Document: Notes of William Hays and Albrecht Hendricksen in favor of Willem de Key

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_155h_155i
Description

Note of William Hays in Curaçao in favor of William de Key. [1646];Note of Albrecht Hendricksen in Curaçao in favor of William de Key. [1646]

Document Date
1646-09-29
Document Date (Date Type)
1646-09-29
Document Type
Note

Translation
Translation

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[ I ], the undersigned, Willem Hays from Bar[ ry’s ] court,[1] chief surgeon appointed in the year 1641 by the honorable director Jan Claessen van Campen and the council at Curaçao, acknowledge that I have received from Mr. Willem de Key diversee goods amounting to the sum of two hundred and eighteen Carolus guilders, sixteen stivers, which I request the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, to be pleased to pay to the worthy Willem de Key, or his order, in deduction of my earned monthly wages; which shall avail them as good payment. In acknowledgment of the truth this is signed by my own hand. Done at Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, this 29th of September 1646. Was signed: Willem Hays, Jacob Loper and Carel van Bruggen, witnesses.

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I, the undersigned, Jacob[2] Hendricksen from Haerlem, horseman, who sailed as a soldier in the year 1638 in the yacht Sparamundj,[3] acknowledge that I have received from Mr. Willem de Key diversee goods which I needed, amounting to the sum of one hundred and fourteen Carolus guilders, two stivers, which sum of one hundred and fourteen guilders, two stivers, I request the honorable directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam to be pleased to pay to the worthy Willem de Key above mentioned, or his order, in deduction of the monthly wages due me; which shall avail their honors as good payment.[4]

In acknowledgment of the truth I have signed this with my usual mark. Done in Fort Amsterdam on the island of Curaçao, this 29th of September anno 1646. Was signed with this mark, besides which was written: The mark of Albrecht Hendricksz; Jacob Loper and Piter Hendricksen, witnesses.

L. van Heusden
Gysbert Opdyc
Laurens van Heusden
Gysbert op Dyck
L. van Heusden
Gysbert Opdyc
Laurens van Heusden
Gysbert op Dyck

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Barry’s Cove, near Clonakilty Bay, County Cork, Ireland; or, perhaps, Barry’s Head, near Cork Harbor.
[2]: This should be “Albrecht”: see below.
[3]: Sphaera-Mundi.
[4]: Here some words were written above the line, at the top of the page, which are no longer legible.
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_155h_155i.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.

To Party 1
To Party 1 Text Unlinked
Willem de Key
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
William Hays in Curacao
From Party 2
From Party 2 Text Unlinked
Albrecht Hendricksen
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Provincial Secretary register of the Provincial Secretary (Series A0270 _ 1642-1660)
Box
2
Volume
2
Item
155h_155i
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11297