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Before me, Jacob Kip, in the absence of the secretary appointed by the director general and council of New Netherland, appeared the worthy Poulus Leendersen van [ de ] Grift, an inhabitant here, and Elbert Eldersen, who declared, under renunciation of the beneficium ordinis, divisionis, excussionis, the effect whereof they understand, that they become sureties as principals for the proper administration for the parties interested by Jan Claesen Groen (who has been appointed thereto by the honorable director general), of all such goods and merchandise as belong to Jan Pietersen Wal, who came in the ship t'Hoff van Cleef, and died here in New Netherland on the 12^th of this month; binding therefor their persons and properties without any exception under submission to all courts, tribunals and judges. In testimony whereof this is signed in the record by the bondsmen this 15^th of June A°. 1651, New Amsterdam 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.