RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 104
have the land plowed in the fall, for which the lessee shall pay him the following year when the
crop is in the barn. Done the 6th of July 1643.
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienh., secretary
Isaack de Forest
John Deett[on]
[Contract of sale between Jan Francen and Jan Jacobsen of
a house and plantation on Manhattan Island]
[66b] [Before] me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Francen
of [Rotterdam], who declared that he had sold, as he does hereby, to Jan Jacobsz, 143 who also
acknowledges having purchased, a house and plantation situated on the island of Manhatans, for
the sum of three hundred and twelve guilders and ten stivers, once, which aforesaid sum he, the
purchaser, promises to pay on account to the Company; wherefore the grantor cedes and
conveys, as he does hereby, to the aforesaid Jan Jacobsz the house and plantation aforesaid and
the appurtenances thereof, to that end relinquishing the ownership of the aforesaid house and
plantation. For the performance of what is hereinbefore written the parties bind their persons
under obligation as provided by law. Done the 6th of July 1643, in Fort Amsterdam in New
Netherland.
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienh., secretary
This is the mark X of Jacobsz above named
This is the mark X of Jan Francen of Rotterdam
[Note of Hendrick Huygen, commissary of the crown of Sweden,
in favor of Willem Turck]
[67a] This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New
Netherland, appeared Hendrick Huygen, commissary of the illustrious crown of Sweden, who
143 Jan Jacobsen from Vreeland.
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