Translation
Bond of Gillis Pietersen for the payment of one hundred and eighty guilders due by Jacob Roy to Isbrant Dircksen Goethart
This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Gillis Pietersen, who acknowledged, as he does hereby, that he is well and truly indebted to Isbrant Dircksen Goethart, for Jacob Roy, gunner, in the sum of one hundred and eighty guilders received by Jacob Roy from Isbrant Dircksen Goethardt, which sum he, Gillis Pitersz, promises to tender and pay to the said Goethardt or his order by the first of June A° 1649, in good, whole beavers; for which the appearer, Gillis Pitersz, submits himself to all courts and judges in witness whereof this is signed by Gillis Pietersz and by Jacob Kip and Johannes Rodenb[ orch ], as witnesses hereto invited, the 15th of September A°. 1648, in New Amsterdam, New Netherland.
References
Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (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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