Document: Re conveyance by Thomas Baxter to Isaac Allerton of his half-interest in a boat

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_169a
Description

Transfer. Thomas Backster to Isaac Allerton, of his share of a certain sloop. [1647]

Document Date
1647-09-21
Document Date (Date Type)
1647-09-21
Document Type
Bill of Sale
Document Type Unlinked
Transfer | Conveyance

Translation
Translation

I, the undersigned, Tomas Bacxter, hereby acknowledge for myself, my heirs and successors, that, having become indebted to Isaack Allerton, I am at present unable to pay him. I have therefore conveyed and transferred back, as I do hereby, to the aforesaid Isaack Allerton my half-interest in the lighter for which the debt was incurred and that in full payment of what I owed him up to this date,[1] whereby the contract made by us last winter is now at an end and annulled. Done the 21st of September anno 1647, in New Amsterdam, New Netherland.

Thomas Backster

Translation Superscripts
[1]: At this point the following words are canceled: “it having been stipulated that the profit and loss and the expenses connected with the aforesaid lighter were to be shared equally by Mr. Isaack Allerton and Tomas Bacxter. In witness whereof this is signed and sealed with our seals in the.”
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_169a.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
Ship
To Party 1
To Party 1
Isaac Allerton (ID: 1,660,228)
From Party 1
From Party 1
Thomas Baxter (ID: 1609,000,055)
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
169a
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11392