RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 12
Manhattan, at the house of Jan Jansen Damen, the 21st of February anno 1641, 20 in New
[Netherland.]
Jan Jansen Damen, witness
This is W the mark of
Wybrant Jacobsen, witness
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
Joannes Winckelman
Pieter Cornelisen
Abram Clock
[Bill of sale from Abraham Pietersen to Jacob Bouwensen of the grain
sown on farms Nos. 5 and 6 on Manhattan Island]
[10] [This day, date under]written, before [me, Cornelis van Tlen]hoven, secretary [in] New
Netherland [for the General] Chartered West [India Company], appeared [Abra]ham Pietersen,
of the first part, and Jacob Bouwensen, of the second part, who before and in the presence of the
subscribing witnesses acknowledged that they had amicably agreed and contracted together in
manner and on the terms hereinafter written, to wit: Abraham Pietersen acknowledges that he has
sold to the above named Jacob Bouwensen, who also acknowledges that he has purchased from
Abraham Pietersen aforesaid, all the grain that he has at present sown in the ground on farms
Nos. 5 and 6, belonging to the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, on the
express condition that he, the purchaser, shall perform and carry out the vendor’s agreements and
promises of the contract which he made with the director, and that in proper form; also [that he
shall have?] all the farming implements and palisades which are at present on the said farms and
in daily use, without any more. For all of which he, the purchaser, promises to pay to the vendor
the sum of three hundred and seventy guilders, on the demand of the honorable director, who [
] has [ ] him
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[For all of which] they submit their pers[ons and properties], movable and immovable, present
20 This should be 1642.
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