Document: [Inventory of Vredendael ]

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Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_060a
Description

Inventory of the effects delivered by Mr. la Montagne to Bout Francen. [1643];Surrender by Bout Francen of his lease of said bouwery. [1643]

Document Date
1643-09-22
Document Date (Date Type)
1643-09-22
Document Type

Translation
Translation

Inventory of the goods and effects delivered by Mr. La Montagne to Bout Francen for the benefit of the farm Vredendael.

The farmhouse, barn, a barrack of four posts, cook house and hog pen1 boat with two oars1 wagon, nearly new1 foot plow with appurtenances, in working order1 ditto iron harrow1 six year old stallion1 six year old mare1 stallion colt between one and two years old1 filly of ten weeks3 milch cows, square (3 melck coyen viercant)[1]1 heifer of l4 months1 yearling bull

1 new mash tub containing one hogshead1 three-pronged fork1 two-pronged forkrope harness for two horses, in good condition1 fan1 peck measure bound with iron1 iron bound churn2 milk tubs1 butter tub1 new tub holding one half hogshead1 water pail1 oak chest3 good scythes with snaths3 Flemish scythes, good and bad2 handles

3 pickaxes, one of English make

1 hand cross cut saw

4 iron wedges[2]

1 buttermilk tub

1 half barrel with a brass faucet

1 herring barrel

4 ferrules for scythe blades

4 ditto for Flemish scythes

4 mattocks

2 bill hooks

2 new axes1 currycomb; 1 iron ladle to melt lead1 iron spade1 pewter tankard; 1 pewter mug

1 large pewter basin1 ditto platter1 copper kettle1 grindstone1 wheelbarrow1 25-rung ladder2 millstones, dressed and grooved1 jackscrew for the hay barrack1 auger1 carpenter’s adze1 pruning knife1 hand saw1 trowel2 bits2 iron ferrules for a wooden maul1 gun1 iron bolt, l½ feet long

All of which above mentioned [ effects ] I, Bout Francen, acknowledge having received from Mr. La Montagne, promising to deliver them back to the aforesaid La Montagne or his order in the same condition at the expiration of our contract, or in default thereof, the value thereof or other articles of the same quality.

Bout Frans
Cornelis Piters
Mr. La Montagne
Bout Francen
Bout Francen
Mr. Montagne
La Montagne
Cornelis van Tienhoven

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Possibly reference to the location of the animals in a stable area of a shelter constructed of four upright posts, forming a square.
[2]: Cipher indistinct; in the margin is written four.
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_060a.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.

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Bout Francen, for farm Vredendael
From Party 1
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