I In Early Records of .Itbany, 1:451, he is called "a seaman."
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ready to confirm the foregoing by a solemn oath, if need be, and has subscribed this with his own hand. Done in Albany, on the date above written.
WILLEM MARTENSZ HUES Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Deposition of Barent Meyndersen and Isaack Verplanck about an affray between Harmen Jansen and Jan Cornely
[541] This day, the 30th of October 1672, appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in New Albany), Barent Meyndersz, master shoemaker, aged about 45 years, and Isaack Verplancken, aged about 21 years, who without persuasion and misleading of any persons, but for the sake of justice, jointly and unitedly affirm hereby at the request of Harmen Jansz that last Monday, being the 28th of this month, they saw Harmen Jansz going along with two pieces of beaver skins and on liis coming near the house of Jan Cornely,1 the said Jan Cornely wrested said two pieces of beaver skins (with violence) from the aforesaid Harmen in the street, whereupon Harmen aforesaid again seized one piece out of Jan Cornely's arms, whereupon Jan Cornely said " pay me," and struck said Harmen Jansz several times. As one is bound to testify to the truth (especially when required to do so) the afore- named deponents are ready to confirm what is hereinbefore written if need be by a solemn oath. Done in Albany, on the date above written.
BARENT MEYNDERSZ ISAACK VERPLANCKEN In my presence, ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM Notary Public
Deposition of Evert Wendel and Gerard Swart about Jan van Marcken's pothook
[542] This day, the 29th of July 1675, appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in N : Albany), Evert Wendel, aged about 60 years, and Gerard Swart, aged about 59 years, who (at the request of Jan Gerritsz van Mareken) hereby acknowledge without any deceit or misleading of any persons, but for the sake of justice, that they have deposed as they, the deponents
1 John Connelly?
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hereby do, as follows, to wit: Evert Wendel acknowledges that now several years ago, the precise time he does not well remember, but the fact he well knows, he, at the request of Jan van Marcken, with said Van Marcken went to the house of Willem Brouwer and said Van Marcken asked the wife of Willem Brouwer (in presence of her husband ) : " Is not my pothanger in your house?" Whereupon the wife of Willem Brouwer answered: "I know nothing about your pothanger, and if your pothanger were of gold, it would not be spoiled in my house." Then immediately Jan van Marcken requested Evert Wendel to go with him to Gerard Swart, who at the time was sheriff of this place, Albany, which three immediately went to the house of Evert Encasz and said Evert Lucasz's wife (named Janetie ) was asked by Jan van Marcken: " From whom did you get the pothanger which hangs there ?" Whereupon she answered: " I bought it from the wife of Willem Brouwer for some cotton." Thereupon Van Marcken requested Gerard Swart to seize the pothanger, which he accordingly did as sheriff.
Gerard Swart, the former sheriff, declares hereby that he seized said pothanger at the time (at the request of said Van Marcken) and furthermore asked Jannetie how she came by the pothanger. Whereupon she answered: "I bought it of the wife of Willem Brouwer." Then said Swart in his capacity of sheriff proceeded against said Brouwer's wife.
As one is bound to affirm the truth (especially when so requested ) the said deponents are [543] ready, each for himself, as they have above affirmed, to confirm the foregoing by solemn oath when required and without craft or guile they have subscribed this with their own hands. Dated as above.
EVERT WENDEL G. SWARTT
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Lease of a farm at Coxsackie from Marten Gerritsen van Bergen to Mathys Coenraetsen
[544] This day, the 11th of November 1675. appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in New Albany), and before the undersigned witnesses, the honorable Commissary Maerten Gerritsz of the first part and Mattys Coenraetsz of the second part, who acknowledge that in love and friendship they
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have agreed and contracted with each other in manner following, to wit : Maerten Gerritsz acknowledges that he has let and Mattys Coenraetsz that he has hired, a certain farm lying at Kockxhach- kingh, heretofore occupied by Gysbert Boogaert, with a house and barn and land as the same has been used heretofore by said Gysbert Boogaert ; and said lessor lets the same to said lessee for the time of the six consecutive years, which time began last first of May 1675 and shall end on the first of May 1681 ; but the lessor reserves a calf pasture at the upper end of the land near the kill; and the lessor has delivered with the land three horses, to wit, two mares and a gelding, and promises to deliver at the first opportunity two more horses; he has also delivered three milch cow's and two heifer calves and a bull calf, and promises at the first opportunity to deliver there six heifers in their third year. These above-mentioned horses and cows are all on half the increase [lower half of manuscript destroyed]. [545] Furthermore, the lessee promises to pay the remaining four years as rent sixteen whole beavers yearly, but he may pay the same in the grains or fruits of the land at market values. All that is hereinbefore written the aforesaid contracting parties promise to execute and perform, binding thereto their respective persons and estates, personal and real, present and future, nothing excepted, subjecting the same to the jurisdiction of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In wit- ness whereof they have subscribed this with their own hands in presence of me, the notary, in Albany, this IIth of November 1675.
MAARTEN GERTSEN VAN BERGEN MATTHYS COENRADT
As witnesses :
Albert Janss Ryckman Dirck Benscm
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Letter from Adriaen van Ilpendam to Dammas Guldewaghen
[546-47 blank ; 548] Mr Secretary Dammas Guldewaghen, Salute :
Your missive dated the 18th of November 1675, new style, came to hand here on the 14th of May 1676. old style. Having noted the contents, I thank you heartily for your trouble and have now executed a power of attorney to Mr Jan Sybinck, merchant, resid- ing on the Haerlemmer Dyck between the two sluices, in the "Golden Fortune," at Amsterdam, which by him or by his order
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will be shown to you, for the purpose of receiving on my account the interest which to this date may have accrued, and acquittance therefor to deliver, for which the said Mr Sybinck is to send me over some goods that I am now in need of. Furthermore I humbly request that you will please to have transcribed for me on a sheet of post paper an authentic copy (on payment of a reasonable com- pensation for the copying) of the appendix or codicil. A copy of the will of my late unele, David Jansz van Ilpendam, made the 20th of June 1640 before one Jacob Fransz van Merwen, notary, it is not necessary to send me, since in my youth I copied the same from an authentic copy and till this date have it by me, which reads that after the death of my late aunt, Aeffie Dammas, 1 was to receive one thousand guilders, but says nothing about interest. The second thousand guilders was bequeathed to me in a codicil, after the death of my cousin, Jacob van Loodesteyn, the interest of which, so I am informed, I am to receive during the term of my life. Therefore, I shall anxiously look forward to your reply, and I should also like to ask whether in future years the interest might not be received without a power of attorney by a notary or secretary if I wrote you a letter and if you were shown a letter of the same date to the person who was to receive the money for me, which would be done merely to avoid the expense. You ought in my judgment be able to tell from the writing, style and signature that I had written it, the same as I have written and signed this. It may be however that the interest can not be paid strictly every year, on the one hand on account of the perils of the sea or other accidents and on the other because I am here 36 [ Dutch] miles inland from New York, where the ships arrive. Wherewith, with hearty greetings, we commend you and your family and all the relatives both of myself and my wife to the protection of the Almighty. Done in Albany in America, the 19th of June 1676, old style.
Your humble and obedient friend and servant,
ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM
Letter from Adriaen van Ilpendam to Dammas Guldewaghen [549] Copy
To the honorable, prudent and discreet Mr Dammas Guldewaeghen Secretary of the city of Haerlem
Mr Secretary Dammas Guldewaghen, Salute!
Your two agreeable letters (the one dated the 24th of April and the other the 6th of June year 1677) were duly delivered to me
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together on the 6th of September of the same year, from which it appears, according to the statement, that you have for me delivered to my attorney the interest to the first of March of the year 1677, amounting to the sum of two hundred and four guilders and eight stivers, which said sum in goods ordered from Mr Jan Sybinck was invested to my content and here received by me only last spring, because the ship had some accidents. On account of the long delay of the ship I feared that all was lost, since we received tidings here that a ship belonging here was taken by the Turk with all the cargo and people (God help them), for which captives a collection was lately made here to gather some money to redeem the same. I heartily thank you for your pains and care, wishing you may be recompensed in return. Furthermore it is my friendly and earnest desire that you would please again on the date or sight of this, to deliver the current interest to said Mr Jan Sybinck or to his order, according to the note of this date which shall be shown to you, about which I have no doubt, and it shall be an especial favor to me, upon which I depend. Herewith we commend, with hearty greetings, your family and the relatives of my wife and myself to the protection of the Almighty.
Done in Albany in America the 19th of September 1678.
Sir and friend, your humble and obedient friend and servant,
ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM
Mr Secretary Dammas Guldewaghen : I desire you would please deliver to Mr Jan Sybinck or to his order all the interest which at this date or sight of this is due to me; so doing you will do well and confer a favor upon me, whereupon I firmly depend. Vale.
Sir and friend, your humble friend and servant,
ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM
Done in Albany in America the 19th of September 1678.
Letter from Adriaen van Ilpendam to Jan Sybinck [550] Mr Jan Sybinck, Salute!
Whereas I have learned from Sybrant van Schayck that you have knowledge that I have fallen heir to some money at Haerlem, therefore I now hereby (from old acquaintance) make bold to request you to receive the same in accordance with a power of
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attorney accompanying this, which power as also a copy of a letter inclosed from Mr Dammas Guldewaghen you may show or cause to be shown; the money is ready as you in the aforesaid copy can see. And 1 desire if you please that you would send me the follow- ing goods by the first ship ( that shall sail directly out of Holland or England for New York but not to Boston ), which I have need of in my housekeeping, to wit:
One piece of strong Alckmaer white linen, 50 ells long at 18 stivers the ell
One piece of good. strong white linen, 50 ells long, 12 to 13 stivers the ell
Eight ells of good, fine linen at fl.2. the ell
Six ells pretty blue linen that has been first bleached white, for about 17 stivers the ell
12 ells of checked linen
Six cotton neck cloths which are striped on the ends
Five quarter yards of black silk nonpareil, of the best, for a hood for my wife
Two half pounds white thread, one-half pound somewhat finer than the other to sew shirts with
\ ream of High Dutch paper [ water-marked] with the fool's cap and bells
A half pound of fine sealing wax
The remaining money in good white Osnabrück ( Osenbrugs) linen, well remembering that all expenses and customs as well in Holland as in England are first to be deducted and paid.
The aforesaid ream of paper may be loosened and the quires be laid by the side of each other for convenience in packing.
I send herewith also a letter to said Mr Guldlewaghen which I have not scaled ; when you have read it please close it with a wafer or wax. Entrusting the aforesaid commission to you. I shall depend thereon and confidently look forward to the same. Here- with I commend with hearty greetings all your family to the protec- tion of the Almighty.
Your obedient friend.
ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM
Done in Albany in America this
19th of June 1076 old style
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Letter from Adriaen van Ilpendam to Jan Sybinck
[551] Copy
Honorable, prudent and discreet Mr Jan Sybinck, merchant, resid- ing on the Haerlemmer Dyck between the two sluices, in the "Golden Fortune," at Amsterdam
Mr Jan Sybinck, Salute!
Your agreeable letter dated the 6th of June 1677 and all the goods have been delivered to me in good condition. I thank you for your good care and wish you would again in future consign my goods to the same man, Mr Pieter Jacobsz Marius, at New York, for he kept my goods the whole of last winter in his house and took good care thereof, because the ship came in so late that the sloops could not sail up here before winter set in. I now send with the accompanying letter an order to the honorable Secretary Dammas Guldewaghen for all the interest which to the date or sight hereof is due to me, to be received by you or your order, and on receipt of the same. I courteously and earnestly desire that you would please send me by the first ship that shall sail directly from Holland or England to New York the following goods :
4 fine bread knives with white handles and silver ferrules
A fine penknife with a longish white handle
A turned horn pocket inkstand to contain 3 or 4 pens
4 fine spectacles with large lenses and silver rims for the use of people who are over 60 years old
2 Testaments with the Psalms accompanied by notes, octavo, bound in black Spanish leather, coarse and clear print, with black silk ribbons therein, one with a black silk ribbon to carry it by over the arm
16 ells of good common tick for a bed, bolster and pillows @ fl. 1-4 the ell
One piece of Haerlemmer or peasants' shirt linen, 50 ells long @ 12 to 13 stivers the ell
One dozen cotton neck cloths, striped on the ends
2 pounds of white thread for sewing shirts, one pound somewhat finer than the other
One pound of sewing thread of assorted colors
1 9 ells of Poedesoe 1 for an apron for my wife
3 ells of thick black silk bobbin for the band of said apron
The remainder of the money in good Osenburger 2 linen, to wit, about the half w[hite] and the other half unbleached, well
1 Poult-de soie; a heavy corded silk dress material.
2 The adjective form of Osenburg, the Dutch name for Osnabrück, in Germany.
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remembering that first all customs and expenses both in Holland and in England must be deducted.
I hope that of the Al. 20-11, sent to pay the duty in England on the last [consignment of ] goods, something was left over.
N.B. If you are certain that said bedticking will be reckoned contraband, then do not buy it, but send for the money good Osenburger linen, but the apron for my wife you may (if you like) pack in one of the pieces of linen.
Entrusting the foregoing to you, I shall look forward to receiving the said goods (with God's help) next summer. Herewith I com- mend you and your beloved wife and your whole family, with hearty greetings, to the protection of the Almighty.
Mr Sybinck,
Your obedient friend and servant.
ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM
Done in Albany in America, the 19th of September 1678
Deposition of Gerard Swart and Dirck Wesselsen that Geertruyt
Barents made over to Johannes Lansingh a certain sum which she had set aside for her daughter Judickie Hendricks
[552-53 missing; 554] This day, the 8th of April 1676, appeared before me. Adriaen van Hpendam, notary public residing in Albany in America, Gerrard Swart, aged about 60 years, and Dirck Wes- selsz, aged about 34 years, who at the request of Johannes Lant- singh acknowledge that they have testified and declared, as they hereby do testify, that this day they heard Geertruyt Barents, wife of Jacob Hevinck and mother of the late Judickie Heyndrickx, say to Johannes Lantsingh that she fully and absolutely made over to him the Holland money, to wit, four hundred guilders, which she set aside for her said daughter, deceased, in Holland on account of her late father's estate,1 which she then also did to the amount of the four hundred guilders, and that she, Geertruyt Barents, fully renounced the same.
1, the undersigned notary, hereby likewise certify that the afore- said transaction took place in my presence, the said Geertruyt Barents herself having requested these deponents to give testimony
1 Meaning the estate of Hendrick Hendricksen van Harstenhorst, the first husband of Geertrust Barents: sce marriage contract between Jacob Ilevick for Gevick ) from Mecklenburg and Geertruy Barents from Dwingelo, or Dwingeloo, in the province of Drenthe, dated September 23, 1662, in Early Records of Albany, 1:311; also 320 30.
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thereof. As one is bound to testify to the truth. specially when requested to do so, said deponents are ready, if need be, to confirm this and in witness thereof they have subscribed this with their own hands in Albany, the day above written.
G: SWARTT DIRCK WESSELSZ ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Vot. Pub.
Indenture of service of Johannes Dyckman to Tryntie Jochims, the wife of Abraham Staas
[555 blank; 556] This day, the Ioth of April 1676, appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in Albany in America), Jan Verbeeck and Cornelis Dyckman, of the one side, and Tryntie Joachimsz, wife of the honorable Major Abraham Staas, of the other side, who in all love and friendship have contracted and agreed with each other in manner following, to wit: Said Jan Verbeeck and Cornelis Dyckman acknowledge that they have hired out a certain youngster named Johannes Dyck- man, aged about 14 years (brother of said Cornelis Dyckman), to said Tryntie Joachims and to her said husband, for the time of the four successive years beginning on the first of May of this year 1676 old style and ending on the first of May 1680 old style; provided that said Johannes Dyckman be holden (with the help of God Almighty) to serve out the said term of four successive years in all diligence and faithfulness. And said Tryntie Joachims (also with the authority of her husband) promises to keep him in proper clothing against the cold during said time and to have his linen washed and when said four years are ended she also promises to fit him out with a new cloth suit, a new hat, a pair of new stock- ings and shoes and six new shirts. Said contracting parties mutually promise to execute and perform what is above written (with God's help) binding themselves thereto as by law provided, and in confirmation thereof they have subscribed these with their own hands, dated as above.
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