Document: Assignment by Tobias Rem to Seger Teunissen of his wages earned as a soldier in the service of the West India Company

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_142b
Description

Assignment by Tobias Rem to Seger Teunissen of his wages earned as a soldier in the service of the West India Company.

Document Date
1645-03-01
Document Date (Date Type)
1645-03-01
Document Type
Assignment

Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Tobias Rem of Lynvoort,[1] a soldier in Captain Jan de Vries’ company, who hereby assigns and makes over to Seger Teunesz, in true ownership, his account hereto annexed, amounting to the sum of one hundred guilders, eighteen stivers, earned by the above mentioned Tobias Rem in Marinhan in the service of the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company at Amsterdam, provided there be first deducted from the above mentioned sum the price of an overcoat received by him, Tobias Rem, on board the Blauwe Haen. Therefore, he requests that the balance of the money may be tendered and paid to Seger Teunesz as he, the principal, acknowledges that he has been satisfied and paid in full before the execution hereof; therefore releasing the honorable directors above mentioned from all further claims. In witness whereof the original record hereof is signed by the principal and the witnesses hereto invited.

Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Tobias Rem

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Lemforde, in Hanover (?).
References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York.  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A0270/NYSA_A0270-78_V2_142b.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.

To Party 1
To Party 1 Text Unlinked
Seger Teunissen
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Tobias Rem
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Provincial Secretary register of the Provincial Secretary (Series A0270 _ 1642-1660)
Box
2
Volume
2
Item
142b
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11192