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Assignment by Symon Woutersen to Seger Teunissen of wages due to Hans Haen : a

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Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Symon Woutersz, of Nus, a soldier, who hereby assigns and makes over to and for the benefit of Seger Teunesz an account of wages ] earned by Hans Haen, from Hessenlandt, in the service of the honorable West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam, amounting to the sum of two hundred end twenty-one guilders, due to him, Symon Woutersz, according to the annexed will, provided that there shall first be deducted from the aforesaid sum what by will is allowed from it to the poor. He, Symon Woutersz, acknowledges that he has been fully satisfied and paid before the execution hereof by the above mentioned Seger Teunesz. In witness whereof this is signed in the record by Symon Woutersz and the witnesses hereto invited, the first of March 1645, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Symon Woutersz
Cornelio vander Hoykens
Adam Brouwer

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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.