Appeared before me Johannes La Montagne, in the service of, etc., and in the presence of the honorable Gerrit Slichtenhorst and Stoffel Janse [Abeel,] commissaries, etc., the honorable Sander Leendersen Glen, who declares that he has granted and conveyed, as by these presents he does grant and convey, in real and actual possession to and for the behoof of Caspar Jacobse [Halenbeck] his heirs, or assigns, a lot for a garden lying in Fort Orange aforesaid, bounded to the west by the lot of Jeremias Van Rensselaer, north by the lot of the grantee (acceptant,) length sixteen and a half rods, and breadth three rods eight and a half feet; which lot was conveyed to the grantor by patent of the Heer director general and council of New Netherland, of date the 13th July, A. D. 1658, and therefore, the grantor promises to free the same from all actions, claims, or pretentions, which may hereafter arise, pledging therefor his person and estate, personal and real, present and future, and submitting himself to all law and judges.

Done in Fort Orange, the 29th of December, A. D. 1663.
Sander Lenrsen Glen.

Gerrit Slichtenhorst.
Stojfel Janse.
Acknowledged before me,
La Montagne, Commis at Fort Orange.

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 341-342.