Document: Indenture of Gillis Jansen as farm servant to Cornelis Claessen Swits

Before [ me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary ] in New Nethe[ rland, appointed by ] the Ge[ neral Chartered West India ] Company, appeared [ Gillis ] Jansen from Brouwershaven, [ ], who acknowledges that he has hired himself to Cornelis [ Claessen Swits ][ for the ] term of six consecutive [ years beginning ] the tenth of October last past, to serve him, [ Swits ], during the [ term ] of his bounden service in all such [ work as ] relates to farming or wherein he, S[ wits ], shall wish to employ him; he, Gillis Jansen, promising to serve out his bounden time faithfully and diligently if God grant him health and life so long, for which services he shall annually receive as wages the sum of eighty-three and one third Carolus guilders, amounting in six years to the sum of five hundred Carolus guilders, provided that the aforesaid Cornelis Claessen Swits promises to supply him, Gillis, during his bounden time with food, drink, washing and lodging, according to the usage and custom of farmers of this country. In testimony whereof this is signed by the above named Gillis Jansen and Cornelis Clase Swits, without fraud or deceit, this first of December anno 1642, in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.

Gillis Jansen
Cornelis Clasen
Cornelis van Tienhoven