Document: Contract of sale of land at Amersfourt (Flatlands), L.I., from Wolphert Gerritsen to Teunis Cornelissen

This day, date underwritten, before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Wolphert Gerritsz, who sells to Teunes Cornelissen a piece of land containing fifty-two morgens, situated on Long Island, at the north end of the flat of Amersvoort, which above mentioned fifty-two morgens Teunes Cornelisz also acknowledges having bought from Wolphert Gerritsz for the sum of five hundred guilders, payable fifty guilders on next All Saints’ Day; one hundred and fifty guilders on All Saints’ Day anno 1648; one hundred and fifty guilders on All Saints’ Day anno 1649; and one hundred and fifty guilders on All Saints’ Day anno 165O, this being the last payment. The above mentioned Wolphert Gerritsz promises to deliver to the purchaser a written deed in proper form of the said parcel of land; the purchaser promises, after receipt of the deed, to tender and pay to the vendor the aforesaid purchase money, free of costs and charges, without contradiction or exceptions, on the days it is due. As security for the performance of what is hereinbefore written the parties bind their respective persons and properties, movable and immovable, present and future, without any exception, submitting the same to the control of all courts and judges. In testimony whereof this is signed by the parties on the 4th of July anno 1647.

Wolphert Gerritsz
Teunes Cornelisz
Cornelis van Tienhoven