RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 184
sixteen guilders for a cloak 252 are to be deducted. Therefore, the appearer requests the above
mentioned gentlemen to pay the remaining money, according to the account to Seger Teunesz,
who is empowered to grant their honors a receipt on payment. It is likewise stipulated, if their
honors do not pay this account, that Seger Teunesz shall retain a lien on the monthly wages
already earned or still to be earned by the appearer in New Netherland. Thus done and signed by
Dom Hendricksz, besides Gysbert de Leu and Davit Provoost, as witnesses hereto invited, the
11th of April 1645, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland. 253
[Bill of sale of the yacht St. Pieter from Jan Jansen Damen
and Jan Evertsen Bout to John Dolling]
[I45d] This day, the 12th of April anno 1645, new style, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven,
secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Jansen Damen, who has a power of attorney from Jan
Eversz Bout, of the first part, and Jan Dollingh, an English merchant, of the second part, who in
the presence of the undersigned witnesses acknowledge that in love and friendship they have
agreed and contracted in manner and on the terms hereinafter written. Jan Damen sells the little
ship St. Piter to the above mentioned Jan Dolling, who also acknowledged that he has purchased
the same, with standing and running rigging and further all her appurtenances, according to the
inventory thereof, except one hawser, which through misunderstanding has been put in the
inventory, and that for the sum of four thousand and fifty Carolus guilders, two thousand
guilders payable cash when the delivery takes place, to wit, one thousand guilders in good wheat
at forty-five stivers a schepel, and one thousand guilders in money, sewant or such other
payment as the honorable director shall be satisfied with. The remaining two thousand [and
fifty?] guilders must be paid by the purchaser, Jan Dollingh, precisely on the first of July next,
old style, for which said two thousand [and fifty?] guilders the aforesaid Dollingh shall before
the delivery of the above mentioned ship be obliged to furnish a sufficient guaranty or surety to
the full satisfaction of the above mentioned Jan Damen and Jan Eversz Bout. As security for the
performance hereof, the parties respectively bind their persons and properties, movable and
immovable, present and future, the vendor for the delivery, and the purchaser for the payment,
252 Casack; a cassock, or military cloak.
253 Signatures destroyed.
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