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Inventory of the Farm

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Inventory of what Mr. Corler delivers with the above mentioned farm to Mr. Spycer and which at the expiration of the five years he is to return in the same condition as now received.

1 stone house (steenen huys)[1]   6 schepels of wheat  } sowed 
1 barn  66 ditto rye 
1 tobacco house  3 ditto winter barley 
2 hay barracks (bergen 1 meat barrel 
2 five year-old mares  3 milk tubs 
5 milch cows  1 churn 
2 draft oxen  1 plowshare 
1 bull  6 scythes, good and bad 
3 yearling heifers  3 new scythes 
3 bull calves of this year  1 small sleigh 
2 plows  2 sicles 
2 harrows  4 mash-tubs 
2 pairs of beams and scales  2 water pails 
3 grain scythes  1 yoke 
3 grass scythes  1 baker’s trough 
1 cutting bench  4 casks with iron hoops 
3 flails  10 dry vats (droge vaten) 
5 rakes  1 merchandise chest (cargasoen cas) 
1 wagon  2 cribs 
1 sleigh  1 boat and sail 
1 wheelbarrow  1 handbarrow 
Thomas Spicer
Tho. Willett
Adriaen van Tienh
Cornelis van Tienh.
In Holland this would ordinarily mean a baksteenen huys, or brick house.

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.