RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 134
their portion of their wives’ deceased father’s estate. It is also expressly stipulated that Aeltjen
Brackongne shall pay all the debts of the above mentioned Cornelis Lambertsen Cool and that she
shall likewise receive all the outstanding debts due him, [the debts] on both sides being offset one
against the other. It is furthermore stipulated that the property and lands at Gouwanes shall
remain undivided until through the mercy of God the lands there may be used, when the parties
shall enter upon the partition thereof. To which end and for the security of this [agreement] this
is signed by the parties on both sides in the presence of the undersigned witnesses. Done on the
date above written, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Huych Aertsen van Rossom
Willem de Key, witness
Acknowledged before me,
This is the X mark of Aeltjen Brackongne
This is the X mark of Gerrit Wolphersen
This is the X mark of Claes Jansen from Emden
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Will of Hans Hendricks]
[93g] In the year of our Lord and [Savior] Jesus Christ, one thousand six hundred and forty-four,
at the house of Adam Roelantsen, of Dockum, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of
New Netherland, came and appeared Hans Hendricx, of Traecx in Holstein, who, though lying
wounded in bed, was in full possession of his memory, speech and understanding, as appeared
evident to us, and who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses declared that, reflecting on
the certainty of death and uncertainty of the hour thereof and in order to forestall all such
uncertainty, he commends his soul to the protection of God and his body after his death to a
Christian burial. He, the testator, being furthermore desirous to dispose by last will of all his
means and effects which Almighty God has bestowed upon him on this earth, he bequeaths and
leaves by an irrevocable will to Mr. Jochim Pietersz 186 and his wife the just half of his goods
which he shall leave behind and the other half to his comrade Pieter, provided that they shall pay
to his brother or others of his, the testator’s, friends or relatives from his, the testator’s, property
186 Captain Jochim Pietersen Kuyter. Hans Hendricks was his servant. See next document.
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