RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 295
persons loaned and paid to him here in good faith and in cash before the execution hereof.
Wherefore he, the appearer, promises well and truly to tender and pay to the above named Piter and
Hendrick Jansz, or to one of them, the above mentioned one hundred and eighty-six guilders in the
city of Amsterdam in Holland, free of costs and charges, without any exceptions. For further
security of the above mentioned money the above named Willem Pitersen binds his person and
property, movable and immovable, and specially the monthly wages earned by him which are due
him by the honorable West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, submitting to that end to all
lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness whereof this is signed in the record by Willem Pitersen
himself and by Jacob Kip and [ ], as witnesses hereto invited, the 3rd
of August anno 1647, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Jacob Kip, witness
David Provoost
This is the X mark of Willem Pietersz, made by himself
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Note of Pieter Ebel in favor to Gillis Pietersen for
the balance of the purchase price of a house]
[162h] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Piter Ebel,
who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses acknowledges that he is well and truly indebted
to Gillis Pitersen van der Gou 354 in fifty good merchantable beaver skins on account of the
purchase of a house standing and situated southward of Fort Amsterdam on the island of
Manhatans; which fifty beaver skins the appearer promises to tender and pay to the above named
Gillis Pitersen or his order, free of costs and charges, without contradiction, in two payments,
being the balance of the purchase money, to wit: twenty-five good beavers in the month of June
anno 1648; the last twenty-five beavers in like manner in the month of June anno 1649. For
payment and security hereof the appearer binds his person and property, movable and immovable,
and especially the house and lot above mentioned, submitting the same to the jurisdiction of all
354 Meaning Gillis Pietersen from Ter Gou, or Gouda, in the province of South Holland.
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