Document: Mortgage by Oloff Stevensen van Cortlandt of the house and lot of Roelof Jansen de Haes to Jan Jansen from Gottenborgh

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V3_095a

Description

Mortgage. Oloff Stevensen (van Cortland), agent of Roelof Jansen de Haes, to Jan Jansen, of Gottenburgh, of a house and lot on Manhattan island. [1651];Assignment. Charles Morgan to Hans Broebergen, of a claim on the W. I. Company, at Amsterdam. [1651]

Document Date

1651-09-18

Document Date (Date Type)

1651-09-18

Document Type

Mortgage

Translation

Before me, Jacob Kip, appointed clerk here, appeared Mr. Olof Stevensz, burgher and resident here, as agent of Roelof Jansen d'Haes, who in the presence of the below mentioned witnesses declared that Roelof Jansz d'Haes according to the bond, letter and order left with the appearer is indebted to Jan Jansen from Gottenborgh or his order in the sum of four hundred guilders, and whereas the term of payment has expired and the said Jan Jansz from Gottenborgh is about to leave for patria, I have at his request and with the approval of the honorable director general, inasmuch as I at present can not sell the house of Roelof de Haes, according to his order, for further security as aforesaid, specially mortgaged and pledged, as I do hereby on behalf of Roelof Jansz, his house and lot, standing and lying on the island of Manhatans, between the lots of Willem Beeckman and Teunis Tomasen. In testimony whereof I have signed these presents Done this 9th of September A° 1651, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Oloff Stevensz
Nicolaes Blanche
Jacob Kip
P Stuyvesant

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_V3_095a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (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.