RegisterofPSVol2
RegisterofPSVol2
RegisterofPSVol2
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Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 32<br />
[Marriage contract of Catryna Leysinck, widow of Jan Bartram, and Pieter Jurgens providing for<br />
the support of the children of Catryna Leysinck by her first husband]<br />
[22b] In the year of our Lord [and Savior Jesus] Christ, one thousand [six hundred and forty-<br />
two], before [me, Cornelis van] Tienhoven, secretary [in] New Netherland, appointed by the<br />
[General] Chartered West India [Company], appeared Catrina Lysinck, widow of the late Jan<br />
Bartram, in his life time lieutenant commander [on the] island of Curaçao, with Everardus<br />
Bogardus, minister, and Arundt van Curlaer, secretary of Renselaerswijck, her chosen guardians<br />
herein, who declared that it is her intention to enter into the marriage state with Surgeon Pieter<br />
Jurgens, for which reason she has promised to pay to each of her children, Catrin[a] and Johanna<br />
Bartram, for their paternal estate, when they shall arrive at the age of majority, the sum of three<br />
hundred Carolus guilders on condition that they, Catrina Lysinck, the present bride, and Pieter<br />
Jurgens, the present bridegroom, shall be at liberty to use the aforesaid six hundred guilders,<br />
without interest, until the aforesaid children shall have attained their majority, with the express<br />
stipulation that they promise and shall be bound to bring up the children without touching the<br />
property and using no more than the interest of the aforesaid six hundred guilders, to feed and<br />
clothe the said children according to their means, to put them to school and to let them learn to<br />
read and write and to have them taught a good trade, all according to their means; to clothe them<br />
and to provide them with a proper maintenance and all that is necessary in all such manner and<br />
form as honest parents are bound to do and according to their ability can accomplish. She,<br />
Catrina Lysinc, assisted by her chosen guardians aforesaid, and Pieter Jurgens therefore promise<br />
that they will perform, observe and fulfill all that is hereinbefore written without any exception,<br />
binding therefor their persons and properties, movable and immovable, present and future,<br />
without any exception, waiving to that end all such exceptions as may in any wise conflict or<br />
interfere with these presents, all without fraud, under submission to the Provincial Court of<br />
Holland and all other courts, judges and justices, none excepted. In witness and testimony of the<br />
truth this is signed in the record by Catrina Lysinc and her chosen guardians together with Pieter<br />
Jurgens, and by me, the secretary, the 2nd of July anno 1642, in New Netherland.<br />
Catryna lleysinck 45<br />
E. Boghardus, Eccl. Manahat.<br />
45 The name lleysinck is preceded by two or three letters which look like ba, or bar, and which are probably<br />
intended as the first letters of the name bartram.<br />
New Netherland Research Center New Netherland Institute