Document: Contract of sale of a house and lot on Manhattan Island from Leendert Arenden to Tonis Nyssen

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Leendert Arenden, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses declared that he had sold to Tonis Nyssen his house and lot, standing and lying on the great highway (groote heerwech), opposite the honorable Company’s garden, as large or as small as the same is bounded according to the ground brief dated the 22nd of September anno 1645, which house and lot Tonis Nyssen also acknowledges having bought from the aforesaid Leendert Arenden for the sum of one hundred and sixty guilders, of which thirty-five guilders are payable cash, the receipt of which thirty-five guilders before the execution hereof the aforesaid Leendert Arenden acknowledges. The remaining one hundred and twenty-five guilders must be paid by Tonis Nysen after seven consecutive months from the date hereof shall have passed, to wit, after the expiration of the said seven months Tonis shall pay to Leendert Arenden each month twenty-five guilders, so that the remaining sum must be entirely paid in one year from date. In witness whereof two copies hereof of the same tenor are made and the original in the record is signed by the parties in the presence of the witnesses hereto invited. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the first of December anno 1645, in New Amsterdam.

Leendert Arenden
Tonys Nyssen
Cornelis van Tienhoven