RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 58
by van Meppelen and the witnesses the third of November anno 1642, in Fort Amsterdam, New
Netherland.
Adriaen van Tienhoven, witness
Acknowledged before [me],
Jan Claessen van Meppel
Claes van Elslant, witness
[Cornel]is van Tienhoven, secretary
[Lease to Christopher Foster of two oxen belonging to the WIC]
[35b] Before me, Cor[nelis van] Tienhoven, secretary of [New Netherland], appeared Nicolaes
van Elslandt, who by authority of the honorable Director Kieft has let to Christoffel Faster,
residing on Long Island, two oxen belonging to the honorable Company, whereof the aforesaid
Christoffel shall have the use until the middle of May anno 1643, which oxen he shall properly
keep and which shall be at his risk until the middle of next May. For the use of the said oxen he,
Christoffel, shall pay thirty-eight English shillings, for which he binds his person and property,
movable and immovable, present and future. Done the 4th of November anno 1642, in New
Netherland.
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienh., secretary
Christophor ffoster
[Lease of the farm of Everardus Bogardus to Richard Fowles]
[36] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary in New Netherland appointed [by] the
General Chartered West India Company, [appeared] Evera[rdu]s Bogardus, minister here, of the
first part, and Ritchert Fouls, of the second part, who acknowledged that they had amicably
agreed and contracted with each other in manner following, to wit: Everardus Bogardus leases
his farm and farm house for the term of four years to Ritchert Fouls, who acknowledges that he
has rented the same on the conditions hereinafter written. The lessor shall deliver with the
aforesaid farm two milch cows, one heifer of two and a half years, one heifer of one and a half
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