RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 150
thereto belonging, according to the patent, for the sum of two hundred and fifty guilders, payable
in three installments, to wit: one third anno 1645 on Amsterdam fair day; one third on
Amsterdam fair day anno 1646; the third and last part of the above mentioned two hundred and
fifty guilders must be paid on Amsterdam fair day anno 1647. It is also agreed, if the buyer is not
punctual in paying, that the seller shall be at liberty to take back the house, on condition that the
buyer shall pay a proper rent, and that from the time he, the buyer, shall take possession of the
house. The seller may continue to live in the house until the last payment shall be due and paid.
To which end the aforesaid parties bind their persons and properties, present and future,
submitting the same to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness whereof the record
hereof is signed by the parties and the witnesses hereto invited and by me, the secretary. Done in
Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 17th of October anno 1644.
Hans Kierstedt, witness
[ ], 203 witness
This is the X mark of Rut Arentsen [ ] 202
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
Aernr Reinnsen
[Draft of Arent van Curler on the owners of the ship ’t Wapen van Rensselaerswijck
in favor of Jan Jansen Damen]
[131a] I, the undersigned, Arunt van Curler, hereby acknowledge that I am indebted to Jan
Jansen Damen, or bearer, on account of the ship ’t Wapen van Renselaerswyck 204 in the sum of
one hundred and fifty-nine guilders for one fat ox and one fat hog delivered for the use of the
above mentioned ship; which aforesaid sum of one hundred and fifty-nine guilders I, Arent van
Curlaer, request the owners of the said ship to be pleased to pay to Jan Damen or his order. Done
the 19th of October anno 1644, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Arendt Van Curler
202 In O’Callaghan’s translation, the name of the seller is given as Rutgert Arentsen van Seyl.
203 Name destroyed.
204 Arent van Curler sailed for Holland on this ship shortly after having married the widow of Jonas Bronck; see
Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., pp. 717, note, and 818.
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