RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 6
obligation signed by the aforesaid Jacobus van Curler, dated the 28th of September anno 1641; 12
and whenever he, the attorney, shall have obtained and received the aforesaid sum, he shall have
power to execute a receipt and discharge for the same; if necessary, institute and carry on legal
proceedings in the matter, and furthermore, if it should please him, the attorney, substitute one or
more persons [in his place] with the same or like power, he the principal, holding as valid
whatever shall be done in the matter aforesaid by the above named attorney or his substitute. in
testimony whereof this is signed by the principal and the witnesses hereto invited. Done the 8th
of January 1642, in Fort Amsterdam.
Harmannus A. Booghardy }
} witnesses
Maurits Jans }
E. Boghardus, Eccl. Manahat.
[Lease from Andries Hudde to John Underhill of a house and
plantation situated near Keskaechqueren, L. I.]
[6] [Before me, Cornelis] van Tienhoven, secretary residing [in New Netherland for the General
Chartered] West India [Company, appeared] Mr. Jan Onderhil, who acknowledged in the
presence of the undersigned witnesses that he had leased from Mr. Andries Hudden his house
and plantation situated on the flatland near Keskaechqueren, 13 on the conditions and terms
hereinafter written, to wit:
Mr. Jan Onderhil shall have the use of the aforesaid house and tobacco house and may cultivate
the land which is fenced and that which is unfenced for two consecutive years, beginning the
first of May anno 1642 and ending the first of May 1644, or, if it suits the said Onderhil to take
possession before the first of May next, the term of the lease shall commence whenever he shall
take possession and terminate precisely two years afterwards. For all of which the above named
Mr. Jan Onderhil shall pay as rent yearly to the above named Mr. Hudden, or his agent, two
hundred pounds of well cured tobacco. For all of which he, the lessee, binds his person and
12 See N. Y. Col. MSS., 1:277.
13 Kes-ka-ech-que-rem, the council place. The exact location is uncertain. Cf. Doc. Rel. Col. Hist. N.Y., 14:4, 14,
36.
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