Document: Lease to Philip Gerritsen of the Company's house, to be used as a tavern

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_045a
Description

Lease. Director Kieft to Philip Gerritsen of the company's house (tavern), rent 300 guilders, with the right to retail the company's wine and brandy, on which he is to be allowed a profit of six stivers the can, a well and brew house to be erected in the rear. [1643]

Document Date
1643-02-17
Document Date (Date Type)
1643-02-17
Document Type
Lease

Translation
Translation

[ This day, date under ]written, before [ me, ][ Cornelis va ]n Tienhoven, secretary of [ the General ] Chartered West India Company, appeared the honorable Willem Kieft, director general of New Netherland, and Philip Gerritsen from Haerlem, who declared that they had entered into and made a certain contract for the hire of the Company’s house[1] on the following conditions. The aforesaid director leases the said house to the above mentioned Philip Gerritsen, who also acknowledges that he has hired the same, for the term of six consecutive years, which term commenced on the first of January 1642, and will terminate on the first of January 1648; for which Philip Gerritsen promises to pay as rent to the honorable West India Company or their agent annually the sum of three hundred guilders, with the express promise of the director that so much of the Company’s wines shall be delivered to him, the lessee, as he will be able to retail, allowing the lessee a profit of six stivers on the quart, to wit, of brandy and Spanish wine, but on French wine not more than four stivers; also, that no wines shall be tapped and served to guests in the Company’s cellar, which might tend to the lessee's detriment. The honorable director also promises at the first opportunity to have a well dug near the house and to have a brew house erected in the rear, or else to grant the use of the Company's brew house. [ Furthermore ], the director shall have a yard palisaded off in the rear of the house. In witness of the truth this is signed in the record by the above named honorable director and by Philip Gerritsen. Done the 17th of February anno 1643 in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.

Willem Kieft
Philippus Gerritsen
Willem Kieft
Adriaen Dircksen
Philip Gerritsen

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Known as the Stads Herberg, or City Tavern, which in 1654 became the Town Hall. See J. H. Innes, New Amsterdam and its People, pp. 175-91. See also Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century, 1:187, where the name of the lessee is confused with that of Philip Geraerdy, from Paris, the proprietor of the White Horse Tavern, who died in 1655.
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_045a.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.

Property Type
Property Type
Tavern
To Party 1
To Party 1 Text Unlinked
Philip Gerritsen
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Provincial Secretary register of the Provincial Secretary (Series A0270 _ 1642-1660)
Item
045a
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/10981