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Bond of Thomas Hall to Cornelis Teunissen for the payment of the purchase price of cattle

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Before me, Jacob Hendricksz Kip, clerk appointed by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland, appeared the worthy Tomas Hal, an inhabitant here, who acknowledges for himself, his heirs and successors, that he is duly, honestly and truly indebted to Cornelis Teunisz from Gurcum,[1] also an inhabitant here, or his order, in the sum of three hundred Carolus guilders for the purchase and delivery of some cattle which the purchaser acknowledges having received before the execution hereof He therefore promises to pay the aforesaid three hundred guilders free of costs and charges, without any exception, in the month of March next, to wit: two hundred and fifty guilders in good merchantable duffels at the current price and fifty guilders in loose seawan. For the performance hereof he, Tomas Hal, binds his person and property, submitting the same to all courts. In testimony whereof this is signed by him with his own hand, this 22d of September 1649, in New Amsterdam.

Thomas Hall
Jacob Kip

Notes

Gorcum, or Gorinchem, a fortified town on the Meuse, in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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.