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This day, the 22d of March XVIC and fifty-one, before me, Jacob Kip, in the absence of the secretary appointed by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland, appeared Lodewyck Jonck, an inhabitant here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses acknowledged and declared that by balance of the purchase money of certain land situated on Long Island, opposite of Fort Amsterdam, sold and conveyed to him, the appearer, by Pieter Cornelisen, as attorney of Mr. Andries Hudden, commissary at the South River of New Netherland, he was indebted in the sum of two hundred Carolus guilders in good pay current here, which he promises to deliver between this date and next Amsterdam fair to Anna Jans, widow of the late Everhardus Borgardus,^[1] or her order. As further security for what is written above he, Lodewyck Jonck, binds his person and property, movable and immovable, and especially the aforesaid purchased land. In witness whereof he has signed this with the witnesses at the Manhatans in New Netherland.

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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.