Document: Will of Hendrick Jacobsen Patervaer

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Hendrick Jacobsen Patervaer, from Langedyck,[1] who intends to sail to the West Indies on the frigate La Garce, and as men on such a voyage are exposed to many perils, the aforesaid Hendric Jacobsz declares that, reflecting on the certainty of death and uncertainty of the hour thereof and wishing therefore to anticipate all such uncertainty of death by certain testamentary disposition, he, the testator, therefore gives and bequeaths to Abraham Jansen Schepmoes the sum of three hundred and eleven guilders, ten stivers, which Jan Jansen Schepmoes, father of the aforesaid Abraham Jansen, owes to the said Hendrick Jacobsz, as appears by the bond dated the 5th of December anno 1646; which sum the aforesaid Abraham Jansen, after the decease of the said Patervaer (if he should die on his West India voyage) shall be authorized to claim from his above mentioned father and take possession of as his own property. In token of the truth this is signed by Hendrick Jacobsen and by Arnoldus van Hardenbergh and Adriaen van Tienhoven as witnesses hereto invited, the 6th of December 1646, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Hendric Jacobsen
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Arnoldus van Hardenberch
Cornelis van Tienhoven