RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 267
[Contract of sale of land at Amersfourt (Flatlands), L.I.,
from Wolphert Gerritsen to Teunis Cornelissen]
[158h] This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New
Netherland, appeared Wolphert Gerritsz, who sells to Teunes Cornelissen a piece of land containing
fifty-two morgens, situated on Long Island, at the north end of the flat of Amersvoort, which above
mentioned fifty-two morgens Teunes Cornelisz also acknowledges having bought from Wolphert
Gerritsz for the sum of five hundred guilders, payable fifty guilders on next All Saints’ Day; one
hundred and fifty guilders on All Saints’ Day anno 1648; one hundred and fifty guilders on All
Saints’ Day anno 1649; and one hundred and fifty guilders on All Saints’ Day anno 165O, this
being the last payment. The above mentioned Wolphert Gerritsz promises to deliver to the
purchaser a written deed in proper form of the said parcel of land; the purchaser promises, after
receipt of the deed, to tender and pay to the vendor the aforesaid purchase money, free of costs and
charges, without contradiction or exceptions, on the days it is due. As security for the performance
of what is hereinbefore written the parties bind their respective persons and properties, movable
and immovable, present and future, without any exception, submitting the same to the control of
all courts and judges. In testimony whereof this is signed by the parties on the 4th of July anno
1647.
This is the X mark of Wolphert Gerritsz, made by himself
This is the X mark of Teunes Cornelisz, made by himself
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Bill of sale of pork from Richard Lord
to Adriaen de Keyser]
[158i] Ritchert Lordt, residing on the Varse Reviere, 327 sells to Adriaen de Keyser, commissary, for
account of the Chartered West India Company, a quantity of pork, deliverable on the fourth day of
July next, at five stivers a pound, payable by said Mr. de Keyser in salt, which salt shall be
delivered one-half here and the other half at Boston, in New England, at the market price in Boston
and at which the Company’s salt shall be sold there. Thus done and signed the 3rd of July anno
327 Intended for the Versche Rivier, meaning the “Fresh River” or the Connecticut River.
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