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2 Thus in the original : probably a mistake for Martens.
3 Hans Carelsen Toll from Langesont, or Langesund, in Norway.
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that he has bought a certain lot lying here in Albany on the slope of the hill 1 near the Plein, between Casper Jacobsz " and the first kill or Rutten kill, in length and breadth as said lot has been inclosed and as it was first obtained or bought by Pieter Winne from the honorable magistrates, it having been sold by said Pieter Winne to Frans Pietersz Claeuw and Cornelis Woutersz and thereafter sold and delivered by Frans Pietersz Claeuw to said Hans Carelsz. The aforesaid seller delivers said lot to said buyer now, free and unincumbered ( saving the lord's right), for which the buyer promises to pay to the seller three good, whole, salable beaver skins in the month of August next, on condition that the seller be holden to deliver to the buyer a good and sufficient deed of ownership on the delivery of the last payment, but the buyer shall pay the expenses thereof as well as of this bill of sale. The aforenamed contracting parties mutually promise to perform and execute the aforesaid terms of this contract under pledge of their persons and estates, real and personal, having and to have, subject to all courts and judges. In witness whereof they have inter- changeably subscribed this with their own hands in Albany, on the date above written.
HANS CARL HEINDERCK GEIRTS
Storm vander Zee, as witness Claes Janss
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Contract of sale between Gerrit Slichtenhorst and Jacob Abra- hamsen Kuyper of a lot in Albany
[209 blank ; 210] On this 22d day of July 1673 appeared before me, AAdriaen van llpendam, notary public residing in New Albany, and before the undersigned witnesses, the worthy Gerrit Slichten- horst of the first part and Jacob Abrahamsz Kuyper of the other part, who acknowledge that in all love and friendship they have agreed in manner following, to wit: Said Mr Gerrit Slichtenhorst acknowledges that he has sold to Jacob Abrahamsz a certain piece of a lot lying here in Albany on the east side of the aforenamed seller's lot and on the west side of the present buyer's lot, in breadth on the street on the south side fifteen wood feet, beginning one foot from the buyer's house and in the rear on the north side
1 aent hanghen vant qcberghte
= C'asper Jacobsen Halenbeck.
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seventeen or eighteen of said feet, one foot more or less, coming to the fourth post which is marked with a cut of the ax, and said lot is as long as the breadth of said seller's lot; which aforenamed lot the seller promises to deliver to the buyer free and unincumbered (saving the lord's right) in the latter part of next month of September, but the seller stipulates to reserve an apple tree which stands next the buyer's house; for which the buyer promises to pay the seller or his order fifteen good, whole, salable beaver skins at eight guilders apiece, to wit, in the month of July 1674 ten whole beavers, and the remaining five beavers in the month of July 1675. Said contracting parties hereto bind their persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges, and in confirmation thereof they have subscribed this with their own hands, in Albany, dated as above.
GERRIT VAN SLICHTENHORRST JACOP ABRAHAMSEN
As witnesses : Jacob Sanders Glen Dirck Hesselingh
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Lease of Madam Van Curler's island to Barent Pietersen Coeymans
[211 blank ; 212] On this 22d day of August 1673, new style, appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public admitted by the honorable magistrates of Fort Orange, colony of Renselaers- wyck and Schanechtade and the district thereof, the Honorable Mr Willem Beeckman and Mr Jan Verbeeck of the one part and Barent Pietersz Koemans of the other part, who hereby acknowl- edge that in all love and friendship they have agreed and contracted in manner following, to wit: Said Mr Beeckman and Mr Ver- beeck, as attorneys for Madam Curler 1 and in her name, acknowl- edge that they have let to Barent Koemans, who also acknowledges that he has hired, a certain island lying to the south of the farm of Philip Schuyler and to the north of the farm of Mr Renselaer, which said island is leased to said Barent and Claes van Boeck- hooven till the 16th of May 1674, and is now let by the said attorneys to the said lessee for the term of six consecutive years, beginning from the 16th of May 1674 and ending on the 16th of
1 Antonia Slachboom, the widow of Arent van Curler.
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May 1080, for which the lessee promises to pay as rent yearly one hundred and seventy guilders in seawan or the value thereof. Hereto the said contracting parties (in their capacity aforesaid) bind their persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all courts and judges. In witness whereof said contracting parties have with me, the notary, subscribed this with their own hands, on the date above written.
WILH: BEECKMAN JAN VERBEECK
This is the mark X of BARENT PIETERSZ KOEMANS, made with his own hand Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Lease of a house on the hill in Albany from Johannes de Wande- laer to Symon Volckertsen Veeder
[213 blank ; 214| On this 27th day of November 1673, new style, appeared before me, Adriaen van Hpendam, notary public (residing in Willemstadt 1. Johannes De Wandelaer of the one part and Simon Volckersz of the other part, who acknowledge that in all love and friendship they have agreed in manner following, to wit: The aforesaid Johannes de Wandelaer acknowledges that he has let to the aforenamed Simon Volckersz a certain house on the hill here in Willemstadt, which shall stand on the north side of the lessor's house and shall be in breadth fifteen wood feet and in length fifteen or twenty feet, and he promises to deliver it complete and ready on the first of May 1674, with a bakeoven therein, in which a mudde of flour can be baked at one time : likewise a cellar therein of ten feet square, but the floor in the garret is to be laid next autumn: for the term of three following years beginning on the first of May 1671 and ending on the first of May 1677; for which aforesaid term of three years the lessee promises to pay thirty- four good, whole, salable beaver skins, to wit, in three payments, of which the first, a just third part, must be paid before winter in the first year of the lease 1074: the second before winter in the year 1075; and the third or last in the year 1676 also before winter. Hereto the said contracting parties bind their persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In confirmation whereof they have, in presence of
1 The Dutch name given to Albany at the time of the reoccupation of the province of New York by the Dutch in 1073.
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me, the notary, (without craft or guile) subscribed this with their own hands in Willemstadt, dated as above.
JOHANNES DE WANDELAER This is the mark X of SYMON VOLCKERSZ, made by himself Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Contract of partnership between John Conell and Douwe Jellissen Fonda to sell liquor to the Indians
[215 blank ; 216] On this 15th day of May 1674, new style, appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in New Albany in America, Douwe Jellisz Fonda of the one part and Jan Corneel of the other part, who in love and friendship have agreed in manner following, to wit: Said contracting parties agree to trade together for four months from the date hereof, on condi- tion that Douwe Jellisz shall furnish all the distilled liquor fit to be sold to the Indians at four beavers the anker and that Jan Corneel shall be freed from the great excise; that from the payment for the consumed or sold liquor the said Douwe Jellisz shall first of all receive so much as he has put in and that Jan Corneel may offer no other liquor for sale; that thereafter they shall divide the bal- ance, that is, the profits of [ the trade], each receiving the just half. It is also provided that if the said partners shall trade in any other wares or merchandise, they shall equally bear the expense and equally divide the gains thereof. The foregoing the said con- tracting parties promise to execute and to perform, binding thereto their persons and estates, personal and real, present and future, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges, in confirmation of which they have, in presence of me, the notary, subscribed this with their own hands, in Willemstadt, dated as above.
DOUWE JELLISZ FONDA JOHN CONELL
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Contract of sale of a house and lot at New York from Hans Hendricksen and Johannes Wendel to Hendrick Jellissen Myer
[217 blank ; 218] On this 20th day of July 1674 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in Willemstadt,
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Hans Heyndricsz and Heyndrick Jellisz and Johannes Wendel, who hereby acknowledge that in all love and friendship they have agreed in manner following, to wit: Hans Heyndricsz and Johannes Wendel acknowledge that they have sold and Heyndrick Jellisz that he has bought a certain house and lot standing and lying in the city of Nieuw Orangie1 in the Parel stract,2 between the house of the widow of Egbert van Borsum and the house or lot of the late Jan Jansz Schepmoes," which said house and lot the aforesaid sellers deliver immediately to said buyer, free and unin- cumbered, with all the privileges according to the patent ( saving the lord's right ), and which the buyer now receives. For which the buyer promises to pay to the sellers the sum of ninety-five good, whole, merchantable beaver skins, to be paid at Nieuw Orangie, but the buyer may pay the same in good wheat at market price, in three instalments, the first payment to be made in the latter part of the month of October of this year 1074, the second payment in the latter part of October 1075, and the third or last payment in the latter part of October 1676; but on the express condition that the buyer may retain one-third of every payment, because there is coming to him a just third part thereof by way of inheritance from his father.
Said contracting parties mutually promise to perform and execute the terms of the above contract, binding thereto their respective persons and estates, having and to have, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness whereof they have ( with the undersigned witnesses ) with- out craft or guile, subscribed this with their own hands, in Willem- stadt, dated as above.
HENDRICK JELLISZ MYER HANS HEIEN JDRICSZ JOHANNES WENDEL
As witnesses : Hendrick Bries Barent Meynderss
Quod attestor ADRIVEN VAN IL.PENDAM, Not. Pub.
1 New Orange, the name given to New York at the time of the reoccu- patron by the Dutch in 1073.
' Pearl street. The deel for this property, dated July 25. 1676, is in Early Records of .Albany. 1 .1.30 31
3 Apparently referring to the elder Jan Jansen Schepmoes, who died before October 1650, when his widow. Sara Pieters, married William Couch. or Cook The deed of July 25, 1670, seems to refer to a son by the same name who must have died shortly before laummary , 1699 when letters of administration on his estate were granted by Gov. Jacob Leisler. See New York Hist Society, Collections, 1892, 25:161.
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Bill of sale of one-half of the sloop de Haen from Maria Bayards to Pieter Meessen Vrooman
[219 blank ; 220] On this 28th day of July 1674 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in Willemstadt, and before the hereinafter named witnesses, Maria Beyarts, wife and attorney for her husband Mr Balthasar Beyarts,1 of the one part and Pieter Meesz Vrooman of the other part, who hereby acknowledge that in all love and friendship they have agreed and contracted in manner following, to wit: Maria Beyarts acknowl- edges that she has sold and Pieter Meesz Vrooman that he has bought half a sloop named de Haen," which now rides at anchor here before Willemstadt with all its appurtenances according to the conditions of the inventory read here yesterday at public sale and which can be seen at the vendue master's, which the seller now delivers to the buyer free and unincumbered, and which the buyer hereby accepts. For which said buyer promises to pay to the seller or her order the sum of five hundred and eight guilders in good, whole, salable beaver skins, or in good winter wheat at five skipples the beaver, in two instalments, to wit, the first pay- ment shall be made within three days from now, and it is stipulated that the same shall be two hundred guilders in beavers; the second payment (being the last) shall be made in April 1675, which is three hundred and eight guilders in beavers. The aforesaid con- tracting parties mutually promise to execute and perforin the afore- said conditions, binding thereto their respective persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges ; and in confirmation thereof they have, with Johannes Clute and Andries Teller (as principals and sureties and witnesses of the same) subscribed this with their own hands, dated as above.
MARIA BAYARS
PIETER MEES VROOMAN
As principals, sureties and witnesses :
Johanns Clute 4. Teller
Quod attestor
ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
I, the undersigned Maritie Bayarts, acknowledge that I am honestly paid the contents of this and thank Pieter Meesz for his good payment. Albany, July 6, 1678.
MARIA BAYARS
In my presence, ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
1 Balthazar Bayard, a nephew of Director General Peter Stuyvesant. His wife was a daughter of Govert Loockermans.
2 The Cock.
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Contract of sale of land at Kinderhook from Jannetje Donckes, widow of Thomas Powell, to Andries Hansen Scherp
[221 blank ; 222] On this 20th day of September 1674 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public ( residing in Wil- lemstadt ), Jannetie Donckes, widow of the late Thomas Poul,1 of the one part, and Andries Hansz Scherp, of the other part, who hereby acknowledge that is all love and friendship they have agreed and contracted in manner following, to wit: Jannetie Donckes acknowledges that she has sold and Andries Ilansz Scherp that he has bought all the woodland at the Kinderhoeck, to wit, on the south side of the path, which Thomas Poul possessed, and as he, Andries Hansz, heretofore bought also the woodland of said Thomas Poul on the north side of the said path, the afore- said land, to wit, the woodland as well on the north as on the south side of Thomas Poul, shall belong to him in full so soon as he shall have paid for the same to the widow of Thomas Poul, excepting a little piece of woodland which is said to belong 10 Frans Pietersz Claenw, which lies off from said land about a quarter of an hour's journey and is included also in the patent of Thomas Poul. For which aforesaid woodland on the south side of the path, the aforenamed Andries Ilansz promises to pay 10 Jannetie Donckes, or her order, the sum of twenty good, whole, salable beaver skins, or in good winter wheat at market price, to be delivered here in Willemstadt free, in the three following instal- ments, of which the first payment shall be made in the month of September 1675, being a just third part ; the second payment in the month of September 1676; and the third and last payment in the month of September 1677. The said seller delivers said land to the buyer now free and unincumbered ( saving the lord's right ), which the buyer accepts and so soon as the last payment shall be made, the seller is holden to deliver to the buyer a good and sufficient deed of ownership. The aforenamed contracting parties mutually promise to execute and perform the above contract, mutui- ally binding thereto their respective persons and estates, having and to have, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In confirmation whereof they have with the undersigned witnesses
1 Thomas Powell.
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subscribed this with their own hands in Willemstadt, dated as above.
This is the mark + of JANNETIE DONCKES, made by herself This is the mark A H of ANDRIES HANSZ, made by himself
As witnesses : Jacob Theysen G. Swartt
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Indenture of service of Johanna Hans, daughter of the late Hans Coenraetsen, to Richard Pretty and his wife
[223 blank : 224] On this 30th day of September 1674 appeared before me. Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in Wil- lemstadt in America, and before the afternamed witnesses, Barentie Stratsmans, late wife of llans Coenraetsz, baker, deceased, and now married to Jacob Jansz Gardenier, of the one part, and Richard Pretty and his wife Elisabeth Pretty,1 of the other part, who in love and friendship are agreed in manner following, to wit : Said Barentie Straetsmans acknowledges that she has hired (to said Richard Pretty and his aforenamed wife ) her daughter, named Johanna Hans's daughter, from this date, for the time of eight following years; the said daughter is now over eight years old and said employers promise to bring up said girl (during said eight years) in the fear of the Lord as if she were their own child, to teach her to read, to keep her in clothing, as well woolen as linen. and when the eight years are up, they shall be holden to fit out said young daughter with a new black grosgrained mantle and a black apron, a new skirt, three new chemises, three new aprons, a pair of new shoes and a pair of new stockings and furthermore other trifles which may be needful for her body, together with her old clothes which she then may have; and the aforesaid mother of this aforenamed girl promises that this girl (with the help of God Almighty) shall serve out the aforesaid time with all diligence and faithfulness and that said employers shall be to her as a father and a mother and have the right to properly punish her for wrongdoing and disobedience, giving them full power to do so and trusting them to do all that is good; but if said employers
1 The name Stridles is erased and Pretty is written above it.
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happen to move out of this place the above-written conditions shall be at an end, unless it be | 225 ] that said mother and young daughter have the consent of said employers [ to continue the service], but if the employers should happen to depart and the said mother and girl not be minded to go with them, then the said girl shall be satis- lied with her clothing, woolen as well as linen, which she shall then have for her body or which may have been given to her, unless anything extra were presented to her of the employers' own free will and discretion. Likewise, the mother leaves it to the dis- cretion of the employers, if the girl serves out her term, to make her a present over and above of what is hereinbefore stipulated. The foregoing the said contracting parties promise with the help of God Almighty to execute and perform without doing or causing anything to be done contrary hereto in any manner, binding thereto their respective persons and estates, present and future, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In confirmation of which they have, with Teunis Spitsenberg 1 and Jan Harmensz Backer as witnesses hereto, subscribed this without fraud or deceit, in Wil- lenistadt, dated as above.
This is the mark B S of BARENTIE STRAETSMANS, made by herself This is the mark E P of ELISABETII PRETTY. made by herself
.As witnesses : Teunis Cornelisse Jan Harmenss Backer
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Bill of sale from Johannes Provoost and Johannes Kip, attorneys of Abraham Jansen, to Jacob Loockermans of one-half the sloop Salamander
[226] On this second day of October 1674 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in Willemstadt in America, and before the undersigned witnesses, the Honorable Secretary Johannes Provoost and Johannes Kip, both attorneys for Abraham Jansz Timmerman, of the one part, and the worthy Jacob Loockermans, of the other part, who hereby acknowledge that they have agreed in all love and friendship in manner follow- ing, to wit: The aforesaid attorneys acknowledge that they have sold and Jacob Loockermans that he has bought the half of the
1 | cumis Cornelissen van der Poel.
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sloop (named the Salamander) which is at present sailed in part- nership with Harmanus van Borsum, and they promise to deliver the same to the buyer free and unincumbered with boat, sails, rig- ging, anchor, cables and all other appurtenances that are now with the same, so soon as said buyer shall have arrived in Nieuw Orangie; for which the buyer promises to pay to the attorneys, or to Abraham Jansz Timmerman, or his order, the value of one hundred and thirty good, whole, salable beaver skins, to wit, next spring eighty beavers in good winter wheat at five skipples a beaver to be delivered here in Willemstadt and the remaining fifty beavers to be paid next year 1675, in the trading season. Said contracting parties mutually promise to execute and perform what is hereinbefore written, binding thereto their respective per- sons and estates, having and to have, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In confirmation whereof they have, with Arnout Cornelisz Vylen and Heyndrick Bries as witnesses hereto, subscribed this with their own hands, in Wil- lemstadt, datum ut supra.
JOHANNES PROVOOST JOHANNIS KIP JACOB LOKERMANS
As witnesses : Arnout Cor: V'ielc Hendrick Brics
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Bond of William Nottingham to the heirs of Thomas Willett, deceased
[227 blank; 228] On this IIth day of October 1674 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in Wil- lemstadt, and before the undersigned witnesses, William Notting- ham, who hereby acknowledges that he was well and truly indebted to the late Mr Thomas Willet in the sum of three hundred and fifty-seven guilders in beavers, growing out of certain merchandise, the receipt whereof to his satisfaction the said William Nottingham acknowledges, promising to pay said sum of three hundred and fifty-seven guilders in good, merchantable beavers at eight guilders apiece to John Saffin, son-in-law of said Thomas Willet, deceased, as heir and attorney for the other heirs of Thomas Willet, deceased, at the first opportunity, without delay, to said John Saffin, or his
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order; for which said sum William Nottingham gave an obligation to the late Thomas Willet on the 20th of September 1673. William Nottingham binds hereto his person and especially his small house wherein he now dwells, with the lot thereof, standing and lying on the west side of his large house here in Willemstadt, and further- more generally his large house and all his other property, real and personal, present and future, subject to the jurisdiction of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In confirmation of which he has signed this with his own hand, together with Richard Pretty and William Lofferys, in Willemstadt, datum ut supra.
I'm. NOTTINGHAM
Richard Pretty William Loueridge
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Bond of Volckertje Pieters, widow of Gerrit Jansen Stavast, to John Saffin
[229 blank ; 230] On this 15th day of October 1674 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in Wil- Jemstadt, and before the undersigned witnesses, Volckie Pieters, widow of the late Gerrit Jansz Stavast, who hereby acknowledges that she is honestly indebted to John Saffin in the sum of four hundred and forty-four guilders in beavers, growing out of certain wares, the receipt of which to her content she acknowledges, and promises to pay said sum at once to said John Saffin, or his order. to wit, the half in good winter wheat at five skipples the beaver, to be delivered at her expense on board here before Willemstadt, and the other half she promises to pay to the aforesaid John Saffin, or to his order, in good, whole, merchantable beaver skins at eight guilders apiece, but she promises that there shall be three good heavy beavers among them which shall not be reckoned more than eight guilders each. Hereto she binds her person and estate, real and personal, present and future, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In confirmation of which she has, in presence of these undersigned witnesses, subscribed this with her own hand in Willemstadt, dated as above.
FOLCKERTEN PIFTERS
William Loueridge Richard: Pretty
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN H.PENDAM, Not. Pub.
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Contract of sale between Jack Nack and Jan Vinhaeghen of a house and lot in Willemstadt (Albany)
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