Document: Contract of Pieter Heyn to serve the West India Company for one year as a ship carpenter

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V3_015b
Description

Note. Cornelis Arentsen, of Pavonia, to Isbrant Dircksen Goethardt, for 322 guilders in wampum. [1648];Contract. Peter Heyn, with director Stuyvesant to work as a shipwright one year. [1648]

Document Date
1648-09-14
Document Date (Date Type)
1648-09-14
Document Type
Contract
Document Type Unlinked
Note | Contract

Translation
Translation

I, Pieter Heyn, born in De Ryp,[1] have this day bound myself for one year to the honorable director general, for the account of the West India Company, to work as a ship carpenter in the Company's service, for which labor I am to receive forty-five stivers a day. This day, the 14th of September A° 1648.

Piet Heyn
Cor. van Tienhoven

Translation Superscripts
[1]: A village, midway between Alkmaar and Purmerend, province of North Holland.
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_V3_015b.xml

Published bound volume is also available: 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.

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.

Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Provincial Secretary register of the Provincial Secretary (Series A0270 _ 1642-1660)
Box
3
Volume
3
Item
15b
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/19009