Document: Deed from Augustin Herrman to Cornelis van Werckhoven as executor of the will of Pieter Gabry, deceased, of his house and lot in New Amsterdam

Before me, Jacob Kip, in the absence of the secretary appointed by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland, appeared Mr. Augustyn Herrman, citizen and inhabitant here, who in the presence of the undersigned witnesses declared that in absolute and free ownership he hereby conveyed and transferred to and for the behoof the honorable Mr. Cornelis van Werckhoven at Uytrecht, in his capacity of executor of the will of the late Pieter Gabry at Amsterdam, his certain house and lot, in length sixty-four feet and in width twenty-eight feet, having a cellar throughout and three full stories, the walls two feet thick and the rest in proportion, together with a rear-kitchen and an enclosed yard, as the same was built and occupied by the grantor and belongs to him according to the patent of the lot, situated in New Amsterdam, bounded on the east by the honorable Company's warehouse, on the west by Jacob Haey, on the south by the East river and the dock, and on the north by a public street, the aforesaid house and lot being free and unincumbered, without any claims, and this in payment of a certain obligation, reserving a certain stipulation inserted therein, which the grantor on the 17th of December A° 1649, executed in favor of Pieter Gabry and Sons, which obligation and the contents thereof the grantor, by letter of the 20th of March A° 1651, has been expressly called upon to pay and satisfy by the aforesaid Mr. Werckhoven and Mr. Daniel Gabry as testamentary executors appointed by Pieter Gabry and Sons The grantor, therefore, declares that for the present he is not able, nor as long as he lives will be able, to make any better payment in satisfaction of the aforesaid obligation than this deed and therefore acknowledges that he has no further claim on the aforesaid house and lot, but that he hereby completely relinquishes the same for the behoof of the aforesaid executors, provided that the aforesaid obligation shall be annulled and the grantor freed from all further demands and that a proper discharge shall be executed. Thus done and executed by the above named grantor, who together with the witnesses hereto invited has signed the same, this 17th of July A° 1651, at New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

P. Stuyvesant
Augistin Herrman
Wilh. Beeckman
Vincent Piques
Jacob Kip