Document: Declarations of Pieter Jansen and Richard Clouff that Sir Edmund Plowden owns a half interest in the bark

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_119a_119b
Description

Declaration. Peter Jansen, that he was told by Mr. Middeler, on the river Rappahanock in 1643, that the bark belonging to Mr. Throgmorton and Peter Louwrens, was the property of Sir Edmund Pleydoen, Knt. [1644];Declaration. Richard Clouff, that Sir Edmund Pleydoen, Knt., living in Virginia, had purchased in 1643, half the above bark and two boats of Philip White. [1644]

Document Date
1644-07-07
Document Date (Date Type)
1644-07-07
Document Type
Declaration

Translation
Translation

[ Pie ]ter Jansz [ of ] [ ]ant, aged about 22 years, testifies at the request of Mr. Moor[1] that being in the year 1643 on the river named Roppenhaninck,[2] in Virginia, he heard one Mr. Middello say that the bark now belonging to Pitter Lourensz and Mr. Trochmarten[3], then navigated by said Middello, was the property of Sir Edman Pleydoen, knight[4], to wit, the half of the bark and two tuns of meal loaded in said bark on account of the knight. Which the deponent offers to confirm by oath. Done the 7th of July 1644.

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Ritchert Cloff, who at the request of Mr. Eduwart Moor attests, testifies and declares, in place and with promise of a solemn oath if need be and required, that it is true that Sir Edman Pleydoen, knight, residing in Virginia, purchased from Philip Weyt[5] in Kiketan[6], to wit, the just half of the bark which now at present is navigated by Pieter Lourensz and Mr. Troohmorten, with two tuns of meal. All which he, the deponent, offers to confirm by oath. Done the 7th of July A°. 1644, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.

Pieter Jansen
Richard Clouff

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Edward Moor; see next declaration.
[2]: Rappahannock.
[3]: John Throckmorton.
[4]: Sir Edmund Plowden, Lord Earl Palatine, Governor and Captain General of the province of New Albion; see Doc. Rel. Col. Hist. N. Y., 1:289; 2:82, 92.
[5]: Philip White.
[6]: Kikotan, one of the four corporations into which the colony of Virginia was originally divided, extending from the southern boundary of James City to the Chesapeake Bay. See P. A. Bruce, Institutional History of Virginia. 2:291-92.
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_119a_119b.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
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Edmund Plowden
From Party 1
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Pieter Jansen
From Party 2
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Richard Clouff
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
119a_119b
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11119