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I, the undersigned, acknowledge that I am duly indebted to the Honorable Henricus van Dyck, advocate-fiscal of New Netherland, in the sum of twenty-five good, merchantable winter beavers, on account of two hundred and fifty guilders in seawan paid to me. I promise to pay the said beavers in one year from the date hereof, with the interest thereof at eight per cent, for which I specially bind and mortgage my house and lot standing and situated [ in New Amsterdam ], bounded on the east by Mr. Willem Beeckman and on the west by Teunis Tomasen. In witness whereof I have signed this with my own hand, this 20^th of March A° 1651, New Amsterdam.

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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.