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Inventory of the goods and effects delivered by Mr. La Montagne to Bout Francen for the benefit of the farm Vredendael.

The farmhouse, barn, a barrack of four posts, cook house and hog pen1 boat with two oars
1 wagon, nearly new
1 foot plow with appurtenances, in working order1 ditto iron harrow
1 six year old stallion1 six year old mare
1 stallion colt between one and two years old1 filly of ten weeks
3 milch cows, square (3 melck coyen viercant)^[1]1 heifer of l4 months1 yearling bull

4 sows	} from one to two years old
1 boar

1 new mash tub containing one hogshead
1 three-pronged fork
1 two-pronged fork
rope harness for two horses, in good condition
1 fan
1 peck measure bound with iron
1 iron bound churn
2 milk tubs
1 butter tub
1 new tub holding one half hogshead
1 water pail
1 oak chest
3 good scythes with snaths
3 Flemish scythes, good and bad
2 handles

3 pickaxes, one of English make

1 hand cross cut saw

4 iron wedges^[2]

1 buttermilk tub

1 half barrel with a brass faucet

1 herring barrel

4 ferrules for scythe blades

4 ditto for Flemish scythes

4 mattocks

2 bill hooks

2 new axes
1 currycomb; 1 iron ladle to melt lead1 iron spade
1 pewter tankard; 1 pewter mug

1 large pewter basin
1 ditto platter
1 copper kettle
1 grindstone
1 wheelbarrow
1 25-rung ladder
2 millstones, dressed and grooved1 jackscrew for the hay barrack
1 auger
1 carpenter’s adze
1 pruning knife
1 hand saw
1 trowel
2 bits
2 iron ferrules for a wooden maul1 gun
1 iron bolt, l½ feet long

All of which above mentioned [ effects ] I, Bout Francen, acknowledge having received from Mr. La Montagne, promising to deliver them back to the aforesaid La Montagne or his order in the same condition at the expiration of our contract, or in default thereof, the value thereof or other articles of the same quality.

References

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.