Document: Note to Thomas Willet for 1,500 guilders wampum, payable in merchandise or beaver

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New York State Archives

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0087a

Description

Note. To Thomas Willet, for 1,500 guilders wampum, payable in merchandise or beaver.

Document Date

1655-08-31

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-08-31

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Note

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Translation

[ I, the underwritten, [acknowledge hereby to have ] received [ from Mr. ] Thomas Willeth [ fifteen hundred ] guilders in black and white sewant [ to be repaid ] in merchandise to [ the satisfaction of the said ] Willeth or in beavers, under [ condition that he accept the beavers ] at nine guilders the [ piece, ] the merchandise at market price. Ady ut supra. Ady ultimo August 1655.[1]

Translation Superscripts

[1]: See NYCD, 14:97, for other translation.

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/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0087a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (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.