RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 276
greater or lesser claim. She, the appearer, further declared that she proceeded herein according to
her ability and conscience and that she is not able to allow the aforesaid children more than
twenty-five guilders each. Wherefore she, Marritjen Symons, promises to pay to each of her
aforesaid children, when he or she shall have arrived at the age of majority or is married, as their
paternal inheritance the sum of twenty-five guilders, reckoned at twenty stivers the guilder, and
that free of costs and charges. She, Marritjen Symons, and Symon Joosten, her present
bridegroom, also promise, saving the sums above mentioned, to bring up the aforesaid children, to
clothe them, to provide them with all necessaries and to support them according to their means
and if possible and feasible to have them taught reading and writing and a good trade and
furthermore [to do by them] as time and circumstances according to their station shall permit;
promising fully to perform and execute this contract, if God spare them life, all under binding
obligation according to law. In testimony whereof this is signed in the record by Marritjen
Symons and her present bridegroom and chosen guardians, in the presence of Paulus Leendersz
van die Grist and A. Keyser, witnesses hereto invited, the 19th of July anno 1647, in Fort
Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Pouwelis Leendersz van die Grist
A. Keiser
Acknowledged before me,
This is the M mark of Marritjen Symons,
made by herself
Jacob van Couwenhoven
Pieter Wuoeluersen
Symon Joosten
[Cornelis] van Tienhoven, secretary
[Power of attorney from Jan Stevensen, schoolmaster, to Lucas Smith
to receive the balance of his wages from the WIC]
[159e] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Stevensz
from Haerlem, schoolmaster here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses appoints and
empowers, as he does hereby, Luycas Smith, known to me, the secretary, to demand, ask and collect
in his, the principal’s, name from the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company in
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