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Contract of sale between Adam Roelantsen and Ulderick Klein of a house occupied by the Company's Negroes and half the produce of the garden

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Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary ] in New Netherland appointed by ] the General Chartered West India ] Company, appeared Ul ]drich Cle ]en,

Ulderick Cleen, or Klein, from Hessen, Germany, married on July 28, 1641, at New Amsterdam, Aefje (or Baefje) Pieters, from Amsterdam. He moved before Sept. 30, 1654, to Beverwyck, where he became the village cowherd. He died shortly after 1672. His widow afterwards married Jan Roelofsen de Goyer. See Early Records of Albany, 1:268, 430-31; Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, 1:182.
who declares that he deliberately purchased from Adam Roelantsen the small house in which the honorable Company’s Negroes are now lodging, with the garden adjoining thereto, and half the vegetables which are growing at present in the aforesaid garden, (with the understanding that he, the vendor, delivers to him only the building and not the ground), for all of which he, the purchaser, shall pay to the said Adam Roelantsen from last Tuesday precisely every week one guilder for six months, which amounts to twenty-six guilders. On the expiration of the six months, said Uldrich Cleen shall pay in addition to the twenty-six guilders aforesaid sixty-four guilders more, so that the whole sum amounts to ninety guilders, and in case the purchaser remain in default of payment at the proper time, the vendor may re-enter into possession of the aforesaid house and garden. For all of which he, Uldrich Cleen, binds the aforesaid house and garden together with his person and all his other property, movable and immovable, present and future, without any exception, submitting the same to all courts, tribunals and judges. Done the 8th of August anno 1642, in New Netherland.

Adam Roelants
Vlderick Klein
Maurits Janse
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Cornelis van Tienhoven

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Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.