Document: Dissolution of partnership between Claes Claessen Bordingh and Adriaen Jansen from 't Ooch

This day, the 6th of November A°. 1648, in presence of the undersigned witnesses, appeared at the office of the secretary of New Netherland, before his assistant, in the secretary's absence, Claes Claesz Bordingh and Aryaen Jansz from 't Ooch,[1] who acknowledged and declared that they had entered into and made with each other an agreement in the fatherland to the effect that if either of them happened to die, depart or the like, the remaining one should settle and manage the affairs and property of the other; and whereas the one named Aryaen Jansz from 't Ooch proposes and intends to go to sea in the yacht De Liefde, they therefore, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, release and discharge one another from all claims and such like partnership as they have had with each other and they, each for himself, annul and cancel the above mentioned contract of co-partnership written by a notary at Amsterdam. In testimony whereof this is signed in the record by them as late partners aforesaid, and by Johannes Rodenborch and Pieter Jacobsz, as witnesses hereto invited, at Manhatans in New Netherland, date as above,

Aderyan Jahnsz
Claes Claesen Bordingh
Pieter Jacobsz Marijus
Kacob Kip