RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 162
authority, etc., 219 to do with and dispose thereof as he might do with his other patrimonial effects,
without the grantor retaining any right or title thereto (the contract of sale being satisfied), but
relinquishing the same henceforth and forever. In testimony whereof the original hereof is signed
in the record by Burger Jorisz and by Willem de Key and Gysbert Opdyc as witnesses hereto
invited. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 17th of December anno 1644, stilo
novo.
This is the X mark of [ ] 220
On the 18th of March 1661, the Burger Joris
annexed signature was affixed by Borgert Jorisse,
which we witness
De Sille
N. Beyard
[Bond of Aert Evertsen to Richard Heyts
for the purchase of his house]
[138b] Before me appeared Aert Eversz, mariner, who acknowledged that he had purchased
from Ritchert Heyts his house for seventy guilders, payable one-half next January and the other
half in May, provided that Ritchert deliver the patent to him, the purchaser; for which he, the
purchaser, binds his person end property according to law. Done the 19th of December 1644, in
Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
[138c] Copy
Acknowledged before me,
This is the X mark of Aert Eversz, made by himself
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Copy of a note from Arent Corsen Stam to Augustyn Herrman]
I, the undersigned, hereby promise that I shall pay to Augustyn Herman in good sewant as soon
219 The words “authority, etc. ...” are inserted in the margin.
220 Name not given. Evidently, Burger Jorisen could not write in 1644, but signed his name in 1661.
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