RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 98
The lessee shall for each of the five milch cows annually pay twenty lbs of good butter; for the
three heifers he shall the first year they have calved be free from butter rent, but the second year
he must likewise give twenty pounds of butter for each.
The lessee shall keep in good repair the buildings and implements according to the inventory and
at the end of the lease deliver them back in the same condition as he now receives them.
For all of which the lessee shall annually pay as rent, in addition to the butter, one hundred and
five schepels of barley or rye, and at the end of the lease leave the field sowed with twenty-five
schepels of grain as now received, as more fully appears by the inventory. Furthermore, if at the
expiration of the lease it should appear that any noticeable and suitable improvement had been
made on the farm, the lessor shall pay therefore according to the decision of arbitrators
conversant with such matters. For all of which the parties bind their respective persons and
properties, movable and immovable, present and future, submitting the same according to law.
Done the 25th of June 1643, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Tho. Willett, witness Arent van Curler
Adriaen van Tienhoven, witness Thomas Spicer
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Inventory of the Farm]
[62b] Inventory of what Mr. Corler delivers with the above mentioned farm to Mr. Spycer and
which at the expiration of the five years he is to return in the same condition as now received.
1 stone house (steenen huys) 135 6 schepels of wheat }
1 barn 66 ditto rye } sowed
1 tobacco house 3 ditto winter barley }
2 hay barracks (bergen) 1 meat barrel
2 five year-old mares 3 milk tubs
5 milch cows 1 churn
2 draft oxen 1 plowshare
135 In Holland this would ordinarily mean a baksteenen huys, or brick house.
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