On this 30th day of May 1673 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in New Albany, and before the undersigned witnesses, Hans Carelsz Noorman of the first part and Hendrick Gerritsen Vermeulen of the second part, who in love and friendship have agreed in manner following, to wit: Hans Carelsz acknowledges that he has sold and Hendrick Gerritsz that he has bought a certain lot lying here in Albany on the slope of the hillx near the Plein, between Casper Jacobsz1 and the first kill or Rutten kill, in length and breadth as said lot has been inclosed and as it was first obtained or bought by Pieter Winne from the honorable magistrates, it having been sold by said Pieter Winne to Frans Pietersz Claeuw and Cornells Woutersz and thereafter sold and delivered by Frans Pietersz Claeuw to said Hans Carelsz. The aforesaid seller delivers said lot to said buyer now, free and unincumbered (saving the lord's right), for which the buyer promises to pay to the seller three good, whole, salable beaver skins in the month of August next, on condition that the seller be holden to deliver to the buyer a good and sufficient deed of ownership on the delivery of the last payment, but the buyer shall pay the expenses thereof as well as of this bill of sale. The aforenamed contracting parties mutually promise to perform and execute the aforesaid terms of this contract under pledge of their persons and estates, real and personal, having and to have, subject to all courts and judges. In witness whereof they have interchangeably subscribed this with their own hands in Albany, on the date above written.
HANS CARL
HEINDERCK GEIRTS
Storm vander Zee, as witness
Claes Jansz
Quod attestor
ADRTAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
1 Casper Jacobsen Halenbeck
Early Records of the City and County of
Albany Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Volume 3 (Notarial Papers 1 and 2, 1660-1696)
translated from the original Dutch by Jonathan Pearson