RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 118
received from Jan Vienje the sum of one hundred and sixteen guilders, which moneys were
employed in the service of Messrs the proprietors in paying for the wintering of their cattle at the
bay; hereby promising in the aforesaid capacity to tender and pay the aforesaid one hundred and
sixteen guilders, being loaned money, according to law, free of costs and charges, without any
exception. In testimony and proof of the truth this is signed by Johannes Winckelman and the
witnesses hereto invited, the l6th of October anno 1643, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Phlipe Grace
Arendt van Curler
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
Johannes Winckelman
[Contract of Thomas Farrel of Bristol to serve Thomas Hall]
[82] [I, Tomas Fare]l, of Bristol in Old England, [acknowledge] that I was bound for [
] 168 consecutive years to serve Fransoys Lasle, deceased, and that inasmuch as he has died, I now
bind myself to serve Tomas Hal two consecutive years, beginning on the date hereof, and that in all
such work and duties as the aforesaid Tomas Hal shall wish to employ me, in which service I
promise to conduct myself diligently and faithfully as an honest servant is bound to do toward his
master; for which I, Tomas Farel, at the expiration of the two years, shall receive as wages from
Tomas Hal, who also promises to pay therefor, the sum of fifty Carolus guilders, in addition to board
and clothing. In witness whereof and token of the truth this is signed by me. Done the 19th of
October anno 1643, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Richard Cluff, witness
This is the X mark of Tomas Farel
Thomas Hall
from about Caldwell, Rockland County, New York, to near Hoboken, New Jersey. The colony was granted to
Meyndert Meyndertsen van Keren and others. Godard van Reede, lord of Nederhorst, and plenipotentiary at the
peace of Westphalia in 1648, appears to have been the principal proprietor and in consequence the colony is
occasionally referred to as that of the lord of Nederhorst. See Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., p. 527, note. See also
New York Historical Society, Collections, 1913, 46:98-99.
168 Manuscript destroyed.
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