Document: Assignment by Dom Hendricksen to Seger Teunissen of his claim against the West India Company

This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary residing in New Netherland, appointed by the Chartered West India Company, appeared Dom Hendrickx[1]251 from Os, a soldier in the company of Captain Johan de Vries, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, declared that he had assigned and made over, as he hereby does, in true ownership, to and for the benefit of Seger Teunesz, master of the yacht De Eendracht, his account [ of pay ] earned by him [ in the service ] of the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber of the Maes, in Fort St. Louis de Marinhan, amounting to the sum of two hundred and twenty-one guilders, six stivers, for which he, the appearer, acknowledges that he has received to his full satisfaction from Seger Teunesz as much cloth, linen and other necessaries as the sum in the above mentioned account amounts to. But it is to be noted that sixteen guilders for a cloak[2] are to be deducted. Therefore, the appearer requests the above mentioned gentlemen to pay the remaining money, according to the account to Seger Teunesz, who is empowered to grant their honors a receipt on payment. It is likewise stipulated, if their honors do not pay this account, that Seger Teunesz shall retain a lien on the monthly wages already earned or still to be earned by the appearer in New Netherland. Thus done and signed by Dom Hendricksz, besides Gysbert de Leu and Davit Provoost, as witnesses hereto invited, the 11th of April 1645, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.[3]