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hold as valid whatever in the matter aforesaid shall be done and performed by his attorney, binding thereto his person and estate, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.
In confirmation of which he has subscribed this with his own hand, in Albany in America, this 18th of September 1675.
HENDRICK COYLER
.As witnesses :
Jan Janss Bleecker Johannes de Wandelaer
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Contract of sale between Jan Jansen Bleecker and Jacob Sander- sen Glen, attorneys of Jan Hendricksen van Bael, and Gerrit van Hardenbergh (Herttenberch) of a house and lot in Albany [255 blank ; 256] Appeared before me. Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in Albany in America, and before the under- signed witnesses. Jan Jansz Bleycker and Jacob Sandersz Glen, attorneys on behalf of Jan Heyndriesz van Balen, of the first part. and Gerrit van Hardenbergh, of the second part, who hereby acknowledge that in all love and friendship they have agreed and contracted in manner following. to wit: Said attorneys acknowl- edge that they have sold and said Hardenbergh that he has bought a house and lot belonging to said Jan van Balen, standing and lying here in Albany on the hill, between the house of Jacob Schermer- hoorn and the house of Mr Abraham van Tricht, which said house and lot, with all that is fast thereon by earth and nail, said sellers now deliver to the buyer free and unincumbered ( saving the lord's right ), the receipt of which the buyer hereby acknowledges. For which the buyer promises to pay two hundred good, whole, salable beaver skins at eight guilders apiece and two good otters, to wit, one hundred whole beavers and one otter immediately, and the other half, being another hundred whole beavers and one otter, in the year 1676 in the month of August, with 8 or to days grace. the receipt of which aforesaid first payment of one hundred whole beavers and one otter said sellers hereby acknowledge and with the delivery of the last payment said sellers promise to deliver to said buyer a good and sufficient deed of ownership with and according to the patent.
The aforesaid contracting parties promise to execute and per- form the foregoing under pledge of their respective persons and
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estates, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In confirmation of which they have mutually subscribed this with their own hands in Albany in America this 18th of Sep- tember 1675.
JAN JANSZ BLEECKER JACOB SANDERSZ GLEN GERRIT HERTTENBERCHI
As witnesses : Jan Nack Dirck Hesselingh
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Contract of sale between Gerrit van Hardenbergh (Herttenberch) and Jan Byvanck of a house and lot in Albany
[257 blank ; 258] Appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in Albany in America, and before the after- written witnesses, Gerrit van Hardenbergh of the one part and Jan Byvanck of the other part, who acknowledge that in all love and friendship they have agreed and contracted in manner following, to wit: Gerrit van Hardenbergh acknowledges that he has sold and Jan Byvanck that he has bought a certain house and lot standing and lying within this place of Albany on the hill, adjoining the west side of the house of said buyer and [lying] to the east of the house of Jan Jansz Bleycker ;1 which said house and lot the seller promises to deliver to the aforenamed buyer within the time of the next three months free and unincumbered, with all that is therein fast by earth and nail (saving the lord's right ) and with the lot all the rights which he received with the lot according to conveyance or otherwise, as he obtained it from Johannes Clute. For which said house and lot the buyer promises to pay to the seller a hundred and sixty good, whole, salable beaver skins at eight guilders apiece, of which the first payment (being eighty beavers) shall be made in the month of August 1676, 8 or 10 days grace; and the second or last payment one year thereafter, again in the month of August 1677, eight or ten days grace, being again eighty whole beavers. The aforesaid contracting parties promise to execute and perform the foregoing on pledge of their persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In con-
1 belent aen de West Zyde vande Huysinghe vanden voorsz. Kooper ende beoosten de Huysinge van Jan Jansz. Bleycker.
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firmation whereof they have mutually subscribed this, without fraud or deceit, in Albany in America, this 23d of September 1675.
GERRIT HERTTENBERCH JAN BYVANCK
Is witnesses: Jan Linhacghen Hendrick Lansinck
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN IL.PENDAM, Not. Pub.
Contract whereby Elias van Ravensteyn sublets to Roeloff Jans sen the house of Nehemiah Pearse at Albany
[259 blank ; 260] Appeared before me. Adriaen van Upendam, notary public residing in N. Albany, Elias van Ravensteyn of the one part and Roeloff Jansz of the other part, who hereby acknowl- edge that in all love and friendship they have agreed and contracted in manner following on this day, October 8, 1675. to wit: Elias van Ravensteyn acknowledges that he has let and Roeloff Jansz that he has hired the house belonging to Nehemias Peersen,1 which house and Jot as it lies in fence said Elias Ravensteyn says he has hired until the first of June 1976 and now |sublets to said lessee until the first of June 1670, when, as aforesaid his lease expires; and the lessor promises to move out on the 11th of this month of Octo ber and to deliver the house to the lessee to be occupied by him during said time until the first of June. For which the lessee prom- ises to pay to the lessor as rent two good, whole, salable beaver skins at eight guilders apiece in beavers and to pay the same promptly as soon as the lease expires.
Said contracting parties hereto bind their estates, nothing excepted, together with their persons, placing the same under the authority of all Jords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness whereof they have subscribed this with their own hands, in Albany. dated this 8th of October 1075.
ELIAS VAN RWESTEYN ROELOEF JANSEN
Is witnesses : Hans Dreper Dirck Hessellingh
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
1 Nehemiah Pears (Pearce, or Peirce), of Beston, cooper: see Suffolk Deeds. 8:113: 05. The house mentioned in this contract was on July 5. 1676, conveyed by Nehemiah Pears to Samuel Holman and on August 20, 1070, again conveyed by Samuel Holman to Robert Story: sce Early Records of Albany, 1 :121 22, 127 28, 1.41- 12.
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Contract of sale of a piece of land at Claverack from Jan Hen- dricksen van Solsberghen to Gerrit van Slichtenhorst
[26I blank; 262] On this first day of November 1675 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in New Albany). Jan Heyndricsz van Solsberghen1 of the one part and Mr Gerrit van Slichtenhorst of the other part, who in love and friendship have agreed and contracted in manner following, to wit : Jan Heyndricsz acknowledges that he sold and Mr Gerrit van Slich- tenhorst that he bought ( now about two years ago) a certain parcel of woodland to the seller heretofore belonging, lying in the Claver- rack, to wit, the just half of all the land that said seller has there in the Claverrack, beginning from the northerly end of the second Claveeren,2 extending eastward to the great kill, northerly to Major Abraham Staas's kill, southerly to the land of Gerrit Visbeeck, together with the kill so far as the land extends; which aforesaid land and kill the seller delivers now to the aforenamed buyer free and unincumbered (saving the lord's right).
For which said half of the aforenamed land and kill the said seller hereby acknowledges that he is fully satisfied and paid to his content.
The aforesaid contracting parties hereto bind their respective persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness whereof they have subscribed this with their own hands, in Albany, dated as above.
This is the mark + of JAN HEYN- DRICSZ VAN SOLSBERGHEN, made with his own hand GERRIT VAN SLICHTENHORST
As witnesses :
Barent Meynderss Johannes de W'andelaer
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Settlement of accounts between Jan Hendricksen Bruyn and Hendrick Meessen Vrooman
[263 blank ; 264] On this 6th day of November 1675 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in New
1 Jan Hendricksen's name is generally written "van Salsbergen," which should probably be interpreted to mean that he came from Salzbergen, on the Ems. in Hanover, and not from Salisbury, as suggested in Pearson's Genealogias of the First Settlers of Albany.
2 Apparently a mistake for Claveren, or Claver, that is, Clover, but here evidently referring to a field.
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Albany ). Jan Heyndricksz Bruyn and Heyndrick Meesz Vrooman, who hereby acknowledge that they have settled with each other for all accounts up to this date, as well for an obligation payable by said lleyndrick Meesz as for money loaned and for land rent and other debts which they by word or in writing have had outstand- ing against each other, as well on the one side and on the other. s) that they have no further demands or claims of any kind whatsoever against each other, saving that Heyndrick Meese acknowledges that by final settlement of accounts he is honestly indebted to said Jan Heyndriesz Bruyn in the sum of four good. whole, salable beaver skins, of which two beavers are to be paid to him or his order next year 1076 and the remaining two beavers in the year 1077, without longer delay. The aforesaid parties hereto bind their respective persons and estates, real and personal. present and future, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness of which they have in presence of me, the notary, subscribed this with their own hands, in Albany, dated as above.
HEINDERICK MEESZEN VROOM.AN JAN HEINDERICK BRUYNS Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Bond of Maes Cornelissen to Hans Hendricksen and Jan Hen- dricksen Bruyn
| 265 blank ; 266| On this 8th day of November 1675 appeared before me, Adriaen van Upendam, notary public (residing in New Albany ). Maes Cornelisz Cooperslagher,1 who hereby acknowledges that he is honestly indebted to Hans Heyndriesz and Jan Heyn- driesz Bruyn together in the sum of cleven good, whole, salable beaver skins, growing out of money lent and to his content received. and promises therefor to pay in the month of June 1676, to the aforesaid Hans Heyndriesz and Jan Hendriesz Bruyn, or to their orders, the sum of twelve good, whole, salable beaver skins ; binding therefor his person and estate, real and personal, present and future, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness of which sa'd Maes Cornelisz has subscribed this with his own hand (in presence of me, the notary) in Albany, the 8th of November 1075.
MAES CORNELISZ Koperslager Onod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
1 M. c Cornelis n coppersmith, a son of Cornelis Maessen van Buren
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I, the undersigned, Hans Heyndiresz, hereby acknowledge that I have received of Maes Cornelisz Koperslagher the sum of twelve good, whole, salable beaver skins which he owed, as appears by the above obligation which is subscribed by Maes Cornelisz with his own hand, so that said obligation is fully paid and satisfied, and I release said Maes Cornelisz therefore from all demands, as well in behalf of my portion as in behalf of Jan Heyndricsz Bruyn's por- tion. In witness whereof I have subscribed this with my own hand without craft or guile, in New Albany, this 7th of August 1679.
HANS HEINDRICSZ
In my presence, ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Lease of a farm on Constapel's island from Volckert Jansen Douw and Teunis Cornelissen Spitsenberg to Marten Gerritsen
[267 blank ; 268] On this 27th day of December 1675 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in New Albany), and before the undersigned witnesses, Captain Volckert Jansz Douw and Teunis Cornelisz Spitsenbergh1 of the first part and Maerten Cornelisz of the second part, who acknowledge that in love and friendship they have agreed in manner following, to wit : Said Captain Volckert Jansz Douw and Teunis Cornelisz Spitsen- bergh acknowledge that they have let and Maerten Cornelisz that he has hired a certain farm2 with house and barn and two hayricks for the term of six consecutive years, beginning on the first of May of this year 1675 and ending on the first of May 1681; and the lessee may not put any expense on said house. barn and ricks with- cut the consent of the lessors, and shall be holden to deliver up everything at the end of the lease roof and wall tight; and if so be that the same happen to burn ( which may God prevent) by the lessee's fire, then the lessee shall be holden to pay for the same according to valuation, but if the same be destroyed by ice flood or general war it shall be at the charge of the lessors; and at the end of the lease shall said lessors be holden to pay for the land which shall be seeded down, according to a valuation of the plowing. har- rowing, sowing and seed. The said house, barn, ricks and land lie obliquely over against Bethlehem, and the lessee shall use as much land there as he has hired for some years.
1 Tennis Cornelissen van der Poel.
" This farm was on Constapel's island, opposite Paerde Hoeck (now Parda hook) in the town of Bethlehem, Albany county, N. Y. July 26. 1675. Volckert Jansen Donw sold his half of the island to Pieter Winne: sce Early Records of Albany, 1:118-19; 2:71, note.
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For which the lessee promises to pay to the lessors or their order as rent fifty-six skipples of wheat, to be paid every year.
The aforesaid contracting parties hereto bind their persons and estates, real and personal, |269] present and future, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.
In witness whereof they have mutually subscribed this with their own hands, in Albany, the date above written.
VOLCKERT JANSZ DOUW TEUNIS CORNELISZEN This is the mark - of MAERTEN CORNELISZ, made with his own hand
As witnesses :
Hans Heindricss Jacob Gerritss van Laer
Quod attestor AADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Assignment by Volckert Jansen Douw to Pieter Winne of half interest in the lease of Constapel's island
On this 15th day of September 1670 appeared before me. Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in New Albany ), and before the undersigned witnesses, Captain Volckert Jansz Douw, who acknowledges that he hereby fully assigns the lease of the land, house, barn and hayricks lying obliquely over against Bethlehem. according to foregoing contract which terminates the first of May 1681, and fully releases and transfers all his claims to the rent for half of the land to the Honorable Pieter Winne, magistrate, accord- ing to the order of the honorable court of Albany and colony of Renselaerswyck, dated the 6th of June 1676, and that the lessee. Maerten Cornelisz, shall recognize said Pieter Winne in place of him, Volckert Jansz, and the rent to him pay ; but at the end of the lease Pieter Winne shall not be holden to take for his half more than ten skipples sowed, for which he shall pay Maerten Cornelisz according to appraisal, and if Maerten Cornelisz sows a greater quantity, then Volckert Jansz shall be holden to pay for the same. provided he receive the produce thereof that year, and said Volckert shall be holden to let Pieter Winne that same year use as much land on his farm as the land sowed in excess of the ten skipples for which one half must be paid to Maerten Cornelisz. For the performance and execution of what is hereinbefore written the aforesaid con- tracting parties bind their persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In confirmation
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of which they have, in presence of Jan Verbeeck and Hendrick Bries as witnesses hereto, subscribed this with their own hands, on the date above written.
As witnesses : Jan Verbeeck Hendrick Brics
VOLCKERT JANSZ DOUW PIETER WINNE
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Deposition by Maria Bord about certain boards alleged to have been stolen by her husband Claes Ripsen van Dam
[I]] I, the undersigned, Maria Bord, wife of Claes Ripsz van Dam, hereby affirm that the wife of Gerrit van Slichtenhorst was at my house yesterday and said to me that my husband had stolen about the half of the boards which he used for his hogpen, to wit, the hogpen which Jan Burger still has in his possession, and that these boards came from the city fence and that there were some bullets or bullet holes and shot therein ; which was told her (so she said) by Robbert Sandersz. In witness whereof I have subscribed this with my own hand. In Albany, this 6th of January 167;
This is the mark M of MARIA BORD. wife of Claes Ripsz van Dam, affixed with her own hand
As witnesses : Harmen Bastiaens Claes Jacobsc
In presence of me, ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Deposition of Maria Parker in regard to abusive language used by Robert Sanders in a quarrel with the wife of Gerrit van Slichtenhorst
[2-4 blank: 5] This day, the first of January 167 ;. appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in N. Albany), Madam Maria Perckers, the wife of Sergeant Percker,2 who without dissimulation or misleading of any persons, but for the sake of justice, acknowledged that she had testified, as hereby she does, at the request of Mr Gerrit van Slichtenhorst, that in truth and verity she heard and saw, about the month of August last of the year 1676 (but the precise day not well remembered), Robbert Sandersz and the wife of said Slichtenhorst quarreling
1 The documents on pages 1-114 are bound out of place but here printed in their proper chronologic order.
2 Sergeant William Parker.
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near the stoop between Claes Ripsz and said Slichtenhorst) ; that Robbert Sandersz said to the wife of said Slichtenhorst, " You are a vile and foul mouthed person ( Swartbeck ende een Swart-inde- ment) and a trull (Smots )." Herewith conchiding her deposition, this deponent is ready (if need be) furthermore to confirm the sanıc.
In witness whereof she has subscribed this with her own hand, 11 Albany, dated as above.
This is the mark M1 P of MARIA PERCKERS, made with her own hand As witness :
.1. D. Peyster
Quod attestor ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
Bond of Jan Tyssen Goes to Nicolaes de Meyer, attorney for Jan Coster van Aecken
[6 8 blank ; 9] On this day, the eighteenth of April one thousand six hundred and seventy-seven, appeared before me, Adriaen van Upendam, notary public (residing in New Albany), Jan Tysz Goes, who acknowledged himself to be indebted and in arrears 10 Mr Nicolaes Meyer, as attorney for Jan Koster van Necken, in the sum of thirty-two good, whole, merchantable beaver skins, growing out of the matter of one hundred and sixty-seven guilders and two stivers Holland money received in Holland as well as for certain goods sent ; which said sum of thirty-two whole beavers I. the undersigned Jan Tysz Goes, promise to pay to said Mr Nicolaes Meyer or to his order at the latest in the month of March one thou- sand six hundred and seventy eight, punctually and without longer delay ; binding therefor my person and estate, personal and real, present and future, nothing excepted, submitting the same to the authority of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.
In witness whereof I have subscribed this with my own hand. without craft or guile, in New Albany, dated as above, in presence of Doniine Nicolaes van Rensselaer and Cornelis Teunisz van Vechten, called as witnesses hereto.
This is the mark X of JAN TYSZ GoEs, made with his own hand
As witnesses :
Nicolaus van Rensselaer, Pastor
Cornelus Teuniss, as witness
Which I witness, ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
1 The M is written upside down.
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Will of Pieter Winne and Tannetie Adams, his wife
[Io blank; II] In the nante of God, amen. Know all men by the contents of this present public instrument that in the year after the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, one thousand six hundred and seventy-seven, on the first day of the month of June, about noon, and in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his Royal Majesty of Great Britain, [King] Charles the Second, before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in New Albany, appointed by the Right Honorable Edmond Andros, in behalf of His Royal Highness James governor general over all his territories in America, pursuant to nomination for the places of New Albany, colony of Rensselaerswyck and Schanechtade and the district thereof, and before the subscribing witnesses, came and appeared the worthy Pieter Winne, born in the city of Gent in Vlaenderen,1 at present a little indisposed in body, together with his wife Tan- netie Adams, born, in the city of Leeuwaerden in Vrieslandt,2 at present sound in body, dwelling now in the colony of Rensselaers- wyck, to me, the notary, well known, both moving about and having perfect use and command of their faculties, reason, memory and understanding to all outward appearance; which appearers, con- sidering the shortness and frailty of human life, the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time and hour thereof, wishing therefore to dispose of their temporal effects to be left behind, while through God's grace they are still able, and as they do of their own free will and inclination, without persuasion or mislead- ing of anyone, ordain and conclude this their last will and testa- ment in form and manner following :
First and before all commending their immortal souls ( when- ever they shall be separated from their bodies) to the gracious and merciful hands of God, their Creator and Savior, and their bodies to a Christian burial and revoking, annulling and canceling hereby all and every other testamentary disposition and bequest which before the date hereof they have either jointly or severally made and executed, holding the same null and of no effect, [12] and now disposing anew, they, the appearers and testators, out of mutual and particular love which during their married life they have steadily borne and now do bear toward each other, declare that reciprocally they have appointed and instituted, as hereby they do appoint and institute, the survivor of both of them the sole and uni- versal heir of all the property, both personal and real, claims,
1 Ghent, in Flanders.
2 Leeuwarden, the capital of the province of Friesland, Netherlands.
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credits, money, gold and silver, coined and uncoined, jewels, clothing both linen and woolen, household furniture, etc., nothing excepted, which he or she dying first shall leave behind on his or her decease, whether in this country or elsewhere, to do therewith as with his or her own and absolute property, without objection or opposition of anyone, which they do because (by God's blessing ) the greater part of said estate has been acquired by them during their marriage with great labor and diligence : hereby forbidding all persons whoever they may be, whether magistrates, orphan masters, children, rela- tives, or others, to demand of the survivor any accounting or inven- tory of the estate so long as he or she remains in his or her widow ed state, much less any bond or security therefor. And if it so be that the survivor happen to marry again, he or she shall be holden a just half of the estate (as the same shall then be found to be) to settle upon the children left behind, in order that the same may receive each, share and share alike, their legitimate portion of their father's or mother's estate: provided that the survivor shall receive the income thereof until the children reach their majority or enter the marriage estate, until which time the survivor shall be holden to bring them up in the fear of the Lord and so far as possible to have them taught reading and writing and some trade whereby with God's help they may honorably earn their living. But said Pieter Winne (if he happen to die first ) hereby bequeaths to his son Pieter Pietersz Winne ( procreated by his first wife lechie Jans ) the sum of four whole beavers at eight guilders [ 13] apiece, once for all and no more, for his entire inheritance, because of his disobedience, and said beavers shall be received six weeks after his father's death. And in case they, the testators, hereafter, whether in writing and over their own hands and signatures or before two or more trustworthy witnesses by word of mouth, bequeath or devise anything more. make a further disposition, add to or take away from the contents hereof. they will and desire the same to have the same force and ( ffect and by every person to be so esteemed and regarded as it written and inserted in this their will. All that is hereinbefore writ- ten the testators declare to be their last will and testament. desiring that after the death of either of them the same shall have full force and effect, whether as will, codicil, donation, gift in anticipation of death, or otherwise, as may be most compatible, even though cer tain formalities required by law may not have been fully observed herein, desiring that the utmost benefit herefrom may be enjoyed. and one or more copies thereof to be made in proper form to serve as occasion may require. Thus done and executed in the colony
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