Appeared before me Johannes La Montagne, etc., and in the presence of Honorable Abraham Staets and Adrian Gerritsen [Papendorp], commissaries of this jurisdiction, Caspar Jacobsen [Halenbeck],¹ who declared that he had granted and conveyed, as by these presents he does grant and convey, in real and actual, possession, to the behoof of Harmen Jacobsen [Bambus], his house, earth and nail fast, and lot and garden, whole length sixteen rods, and breadth four rods and four feet, according to the patent thereof, for the sum of eight hundred and ten guilders to be paid in good whole merchantable beavers, in two terms; the first on delivery and the second payment on the 8th of May in the next coming year, 1658 for which payment the buyer has furnished two sureties to the content of the seller, to wit, Adrian Van Ilpendam and Abraham Vosburgh,² on pledge respectively of their persons and estates, movable and immovable, submitting the same to all laws and judges.

Done in Fort Orange this 5th of June, A. D. 1657.

This is the mark of K Y Caspar Jacobse.

Abram Staes.
Adrian Gerritsen.
Acknowledged before me,
La Montagne, Deputy at Fort Orange.

¹ Casper Jacobse Hallenbeck was the first of the name who settled in Beverwyck. He had two sons, Isaac and Jan, who had large families.
² Abraham Vosburgh, perhaps son of Pieter Jacobse Vosburgh, deceased in 1674.

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 31-32