RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 164
Willit, who sells to Cornelis Teunesz of Gorcum, who also acknowledges the purchase, a lot and
house situated on the island of Manhatans, adjoining the public tavern, 222 for the sum of seven
hundred and seventy-five guilders, payable in three installments, to wit: three hundred guilders
the last of May next; the second payment, also of three hundred guilders, in July 1645; and the
third and last payment of one hundred and seventy-five guilders to be made on the first of
January 1646. For the payment of the above mentioned sum the purchaser specially mortgages
the said house and furthermore all his other property, submitting the same to the control of all
courts and judges. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 2nd of January 1645.
Cornelio vander Hoykens } witnesses
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Juryan Blanck }
Acknowledged before me,
Coernelis Tonisen Tho: Willett
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Notice of appeal from the judgment of the director and council
against the master of the ship St. Pieter]
[139a] This day, the 3rd of January 1645, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New
Netherland, appeared Symon Jansen of Durickerdam, late master of the ship St. Piter, who in the
presence of the subscribing witnesses declared that he appeals from the judgment rendered by the
director general and council of New Netherland against the aforesaid Tymon 223 Jansz or [the]
owners [of] his [vessel] and that to such court or judges in the United Provinces as the owners
shall think proper to carry the case against the honorable West India Company. Thus done and
appealed on the day and year above mentioned. The original hereof is [signed] in the record by
the aforesaid Symon Jansz and [ ] 224
Oloff Stevensz, witness
Symen Janssen
222 Lants harbarge; literally, the land’s tavern, meaning the tavern of New Netherland, otherwise called the Stads
herberg, or city tavern.
223 Thus in the original.
224 The names of the witnesses have been left blank.
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