Document: Promisory note of Andries Hudde in favor of Rev. Everardus Bogardus

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Andries Hudden, who in the presence of the hereinafter mentioned witnesses acknowledges that he is well and truly indebted to Everardus Bogardus, minister here, in the sum of once six hundred Carolus guilders, for moneys disbursed, which the aforesaid Andries Hudden acknowledged before the execution hereof to have been thankfully received by him in the year 1637. He, Hudden, promises faithfully to tender and pay the above mentioned six hundred guilders to the said Bogardus, free of costs and charges, without any exception, in two years from date, provided that all such note as was given by the aforesaid Hudden before the date hereof, in the aforesaid year, a year, more or less, not being counted, amounting to six hundred guilders ...[1]