RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 317
and the last of May next, when the last payment must be made. For greater security and fulfillment
hereof Isaack Allerton offers himself as surety and co-principal, providing that in case the purchaser
remain in default of payment, the surety shall be held responsible for the purchase money. For the
performance of this contract he, the purchaser, as principal, and Mr. Isaack Allerton, as surety and
co-principal, bind their respective persons and property, movable and immovable, present and future,
submitting the same to all courts and judges. In testimony whereof this is signed the day and year
above mentioned by the general, by Mr. Goudjer, as purchaser and principal, and by Mr. Isaack
Allerton, as surety and co-principal, in the presence of Paulus Leendersen, naval storekeeper, and
Carel van Brugge, as witnesses.
Carel van Brugge
P. Stuyvesant Stephen Goodyeare
Isaac Allerton
[Power of attorney from Isaac Allerton to John Ogden and
Richard Cloff to collect debts due him by Luys Hulen]
[169c] I, Isaack Allerton, empower and appoint Jan Oghden and Ritchert Cloff to collect the debts
which are due me by Luys Hulen, with power to prosecute at Law and to do in all things as I might
or could do were I present. Done the 22nd of September anno 1647, in New Amsterdam.
Isaac Allerton
[Contract of sale of a plantation on Manhattan island from
Pieter van der Linden to Elcke Jansen]
[169d] This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New
Netherland, appeared Elke Jansen from Veenwolden, who acknowledged that he had purchased
the plantation of Piter vander Linden situated on the island of Manhatans, which said plantation
with all that is fastened by earth and nail Piter vander Linden also acknowledged having sold to
said Elcken Jansen, for the sum of four hundred guilders, payable in three years, to wit: one third
on the last of November anno 1648, if Elken Jansen can manage to do it; one third anno 1649; and
the last payment, making the aforesaid four hundred guilders, on the last of November anno 1650.
The aforesaid plantation shall be conveyed and transferred in full and free ownership by him,
Piter vander Linden, to the said Elken on next New Year’s day anno 1648, when, but not until
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