RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 91
claims and to settle accounts with everyone with whom he, Jacob Roy, has anything outstanding,
he, the principal, holding as valid whatever shall be done or transacted herein by the above
mentioned Jacob Reynsen and Tonis Jansen, on condition that if the principal die, the executors
shall not sell the house before the arrival of the first ship or letter. Thus done by the principal
who requests that after his death this may take effect before all courts, tribunals and judges. Done
the 19th of May 1643, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland. 126
Pierre Pia }
} witnesses
Ulderick Klein }
Acknowledged before me,
Cornelis van Tienh., secretary
[Deed from Laurens Cornelissen to Frederick Lubbertsen of
his house and lot in the Smith’s valley (Incomplete)]
[58b] In the year after the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, one thousand six hundred
and forty-three, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary in New Netherland, appeared
Laurens Cornelissen, who declared that he hereby conveys, cedes and transfers to Fredrick
Lubbersen his house and lot containing three hundred and fifty-seven [square] rods, nine feet,
two inches and five grains, extending in length along the highway, with an outhook to
Tienhoven’s land, fifty rods, seven feet, one inch and five grains; in front of the house seventeen
rods in breadth … 127
[Receipt of Laurens Cornelissen for the first payment
on the house sold to Frederick Lubbertsen]
[59a] I, the undersigned, Laurens [Cornelissen], do hereby [acknowledge] for myself, [my heirs]
and successors that I have received from Fredrick Lub[bertsen] the sum of one thousand guilders,
in part payment for the purchase of the house which the said Fredrick bought from me, standing in
the Smits Valey, wherefore I do hereby release him from [all] future demands for the sum
126 Not signed by Jacob Jacobsen Roy.
127 Not finished and canceled in the record. See contract of sale for the same house in N. Y. Col. MSS., 2:51a.
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