RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 274
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Report of referees in the dispute between Augustyn Herrman, attorney of Catrina Verlet,
and David Provoost regarding certain legacies]
[159c] We, Willem Turck, Arnoldus van Hardenbergh and Govert Loockmans, free merchants,
having on the 11th of July instant been requested by the honorable director general and council of
New Netherland to examine as arbitrators and impartial men the claim of Mr. Augustyn Hermans,
as attorney of Catrina Verlet, residing at Amsterdam, and the counter claim of Mr. Davit Provoost
regarding certain legacies amounting to the sum of four hundred and ten guilders, sixteen stivers,
and also a certain one hundred guilders which the aforesaid Davit Provoost has received in cash
from the aforesaid Madam Catrina Verlet, for which one hundred guilders Davit Provoost says he
signed and handed to the aforesaid Catria Verlet a draft in her favor, payable by Hendrick Woutersz
Terbrugh, for one hundred and eleven guilders (the eleven guilders being put in the draft in addition
before the delivery of the one hundred guilders), which said one hundred and eleven guilders the
said Madam Verlet was to do her best to collect, with the proviso that if the said draft was not paid
he, Provoost, remained bound to tender and pay the one hundred guilders received by him, saving
his action against Hendrick Woutersz Terbrugh, to which end and as further security for the
aforesaid Madam Catrina Verlet he, Provoost, executed a simple note for one hundred guilders,
without any promise of interest, with the payment of which note he could suffice. Therefore, the
matter and writings on both sides having been examined by us, the arbitrators and impartial men,
we, according to the best of our knowledge, find it to be just and proper that the aforesaid
Provoost shall remit by the ship De Princes the aforesaid four hundred and ten guilders, sixteen
stivers, snd the interest thereof for five years, at five per cent, the remaining or additional years
being fixed for the sale of the property and collecting the money, so that the sum above mentioned
amounts with the interest to five hundred and twenty-three guilders, sixteen stivers, which with
the above mentioned one hundred guilders amounts altogether to six hundred and twenty-three
guilders, sixteen stivers, and that payment shall be made from his earned monthly wages due him
by the honorable West India Company. It is also agreed that if any one should attach his wages
and therefore payment could not be made, Provoost remains bound, when advice thereof comes
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