Document: Receipt of Adam Mott, agent of Richard Smith, for money paid by Willem Thomassen, skipper

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Adam Moth, attorney of Mr. Ritchert Smith, who acknowledged that before the execution hereof he had received from Willem Tomasz, skipper of the Valckenier, the sum of eighty-five guilders, for the discharge and promise of repayment of which aforesaid money the said Willem Tomasz had become surety on the 14th of August A° 1647, namely for the person of Jan Wilcocx in favor of Isaac Allerton, as more fully appears by the note written and signed by Wilcocx, dated as above. Wherefore the said Adam Madt hereby releases the aforesaid Willem Tomasz as surety for Jan Wilcocx to the amount aforesaid and promises that he or the heirs of Jan Wilcocx aforesaid shall nevermore be troubled or called upon to pay by Isaack Allerton, Mr. Smith, or him, the appearer; therefore releasing him from all further claims. In testimony and witness of the truth the appearer has signed the original minute hereof in the record, together with Johannes Rodenborch and Jacob Kip, as witnesses hereto, the last of August 1648, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Adam Mott