RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 76
[Lease from Rem Jansen to Jan Lock and Jan Picces
of a plantation on Long Island]
[48b] This day, the 8th of April 1643, [in the presence] of Isaack Allerton, Remm[ert Jansen
acknowledges] that he has leased to Jan Lock and [Jan Picces], who also acknowledge that they
have rented, his plantation situated on Long Island, for three consecutive years, for which they
are to pay to the lessor at the end of the three years one hundred and eighty guilders. The lessor
shall deliver with the plantation three old and three young goats with one sow, on [condition of
receiving] half the increase, but the risk of death shall be borne by the lessor, who shall also
deliver four schepels of wheat. Should the lessees during the term of the lease improve the land
considerably, either by building, fencing, clapboarding or otherwise, the lessor shall pay therefor
according to appraisal by impartial men at the expiration of the lease. In testimony whereof this is
signed by parties. Done on the date above written.
Isaac Allerton, witness
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienh., secretary
Rem Yansen
This is the X mark of Jan Lockh
This is the X mark of Jan Picces
[Complaint of Pieter van der Linde and others about the dog of Nicolaes Sloper
which roams the woods and kills their goats]
[49a] [Pi]eter van [der] Linden, aged 48 years, Barent Dircksen, baker, aged sbout 43 years, and
Tonis Cray, aged 42 years, jointly complain to the honorable fiscal as follows:
That Nicolaes Sloper has long since been ordered by the honorable director and council of New
Netherland to kill or do away with his dog, because the dog was in the habit of killing goats and
bucks, which order the above named Sloper has not obeyed, so that said Sloper’s dog and the
miller’s dogs 91 have bitten and devoured many goats and bucks, said dogs going daily hunting in
the woods. The persons aforesaid offer to confirm this by oath and request that provisionally the
aforesaid dogs may be done away with. Done the 9th of April 1643.
91 Meaning probably, the dogs of Abraham Pietersen, the miller.
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