Document: Mortgage of a house and lot purchased by Sara Hart from Gillis Pietersen

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NYSA_A0270-78_V2_158e
Description

Mortgage. Sara Hart, to Gillis Pietersen, of the abovementioned house which she bought of him. [1647]

Document Date
1647-01-01
Document Date (Date Type)
1647-01-01
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Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Sara Hart, wife of Tomas Hardt, who before and in the presence of the undersigned witnesses acknowledged that she had bought from Gillis Pitersz a house and lot standing and lying on the island of Manhatans, southward of Fort Amsterdam,[1] for the sum of six hundred Carolus guilders, payable in beavers, in two installments, to wit: three hundred guilders within twelve consecutive months from date; a like three hundred guilders, also in beavers, to be paid precisely on the 26th of June anno 1649, or in default thereof the above named Gillis Pitersz or his agent shall have power to seize and resell the aforesaid house and lot at the expense and loss of the above mentioned Mrs. Sara Hart, or her successors. Therefore, the aforesaid house and lot remain especially pledged and mortgaged for the payment of the purchase money and in addition thereto she, Sara Hart, as further security, submits her person and property, movable and immovable, present and future, without any exception to the control of all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In witness whereof the original hereof in the record is signed by Sara Hart and [ ].[2]

Sara Hart

Translation Superscripts
[1]: See deed of June 24, 1647, in [ 158c ].
[2]: Names of witness and date omitted.
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_158e.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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