Translation
Receipt of Pieter Jansen Cool for money received from the curators of the estate of Claes Cater, deceased
This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary, appeared Pieter Jansen Cool, who acknowledged that he had received from the curators of [ the estate of ] Claes Cater, deceased, the sum of thirty-seven guilders, 10 stivers, which sum the aforesaid Claes Cater owed to Gerrit Symonsen, the appearer’s brother-in-law. And whereas there appeared here nothing but a writing of Gerrit Symonsz, he, the appearer, promises to guarantee the curators above mentioned until the debt be approved by the widow and heirs of the aforesaid Claes Cater, or, if the contrary can be shown to be the case, he, the appearer, promises to restore the money now received by him free of costs and charges. Without fraud or deceit this is signed the 14th of April 1647,[1] in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
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.
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