Document: Deed from the directors of the West India Company to Petrus Stuyvesant of the Company's bouwery in New Netherland

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This day, the twelfth of March XVIC LI, the undersigned directors, requested and authorized thereto by resolution of the Assembly dated the second instant, have sold to Jan Jansen Damen, as attorney and agent of Petrus Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland and Curacao, who hereby also acknowledges that he purchased, the Company's farm in New Netherland above mentioned, with the appurtenances thereof, consisting of a dwelling house, barn, hayrick, land, six cows, two horses and two young Negroes, all in such condition as the aforesaid farm is at present used and occupied under lease by the above mentioned Stuyvesant, in order to be possessed in full ownership by him, his heirs, successors or assigns, according to the deed of transfer and conveyance which the council there is hereby ordered and authorized to grant and execute in proper form; for which aforesaid farm the said Jan Jansz Damen in his capacity and on behalf as above mentioned has promised and hereby does promise to pay or otherwise to make good to the Company a sum of six thousand four hundred guilders, once. In testimony whereof two instruments of the same tenor are made hereof and signed by both parties in Amsterdam, the day and year above mentioned.

P. Schulenborch
Jacob Pergens
Jan Jansen Damen
Gysbert Rudolphy