RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 81
[Bond of Abraham Planck for the payment of money
due to the West India Company]
[51d] I, the undersigned, Abraha[m Planck], hereby acknowledge that I am well and truly
indebted to the honorable directors of the West India Company in the sum of one thousand and
thirty-two guilders, thirteen stivers and ten pennies, which money I promise to tender and pay
free of costs and charges and that with interest at eight per cent per annum, redeemable
interest; 97 and for additional security Jan Damen and Cornelis van Tienh[oven] offer themselves
as sureties and co-principals for the [payment of the] above mentioned sum, on condition that as
long as Abraham Planck pays the interest punctually, the principal and sureties shall not be
troubled or applied to for the capital. For all of which the principal and the sureties bind their
persons and properties, movable and immovable, present and future, without any exception,
submitting to all courts, tribunals and judges. Done the 27th of April anno 1643, in Fort
Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Abram Planck
Jan Jansen Damen }
} sureties
Cornelis van Tienhoven }
Acknowledged before me,
Paid, the 20th of December 1646 98
Cornelis van Tienh., secretary
[Mortgage by Abraham Planck to Jan Damen and Cornelis van Tienhoven of Paulus Hook as
collateral security for the payment of the debt mentioned in the preceding bond]
[52a] [I], Abraham Planck, acknowledge for myself, my heirs and assigns that on the date
underwritten I have transferred and conveyed as I do hereby to Jan Damen and Cornelis van
Tienhoven the Paulus Hook [together with the] house [and] all the appurtenances and dependencies
thereof, in virtue of the patent granted by the honorable director and council of New Netherland.
Wherefore he, Planck, from this date cedes and relinquishes the ownership of the above
mentioned Paulus Hook, transferring and conveying all and singular the premises to and for the
97 Losrente; meaning that the obligation to pay interest is not perpetual, but may be ended at the option of the
debtor by the payment of the debt.
98 The bond is canceled in the record.
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