Conditions and terms according to which, Caspar Jacobse [Halenbeck] proposes to sell his house, lot and garden, standing in the village of Beverwyck. First, The house and permanent fixtures shall be delivered to the buyer with the lot and garden, altogether sixteen rods1 long and in breadth four rods and four feet, except the cherry trees, all according to the patent thereof. Delivery shall be given on the 8th of May, A. D 1657. Payments shall be made in two terms; the first on delivery [of the property], to wit, the 8th of May, A. D 1657, and the second payment on the 8th of May, in the year 1658. The payments shall be made in whole merchantable beavers [skins]. The per centage becomes a charge upon the buyer. The buyer shall furnish two sufficient sureties to the content of the seller. If the buyer cannot furnish sufficient Sureties, then the property shall be sold again at his cost and charge, and whatever less it shall come to be worth, shall be a charge against the buyer. After much bidding, Harmen Jacobse [Bambus] remained the last bidder, for the sum of eight hundred and ten guilders, according to the above conditions
Done in Beverwyck the 22d of January, A. D. 1657.
Harmen Jacobsen.2
Acknowledged before me,
La Montagne, Deputy at Fort Orange.
On the same date appeared Adrian Janse [Van Ilpendam] and Abraham Pietersen [Vosburgh], who were offered as sureties and principals, for the sum of eight hundred and ten guilders, for the person of Harmen Jacobsen, on a pledge of their persons and estate, movable and immovable. Done in the village of Beverwyck, the 22d of January, 1657.
Adrian Van Ilpendam.
Abraham Pietersen Vosburgh.3
Acknowledged before me,
La Montagne, Deputy at Fort Orange.
1 Rhyland rods, 12 feet to the rod, and 12.36 English inches to the foot
2 Harmen Jacobse Bambus fled from Beverwyck in 1657 to escape imprisonment for debt, and his
sloop and other property were attached at the suit of Rutger Jacobse. Having concealed himself at Esopus he was there shot by an Indian in 1658, and his body was carried to New Amsterdam
for interment. - Dutch Manuscripts.
Early Records of the City and County of Albany Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Volume 1 (1656-1675) translated from the original Dutch by Jonathan Pearson. Pages 16-17.