Document: Conditions on which Wolphert Gerritsen (van Couwenhoven) obtained confirmation of a deed of land

[in the margin:] Note: the conveyance mentioned here is registered in the register of patents, No. A, fo. 14.]

The bill of sale and conveyance opposite, having been handed over in the meeting of the director general and councilors of New Netherland, was read and examined; at the submitted request it is approved and ratified by the director general and councilors on these special conditions and terms: that Wolphert Gerritsen, or whoever may lay claim to his possessions later, will recognize the lords directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber Amsterdam, as his lords and patroons under the sovereignty of the honorable high and mighty lords States General of the United Netherlands, and here obey their director general and councilors in everything, as good inhabitants should, and subject himself to the payment of the tenth for the benefit of the [

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