Introduction

This is a digest, a set of detailed notes made from the Dingman Versteeg translations of old Dutch records (and transcriptions of some records written in English) from Kingston, New York, from 1676 to 1684. This page includes details and particulars extracted from hundreds of pages of names and dates and events from Kingston, Hurley, Marbletown, New Paltz and the surrounding area. Some entries below are included complete, verbatim, and others are condensed.

The original Dutch records had been scrambled into haphazard order before being bound into hardcover volumes for preservation sometime in the 1700s or 1800s. The entries below are presented in chronological order.

Kingston Papers, published in two volumes by the Holland Society in the 1970s, organized and indexed and made available Versteeg’s translations from 1661 through 1675, amounting to about 3/5 of what Versteeg had translated. The balance is below.

This page is intended not to include what has already been published in Kingston Papers, but to fill in blanks, i.e. the records from the period from 1676-1684 that Versteeg translated but were never printed. Donald Lockhart put together an excellent finding aid that matched microfilm copies of the re-bound originals with pages in the three-volume Versteeg manuscript and the two volumes of the Kingston Papers. From this, it’s straightforward enough to see which of Versteeg’s pages were never published.

Many of the entries below are notes from each item, capturing dates, names, and substance of what’s in a document, rather than a complete transcript. Council and court minutes are more often transcribed complete, since they tend to be more free-form and informative, except cases where there was no discussion of particulars and a simple monetary settlement was awarded (more often than not measured in schepels of wheat, but sometimes in other denominations). What I have truncated in deeds and wills and the like is the boilerplate legal formulas that get repeated again and again.

I have tried to include every principal name and place name, any relevant figures and dates, and detailed descriptions of properties, house plans, etc. The complete verbatim records can be looked up via the Ulster County Archives site for more detail on any given document. (For brevity I have left out most witness names, but those can be important too in establishing social and financial links. The complete record is worth consulting on any entry of interest.) Many of the Archives’ online entries include links to images of the original Dutch-language documents, frequently helpful in understanding a term or a name or resolving some other textual question.

Names in the entries below are written every which way (some matching the original, some matching other known spellings, to help with searches), and additional notes are inserted when multiple records appear to be linked, or when something’s hard to read, or when some other observation seems pertinent. Many of Versteeg’s notes and observations are included too. More notes and cross-references will be added, but it is the researcher’s job to identify connections among records below that have not already been observed.

Lockhart indicates that about 540 pages of the Versteeg manuscript translations did not make it into Kingston Papers. Versteeg Vol. I is 644 manuscript pages total, plus a few pages of omissions at the end; Vol II goes to p. 640; and Vol. III has 247 pages of pertinent translations (omitting a long section of Lutheran church regulations and deacon’s records, interesting in their own right but not part of the Kingston public record). So the volume of information not published is about 2/3 as big as the two-volume Kingston Papers.

All the clearly dated items are presented in chronological order, with a short section at the bottom for entries whose dates are still being clarified. Some shrewd examination (including physical examination of the actual paper pages, to see which leaves may belong together) will help restore these to their correct locations in the timeline.

In a few places documents from other collections have been noted or added where there is a gap in the records that were preserved in Kingston, when it is evident either that the supplemental documents would have originally been among the other records of events in and around Kingston or that they shed light on records that must have once originated in Kingston.

Versteeg’s manuscript translation is generally clean and easy enough to read, with a few exceptions. In the very few places where he has made a clear departure from standard practice (e.g. spelling “linen” as “linnen”), I have made silent amendments. His capitalization probably follows the lead of the Dutch original; I have left much as he wrote it and freely adjusted it in some places, without straining for consistency. Versteeg is extremely sparse with punctuation; I have inserted a lot of commas along the way, partly for readability, again not always, and not worrying too much about consistency. Versteeg’s translation itself is generally clear and accurate English, but often a word or phrase will feel awkward, as is the case with an unedited translation. It is not clear what his instructions were (presumably literal accuracy was a goal), and it is not clear what adjustments he would have preferred to make before publication. Oppenheim apparently felt he added polish to Versteeg’s phrasing. I have almost entirely elected to use Versteeg’s words, sometimes inserting substitutions or alternate readings in brackets, generally for clarity.

Versteeg himself added notes where a word or phrase was obscure or merited clarification, sometimes inserting the actual Dutch wording from the original, sometimes pointing out an error or adding an observation, as when (for example) a signature was missing or a document was entered in the record but clearly not executed. Where I have added notes or substituted alternates, I have used [square brackets] and occasionally (parentheses) for my words. When a note comes from Versteeg, I have put it in [[double square brackets]] or [(square brackets around parentheses)], depending on whether he used one or the other for his note. When I paraphrase an entry, I put phrasing excerpted from Versteeg’s translation in “quotation marks.”

For the most part, I have not gone back to the Dutch originals to second-guess what Versteeg wrote. For any serious questions, it would be worth a look to verify.

It is hoped that the documentary history that follows will let the light of day shine on the trove that is Versteeg’s work, and the work of de la Montagne before him, and of uncountable hands that have preserved the paper originals and passed them along as years and decades have stacked up into centuries.

Work proceeds.

Kingston Papers, Vol. III

Versteeg translation of Book B of Secretary’s Papers starts on II:137 (Versteeg MS Vol. II, p. 137), right after end of his translation of Book A. Book B starts on 5 Jan (N.S.) of 1666.

Versteeg translates Book B through 23 July 1667 (II:233-235), notes from auction of Barent Holst estate, including house and lot in Wildwyck. All of this material has already been published, in Kingston Papers.

Then on II:236 Versteeg starts with a note: “The second portion of Liber B seems to consist of various loose leaves, collected and bound together.”

What comes next begins with material that according to Lockhart matches entries already in Kingston Papers, pp. 745-748. The order is somewhat different in Kingston Papers, which arranges the entries chronologically.

New material (not in Kingston Papers) starts at the top of II:241, with entries from March 1675/6, but the earliest entry not included in Kingston Papers is actually from April 1675 (II:386-387).

Notes and cross-references in entries below are intended to be helpful, but not exhaustive. For the most part, notes below do not include cross-references to Kingston Papers. Researchers should remember that the majority of the parties involved in the transactions below were in the Kingston area before the entries below commence, and a large number of the transactions relate to earlier activity in the region. Later English-language records, not published but available at the Ulster County Archives, also shed light on the individuals and events described below.

For a more complete picture of economic or social patterns and individual histories, it is important to include the whole set of records from the area (including some in Manhattan and from the Albany settlements, as well as a few from New Sweden and New England), and not just the eight-year subset that follows below, which is only a limited window into a narrow slice of time in the longer arc of local history.

II:386-387
1675 April 29, probably in Marbletown (not included in Kingston Papers)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 14
[a copy] Jan Hendrie Freman sells to Asser Levy 352 sch of wheat, “on account of the purchase of land,” which [wheat] Asser Levy will receive from Harmon Hekam, “savage [[wildt]],” by virtue of bill of sale; Jan Hendrie is released from 1700 guilder debt Hendrie owed to Levy. For the wheat Levy gets from Hekam, Levy will pay Hendrie 412 guilders [the balance above and beyond what’s owed on the debt, 6 guilders per schepel]. Hendrie pays freight to New York, and Levy has mortgage on Hekam’s land until he gets the wheat. Jacob Lusena signs; Levy does not [probably Lucena represents him]. Jan Hendrie Freeman signs with a mark [I].
[Unclear why in original Dutch record this is filed between 15 and 18 November 1676.]
[John Henry’s original debt to Asser Levy is recorded in Kingston Papers, p. 738, 20 April 1673, 1691 guilders, in relation to a house (likely tavern) Henry and William Fisher bought from George Hall in Kingston (KP 736, also 728-729). Hekam apparently owes money to John Henry, and Henry transfers that obligation so that Hekam will pay Levy directly.]
[See II:253-254 1679 March 3, when Hekam contracts to sell land, house, barn at Marbletown to Harmon Hendrix Roosenkranz, with reference to this complicated set of debt transfers.]
[Hekam shows up with moderate frequency in this record, as a member of the Esopus community, possibly son of a sunksqua. His mother signs some contracts of property sales from Esopus to Dutch owners, usually described as “Harmon Hekam’s mother.” Sometimes Hekam himself signs. Hekam also participates in the European immigrant community, borrowing money, buying property, apparently farming. Hekam bought property in Marbletown in 1674 (KP 741-742), and his debt to Henry may be tied to those purchases.]

II:471
1675 December 13, Kingston (ordinary council session, already published in Kingston Papers, p. 536)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 175
Ordinary session held at Kingston, December 13th 1675
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Jan Hendrix [Constable]
Cornelis Wynkoop
Eduward Wittaker
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]

II:471
1675 December 13, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 175
Jan Pietersen [Hollander] vs. Dirck Hendrix
Pieterson wants from Hendrix 10 sch of wheat for “pain money, doctor’s bill and loss of time, because [Hendrix] has wounded him.”
Hendrix says Pietersen started it by hitting Hendrix’s wife [Griedt Gooyars] on the nose, so that her nose and mouth were bleeding, and then challenged Hendrix. Offers to prove it.
Wybreg [?] Jurriansen, under oath, and also Joosje [Goosje?] Trophaegen, say that Griedt Gooyars assaulted Jan Pietersen; he hit her so that her nose bled, then said “You’re a woman, let your husband try,” and she said “Ho there, give me a knife.” At which point her husband Dirck Hendrix came with a sword to Quick’s house [tavern?]. Pietersen said to him “use the same arms I have.” Then they went to a tree and started fighting, until old Machiel [the bouncer?] separated them. Jan maybe said to Griedt she should leave him alone: “You whore, I have nothing to do with you.”
[This is already in Kingston Papers, and see https://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/genealogy/dewitt/tjerck/#domestic_violence .]
[See II:488-489 1676/7 February 20, when Dirck Hendrix wants money from Thomas Quick, because he injured Hendrix’s wife Grietje, who again sounds as if she actively provoked the attack. Joosje Trophaegen is again a witness in the second case.]
[It is possible that “Wybreg” Jurriansen above is Rymerick Juriansen (Westvaal), the wife of Thomas Quick. Jurriaen Teunissen Westphael had several children who lived in the area; Johannes, Claes, and Symon appear in this set of records. See Find-A-Grave link at II:488-489 1676/7 February 20, as well as more references on this page.]
[For more on Joosje Trophaegen see KP 702-703 1671 August 26, detailed statement by Wilmen Traphagen, 55 years old, about his parents and family in Europe (he is from Lemgo, in the diocese of Minden, under the Count of Lippe, in what today is Westphalia in Germany), and his wives (Joosje Willemsen Noortryck is the third) and children in North America; he wants his children, after his death, to look into income from his family’s “fiefs” in Minden.]

1676 . . . Apr-May-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1677 . . . Apr-May-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1678 . . . Apr-M-ay-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1679 . . . Apr-May-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1680 . . . Apr-May-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1681 . . . Apr-May-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1682 . . . Apr-May-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1683 . . . Apr-May-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1684 . . . Apr-May-Jun . . . Jul-Aug-Sep . . . Oct-Nov-Dec

1688 . . . Undated Entries . . . Prefatory Material . . . Bibliography

1676

Jan-Feb-Mar

II:472
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 173
Ordinary [town council] session, held at Kingston, January 11, 1675
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Jan Hendrix [Constable]
Cornelis Wynkoop
E[dward] Wittaker
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]

II:472
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 173
Mr. Gorge Hall vs. Cornelis Vernooy, for 146 guilders

Mr. Hall vs. Abraham Du Tooy [?], for 111 guilders

II:472
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 173
Aerdt Otterspoor [pound master] vs. Cornelis Wynkoop
For impounding loose cattle, Aert wants a fine of 18 sch of wheat from Cornelis, who “says that [Aert] took the cattle from an enclosed piece of land, so that he had no right to impound them. [Cornelis] had Capt. Chambers’s permission for the cattle to pasture there.” Otterspoor still wants 14 sch of wheat. Court orders them to select two good men to arbitrate [Aert Martensen Doorn and Jacobus Elmendorp].
[The pound master’s job is to go after loose livestock and secure them in the pound before they can cause damage to crops or property. For this, he is entitled to a fee of 6 guilders per animal, which works out to a schepel of wheat.]
[Not all the animals discussed at this council session probably escaped their paddocks in the most recent week. Aert Otterspoor asked and was given permission to retire as pound master more than a year ago, on 21 May 1674; see Kingston Papers p. 516. Probably at this session he is resolving the final open items in his account book, debts that have accumulated over the previous years.]
[See II: 464 1679 April 30, Jan Willemsen as constable requesting that a new pound-master be appointed.]

II:472-473
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 173
[Aerdt] Otterspoor [pound master] vs. Jan Borhans
Aert wants 11 sch of wheat. Jan says only 8 animals were impounded. Council tells him to pay 8 sch and “to demand indemnification of those on account of whose [broken or open] fence it had to be done.”

II:473
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 172
Aerdt Otterspoor [pound master] vs. Hendrick Jochemsen
Aert wants pound-money for 18 animals, 6 guilders each.
Hendrick says Aert impounded only 8 animals.
Court tells Hendrick to pay 8 sch. of wheat [6 guilders per schepel].

II:473
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 172
[Aerdt Otterspoor] pound master vs. Jan Willemsen [Hooghteyling]
Aert wants pound-money for animals.
Willemsen says Aert took the animals from Jan’s enclosed pasture and demands damages for one animal, which was hooked to death. Court refuses Aert’s demand and says Aert and Jan will have to settle on an amount for damages.

II:473
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 172
Baltus Bayard vs. Jacob Elberts for 37 guilders

II:473
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 172
[Isaac] Grevenraedt vs. Aert Martensen [Doorn]
Grevenraedt seeks 74 guilders for Minville, 13 guilders for himself [amounts not clear; 150 guilders also mentioned].
Martensen admits debt; court tells him to pay.
[Minville here will be Gabriel Minvielle; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Minvielle . This set of records includes many transactions with several prominent merchants and financiers who are based in Manhattan. Frequently, for convenience, the Manhattan businessmen will represent each other’s interests when one of them travels to Kingston to settle open accounts. Sometimes they will designate official “attorneys” (not lawyers per se but simply representatives), and some agents who live locally specialize in representing the Manhattan merchants before the council.]

II:473
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 172
Thoomas Harmonsen vs. [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes
Harmonsen seeks 22 sch of maize.
Schepmoes says “they” had agreed [that Schepmoes would] plow for that much, and Harmonsen never spoke to him about it [apparently after paying for the job].
Court says Schepmoes should pay the money back unless Harmonsen is willing to let him plow now, to earn it.

II:473
1675 (1675/6?) January 11, Kingston (continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 172
Court orders Sueryn Ten Hout to pay Jan Tysen [Mattysen] 14 sch of wheat.

II:474
1675/6 January 22, Kingston (renewing the peace with Esopus neighbors)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 171
This January 22, 1675/6, Kingston
Present:
Capt. Thoomas Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Sheriff [George] Hall
Constable Jan Hendrix
Eduward Wittaker
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]

II:474
1675/6 January 22, Kingston (renewing the peace with Esopus neighbors, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 171
Proposition to the Esopus Savages:
1. That conform[ing] to an order of the Heer governor we have sent for the sachems, for the purpose of renewing the peace made with the Heer governor Nichols, and now ratified by the Heer governor Emond Andros, that we thought they were ready to come of their own accord as per the agreement.

Sachems of the Esopus:
Sewakunamie
Senerakan
Panurewack

Reply through the sworn interpreter Gorge Davits that they could not come earlier, but they feel sorry that they did not come before.

2. They are asked whether they intend to observe the same, because the treaty has been ratified by our Heer governor?

Answer that they intend to observe the same, and it is in their heart like honey.

3. Why they did not take some of their young men along, for the purpose of their becoming acquainted with it and to keep it in memory so that every [[treaty]] entered into between us shall never be broken.

Answer, when they return home they will make their young men acquainted with the same.

4. In case any strange savages should arrive among them to inform us about it.

Answer that they are quite willing to do so.

[The treaty renewal is an annual custom, but this year’s in particular is of interest given the recent situation further east with King Philip’s War, which has had even the former Dutch villages on edge.]
[See II:483-484 1676/7 February 3 for the next year’s treaty renewal and a partial list of additional renewals over the years.]

II:474-475
1675/6 February 14, Kingston (ordinary council session?)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 170
This Feb. 14, 1675/6
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. Gorge Hall [Sheriff]
Jan Hendrix [Constable]
E[dward] Wittaker
[Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes
Wessel Ten Broecq

Capt. Chambers proposes why the village curtains [the stockade walls] are not in an efficient condition, according to orders.
The hon. court orders that the curtains shall be made efficient within eight days, under penalty in accordance with the previous orders. It is also ordered that the “Stenwelle” around the village shall be cut.
Capt. Chambers proposes in case any Northern Savages should arrive here whether we should permit them? Whereupon the hon. court answers if any Northern Savages should come here we would keep them outside until further orders from the Heer governor, but in case they should nevertheless approach that the savages shall be inimically attacked. The hon. court have examined Jan Van Nes and Willem Gysbertsen who say that the Northern Savages are scattering above the “Ruweroock” on the Kinderhoeck [(bowen de Ruwer oock aen de Kinder Hoeck)].
[The general setup seems to be that each villager is responsible for maintaining the section of palisade wall closest to his lot. A few lots in the village are interior lots, but most lots face a section of palisade wall, across an empty strip that becomes a street. See KP 461-462 for a list of who was supposed to maintain which section of wall, as of 15 May 1671.]
[Unclear what Stenwelle is, but Stengel is the Dutch word for the stalk or stem of a plant; maybe this refers to the dry grass or underbrush near the palisade. Goal is to keep the area around the stockade clear and not susceptible to attack by fire.]

II:475
1675/6 February 22, Kingston (special council session, apparently at Kingston)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 169
This Feb. 22, 1675/6
[No customary header listing who is present at meeting.]
The authorities, civil as well as military, of the three villages met together, having learned that the Maquas have captured a Northern Savage who has confessed that the Northern savages intend to massacre all the country people.
Capt. Chambers asks in what manner should we be able to defend ourselves? Whether those of Horly and Marbleton should come here? The courts of Horly and Marbleton are resolved to keep good watch, and to defend themselves.
The Justice and the Sheriff order all those living outside the village to thresh their grain, and each to come within their respective villages as soon as possible, and also that nobody shall go outside the villages without being properly armed.
It was also resolved to station men at the Ronduyt, who will have to act according to the following instructions:
1o. They shall not admit any savages on the Ronduyt.
[[2o. is left out in the orig.]]
3o. Closely observe the number of savages resorting there. If there are more than usual, whether navigating the Kill or thereabouts to inform us, and in case of danger to fire three shots.
4o. Immediately inform us about any news from either up or down the river.
[Maquas is the term the Dutch use for the tribe or nation called Mohawk in most English references, one of the five nations of the Iroquois confederacy. Mohawk or Maquas territory is generally north of the Dutch settlements, stretching up into what today is Canada. It’s not quite clear who the Northern Savages are, but again this is probably a reference to King Philip’s War in New England at this time, more east of the Dutch settlements than north, but further north along the Atlantic coast.]

II:475
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 168
Ordinary session held at Kingston, February 23, 1675/6
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Jan Hendrix [Constable]
Wessel Ten Broeck
Cornelis Wynkoop
E[dward] Wittaker
Dirck Jansen Schepmoes

The hon. court decrees that all thatched roofs near the curtains [stockade walls] shall be covered with wood work—and that Jacob the Noorman shall clean [(suyveren)] his place [probably an encampment next to the wall], and build his house in the street, which street is granted him as his property. Also that Michiel DeModt shall remove his stack.
[Jacob the Noorman requested and was granted a lot “back of Jan Janse’s” on 21 May 1674 (KP 516). Probably this is the lot he is being told to vacate now.]
[See II:382 1675/6 March 9, when Michiel Modt mortgages the grain in his stack to Henry Pawling, who then uses it to pay down a debt Pawling owes to Asser Levy. This may have been arranged as a way to dispose of the contents of the stack quickly.]
[A “stack,” referred to in more recent years as a hay barrack, is an open structure with a vertical pole at each corner; it has a roof that can be moved higher or lower on the poles depending on how much hay is being stored. For illustration see https://www.hooidelta.nl/nl/nederlands-hooibergmuseum/the-hay-network/29/barrack-history . If de Mott’s hay barrack was too close to the town walls, it might have been considered vulnerable to attackers trying to lob burning objects over the palisades to try to set the village on fire. The Dutch term that Versteeg translates as “stack” is bergh, or mountain.]

II:475
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 168
Mr. Hall vs. Thoomas Harmonsen
[Hall] says that [Harmonsen] has smuggled the wine. Proves by Jan Volckersen that [Harmonsen] has sold wine which has not been declared.
The hon. court decides that Thoomas Harmonsen shall pay a fine of 50 gldrs, besides the wine [[boven de wyn]].

II:476
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 168
Mr. Hall vs. Cornelis Hoogeboom, for 69 1/2 sch. of wheat
[See II:409 1677 December 16, Hall gives Hoogeboom deed to house and lot in village. See possibly related entry below, same session, Hoogeboom demands 57 sch. wheat from Jacob Rutgersen “for purchase of a house.”]

II:476
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 168
Mr. Hall vs. [Isaac] Grevenraedt, for 134 guilders for merchandise sold at auction
[See next session, II:477 March 10, with reference to Jeroonimus Ebbing (husband of Johanna De Laet) and people who still owe him money from an auction, or vendue.]

II:476
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 167
Balthasar Bayard vs. Mr. Gorge Hall
[Bayard] demands 695 gldrs on account of auction.
[Hall] admits the debt.
The hon. court orders [Hall] to pay the demanded amount, with [court] costs.
[See next session, II:477 March 10, with reference to Jeroonimus Ebbing (husband of Johanna De Laet) and people who still owe him money from an auction, or vendue. Possibly Hall conducted the auction, in his official role as sheriff, and Bayard is seeking the total proceeds. Bayard and Ebbingh are both Manhattan financiers, but nothing in this record says that Bayard is seeking the payment on Ebbing’s behalf.]

II:476
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 167
The Heer [Isaac] Grevenraedt vs. Mattue Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan]
[Grevenraedt] says that [Blanchan] must pay as per compromise.
[Blanchan] admits the debt, but says that yet 102 gldrs are coming to him as per the judgment of the court, whereof he never received anything.
The hon. court orders Mattue Blansjan to pay—with expenses.

II:476
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 167
Nicolaes Anthony, as attorney for Mr. Winders, vs. Pieter Jansen
[Anthony] demands payment of £35; still [in addition] £2-0-2.
[Jansen] says having paid on the same 23 sch. of peas, and 2 sch. of peas, further 10 beavers and 24 sch. of wheat.
[Anthony] requests that he shall prove the same.
The hon. court orders [Jansen] to pay with costs.
[Standard court costs involve a fee for bringing the case before the council, a fee for the court messenger to carry a summons to the defendant (like a modern process server), and probably some fees to the court secretary for writing up the complaint and making copies for the defendant and other parties. Typical practice at the time was for the party that did not prevail in a case to pay the court costs. At the court’s discretion, court expenses could be allocated in some other way when it seemed more appropriate.]

II:476-477
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 167
Cornelis Hoogeboom vs. Jacob Rutgersen
[Hoogeboom] demands 57 sch of wheat for purchase of a house.
[Rutgersen] admits the debt. The hon. court orders deft. to pay.
[See II:611-612 1681/2 February 6; Rutgersen and Hoogeboom still doing business together.]
[See earlier entry above, same session, George Hall seeking 69 1/2 sch. wheat from Hoogeboom, possibly related to purchasing house and lot in village.]

II:477
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 167
Aerdt Otterspoor [pound master] vs. Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
[Otterspoor] demands pound money for 25 heads of cattle, 6 gldrs per head. [Claesen] says he will not pay because the fence is in litigation [(in questie)].
The hon. court orders [Claesen] to pay 25 sch. of wheat.
[Tjerck Claesen DeWitt and the family of Aert Jacobsen next door (south of the village of Kingston, on the northern edge of Wassemaker’s Land) are embroiled in a running dispute over who has to build what fences and gates and who’s allowed to use which stretch of their shared road to get horses or cattle to the Esopus Creek crossing (sometimes a bridge, sometimes a fording place) so they can get to woodland pasture on the west side of the creek. DeWitt’s point here is probably that if he’s not the one who left the gate open, he’s not the one who should have to pay the pound master. The council is familiar with the situation and all the players, and their decision reflects a judgment on what arguments they’re interested in listening to. See II:462-463 1679 April 30, KP p. 530 15 March 1675, KP pp. 516-517 31 May 1674, KP pp. 498-499 24 June 1673, KP p. 513 24 April 1674, and other related entries.]

II:477
1675/6 February 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 167
Joost Adriaensen vs. Albert Jansen [Van Steenwyck]
[Joost] demands 53 sch. of wheat and 4 gldrs, still [in addition] for Ebbing 52 sch.
[Albert] admits the debt.
The hon. court orders [Albert] to pay—with costs.
[See next session, II:477 March 10, with reference to Jeroonimus Ebbing (husband of Johanna De Laet) and people who still owe him money from an auction, or vendue. Unclear here why Adriaensen is collecting on his behalf.]
[This goes to judicial enforcement II:487 1676/7 February 13.]

II:382
1675/6 March 9, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 5
Henry Pawling provides a conveyance (deed) to Jan Coly for a house and lot in village, same extent and limits as fence around house shows. Jan Coely [signs his name John Coolley] has paid for it “from the first to the last penny.”
[(signed)] Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes [witness]
[(signed)] Henry Pawling
Mr. Koely declares to release Mr. Paeldin, from having received the said house [(t selve huys ontfangen te hebben)], so that the above amount will be deducted on Mr. Paeldin’s account [(sal korten op Mr. P’s Reeck)].
[(signed)] John Coolley.
[See 11:422-423 1678 April 18, deed from Coly to Jan Louwersen for house and lot that Pawling originally bought from Schepmoes.]
[Contract of sale from Pawling to Coly has not been located.]

II:382
1675/6 March 9
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 6
Michiel Modt mortgages to Hendrie Paeldin [Henry Pawling] the grain standing and laying in his stack [hay barrack], not to be sold until Modt has paid Pawling for a parcel of land. Pawling assigns the wheat to Mr. [Asser] Levy [Manhattan merchant], to credit against what Pawling owes Levy.
[See II:268-269 1679/80 January 31, when Mott provides deed for a parcel of land at Hurley to Jan Joosten, on Wassemaker’s Land, saying that Mott bought it from Henry Pawling, with the conveyance recorded in minutes of January 3, 1676, which have not been found. Contract of sale from Mott to Joosten is at II:406 1677 December 17.]
[See II:475 1675/6 February 23, when council instructs Mott to remove his stack. Interesting situation for Mott to then mortgage its contents to Pawling as security for a debt.]

II:383
1675/6 March 10, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 7
Jeronimus Ebbinck [Ebbingh] appears “before us the undersigned Overseers [council members] at Kingston” to provide conveyance (deed) to Cornelis Vernooy, on behalf of Johanna De Laet, for Lots 4 and 5, named “the Vrylandt,” owned by De Laet by deed and renewal of deed by Richard Nicolls 5 December 1666, satisfied “from the first to the last penny.”
[(signed)] Jeronimus Ebbinck
[no other signatures]
[Jeronimus Ebbing, Manhattan merchant, married well. His wife, Johanna De Laet, was daughter of Johannes De Laet, one of the original directors of the Dutch West India Company, and in the early days of settlement around what became Kingston, she had acquired a large amount of land on the west side of the Esopus Creek, confirmed in Dutch and later English patents from various governors, including Nicolls, as mentioned above. Her first husband, Johannes de Hulter, died shortly after they came to the colony in 1653. She subdivided her Esopus holdings over the next several years into smaller fields and sold them off separately. In the English era, under the influence of the English practice of couverture, the new husband is the one more frequently named in official documents. But the land he trades was acquired before he became part of her financial story.]

II:383
[not finished, date not included]
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 8 (top)
[Previous entry, on obverse side (recto) of same leaf, is from 1675/6 March 10; next entry, immediately below this one on the same page, is 1676 October 10, Marbletown. Ink on this entry, and handwriting, is a close match for previous entry. Next entry uses different ink, handwriting is smaller, though probably the same person writing (William de la Montagne). Unclear why this deed was abandoned mid-sentence. No alternate version has been located, though probably one existed and was used the next time the property was sold.]
[Also not clear why Montagne would have left off using this register for his secretarial record ca. March, used a different register to enter his secretarial records for the next several months, and then resumed making entries in this register in October. Not everything in Montagne’s recordkeeping was orderly and systematic, though we are grateful for the records he kept.]
[Note too that the current bound volumes include no secretarial papers from March to July of 1676: A volume, or several pages, may be missing.
[See also textual notes at II:241 1675/6 March 10 below.]

[Partial deed] Henry Pawling provides a conveyance (deed) to Joost Adriaensen [Ariaens, Vermeulen] for part of the Wassemaker’s Land, from the Little Mud Kill straight across to the jurisdiction of Kingston, which Pawling owns by virtue of a deed renewed by Governor-General Frances Lovelace 30 March 1670—
[[Here the deed abruptly breaks off.]]
[Date may be surmised if original contract of sale can be found, but it does not appear to be in these papers or Kingston Papers.]
[See II:435-436 1678 August 4 for possibly related contract.]
[See II:618-619 1682 September 21 when Joost sells to Dirck Jansen Schepmoes the land Joost bought on Wassemaker’s Land from Henry Pawling. Does not specify date of conveyance.]

II:241
1675/6 March 10, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 255. This page has a large water stain on it, though most of the handwriting can still be read.
[Liber B goes up to p. 235, which is Nov 22, 1675, then the reverse, 236, is blank, and then come 18 pages (a signature and a leaf) that are not scanned. Scanning picks up again at Liber B 255.]
[Liber B 255-276 seem to be a mostly sequential series of records that probably were in the same register with the 1676 records in Liber E, with which they dovetail. They are in the same handwriting; some, notably the deeds from Jeronimus Ebbinck, appear to have been written on the same day or days, in the same sitting. The pages in this part of Liber B are physically much more ragged and deteriorated, as if they were kept elsewhere for some time, separate from the better preserved pages we find in Liber E.]
[From Liber B 277 to 292 the pages have not been scanned. Liber B 293 is from January 1 1677, but from 294 it jumps to 1679-1680, so the 1677 entry may be a loose leaf or may be something that was copied in later. (It may be from records of the Justice of the Peace rather than Secretary’s Papers or Council Minutes.) It is possible that the Liber B pages that follow were originally part of a register that included the pages from Liber E from the same period.]
[Council minutes probably were kept in a separate register (or “protocol”). It is also possible that the Justice of the Peace or Sheriff kept their own, separate records, for various reasons, of business that pertained specifically to them. (The Sheriff, for example, had to keep track of what fines were owed him, and by whom.)]
[See also textual notes at II:383 unfinished item immediately above (1675/6 March 10).]

Jeroonimus Ebbinck/Johanna De Laet provides conveyance (deed) to Henderick Van Weyen for 3 properties: a parcel called The Plantation, a corner lot in Kingston village, and Lot 2 across the Great Bridge, patented (or confirmed) to De Laet by Governor Nicolls.
Be it known that before us overseers of the hon. court at Kingston has appeared Jeronimus Ebbingh, lawful husband and guardian of Johanna De Laedt, who acknowledges to convey, grant, and cede to Henderick Van Weyen [[obliterated]] [three?] lots of land, the one named [[obliterated]] [probably “the Plantation”; see note below], [the second] being a corner lot [likely in the village], still [in addition] the lot No. 2 [[obliterated]] across the large bridge, bounded according to the land marks, by virtue of the deed and renewal of the same by the Heer Governor General Nickols, dated December 5, 1666, for which parcels of land the grantor acknowledges having received full payment from the first to the last penny, renouncing his right and title to the same, so that the aforesaid Henderick Van Wisen [sic] shall possess and administer the same as he pleases, guaranteeing him against all ulterior claims so that nobody in the world [(niemandt ter wereldt)] can assert any right in the same. For the purpose of certifying to the present I have subscribed to the same in the presence of the hon. court this March 10, 1675/6 at Kingston.
[[no other signatures]] [(signed)] Jeronimus Ebbinck
[See III:46-47 and then 45-46 1683 April 20, when Hendrick Van Weyen gives Cornelis Barentsen Slecht and Cornelis Hoogeboom, then Pieter Cornelissen Louw, a deed for Lot No. 2 across the Great Bridge. On the same day, III:46, he gives a deed to Slecht for a house and “corner lot with the cellar” in Kingston village, next to the home of Roelof Kierstede, and with it a “parcel of land named ‘de plantagie’” or “the plantation.” The deeds to all three lots say that Hendrick bought them from Ebbinck, and that his deed was dated March 10, 1675.]
[De Laet’s original patent would have been issued under Dutch administration, hence Nicolls’s “renewal” of the patent in 1666. Ownership references in this period tend not to mention patents or deeds awarded before English administration. Nicolls in 1666, and Lovelace after him, made an effort to update and reconfirm all pre-existing land records, so a “renewed” patent was considered authoritative even if it was not the oldest document showing title. To illustrate the challenges of proving title via older documents, see KP 594-595, Aert Martensen Doorn providing a deed to Henderick Jochemsen for a “plot of land named the ‘Weylant’ (meadow) . . . granted [by a deed] first to Christoffel Davids by the late Dir. Gen. Petrus Stuyvesant dated Sept. 25, 1656, and [by Davids to] Jacob Jansen Stol, deceased,” who sold to Evert Pels, who sold to Jochemsen, “whereof, respectively, bills of sale and conveyances have been drawn up. And whereas said bills of sale and conveyances have been lost through the fire in 1663,” Doorn, who was not involved in any of this but subsequently married the widow of Stol, “again conveys to the aforesaid Henderick Jochemsen the said plot of land.”]

II:477
1675/6 March 10, Kingston (Friday council session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 166
This March 10, 1675/6. Friday.
Present:
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Jan Hendrix [Constable]
Cornelis Wynkoop
Eduward Wittaker
Wessel Ten Broeck
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]

II:477
1675/6 March 10, Kingston (Friday council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 166
Mr. Jeroonimus Ebbing requests that the below named persons who are indebted to him on account of his vendue [auction], shall be judicially enforced, viz:
Eduward Wittaker for 134 2/3 sch. of wheat
Thoomas Mattys " 123 1/2
Hendrick Jochemsen " 92 1/3
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] " 42
The hon. court with the consent of Mr. Ebbingh decides that Mr. Ebbing shall wait till next fall when the grain shall again be in the barns or stacks. And in case the people are unwilling to pay, that the court shall expressly hire threshers until the debt shall have been paid, which the hon. court absolutely agrees to do.
[Judicial enforcement, or execution, usually involves selling property belonging to the debtor until the amount owed has been collected.]
[See II:407 1677 December 19, Ebbinck provides Hendrick Jochemsen a deed to several parcels of land, possibly related to debt described above.]

II:477
1675/6 March 10, Kingston (Friday council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 166
The hon. court having observed that many irregularities are committed here, by old as well as by young people, [[consisting]] in racing along the streets with sleighs, wagons and horses, decrees that nobody shall drive there faster than a trot. It also prohibits the unseemly singing and bawling, and the drunken wandering along the street [(en droncken by de straedt te swerven)] under penalty of twelve gldrs fine for every time.

II:241
1675/6 March 13
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 256. This page is affected by the large water stain on the front (p. 255), though the ink on this side appears unaffected.
Johanna De Laet/Jeronimus Ebbingh conveyance (deed) to William Nottingham for Lot 11 across Great Bridge, as deeded by Nicolls 12/5/1666.
Appeared before us, the undersigned, the court at Kingston, Mr. Jeronimus Ebbinck, lawful husband and guardian of Miss [sic] Johanna DeLaedt, who acknowledges to convey, as by the present he is ceding and conveying, to and in behalf of Mr. William Nottingham [a] certain parcel of land situated across the great bridge, being the lot No. 11, as large as its limits indicate, [which she owns] by virtue of the deed and renewal of the same by the Heer Governor Richard Nickols, dated December 5, 1666, for which parcel of land the grantor admits having received payment from the first to the last penny, guaranteeing said Nottingham against all ulterior claims, so that [Nottingham] shall possess and administer the said land as it pleases himself, in real and actual possession and ownership, renouncing [Ebbingh’s] right and title.
In testimony of the truth, [[I]] have subscribed to the present, besides the Honorable Court, this March 13, 1676/5 [sic].
[[no other signatures]] [(signed)] Jeronimus Ebbinck
[Unclear what becomes of this land. See II:567-569 1680/1 March 19, description of properties when Anna Nottingham marries Thomas Garton. William Nottingham also sells and leases some other properties over time. None of the other properties in any of these documents are good matches for this one.]
[Versteeg frequently notes when a document says it is being executed in front of witnesses—often members of the town council or other officials—but no witness signatures appear at the bottom. Note that almost none of the documents he translates are originals. The original deeds etc. would have gone to the buyer of a property or the one loaning money or whoever needed the transaction documented. The book of records Versteeg is translating are the official records of the transactions, which is to say the duplicate copies kept as part of the village record, typically written out by Montagne, word for word identical to the original, at the same time as the original was executed.]

II:242
1675/6 March 16
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 257. This page is affected by the water stain on the preceding leaf (pp. 255-256), though the ink on this leaf is only lightly affected.
[Not executed] Jan Willemsen owes Jeronimus Ebbingh 211 schepels of wheat at 10% interest.
Appeared before me W. Montagne, Secretary for the hon. court at Kingston, Jan Willemsen, who admits to honestly and actually owe Mr. Jeroonimus Ebbinck, merchant at N. York, at the final settlement of accounts up to date, a quantity of two hundred and eleven sch. of winter wheat with the interest on the same at ten percent, to be delivered free at the water edge. Which quantity with the interest the appearer promises to pay next fall in the month of October, without any exceptions, to the said Mr. Ebbinck or his order. Promising to comply with what has been mentioned before, and [[pay]] precisely at the time mentioned, mortgaging his person and estate, personal and real, present and future, submitting them to the jurisdiction of all courts and judges. In testimony whereof I have signed the present with my own hand this March 16, 1676/5 [sic] at Kingston.
This quantity of two hundred and eleven sch. of wheat is coming to Mr. Ebbinck, at a final accounting up to date, as balance of accounts.
[Not executed; see next entry, same date.]

II:242
1675/6 March 16
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 258. This page is affected by the water stain on the preceding leaf (pp. 255-256), though the ink on this leaf is only lightly affected.
[Executed] Jan Willemsen owes Jeronimus Ebbingh 211 sch of wheat at 10% interest, to be delivered on the Strand, next October without fail. Note attached dated 3 March 1681/2 by Joost Adriaensen, attorney for Ebbingh, says payment has been received, except the interest.
Appeared before me, W. Montagne, secretary for the hon. court at Kingston, Jan Willemsen, who acknowledges to honestly and actually owe Mr. Jeroonimus Ebbing, as per a final accounting up to this date, the quantity of two hundred and eleven sch. of pure winter wheat with the interest of ten percent, all to be delivered free on the strand. Which quantity together with the interest the appearer Jan Willemsen promises to promptly pay next October without fail. In testimony whereof the appearer pledges his person and estates present and future, and has subscribed the present with his own hand this March 16th 1676/5.
[(signed)] Henricus Beekman, Johannis Kip
[(signed)] Jan Willimsen

I the undersigned Joost Adriansen, attorney for Mr. Jeroonimus Ebbink, acknowledge by the present having received this above named principal. In testimony of the truth I have subscribed to the present this March 3rd, 1681/2 at Kingston.
Viz. except the interest of as many months as shall have elapsed when the payment has been made, viz. the payment has been made in the year 1676, viz. the principal except the interest. Then the payment has been made in January in the same year [(alsoo in Januwary heeft voldaan int selve jaar)].
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens
To which testifies
[(signed)] Wm. Montagne, Secretary

[See II:407-408 1677 December 20, Joost Adryaensen as attorney for Jeronimus Ebbing provides deed to Jan Willemsen Hooghteyling for several parcels of land across the Great Bridge.]

II:478
1675/6 March 20, Kingston (a special council session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 165 (top)
[If the 10th was a Friday, the 20th would be a Monday; ordinary sessions are held on Tuesdays.]
This March 20, 1675/6
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall, Sherif
Ankerop, an Esopus Savage, complains that Christopher Davits had taken the drag-net [(segen)] [or seine] which he had left on the land, and sold the same to Evert Pels and Fredrick Hossy. Requests restitution of his drag-net.
Christoffel [Kit] Davits says that the savage had caused the drag-net to be spoiled by the water, and that the drag-net was no good anymore. [So why would someone else have paid for it?]
The justice and sheriff order Christoffel Davits to return the drag-net, and the purchasers are prohibited from keeping the drag-net, because Christoffel Davits has sold that which did not belong to him.
[Ankerop is a local sachem, a village or clan leader for the Kittaspray family; see II:493 1677 April 27. He and his social group probably live on the Ronduyt (Rondout) somewhat south of Kingston; see II:283 1680 June 17, where Jacob Rutgersen mentions Ankerop planting corn on a small piece of land Rutgers is leasing.]
[Note that no interpreter is mentioned. Dutch, French, English and other Europeans had been living in Kingston and the vicinity by now for two decades, and just as the Huguenots learned to speak, read, and write Dutch and English as they joined the community, there is every reason to estimate that a range of language proficiencies existed among the local Esopus, and some of them were fluent in the languages of the European neighbors with whom they had been living, working, trading, drinking, and fighting for many years. Kit Davits in particular was well known in the European village for his frequent interactions with the Esopus; his son George is sometimes enlisted as an official interpreter on formal occasions. Others in the European immigrant village had also apparently learned to communicate well with the people living nearby, as seen in various property deals and other trade.]

 

II:381
1675/6 March 29
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 3. This page is quite faded. It is the front page from Liber E.
On behalf of Thomas Harmensen, Hendrick Van Wye will pay Jan Poppen 82.5 sch of wheat, next winter [1676/7], before mid-February, half in winter wheat [at 6 guilders per schepel], half in white peas [at 4 guilders per schepel]. To guarantee that Van Wye will pay this, Van Wye mortgages his barn and half-lot. Note in margin says mostly paid; balance will be paid by Hendrick carting loads to the river.
[See II:398 1677 March 24, note that mortgage owed by Harmonsen was paid to Jan Poppen.]
[See II:414 1678 March 25, Harmons provides conveyance (deed) to Van Wyen.]
[This is the first entry in Book E of the Secretary’s Papers, as rebound sometime between 1700 and the late 1800s.]
[Hendrick Van Wye in these records is about half the time Van Wye or Wyen (or Wy), about half the time Van Wey or Weyen.]

 

Apr-May-Jun

II:444
1676 April 26, Kingston (Court of Sessions)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 215
[From p. 133 in the center of this volume, the reader jumps to the “first” page at the very far end of the volume, p. 215, where the volume begins anew, upside-down, and continues through p. 214, p. 213, and so on until it reaches its conclusion at p. 134, which is on the reverse face of the leaf that holds p. 133. The dates here are quite scrambled. Page 132 is II:443 1678/9 February 8. Page 133 is II:444 1678/9 March 5. Page 215 is II:444 1676 April 26, and the volume continues, in an erratic sequence, to p. 134, which is dated 1677 December 18. When these volumes were rebound, someone probably guessed wrong as they tried to sort out which set of pages should go where.]

[II:444 is not in the photostat scan of the Versteeg MS; II:443 appears twice. Following entry is taken from Ulster County Archives online database.]
Session Court held at Kingston in the Esopus, April 26, 1676, under the authority of his Royal Highness James Duke of York and by order of the Heer governor Edmund Andros in the 27th year of his majesty Charles the Second, King of Great Britain’s reign.
Present:
Captain [Thomas] Chambers, Justice of the peace
Mr. Gorge Hall, sheriff
Cornelis Barentsen Sleght
W[illiam] Nottingham
Jan Elton [Elting]
Jan Bigs

Jury:
William Asforbie
Wessel Ten Broecq
Lowies Du Booys
Mattys Mattysen
Joost Adriaensen
D[irck] J[ansen] Schepmoes
Jacobus Elmendorp

[Note that Ten Broeck and Schepmoes are listed here as members of the jury, not as regular council members (magistrates/overseers/commissaries). Edward Wittaker and Cornelis Wynkoop are also missing from the main panel. Wittaker, Ten Broeck, and Schepmoes appear again in their regular roles at the next council session, II:478 1676 October 19 (Wynkoop has died by then). The makeup of the Court of Sessions is not automatically the same as the makeup of the regular town council.]

II:445
1676 April 26, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 214-213 (top)
Anna Nottingham vs. Engeltie Pieters.
Mrs. Anna Nottingham complains that she was at Marbelton passing along the street for the purpose of going home, with her child in her arms, when Engeltie Pietersen the wife of Frederick Pietersen came up, carrying a pail in her hand. She put down the pail, took the child away from [Anna], and knocked [Anna] down and beat her till she was bleeding and her skin was discolored, so that she has been confined [since then] to her bed. . . . [Engeltie] said “You sow, what did you have my husband arrested for? I shall murder you.” [Anna] Requests that she be punished.
Engeltie Pieters says that she accosted Mrs. Nottinghams in front of her [whose?] gate, and said: “Why did you have my husband arrested?” Thereupon Mrs. Nottinghams answered: “You fat sow, I ought to do the same to you,” and said “You cheat” and scratched her, and said that Mrs. Nottinghams had said that [Engeltie] had said to her, “Jan Bigs had his gentlewoman.” [Sounds as if secretary got this backwards: Mrs. Nottingham made a sarcastic remark that Jan Bigs has talked his gentlewoman, i.e. Engeltie, into attacking her.]
Mrs. Rennels [Reynolds?] declares under oath that she asked Engeltie Pietersen “What is the matter with Mrs. Nottinghams?” She answered: “She has had my husband arrrested, and I have hit her with my fists on her back.”
Jeny Fishers, Grietie Willems, Grietie Jacobsen having been sworn declare that they heard Mrs. Anna Nottinghams say that Jan Bigs had incited his gentlewoman to beat her, whereupon they answered her that Jan Bigs was sick, and had been in bed all day long.
The jury find that [Anna] has been threatened and beaten by [Engeltie], and judge that [Engeltie] shall pay [Anna] sixty guilders for damage, and shall pay all the court expenses.
Which is approved by the hon. court of sessions.
[Anna (née Tye) married Daniel Brodhead 1661 in Yorkshire, England; William Nottingham 1669 in Kingston; Thomas Garton 1681 in Ulster County; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tye-75 . William Nottingham dies 1 June 1680.]
[The circumstances of Frederick’s arrest, and how it could have involved Jan Bigs, are not known.]

[Engeltje Pieters here is described as wife of Fredrick Pietersen [Mouritz] ( https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pietersen-98 ), which makes her Engeltje Hendricks, daughter of Hendrick (“Harry”) Albertsen, a baker and later ferryman at Rensselaerswyck, and his wife Geertruy Andriessen; this would mean Engeltie is a sister of Jan Hendricks, who also is active in Kingston, currently serving (if it’s the same Jan Hendricks) as constable. If she is the constable’s sister and apparently friendly also with council member Jan Bigs, Engeltie might be excused for thinking the council might judge her with a measure of generosity.
[Kingston church records (see Hoes) show Geertruy Andriessen and her new husband Aert Martensen Doorn as witnesses at the baptism of Engeltie’s son Hendrick in 1675; when Engeltie marries Fredrick Pietersen in 1666, she says she was born at Fort Orange. This all tends to confirm her identity as daughter of Harry Alberts.
[Frederick’s will is recorded in 1709 (see Anjou), naming Engeltie as executrix. See https://archive.org/details/cu31924068180532/page/82/mode/2up?view=theater .
[Jan Hendricks, also son of Harry Alberts and Geertruy Andriessen, is the only heir mentioned when Andriessen’s estate is settled II:577-578 1681 July 5. If Engeltie is his sister, it is odd that she is not mentioned here. WikiTree suggests that Engeltie is the daughter of Harry Alberts but not Geertruy Andriessen, which would explain this, but Harry is listed by Killiaen van Rensselaer 3 June 1642 as shipping out to the colony with his wife Geertruijt, and no children are mentioned (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Albertsz-29 ), leaving doubt whether Harry in his short term in New Netherland had children with anyone but Geertruyd. Engeltie is specifically named, with Frederick Pietersen, KP 613-614 1666 September 10 when Doorn lists the children of his new wife Geertruyd Andriesen.
[Red herrings: Two women named Engeltie Pieters live in Manhattan (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pieters-580 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stoutenburg-1 ).
[See II:614-616 1681/2 March 4, a will naming Engeltie Hendrix as daughter of Hendrick Jochemse (Schoonmaker) and Elsje Jansen (van Breestede), though II:596-597 1684 October 8 has that Engeltie as wife of Nicolaes Anthony. It appears there were two women named Engeltie Hendrix living in the area at the time.]

[Jeny Fishers will be Jannetje Crafford (Crawford?), wife of William Fisher (in KP he is in the index as Visscher, but he arrived with the English garrison after the 1664 British takeover of the colony); see KP 489 1672 December 7, when the Kingston council registers their banns. She seems to go by Jenny; see III:224 1682 April 17, where her name is spelled Gene and Jene.]

II:445-446
1676 April 26, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 213 (middle)
Mr. Hall, Sheriff, vs. Engeltie Pietersen
[Hall] ex-officio demands a fine of ten lb. [£10] sterling, because the aforesaid Engeltie Pietersen has violently beaten Mrs. Nottinghams on the public street.
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers, justice, says that the sheriff has no business to demand, but that all fines are to be imposed by the higher authorities in behalf of the laws [(ten behoeve van de wetten)].
He further says not to find in the laws that any Schout or sheriff can demand fines after the jury has rendered its verdict.
Mr. Hall, sheriff, says that his commission must stand or be annulled—requests a decision.
The hon. court of sessions answers that it does not annul the commission, but accepts the same as far as it extends.
[See DRCHSNY XIII 498 1676 August 4, Manhattan, probably a response to this tiff between two enforcers of the law.]
[See KP 478, 1671/2 February 27, when the Kingston council sent a note to Governor Lovelace asking him for clarification regarding a very similar conflict between Thomas Chambers and (then) Schout Isaac Grevenraedt, in this case over who should preside over council meetings. After the brief period in 1674 when control of the colony returned to the Dutch, new English Governor Edmund Andros replaced Grevenraedt as Schout, appointing George Hall in his place (KP 522 1674 December 20). The office of Schout was eventually replaced by the Sheriff.]

II:446
1676 April 26, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 213 (bottom)
[No case is described here, but apparently a question had been raised, perhaps by the town council, perhaps by private land owners, about how the public should reach the bridge that crossed the Esopus Creek, or Kill, to reach the land on the other side, which had been nicknamed “Brabant” because several of the landowners there were from Brabant in the Netherlands.]
The jury finds that the most convenient road lies across the land of Hend. Jochemsen.
The hon. court orders, conform[ing] to the approval of the jury, that the road to Brabant shall run through the land of Hendrick Jochemsen, as near to the edge as possible, but no double track shall be made.

 

Jul-Aug-Sep

II:243
1676 July 21
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 259
Harman Hendrix [Roosenkranz] has contracted to buy a little island from Severyn Ten Houdt, for 400 cans of merchantable rum, to be delivered in late November. At that time a deed (conveyance) will be issued.
Appeared before me, W. Montagne, Secretary for the hon. court at Kingston, Suvereyn Ten Houdt and Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], who acknowledges having bought of Suvereyn Ten Houdt a certain little island, of the same size as it was when, before this, it belonged to Suvereyn Ten Houdt, for four hundred cans of merchantable rum, the whole to be delivered free at Kingston in the latter part of the month of November. At that time Suvereyn Ten Houdt shall be obliged to deliver and to convey free and unencumbered the said island. Parties promising to comply with what has been before stipulated under obligations as per law, have subscribed to the present with their own hands in the presence of Joost Adriaensen and Cornelis Hoogeboom this July 21, 1676, at Kingston. But the island is to be delivered as soon as the crops shall have been harvested.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens, Cornelis Hoogeboom
[(signed)] Severyn Ten Hout, Harmen Hÿndrix
[See deed below, II:261-262 1679 October 23.]
[The Ulster County Archives transcribes Versteeg’s handwriting to show that Harmen’s signature reads “Heyndrix.” An examination of the actual signature, available on the Archives Website, shows clearly that there is no -e- between his H and his ÿ. He may be spelling, in Dutch, a name that in Germany would be written Heinrichs.]

DRCHSNY XIII 498
1676 August 4, Manhattan
[This is an excerpt from Manhattan council minutes in response to an inquiry, whether a private letter or an official request, that is not preserved in the record. See note below.]
Upon some misunderstanding of the place and power of the Sheriffe at the Esopus, Ordered, That Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace] and Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff] have notice, that the Sheriff is the person, who is to see the Law putt in Execuçon and to apprehend & prosecute any Transgressors, as hee shall see cause, though not to bee judge in the Case. [(August 4, 1676)]
[See II:445-446 1676 April 26, when the disagreement between Hall and Chambers takes place that occasions this response. Note that the response doesn’t really speak to the direct question: Can the sheriff, after a jury has awarded damages in a civil complaint (e.g. assault), go on to seek a fine based on violation of the law (e.g. breaking the peace, or also assault)?]

Will:
II:244-245
[no year, likely 1676] August 4, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 262
Tryntie Tysen Bosch, wife of Cornelis Barentsen (Slecht), together [no date]
In the Name of the Lord, Amen
Whereas Tryntie, the wife of Cornelis Barentsen, is at present sick in bed, contemplating the hour of death, knowing that death is sure to come, though the hour of its coming is uncertain, therefore desiring to dispose during her life of her estate, [[orders]] first that after her demise she commends her soul into the keeping of God and bespeaks for her body a decent burial. Further Cornelis Barentsen, her husband, co-testator [[and herself]] both desire that the whole of the estate, however designated, shall be inherited by the one living longest whether husband or wife, but that after the decease of both of them the whole of the said estate shall be inherited by their children, named Jacomeyntie, Hendrick, Annetie, Mattys and Petronella, who, without having regard to age, shall divide equally. Or if either one of them should remarry then right away one half of the estate shall be divided among the children. Promising, on both sides, to firmly adhere to and to hold valid this agreement as a testament and last will. Without any reserve or simulation the present has been subscribed to [[by the testators with]] their own hand
[II:245]
[[in the presence of]] Wessel Ten Broeck and Jan Hendrixs, this August [7?] at Kingston [[no year given]].
A little closet, made by Jan Jansen, being a little linen closet which has been received by Petronelle, above her share [[but it may also mean to which Petronella is entitled above her share (dat Petronella vooruyt heeft boven haar portie)]].
[(signed)] Wessel Ten Broeck, Jan Heÿndericksz
[(signed)] Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, by me Tryntye Tysen Bosch
[See II:245 1676 August 17, will of Cornelis Hoogeboom and Annetje Cornelissen Slecht, apparently childless, leaving 100 guilders to Jannetje Jansen Kunst, daughter of Jacomeyntie Cornelissen Slecht.]
[See II:595-599 1684 September 26 to October 15, when Cornelis goes on to marry Elsje Jans (van Breestede), widow of Hendrick Jochemsen (Schoonmaker), and several pages are spent on estate inventories and settlements to various offspring.]

Wills:
II:243
1676 August 10, Hurley
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 260
Christian de Jou, laying at present sick in bed. Three of his children are married (Anne, Pieter, Elizabet) and two are not (Maria and Margarita). Unmarried kids are entitled to same as others got when they married, 100 rixdollars, plus clothing money. After that everything to be split equally.

In the Name of the Lord, Amen
Whereas Christiaen Du Jou, laying at present sick in bed, contemplating the certainty of death, though the hour of its coming be uncertain, desires that after his death the following shall be brought about, ordering:
First he intrusts his soul into the hands of God, and [[bespeaks]] for his body a decent burial, leaving to his children three of whom viz. Anna, Pieter, Elizabet are married and two of whom viz. Maria and Margrita are yet single:
Firstly, the unmarried children shall receive beforehand as much as the others have received in marrying, being one hundred rix dollars free, and besides still [in addition] the clothing amounting to fifteen [? (or fifty?)] rix dollars for Mary, but Margarita being the youngest shall receive during her minority, seventy rix dollars for clothing; for Pieter’s wedding suit fifteen rix dollars. Of the remaining estate, whatever it shall amount to, all the aforesaid children shall receive an equal legal part. Acknowledges this to be his last will and is to be complied with, this August 10, 1676 at Horly.
Present Louis DuBoys, magistrate, and Hugo Frere
[(signed)] Louys du bois, the mark of Hugo Frere
[(signed)] the mark of Christian Du Jou, made before himself
To which testifies,
[(signed)] Wm. La Montagne, Sy.
[Christian’s family name also appears as Deyo in the written record (and Doiau and De Joux); see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Deyo-17 . He does not name his wife in this will, but Wikitree reports she is Jeanne (Verbeau) Deyo, married 1643 in Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France. Christian survives; he dies in 1687; Jeanne dies in 1681. Christian and his family were among the founders of New Paltz; he was one of the original patentees.]
[See III:62 1683/4 January 31, Kingston, when “Christiaen Doyou annulls his will which he had made a Horly, so the same be void.”]

II:243-244
1676 August 11 at Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 261
Cornelis Wynkoop, at present sick in bed. Wife and seven children: surviving spouse gets whole estate so long as they remain unmarried; if they remarry, they have to divide the estate and give half to kids. All kids receive equal shares.
In the Name of the Lord, Amen
Appeared before me, W. La Montagne, Secretary for the hon. court at Kingston etc.
[II:244]
Cornelis Wynkoop at present being sick in bed, who, contemplating the certainty of death, though the hour of its coming be uncertain, and therefore wishing to dispose, during his life, of his estate, is [[making]] his last will and testament, which must be complied with after his demise. First recommends his soul into the hands of God and for his body a decent and Christian burial, leaving his lawful wife and seven children. In case either one of both dies then the survivor shall possess the whole estate, howsoever named, but in case the husband or wife should happen to remarry then he or she shall be obliged to divide and pay to the said children as their patrimonial share one half of the estate left. Ordering this instrument to be complied with and to be observed as an indissoluble testament after his or her death without any exception, proviso or complaint under whatever pretext. Consciously and with unimpaired intelligence the same has been, by the testator, subscribed to with his own hand in the presence of Wessel Ten Broeck and Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes], from the hon. court, this August 11th 1676 at Kingston.
Note: What has not been perfectly expressed herein above is this: that at the division one child shall not receive more than another, whether the younger or the older ones, all to share equally.
[(signed)] Wessel Ten Broeck, Dirck Jansen Schepmoes
[(signed)] Cornelis Wynkoop
[See Anjou, p. 32, published version of the above record (condensed).]
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria [Jansen Langedyck] Wynkoop.]
[Maria is an active administrator of the estate. See II:248, probably 1676 October 24, II:401-403 1677 August 16–September 6, II:416-417 1678 March 26-27, II:426-430 1678 early June, as she leases fields and holds an auction for goods from the estate.]

 

II:446
(likely 1676) August 12, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 212
[This entry, in the Dutch original, starts a new page, following the final entry from the 1676 April 26 Court of Sessions (II:446 in Versteeg translation), but is specifically dated August 12. Entries following this, on the reverse side of the same page, do not have dates, though they appear to be records of a council session, possibly in autumn 1676.]
Whereas Baltus, negro slave of Mr. Gorge Hall, has not hesitated on the 19th of July, without provocation, to murder on the public street Annetie Gerritsen and the wife of Jochem Engelbaerdt [, and] severely wounded the wife of Abraham DuGooy, therefore their honors, dispensing justice in the name of his royal majesty of Great Britain, and in accordance with the laws of God that blood shall be paid for with blood, and after a voluntary confession of said negro without torture or duress, order that said Baltus’ right hand shall be cut off, his legs and arms shall be broken and directly thereafter, he shall be hung to the gallows as an example for others. This August 12, at Kingston.

[See Jochem Englebert Van Naame, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Naame-2 , who immigrates to New Amsterdam 1662, moves to Esopus several years later. Married Lysbert Pels 3 Nov 1676 (1678?), children in 1682, 1683, 1687, etc. Was Lysbet Pels his second wife? Marriage record is incomplete, does not ID him either as j.m. (unmarried) or as a widower. See also II:281 1680 June 1, when Dirck Hendrix gives Jochem Engelbart a deed for house and lot next to Cornelis Vernooy.]
[Annetie Gerritsen could have been a few people; both names are common. Annetje Gerritsen van Schalijck was the wife of Aert Jacobsen van Wagenen, whose sons and sons-in-law divided their parents’ property on 1 April 1678 (II:419-420; see https://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/genealogy/dewitt/tjerck/#aertsens ), she seems like a good candidate (note that she is identified by her name, not by her husband’s).]
[I have not found Abraham DuGooy (or de Goey, or other homophones) in the published record. At an ordinary council session at Kingston 12 December 1676 (II:478), George Hall (sheriff/Schout) reports that Abraham Du Gooy has run away; Hall requests permission to take custody of “the effects belonging to him which [Hall] shall find here.” It is just barely possible that DuGooy is related to Griedt Gooyards, who 13 December 1675 (II:471) was in a fight with Jan Pietersen; her husband is named Dirck.]
[1676 seems like a plausible year to fit the other known dates surrounding this terrible series of events.]
[This 12 August entry could fall between the 20 March 1675/6 council session (II:478) and the “Extraordinary Session” of 19 October 1676 (also II:478), which otherwise are separated by a gap of a few months.]

Andros Papers p. 100 [26:93]
1677 (date unclear)
To the [Right Honorable] Major Edmund Andross Esqr. Seigneur of [???], Lieutenant and Governor Generall under his [Royal Highness] Duke of Yorke and Albany of all his [Territories] in America, and to this Honorable Court of Assizes.

In all humility sheweth

The humble Peticion of George Hall

That sometimes in the Summer Last wast twelve mo. your Peticioner had a Negro Slave, who being [lewdly] and villanously inclined, without any known cause given him, did with a Knife barbarously murder two women of the Town of Kingston in Esopus, and so fled, But your Peticioner being very desirous the marderer should be brought to condign punnishment did after some dayes search after him, find him out and brought him before a Court of Justice who condemn’d him to dye an Examplary death for so bloudy a villany the which was accordingly put in Execucion.

That your Peticioner by [this] unhappy accident lost so much of his Estate as [the] value of the said Negro was, being near 50£, which sum he payd for [the enslaved man], The which your Peticioner hopes will by your Honor [and by?] this Honorable Court be taken into Consideracion, that the Execucion being for a publick good as an Example to deterr all [other] such Miscreants from the like evill and wicked [practices] your Peticioner may not be so much impoverished in his [Estate] thereby; but that some way may be found out for the [???] your Peticioners satisfaccion in [[. . .]]

[[Endorsed:]]
The Peticion of George Hall
[16]77
Past.

[Cf. Ulster County Court Records, Vol. 61.1, pp. 65-66, when in 1741 a man named Tom, enslaved on the farm of Widow Freer, was accused of a second rape and was hanged: “The slave was valued at £25, and it was ordered that this sum be paid to Tom’s owner.”]

 

II:245
[1676?] August 17, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 263
Cornelis Hoogeboom and wife Annetje Cornelisen Sleght
In the Name of the Lord, Amen!
Appeared before me W. Montagne, Secretary, in the presence of Wessel Ten Broecq and Jan Hendericks from the hon court at Kingston, Cornelis Hoogeboom with his wife Annetie Cornelissen Sleght, who together considering the certainty of death, though the hour of its coming be uncertain, desire that after their decease their bodies shall receive a decent burial, and that the whole of their estate shall be inherited by the survivor, without being obliged to pay out from the aforesaid [[estate]] anything to any friends, but the survivor is absolutely to have everything. And in case both should die without having remarried then the left estate shall be inherited by the nearest blood-relations on both sides equally and proportionally without difference. Desiring that this present covenant [(verbondt)], after the death of both of them, shall be complied with as a firm testament, and that the eldest son, named Piter, of the brother of Cornelis Hoogeboom shall receive said Cornelis Hoogeboom’s cloak, and have subscribed to the present with their own hand besides Jan Hendrix and Wessel Ten Broecq this August 17th [[1676?]] at Kingston.
To Jacomentie’s daughter, [Jacomyntje Cornelisen Sleght] being the sister of Annetie Cornelis, the daughter being named Jannetie Jansen Kunst, is here in this testament willed an amount of one hundred guilders light money which is to be paid out by the survivor.
[(signed)] Wessel Ten Broeck, Jan Heÿndericksz.
[(signed)] Cornelis Hoogenboom, Annetien Cornelissen Slecht
[They apparently expect to die childless, leaving property to a nephew and a niece, but not to children.]
[See II:244-245 1676 August 4, will of Tryntie Tysen Bosch and Cornelis Barentsen Slecht.]
[See II:614-616 1681/2 March 4 and III:41 1683 April 14, more of the story of Jacomyntje Cornelissen Slecht and Jan Barentsen Kunst, and their daughters and their inheritances. Jannetje Jansen Kunst had an elder half-sister, Hilletje Jansen Kunst.]
[KP 611 1666 August 21 calls him Cornelis Teunissen Hoogeboom.]
[Unclear whether Cornelis is a relative of Bartholomeus (Mewes) Hogeboom, but it is not impossible: See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hogenboom-21 . Note that the names Cornelis and Teunis do not appear in Bartholomeus’s immediate family.]

II:245-246
1676 August 21
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 264
Willem Jansen Schudt owes Matthew Blanchan 470 guilders
Appeared before me W. Montagne, Secretary for the hon. court at Kingston etc., Willem Jansen Schudt, who acknowledges to honestly and actually owe Matteus Blansjan an amount of four hundred and seventy gldrs, originating from the purchase of two horses, to be paid in good winter wheat which quantity is to be delivered next winter. And in case the appearer should fail to pay [[then]] he shall pay eight percent interest precisely each year up to the full and effective payment, under obligations as
[II:246]
per law, and mortgaging person and estate. Have subscribed to the present with my own hand at Kingston, this August 21, 1676, in the presence of Nicolaes Du Pue.
In case the appearer be able to pay promptly between this winter and next winter, a year, then he shall be exempt from paying interest, but in case of default he shall pay interest from this date.
[(signed)] Niclas DuPuis
[(signed)] Willem Jansen Schut
To which testifies [(signed)] W. La Montagne, Secretary
This abovementioned obligation is made voide the 6th day of March, Anno domini 1685 [(This was in English)]
Test [(signed)] John Ward
Test [(signed)] Matheu Blanchan

II:479-480
1676 September 24 (Kingston implied)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 162
This September 24, 1676
Mattys Mattysen and Dirck Jansen Schepmoes were granted the valley situated under [[the jurisdiction of]] the village, and whereas
[II:480]
the same is now at present nothing but a swamp, and the commonalty has already forfeited the same, [[it is granted]] under this condition, that they shall dig a ditch around the same and drain it, subject to the approbation of the Heer governor. They are to drain the same within one year.
[Is this the valley that was Tanner’s Brook? And was given to Jan Albertsen Van Steenwyck before he was killed, and then to someone else after that?]

 

Will:
II:246
1676 September 25
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 265
Madalena Blanchan and Jan Tyssen (Mattysen). Note that Jan is one of the stepchildren of Thomas Chambers.
In the Name of the Lord, Amen
Jan Tysen and his wife Madalena Blansjan both at present in bodily health considering the hour of death, desire that after their demise this last will shall be complied with. Firstly, the estate, personal as well as real, in case the survivor after the decease of either one should happen to remarry, shall then be [[divided]] and one half of it shall go to the children begotten by them, but in case both shall die at the same time [(bij de gaeder)], without having remarried, then the aforesaid children shall inherit everything, but in case mother or father should long survive the other without remarrying, then the survivor shall possess the estate until the majority of the children, viz. one half of the estate [[sic]]. Our son Mathys is entitled to a piece of land which has been given him by [Jan’s] father Thoomas Chambers, which belongs to him before any partition, and before all other [[children]]. In case either one should happen to remarry, and should have children through another marriage, and then the survivor of the first marriage, whether father or mother, should die, one fourth part shall again be divided, with this proviso that the real estate shall remain to the children of the first marriage. Promise to hold all of this valid, under obligation as per law, this September 25th 1676.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens, Dirck Schepmos [Dirck Jansen Schepmoes]
[(signed)] Jan Mathysen, Matelen Blanchan
To which testifies [(signed)] Wm. Montagne, Secretary
[Clusters of wills tell intriguing stories. For example, when August 1676 sees three sets of Kingston residents write their wills because they are “sick in bed,” and a fourth without declaring whether they are ill, we can start looking for other records of a malady that swept through the Kingston population around that time. In the case of the will above, a somewhat different story starts to take shape. When Madalena Blanchan (above), Catharina Blanchan (II:246-247 1676 October 13) and Elisabet Blanchan (II:250 1676 November 1), with their husbands, all write wills (bound together in this volume) in the same six-week period, without complaining of any ill health, it suggests a family event of some kind, as if perhaps their father, Matthew Blanchan, is preparing to distribute a significant share of his estate but first wants to be sure it will be conveyed securely to his grandchildren. Other documents may tell more of the story. Matthew Blanchan’s will, naming the above and other children, was written 7/17 September 1665; see KP 575-576.]

Oct-Nov-Dec

II:383-384
1676 October 10, Marbletown
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 8 (bottom)
Frederick Hossy [he signs Hussey] provides conveyance (deed) to Claes Teunissen [Van Clier] for a parcel in Marbletown, 50 acres, bounded to S, E, and W “by small kill running from the wood, to the North by a steep mountain.” He owns it by virtue of a deed [no details about from whom or date].
[He signs Ffreder. Hussey, doubling the F the way English writers of the time do. No members of council sign, though deed indicates it is signed in the presence of (unnamed) magistrates.]

Will:
II:246-247
1676 October 13, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 266
Louis Dubois and Catharina Blanchan
In the Name of the Lord, Amen.
Lowies Du Booys and his wife Chatharina [sic] Blansjan, considering the hour of death, and therefore desiring to dispose of their estate during their life, wish this last will to be complied with: first that their bodies shall be decently buried, and that after
[II:247]
their death the whole of their estate, however named, shall be inherited by their children, but with this proviso: that the minors shall be first educated out of the same, until they shall be able to earn their living, and then the same shall be equally divided. But in case either one of them should remarry, then such a one shall pay out the just half to the children begotten between them, and in case of the decease of the one who remarried, then again the one fourth portion of the remaining half [(als dan widerom ’t vierde van de resteren de helft)] shall be divide[d] among the said children.
But in case the survivor should not remarry, then [[said survivor]] shall not be obliged to pay out anything to the children, no more than he or she pleases, either as a marriage present or something else—but the survivor who does not remarry shall possess everything until his or her death, when everything shall be inherited by the children without any exceptions. But in case of remarriage, without issue, then the children shall again receive the just one half of the entire estate. Promise to hold, and to cause to be held, all of this valid as the last will, and have subscribed to the present with [[our]] own hands this October 13th 1676 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Louys DuBois
[(signed)] Catelen Blancan
To which testify [(signed)] W. La Montagne, Secretary; Wessel Ten Broeck
[See II:246 1676 September 25, II:250 1676 November 1, related notes.]

 

II:478
1676 October 19, Kingston (extraordinary council session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 165 (bottom)
Extraordinary Session, held on October 19, 1676
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Eduward Wittaker [incoming Constable; see below]
Wessel Ten Broeck
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Joost Adriaensen
Hendrick Jochemsen
[Note that Joost Adriaensen and Hendrick Jochemsen have not yet been confirmed as members of the council; see II:480 1676 October 24 and II:452 1676 November 10, when their appointments appear to be made official, along with that of Edward Wittaker as Constable.]

II:478
1676 October 19, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 165 (bottom)
Capt. Johan Backer vs. Bastiaen Jansen, Negro
[Backer] demands 60 sch of maize with the freight to New Yorcke.
The hon. court orders [Bastiaen] to pay the demanded debt—with expenses.
[See related Secretary’s Papers in which Bastiaen amasses a large debt to John Connell, including money borrowed to pay Bastiaen’s debt to Backer, and indentures himself to work it off, going to Albany with Connell, allowing himself to be hired out to others at Connell’s direction: II:247-250 1676 October 24-27.]

II:478
1676 October 19, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 165 (bottom)
Jan Cooneel [John Connel] vs. Roelof Jansen [Jansen does not appear]
[See II:490 1676/7 March 6, when Jansen appears at last.]

[The minutes from this session appear to be cut short, and there may have been additional items on pages that have not survived in this record. It is also possible, since this was a special session, that no other cases came before the council. In the original Dutch record, as rebound, minutes from the 14 November meeting start at II:480; minutes from November 10 are at II:452. The minutes above, from October 19, in the rebound original are followed immediately by minutes from December 12.]

II:480
1676 October 24 (three villages)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 161 (top)
On this October 24, 1676 it was ordered by the justice and the sheriff to prepare a double number for constable and overseers for the 3 villages, and were appointed from the double number:
[“A double number” means a list of two candidates for each slot, from which one will be selected, here perhaps by the justice and sheriff? but more typically by the Governor, after the list is sent to him. These appointments may have taken effect already; see minutes from Kingston Council II:478 1676 October 19, when the incoming officers are listed among the members present. See also II:452 1676 November 10, probably the official confirmation from Manhattan that these candidates have been approved, adding William Asfordbie as an “overseer” (council member) for Marbletown.]

for Kingston
as constable Eduward Wittaker
as overseers:
Joost Adriaensen
Hendrick Jochemsen

for Horly
as constable Lowies Du Booys
as overseers:
Gerrit Cornelis
Lambert Huybertsen

for Marbelton
as constable Robbert Bikkerstaf
as overseers: William Jansen
[second position not filled]

Who, all together, took the usual oath according to law

II:480
[undated, likely Kingston, possibly same date as previous entry]
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 161 (bottom)
By order of the Heer governor it was asked [[whether]] the merchants coming from outside places and not having houses or establishments here, not paying taxes, do [[not]] take the profits away from the burghers?
[The Governor] Expects the advice from the magistrates whether it is advisable to have them [the outside merchants] retail their merchandise.

Lowies Du Booys [Constable for Hurley]
Robbert Peckock
Wessel Ten Broeck [Kingston council member]
William Nottingham
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Advise that outside merchants shall not be permitted to sell their wares at retail

Roelof Hendrix
Robbert Bickkerstaff [Constable for Marbletown]
Jan Elton [Elting]
Eduward Wittaker [Constable for Kingston]
Jan Bigs
Jan Hendrix
Cornelis [Barentsen] Sleght
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Advise that the merchants shall be permited to sell as heretofore.

[See II:492 1676/7 March 15, when the council decides to tax the grain of outside merchants.]

 

II:247
1676 October 24, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 267
Bastian Jansen [African] owes Capt. Jan Backer 60 sch of maize
I, the undersigned, Bastian Jansen, acknowledge to honestly and actually owe Capt. Jan Backer the quantity of 60 sch. of maize, which I promise to promptly deliver at New Yorck on the bridge in good condition in March next. In case of default [I] will indemnify for all losses as per the law and custom in the commercial world, under obligation of person and estate this October 24th 1676 at Kingston. In case of default will pay the double value.
This is the mark of Bastian Jansen, made by himself
To which testifies [(signed)] [no signer indicated]
Witnesses [(signed)]: Henry Pawling, Henr. Beeckman
Assigned to Mr. William Parker
This above named obligation Mr. Johan Cornel? takes it upon himself to pay to Capt. Johan Backer, by virtue of an obligation passed this October 24th 1676 at Kingston. Have subscribed to the present with [[my]] own hand.
[[Was not signed]]
[See further notes below from same date, II:248-249.]
[See II:478 1676 October 19, when the council orders Bastiaen to pay Capt. Backer this amount. In notes below, as described in the attachment here, Jan Connell agrees to pay Backer for Bastiaen, so that Bastiaen will pay Connell instead of Backer, and then Bastiaen adds more debt to that. Note also in the above that the debt is “assigned” by Backer to William Parker, so now Connell is to pay Parker, instead of Capt. Backer.]
[In particular see II:250 1676 October 27, which appears to be a duplicate of this obligation, with some different refinements.]

II:248
[no date, entered among others dated 1676 October 24 but see note below]
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 268
Aerdt Martensen Doorn and Roelof Jansen; Roelof has bought all the growth on Aerdt’s land (rented in partnership with Pieter Jansen from deceased [Cornelis] Wynkoop, “as per the contract made with the widow of Wyncoop”) for 60 sch of wheat, to be paid in January. Aert Martensen to receive chaff and straw; Roelof to have use of barn and stack for threshing and winnowing.
Appeared before me Wm. Montagne Secretary at Kingston Aerdt Martensen who acknowledges having agreed in the following manner: Roelof Jansen admits having bought of Aerdt Martensen Doorn all his growth on the land of the deceased Wynkoop for the one half [[sic]] in partnership with Pieter Jansen for the one half [[sic]] of the product, as per the contract made with the widow of Wyncoop [sic] for the quantity of sixty sch. of wheat, which Roelof Jansen shall pay next January in good wheat. But the crop shall be mortgaged until the full and effective payment. He is not permitted to dispose of or to alienate the same until said amount shall have been fully paid. In testimony of the truth he has subscribed to the present with his own hand. But the chaff and the straw Art [sic] Martensen is to receive, and Roelof Jansen, also, is to have the use of the barn and the stack for the purpose of threshing and winnowing. [[no date]]
[(signed)] Jacobus Elmendorff
[(signed)] Roelof Jansen
[See II:243-244 1676 August 11, will of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[See II:401-402 1677 August 16-19, contracts of Pieter Jansen Sloot with Maria Wynkoop and Aerdt Martensen Doorn, which presumably antedate this agreement.]
[Jansen is probably van der Fredrickstadt, master tailor; see II:404 (undated), II:623-624 1682 April 3. He trained under Aert Martensen Doorn; see II:272-3 1679/80 March 2.]

II:248
[no date, presumably 1676 October 24]
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 270. This is on the reverse of blank p. 269.
John Connel (Coneel) gives George Hall power of attorney.
Appeared before me, Wm. Montagne, Secretary for the hon. court at Kingston, Mr. Johan Coneel, who acknowledges to constitute and to grant full power of Attorney, as he is doing by the present, upon Mr. Gerge [sic] Hall, for the purpose of calling in, demanding, claiming and receiving of such debtors as he shall point out, and to bring suit against them for the purpose of compelling them in case of unwillingness, promising to hold, and to have held, valid whatever shall have been done by Mr. Gorge [sic] Hall, and have subscribed to the present with my own hand, on this [[date left open]].
[(signed)] John Conels
[See next entries; John Conels apparently is planning to head for Albany. This power of attorney is used as soon as II:490 1676/7 March 6, q.v.]

II:248-249
1676 October 24, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 271
Bastiaen Jansen owes John Conels [Connel, Coneel] 60 sch of maize, for advanced money to pay what Jansen owes to Capt. Backer, plus 264 guilders, which Conels will pay [for Bastiaen?] to William Beekman.
Appeared before me, W. Montagne, Secretary, Bastiaen Jansen, who admits to honestly and actually owe Mr. Jan Coneel a quantity of sixty sch. of maize, to be paid in maize or wheat or peas, all merchantable and at current prices, each according to its value. Which quantity the aforesaid Bastian Jansen shall pay to said Mr. Coneel or his order in the month of January, to be delivered free at this place, for merchandise satisfactorily received. Promising to comply with the foregoing, pledging person and estate. Subscribed to with my own hand in the presence of witnesses this October 24, 1676 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Roelof Swartwout, Henr. Beeckman
[(signed)] the mark of Bastian Jansen, made by himself
To which testifies [(signed)] Wm. Montagne, Secry.

I, the undersigned, Bastian Jansen, acknowledge still [in addition] to owe, besides the abovementioned amount, to Mr. Jan Coneel, the amount of two hundred sixty four gldrs, which amount the aforesaid Jan Coneel shall pay to the Heer Wm. Beeckman, and which said Bastian Jansen shall pay to said Coneel precisely in the month of January next, under condition that Bastian Jansen by default shall serve for said amount, until he shall have fully earned the same, under obligation as per law. Dated as above.
Besides this he yet owes Mr. Coneel, for advanced money, the quantity of 5 sch. of wheat.
Roelof Swartwout [(signed)]
the mark of Bastian Jansen
[(signed)] Dirck Alberts Brat
To which testifies [(signed)] Wm Montagne, Secretary
[See II:247 above, same date, same debtor, Jansen’s original debt to Capt. Backer, and II:478 1676 October 19, additional debt, as well as next entries. So far, Bastiaen owes Connell 60 sch maize + 264 guilders.]

II:249
1676 October 26, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 272 (top half)
Bastiaen Jansen owes John Connel 16 sch of wheat (96 guilders); Connel will pay it to Wallerand DuMond. Jansen will go with Connel to Albany and work off the debt serving him.
Appeared before me, W. Montagne, Secretary, Bastiaen Jansen, negro, who admits to honestly and actually owe Mr. Jan Coneel the quantity of sixteen sch. of wheat which Mr. Coneel is to pay to Wallerand DuMond. I engage myself to go with the aforesaid Coneel to Albany, and to serve him until the aforespecified amount shall have been fully paid, mortgaging person and estate this October 26 1676 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Henr. Beeckman, Dirck Alberts Brat
[(signed)] this is the mark of Bastian Jansen
To which testifies [(signed)] Wm. Montagne, Secretary
[Now Bastiaen owes Connell 60 sch maize + 264 guilders + 16 sch wheat.]

II:249
1676 October 27, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 272 (bottom)
Harmon Hekan owes William Parker 80 sch of maize; he will pay without fail on 12 October 1677.
Appeared before me, W. Montagne, Secretary, Harmon Hekan, who acknowledges to honestly and actually owe Mr. William Parker a quantity of eighty sch. of maize which he shall pay without fail on October 12, 1677 and to deliver them free on the river bank. Promising to comply with the foregoing under obligation as per law, this October 27, 1676 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Henr. Beeckman
[(signed)] the mark of Harmon Hekam, made by himself
To which testifies [(signed)] W. Montagne, Secretary

II:249-250
1676 October 27, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 273 (top half)
Bastiaen Jansen owes Jan Coneel 1439 guilders, will work for him, Jan Coneel can hire him out to anyone else.
Appeared before me, W. Montagne, Secretary for the hon. court at Kingston, Bastian Jansen, who acknowledges to actually and honestly owe Mr. Jan Coneel an amount of one thousand four hundred thirty nine gldrs 10 st. originating from payments made by Mr. Coneel. And for the purpose of paying this amount, and what may yet be advanced to him by said Coneel if he should need it, said negro binds himself to serve the aforesaid Coneel until the said amount shall have been absolutely paid for, all obligations having been cancelled by the present. And that said Jan Coneel shall be at liberty
[II:250]
to hire him out to whomsoever Coneel shall deem proper or shall think it advisable. Mortgaging his person this October 27, 1676 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Henr. Beeckman
[(signed)] the mark of Bastiaen Jansen
[(signed)] Henry Pawling
[Previously Bastiaen owed Connell 60 sch maize + 264 guilders + 16 sch wheat. That amount has jumped: 1439 guilders at 6 guilders per sch. of wheat would mean about 240 sch. of wheat, far more than Bastiaen owed before.]
[See above entries, same date, and some previous entries noted above. The origin of Bastiaen Jansen’s spiraling debt is unclear from the record. It is dangerous to speculate without evidence, but if this were a 2025 story, one might look for evidence of gambling when a debt grows so large, so fast. In this case, it could result from unfortunate circumstances or extraordinarily poor financial judgment. Bastiaen Jansen comes up in Kingston Papers, sued as a debtor (pp. 455, 473, 476; 438 where George Hall puts him under arrest); he may be the same Bastiaen described as “[Anna Brodhead’s] negro” who is swindled by Jan Coely with a brass ring that Coely claims is gold.]

II:250
1676 October 27
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 273 (bottom)
Bastiaen Jansen owes Capt. Jan Backer 60 sch of good maize (Backer assigns to William Parker).
I, the undersigned, Bastiaen Jansen, admit owing Capt. Jan Backer the quantity of sixty sch. of good maize, to be delivered free at N. Jorck from the maize which at present is still to be threshed. Promising to deliver said maize without fail in November, pledging person and estate as per law, this October 27, 1676.
[(signed)] this is the mark of Bastian Jansen
Witnesses [(signed)]: Dirck Alberts Brat, W. d La Montagne
Capt Backer assigns the above to William Parcker who accepts the same.
To which testifies [(signed)] W. Montagne, Secretary.
[This appears to duplicate the obligation from II:247 1676 October 24, with somewhat different refinements.]

 

Will:
II:250
1676 November 1, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 274
Will of Peter Cornelissen and Elizabet Blanchan
In the Name of the Lord, Amen
Peter Cornelissen and Elisabet Blansjan, considering the certainty of death, and therefore desiring to dispose of their estate during their life, wishing that the present shall be complied with after their decease: First, the survivor shall possess everything, if he or she shall not remarry. But in case the survivor should remarry, then the just half of the estate, by whatever name it be called, shall be paid out to the children. But in case both should die without having remarried, then the children shall inherit everything, under this condition: that the minors shall first be brought up from the same, and then everything shall be equally divided. But in case either one should survive without remarrying, he or she shall have the use of the estate until death. We promise to comply with the present and to hold it valid, and to cause it to be held valid. Have subscribed to the present with our own hand in the presence of Matys Barentsen [[sic]] and Hendrick Ryck, this November 1st, 1676 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Heyndryck Rijcke, Mattys Cornelis Slecht
[(signed)] the mark of Pieter Cornelisen, Eliesbeth Blansan
[Pieter Cornelissen and Mattys Cornelissen are not brothers; Pieter, from Holstein (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cornelissen-214 ), is son of Cornelis Louw; Mattys is son of Cornelis Barentsen Slecht.]
[See II:246 1676 September 25, II:246-247 1676 October 13, related notes.]

II:250-251
1676 November 9[?]
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 275. This page shows signs of the stains on the reverse (p. 276), some of which have bled through to this side.
Henry Pawling owes Capt. Thomas Delaval 400 sch of wheat
Appeared before me Wm. La Montagne, Secretary, Mr. Hendric Paeldin who acknowledges at a settlement of accounts up to this date, to honestly and actually owe Capt. Thoomas Delaval a quantity of four hundred sch. of wheat all of which is to be delivered free on the river bank to be paid in two installments viz. two hundred sch. of wheat precisely, this winter, and the coming winter again two hundred sch. of
[II:251]
wheat, all of which he shall actually pay to Mr. La Vall or his order, pledging his person and estate. Have subscribed to the present, besides Mr. Hall and Mr. Gabriel Minell [Minvielle], as witnesses, this November 9th 1676 at Kingston.
[(signed)] G. Hall, G. Minmelle [sic], witnesses
[(signed)] Henry Pawling
To which testifies [(signed)] Wm. Montagne, Secretary

II:251
1676 November 9
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 276. This page is very stained.
Jan Hendrick Bruyn has married widow of Johannes DeWitt, gives power of attorney to George Davits
Appeared before me Wm. LaMontagne, Secretary for the hon. court at Kingston, Mr. Jan Bruyn, having married the widow of Johannes DeWitt, who acknowledge[s] to constitute and grant full power of attorney as he is doing by the present to Mr. Gorge [sic] Davits, to call in, demand, claim and receive of such persons as shall be pointed out by papers and documents and accounts, and in case of unwillingness to pay, to proceed against them by process of law, and to pass receipts in case of payment. Promising to hold valid what shall be done by the aforesaid Davis [sic], and to cause it to be held valid, as if he himself had been personally present. Have subscribed to the present with my own hand this 9th day of November 1676 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Jan Hendrick Bruyn
To which testifies Wm. La Montagne, Secry.

Below this was written in English:
Received this for A Book of Acknowledgments of Debts

[See II:489 1676/7 February 20, when George Davits tries to collect a debt from Claes Claesen, based on a note of obligation he made to DeWitt in 1668.]

II:384
1676 November 10
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 9
Mr. William Nottingham and his wife Mrs. Anna Nottingham have contracted to sell to Capt. Thomas De Lavall their house and lot [location not specified], excepting “what has been measured [off], amounting to [[left open]].” Price is 130 beavers “in deduction of account [(in cortingh van reeckeninge)].” [Presumably they owe him money from a previous debt?] Jacob Rutsen shall use the front part of the house and the cellar through Nov 10 1677; Mr. Delavall to receive Rutsen’s rent. House is to be delivered immediately “with every right, title, deed and further,” so in other words the Nottinghams are not waiting for payment.
[(signed)] John White, John Ward, witnesses
[(signed)] William Nottingham, Ann Nottingham, Tho. DeLavall
[This isn’t phrased as a typical conveyance or deed; there may be a separate document for that, or this might be it.]

II:452
1676 November 10, Kingston (Special Council Session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 204
Special court held at Kingston, November 10, 1676
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers, Justice of the peace
Lieut. [George] Hall, Sheriff
Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht]
Wm. Nottingham
Jan Bigs
Jan Eltingen

II:452
1676 November 10, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 204
Jan Colyn vs. Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes], for 74 sch of wheat plus costs
Schepmoes admits debt but says he paid Colyn’s wife 400 guilders 5 months ago, for which she promised satisfaction [(waer voor sy beloofde satisfactie)]. Court orders Jansen to pay, cum expensis.

II:452
1676 November 10, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 204
Mr. Minville [Gabriel Minvielle] requests execution against the Heer [Isaac] Grevenraedt for the amount of 1894 gldrs 5 st in wheat as per judgment, for which he is willing to give security. If the amount be less he will put up the same and pay whatever damages the Heer Grevenraedt suffers on account of it.
[See II:482 1676 December 19, discussion of Grevenraedt and a judicial execution.]

II:452
1676 November 10, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 204
Mr. Hall [George Hall, Sheriff] shows a letter of the Heer governor in regard to land which Lowies Du Booys [Louis Dubois] has requested. The heer governor orders that the land shall be bought in common [(dat het landt generaal sall worden gekoopt)][hard to read]. The hon. court orders that immediately the sachems shall be sent for.
[Probably this is in reference to acquiring land that becomes New Paltz.]
[See II:491 1676/7 March 6, Louis Dubois asks whether there’s news, II:452, 10 November 1676, sending for the sachems.]
[See DRCHSNY XIII 506-507 1677 May 26, final agreement on transfer of land that becomes New Paltz, including land as far east as the banks of the Hudson River.]

II:452
1676 November 10, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 204
Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] requests execution of a judgment against Teunes Jacobsen which is granted him.

II:452
1676 November 10, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 204 (last several lines)
Were appointed constables: Eduward Wittaker for Kingston; Lowies DuBooys for Horly; Robbert Bickerstaf for Marbleton. Magistrates: for Kingston, Joost Adriaensen and Hendrick Jochemsen; for Horly, Lambert Huybertsen, Gerrit Cornelissen; for Marbleton, Wm. Asforbie, Wm. Jansen.
[See II:480 1676 October 24, a separate entry with the same information, except missing Asfordbie for Marbletown.]

II:384-385
1676 November 13, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 10
Wallerand Dumon owes Gabriel Minville 300 sch of good wheat, to pay in 3 installments over 3 years, to buy “a negro named Prince.”

II:385
1676 November 14, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 11
Gerrit Cornelissen owes Jan Coly [John Cooley] “by settlement of account” 71 sch of winter wheat, to be paid “to Coly or his order” this winter in 2 installments.
[See II:454-455 1677 March 24.]

II:480
1676 November 14, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 160
Ordinary session held at Kingston November 14, 1676
Present:
Mr Gorge Hall, sheriff
E[dward] Wittaker, constable
[Overseers:]
Joost Adriaensen
Hendrick Jochemsen

II:481
1676 November 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 160
Jan Louwersen vs. Gerrit Aerdtsen for 172 guilders

Jan Louwersen vs. Jan Willemsen
[Willemsen is marked for his first “default,” meaning he does not show up. Standard practice is that if a person has been summoned three times and each time has not appeared, judgement is issued in their absence.]

Jan Louwersen vs. Cornelis Fynhoudt, for 8 sch of wheat and 5 guilders

II:481
1676 November 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 160-159
Willem D Majer vs. Alberdt Govertsen, for 30 1/2 sch of wheat

William De Majer vs. Adriaen Gerritsen Van Vliedt, for 25 sch of wheat

William De Meyer vs. Cornelis Fynhoudt, for 10 sch of wheat

II:481
1676 November 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 159
Jan Colyn requests judicial enforcement of a judgment against Dirck Jansen Schepmoes. The hon. court authorizes the officer to enforce the judgment against Dirck Jansen.
[Judicial enforcement, often called execution, means the debtor hasn’t paid what he owes, so the court officer, usually the Sheriff, is authorized to impound and sell some of his property, until debt can be paid from proceeds.]

 

II:385
1676 November 15
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 12
Gorge [George] Porter gives a conveyance (deed) to Jan Reinels [signs with mark; Reynolds?] “the 9th lot in the ‘Ruyge Hoeck.’” Satisfied from the first to the last penny.
Reynels provides conveyance for that lot, plus Lots 7, 8, 11, to Thomas Garton, same day, same entry, also satisfied from the first to the last penny.

II:385-386
1676 November 15, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 13
William Asforbie and Jan Rennels [Reynolds? signs with a mark] exchange land. Reynolds gets from Asforbie “his lot situated on the first piece across the Great Kill,” 20 acres. Asfordt [sic] gets “a lot of land on this side of the Kill,” 10 acres, which Rennels has “by virtue of deed” [does not specify date or from whom]. This document is a double conveyance (deed), not a contract of sale with money due to come in later.
[(signed)] Louys Du Bois
[(signed)] William Asfordbie, the mark R of Jan Reynols
[Probably this is for each of them a complete and unencumbered deed to the new property.]
[See KP 748-749 1675 December 18, when Asfordbie contracts to buy from Jan Broersen a Marbletown farm that matches this description.]
[See II:422 1678 April 17 when Asfordbie sells the Reynolds land to Claes Teunessen Van Clier.]

II:386
1676 November 15, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 14 (top)
Jan Rennels [Reynolds] “declares to cede” [i.e., not a sale or contract of sale; this is more a deed or conveyance, though not using quite that language] to William Nottingham Lots 13 & 14 across Great Kill, 20 acres, by virtue of deed dated 18 April 1670.
[See DRCHSNY XIII p. 450, when “[Robert] Peacock, [Evert] Price, [John] Reynolds” are awarded Lots 13 and 14 on the Second Piece at Marbletown, 1670 April 6, when Governor Lovelace distributed land to soldiers from the English garrison that had been assigned to protect Kingston; the deeds for all of these Marbletown grants assigned by drawing of lots appear to have been dated 1670 April 18.]

 

II:387-388
1676 October 27, Niew Jorcke [date of original document, filed in Kingston no doubt some time later, when William arrived]
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 17
[copy of English original] Nicolaes D. Meyer of New Jorcke, merchant, appoints “my trusty & well beloved sunn William D Meyer” as his attorney in Esopus and elsewhere.
[See II:452 1676 November 15, when William De Majer apparently requests a special council session as attorney for his father.]

II:452
1676 November 15, Kingston (Special Council Session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 203
Special court held at Kingston, November 15, 1676
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers, Justice [of the Peace]
Lieut [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht]
Wm. Nottingham
Jan Eltinge and Jan Bigs

II:453
1676 November 15, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 203
William De Majer, attorney for N. De Majer, vs. Poulus Poulussen, for 43 1/3 sch of wheat and 11 gldrs 10 st. with interest and costs. Requests judicial enforcement; court orders Poulus to pay.
[See KP 746 1675 November 22: As part of purchase of house, Johannes Hoogens was to pay Nicholas De Meyer 60 sch. of wheat that Poulus owed him, plus a new wagon for Poulus. By II:408 1677 December 24 Poulus gives deed to Hoogens, so debt is paid?]

II:453
1676 November 15, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 203
William De Majer vs. Warnaer Hoornbeecq, for 201 1/2 sch of wheat and 19 sch of maize. Requests execution. Court orders Warner to pay.

II:453
1676 November 15, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 203
Wm. Majer vs. Johannes D’Hoogens, for 60 sch of wheat 70 sch of oats

II:453
1676 November 15, Kingston (Special Court, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 203
Wm De Majer vs. Jacob Jansen [Van Etten?] for 37 1/2 sch of wheat with interest

II:453
1676 November 15, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 203
Wm. D’Majer requests that the judgments vs. Claes Claesen, Jan Pietersen, Jan Cornelis, Alberts [sic] Govertsen, Dirck Keyser, and Jacob Jansen [Van Etten?] shall be judicially enforced in behalf of Mr. Nicolas DeMajer.
The officer is authorized to judicially enforce said judgments.
[See II:387 1676 November 18, Albert Govertsen and Dirck Keyser contracts to pay De Meyer.]

 

II:387
1676 November 18, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 15
Alberdt Govertsen owes Mr. Nicolaes De Mayer 41 1/2 sch of wheat “as per judgment on a note.” Will pay next fall [sic] with the first sloop in the year 1677, free on bank in yacht. Mortgages house and lot in village.
[The river typically freezes over sometime in the winter, maybe January to March. So in late fall the village will see the last ship come up the Hudson, and in early spring the first ship. Saying the “first” sloop in the “fall” is peculiar.]
[See II:453 1676 November 15, William DeMeyer request for judicial enforcement of judgment vs. Albert Govertsen.]

II:387
1676 November 18
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 16
Dirck Keyser owes Nicolaes De Mayer 14 sch of wheat plus 12 stivers, will pay next February “of this current year” [i.e. Feb 1676/7], mortgages house and lot in village.
[See II:453 1676 November 15, William DeMeyer request for judicial enforcement of judgment vs. Dirck Keyser.]

II:388-389
1676 November 21, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 18
Henry Pawling provides conveyance (deed) to Dirck Jansen Schepmoes for “a house and lot . . . surrounded by the fence as also a barn” that were sold to Pawling by Thomas Chambers. Satisfied first to last penny.
[See also II:422-423 1678 April 18, attorney for Johan Coly provides deed to Jan Louwersen for house and lot in Kingston, as Capt. Pawling has bought from Schepmoes. Did they trade houses?]
[Pawling had buried a pig, or at least its head, in the cellar before Schepmoes moved into the house. See II:455-456 and 456-457 1677 April 25 for more of the story.]
[See KP 580-581 1665 November 10, contract of sale between Chambers and Pawling for house and lot in village of Wildwyck, with details about size but not location.]

II:389
1676 December 3, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 19
Michiel Modt contracts to sell to George Davits “a certain house and lot and also a garden next to the curtains [stockade walls], having before this belonged to Reynier Van der Coelen,” for 355 schepels of wheat, to be paid by June to “all of those who shall be pointed out by Michiel Modt, and also to those to whom Michiel Modt is indebted—and who are indebted to Gorge Davits.” Deed provided upon payment. Michiel Modt will live in back of house till June, and he can use the barn and stack till a year from next May. Stack and barn belong to Modt, and he “will have to demolish and remove them from the said lot within a year from next May.”
[(signed)] Wessel Ten Broeck, Albert Jansen Van Steenwyck [witnesses]
[(signed)] This is the mark of Michiel De Modt, Joris Davits
[See II:401 1677 April 19, when Mott provides final deed to Davits.]
[See II:475 1675/6 February 23, when council instructs Mott to remove his stack (hay barrack).]

II:478
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 164
Ordinary session held at Kingston, December 12, 1676
Present:
Mr. Gorge Hall [George Hall, Sheriff]
E[dward] Wittaker, constable
Wessel Ten Broeck
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Joost Adriaensen
Hendrick Jochemsen

II:478
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 164
Mr. Hall requests, whereas Abraham DuGooy has run away, that [Hall, as sheriff] may be permitted to attach the effects belonging to [DuGooy], which [Hall] shall find here.
Which is permitted him.
[See II:446 1676 August 12, description of how “Baltus, negro slave of Mr. Gorge Hall . . . severely wounded the wife of Abraham DuGooy.” The DuGooys can perhaps be excused for not finding the climate in this area to their liking.]

II:478
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 164
Capt. Chambers proposes because several officers have asked him to suspend the guard whether it is advisable to do so.
The hon. court decides that every sixth night [each man] shall watch [(dat men om de seste nacht sal waecken)] and that the guard shall be kept in the burghers’ houses [(en de wacht sall worden gehouden in Borgers Huysen)].

II:478-479
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 164
Hendry Paelden [Henry Pawling] vs. Michiel De Mot, for 238 sch of wheat, per agreement
[See II:382 1675/6 March 9.]

II:479
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 164
Willem Nottingham vs. Claes Teunesen [Van Clier]
[Nottingham] demands his [whose?] wages, because he [who?] was under arrest here for two days.
[[This is all.]]

II:479
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 164
At the request of Pieter the miller it is ordered that all of those taking bags to the mill shall mark the same, and by default [i.e., if the bags are not marked] he is not obliged to return the same.

II:479
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 163
To the petition of
Gorge Davits
Pieter Jansen
Davit Davits
Joost Adriaensen
Henderick Kip
Jacob Kool
Jan Evertsen
Cornelis Cornelisen [Woutersen]
Daniel Vervelen
Hendrick Adriaensen
Wm. Beecqman, and
Wm. Majer
the hon. court answers that everything has been arranged with the approval of the Heer governor, that the village is then to be laid out, that they shall build the houses with their fronts to the curtains [stockade walls], and cover the houses with tiles or wood work, and shall build within one year, in case of default they shall incur a fine of 300 gldrs. They shall also again remove the block-houses to the curtains.
[Is this about laying out the village of Hurley? Or the extension of Kingston’s stockade further south? See II:484 1676/7 February 3-4-5, original assignment of lots for homes and land within the third extension of the Kingston stockade, to the south of the previous two extensions, from approximately present-day John Street to present-day Main Street. The names above are not an exact match for the names of lot recipients there, but the timing suggests that this is the area being discussed.]

II:479
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 163
The Heer Grevenraedt is ordered to have his accounts ready by the 27th of December.
[This may be a reference to the time when Isaac Grevenraedt was Schout; when he turned over the job to George Hall, when the British took the colony back from the Dutch in 1674, Grevenraedt would have been expected to provide an account of fines collected, fines still owed, etc. But by now that should be old news. This also, possibly, could be in reference to Gabriel Minvielle’s request for judicial execution against Grevenraedt; see II:452 1676 November 10. More likely it has to do with a special tax the former Schout was supposed to collect in Kingston for repairing Fort James in Manhattan; see II:482-483 1676/7 January 23.]

II:479
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 163 (middle, quite faint)
Mr. Gorge Hall, Jan Willemsen and Joost Adriaensen are permitted to have a gate in the curtains [stockade walls] in front of their pastures for the purpose of carting manure through the same. And are permitted to have a serviceable gate with a lock, and not to use the same in any other manner than for their lands. In case the same should be found open at night time they shall incur the customary fine.

II:479
1676 December 12, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 163 (bottom, appears not to be from council session above)
The hon. court orders Claes [Claesen] Sluyter to pay George Davits the amount of two hundred gldrs, with costs, because [Sluyter] has defaulted [skipped a court appearance after being summoned] three times, and [Davits] has shown the note [the written obligation to pay the debt], and the power of attorney by Mr. Jan Bryn.
[See II:251 1676 November 9, where Jan Hendricks Bruyn gives George Davits power of attorney to collect debts like this.]
[See II:489 1676/7 February 20, probably the same case, same parties involved, now for 228 guilders.]

II:482
1676 December 19, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 158
Ordinary session held at Kingston December 19, 1676
Present:
Mr Gorge Hall, sheriff
E[dward] Wittaker, Constable
[Overseers:]
W[essel] Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Joost Adriaensen
[Note that this list does not match the appointments made on II:480 1676 October 24 above.]

II:482
1676 December 19, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 158
Mr. [George] Hall vs. Claes Claesen [Claesen’s second default]

The same [George Hall] vs. Dirck Hendrix
Hendrix at first looks like a no-show, then appears.
George Hall wants 25 sch of wheat from Hendrix. Hendrix admits he owes it. Council tells him to pay it.

II:482
1676 December 19, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 158
Lowies Du Booys vs. Aerdt Otterspoor; Aerdt’s first default

Dirck Hendrix vs. Jochem Engelbaerdt; Jochem’s first default

II:482
1676 December 19, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 158
In regard to the petition of Mr. Grevenraedt the officer is authorized to go on with the execution in regard to the vendue.
[See II:485 1676/7 February 6, similar entry at a Kingston council session. Isaac Grevenraedt may be seeking confirmation that he is to go ahead with impounding property and selling it at auction to satisfy various people’s debts, a process referred to as “judicial execution” (an auction, in general, is called a “vendue”). Grevenraedt apparently has been tapped to collect a special tax for making repairs to Fort James in Manhattan.]
[See II:479 1676 December 12, when council instructs Grevenraedt to get his accounts ready.]
[But see also II:452 1676 November 10, when Gabriel Minvielle requests, and is granted, judicial execution against Grevenraedt for a debt of nearly 2,000 guilders. It is entirely possible that Grevenraedt has petitioned the court for relief, and the council has determined instead that the execution (sale of Grevenraedt’s assets to raise money to pay the debt) should go forward. In that case the “officer” referred to above would likely be the Sheriff, George Hall.]

II:499
1676 December 22, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 9
[Volume 5 of the original Dutch manuscripts starts with a few pages that catalog the delivery of several books of records to the Kingston clerk, then dives into a series of minutes from Hurley and Marbletown council meetings.
[Typically the minutes from each of these meetings start at the top of a page, then at the end of a meeting (which sometimes is less than a full page), blank space intervenes, possibly the reverse of the page is blank, and then the next meeting begins on a new page.
[The impression is that when the minutes were taken, they were composed on loose sheets, not entered in a bound register. Often it appears the minutes were composed only on the front side of pages, with the reverse sides left blank. Later, these individual pages were bound together. Significantly, many appear to have been bound out of order.
[Very possible: Each set of minutes was kept on a single folded sheet of paper (a folio), with four “pages” (two recto, two verso). So in Volume 5, Pages 9-10-11-12 or 13-14-15-16 may be single folded sheets, which later were collected and bound. In the case of 13-14-15-16, minutes appear on 13 (the front), then 14 and 15 are blank (the inside pages), then 16 has been used as a scratch sheet to add various sets of numbers. With 17-18-19-20, it appears that 19 was the original "front" page, with minutes starting there, then continuing on 18, then 20, and finishing on 17. The order within each four-page set is not consistent, and the wear pattern on the pages (torn corners vs. square edges etc.) still suggests that some records were on single sheets (for example 21-22), and not all of these minutes originally were kept together.
[As Versteeg occasionally notes, these minutes appear to have been much less scrupulously recorded than the minutes Montagne took at Kingston meetings. Frequently the list of officers present is abbreviated or omitted entirely. Notes are sometimes so sparse that it is difficult to tell what a case was about.]
Ordinary Session held at Horly December 22, 1676
[Minutes do not include list of officers present. Officers appointed II:452, 1676 Nov 10:
Louis Dubois, constable
Lambert Huybertsen, magistrate/council member
Gerrit Cornelissen, magistrate/council member]
[Minutes include a list of decisions of council at end of session, II:500. For ease of reading, they are included here right after each case.]

Mr. [George] Hall vs. Melgis Klaes
[Hall] demands 73 guilders, and further a “vleghte” [?] fence which [Klaes] was to erect around his [Hall’s?] pasture, which he [Klaes] ought to have made last year—with all costs and damages.
[Klaes] says that he agreed to put up the fence for eleven ells of Osinborgh linen, and that he only received fifty gldrs for cleaning the valley.
[Klaes] admits owing 39 gldrs.
[Klaes] admits having agreed to erect the fence.
[II:500] Melger Klaes is ordered to erect the fence, and to pay 39 gldrs and all costs.
[Osnaburg linen is a coarse fabric made from flax; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osnaburg .]
[Melger may be Melchior Klaes or Melger Klaes; in KP see Mlecher Claes, 745.]

II:499
1676 December 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 9
Jacob Aertsen vs. J[an] Elton [Elting]
[Aertsen] demands of Jan Elton 84 sch of wheat.
[Elting] admits the debt but says that [Elting?] promised to pay [Aertsen?] 30 sch of wheat—with costs.
[II:500] Jan Elton is ordered [[to pay]] as per the contract.

II:499
1676 December 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 9
Frederick Hossy vs. Jacob Jansen Van Etten
[Hossy] demands of [Jansen] the value of 200 sch. of wheat.
[Jansen] says having paid on the same:

24 sch of wheat
2 sch of wheat
3 sch in peas
8 sch in maize
_____
37
200 – 37 = 163 sch

[Hossy] admits the same.
Fredrick Hossy says that he owes De Majer and is to pay interest. Requests that Jacob Jansen shall also pay the same.
Jacob Jansen says that he will not pay interest.
[Versteeg both times writes first “in peas,” then opts for “interest.” Peas in Dutch are erwten. Dutch word for interest (financial payment) is rente.]
[[The above “Majer” may mean “Mower”; may also mean Majer or De Majer the great merchant.]]
[II:500] The hon. court orders [Jansen] to pay as per bill of sale.
[See II:406-407 1677 December 19, Hussey assigns to Nicolaes De Mayer, merchant at New York, 298 schepels of wheat that Jacob Jansen Van Etten owes to Hussey, originating from a purchase of land (which has not been traced in these records).]

II:500
1676 December 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 12. (Pages 10 and 11 are blank.)
A? Teunisz? F? Tenunisz? [[this name is illegible in orig.]] vs. Gerrit Cornelissen
[See II:505, Arent Teunisen, different transaction.]
[Teunisz], having bought of Gerrit Cornelissen a lot and house, and having paid for the same, therefore demands a conveyance [deed].
[Cornelissen] says being willing to make the transfer as soon as he shall have the deed [from whomever he bought from], and has sold [[the property]] under that condition.
[Cornelissen is on the town council.]
[See III:37-39 1683 April 6, and other dates listed there, for long case between Gerrit and Thomas de Lavall over land de Lavall bought but did not get; Cornelissen still owed Jan Thoomassen the final payment and had not received the deed for it.]
[II:500] Gerrit Cornelis is ordered to furnish a transfer [deed].
[See, maybe, II:391 1676/7 January 27, when Arent Teunissen contracts to sell to Michiel Modt a house and lot at Hurley, possibly this one.]

II:500
1676 December 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 12
Lowies Du Booys vs. Roelof Swartwoudt (default)
[[This entry is marked “fout” or mistake in original.]]
[Dubois] demands 5 sch. of wheat as per appraisement, and [[says]] that [Swartwoudt] has called him names.

II:500
1676 December 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 12
Lambert Huybertsen requests a lot opposite [(over)] his dam, which is granted him.
[[“Over” also means across.]]

 

II:389-390
1676 December 29, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 20
Albert Govertsen provides conveyance (deed) to Wm. Fisher for “a certain cellar and lot next to Roelof Swardtwout’s,” which Govertsen owns “by virtue of conveyance by Thoomas Harmensen.” Fisjer conveys lot to Jacobus Elmendorp in same document.
[See KP 681 1670 June 9, contract of sale from Hermansen to Govertsen for cellar, barn, and lot, payment to be made January 1670/1, 1671/2, 1672/3, deed (conveyance) to be delivered after. Lot was swapped the day before (same KP page) by Edward Wittekar, who had owned it; Hermansen gave him in exchange a house, lot and garden “outside the fort” that had belonged to Jan Hendricksen. The lot that goes from Harmensen to Govertsen to Fisher to Elmendorp was owned (before Wittekar) by Jeronimus Ebbingh, probably meaning Johanna de Laet.]

1677

Jan-Feb-Mar

II:390
1677 January 8
Mattue Blanchan Sr. contracts to sell distillery, mill and lot to Jacques [Montagne writes it as Jacus] du Bois for 500 sch of wheat, to be paid over 5 years. Blansjan “shall be at liberty to himself distil three or four anckers of brandy every year until the full payment shall have taken place.” Deed provided “as soon as the purchaser shall want it, free and unencumbered.” Louis Du Bois and Nicolas Dupuis co-sign.
[Jacques Dubois dies before this payment is complete. See II:494 1677 October 26, when Blanchan demands that Jan Pietersen, new husband of Dubois’s widow, fulfill the contract of Jacob Dubois.]
[See II:411 1677 December 30, when Pietersen commits to honoring the deal Dubois had made with Blanchan. The arrangements get more complicated. See numerous notes at that date enumerating the twists as Blanchan waits to be paid.]

II:390-391
1677 January 9
Peter Cornelissen contracts to sell to Wallerand Dumont a parcel next to Wallerand Du Mont for 28 sch of wheat (to be paid next winter). Cornelissen bought it from Anthony Crupel (Crispell); Wallerand will furnish 2 morgens for Peter for one summer for Peter to grow peas “for his own benefit.” Deed is not mentioned.
[See II:437 1678 September 7, Cornelissen provides deed to Du Mont.]
[See KP 700 1671 April 3, Crispell contracts to sell to Cornelissen, with description: “certain piece of arable land, situated under this village of Kingston, on this side of the kill, next to the land of Mattys Matthysen, which parcel of land is a portion of the farm of Aert Martens[en Doorn], the extent of which is expressed in the deed when bought of Aert Martens.” Deed from Doorn is dated July 8, 1666. Sales contract appears to include deed and conveyance. See also KP 608-609 1666 July 8, with further metes and bounds; Doorn’s wife Geertruyd Andriessen is prominently named in the agreement (and the one before); the property may have belonged originally to her with her prior husband, Jacob Jansen Stol (Slyckoten).]
[Pieter Cornelissen Louw is of the Blanchan-Dubois clan, married to Elizabeth Blanchan; see II:250 1676 November 1.]

II:482-483
1676/7 January 23, Kingston (extraordinary council session, all three villages)
[Context: The colony has levied a special tax for repairs on Fort James in Manhattan. The councils of the three villages in the Esopus (Kingston, Hurley, Marbletown) meet together to evaluate progress on collecting the tax. The tax is “voluntary,” which means that the council can demand individuals pay it, subject to judicial enforcement. Typically the colony administration sets a total, expects the village council to pay the total, and leaves it to the local leaders to determine how to collect it from individuals. Taxes typically are calculated proportionate to a household’s financial capability. There is reference here to a “two hundredth penny” tax, i.e. a tax of 0.5% on assessed worth. This is similar to the formulation of “the third sheaf” or “the fifth sheaf” when a landlord is charging rent of 1/3 or 1/5 of a crop’s yield.]
Extraordinary session held at Kingston January 23, 1676/7
Present:
Capt [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Sheriff [George] Hall
and the courts of the 3 villages [Kingston, Hurley, Marbletown; members not named individually]

The Heer [Isaac] Grevenraedt submitted his accounts. And he shows that four hundred and fourteen gldrs have been paid out of the village treasury in voluntary contributions, to be demanded from the persons who are in debt in regard to the voluntary contributions, viz. for repairing the fort at New Yorcke:
Anderies Pietersen 24 gldrs
Gerridt Aerdtsen 90 "
Hendrick Aerdtsen 24 "
Jacoobus Elmendorp 24 "
Jan Jansen 24 "
Mattue Blansjan 180 "
Roelof Swartwoudt 48 "
[[Together]] 414 guilders
Which persons are ordered to pay said contributions, without further suit, under penalty of execution, within twice twenty four hours.
[Gerrit Aertsen and Jacobus Elmendorph are brothers-in-law from the clan of Aert Jacobsen, with a farm just south of Kingston, north of Hurley, roughly in the area of Wassemaker’s Land, neighbors of Tjerck Claesen DeWitt and Allert Heymans Roose. Hendrick Aerdtsen is not a named heir in this family; he may be son of a different Aert.]
[For Matthew Blanchan’s refusal to pay, see II:485 1676/7 February 6 below, when he is subject to confiscation of property to cover his debt.]
[See II:479 1676 December 12, when Isaac Grevenraedt is instructed to have his accounts ready for this reckoning.]
[II:483]
The excise of the Heer Colve has been liquidated, so that there is no more in the hands of the collector than the attached 800 gldrs.
The general accounts amount to: 2618 gldrs
Said account of expenses, divided in three parts, amounts to:
For Kingston, 1,744 gldrs
for Horly 436 gldrs
for Marbleton 436 gldrs
[Sic: total of those three is actually 2616.]
Kingston is indebted, not counting the excise, to the amount of 1696 gldrs
Still [in addition] for Montagne: 773 "
Horley is still indebted to the amount of 485 gldrs
Marbleton 495 "
Still [in addition], Joost Adriaensen for costs of pews: 18 "
It was also resolved upon to pay the two hundredth penny to the Heer governor.
[Heer Colve is Anthony Colve, who was governor under the recent Dutch administration, before the English took over the colony again. Taxes and fees collected under the Dutch evidently were accounted separately from the taxes and fees collected under the new administration. Isaac Grevenraedt was Schout under Colve and responsible for collecting many of the taxes and fees at that time.]

II:483
1676/7 January 23, Kingston (extraordinary council session, all three villages, continued)
By order of the Heer governor, Eduward Wittaker and Thoomas Mattys were permitted to live near their land, upon condition that their cattle shall not cause damage to anybody.
[Wittaker has been living in Kingston, in a house and lot he bought from Tjerck Claessen DeWitt. His land is roughly north of the village, adjacent to Thomas Chambers’s Foxhall Manor. For Thoomas Mattys, see next council minute, II:483 1676/7 January 27.]

II:483
1676/7 January 23, Kingston (extraordinary council session, all three villages, continued)
Alberdt [Albert] Jansen [van Steenwyck] requests to be released from his office as court messenger, which is permitted him, and in his place was appointed Jan Waerdt [John Ward].

 

II:391
1676/7 January 27
Arendt Teunesen contracts to sell to Michiel Modt a house and lot at Hurley, of same extent as shown by surrounding fence, with everything fixed in the ground and fastened by nail, except a stack belonging to Swardt Wodt [Swartwout? see II:398 for similar usage], and also 4 1/2 gardens, of which he gets two next spring, two and a half next May. 123 sch of wheat, “all kinds of grain at market prices,” installments over 3 years. Deed after payment. In regard to gardens, Teunesen will “deliver the judgment of the court,” hmmm.
[See, maybe, II:500 1676 December 22, Hurley, Arent Teunissen, having bought a house and lot from Gerrit Cornelissen, demands the deed.]
[See II:505 1677 March 20, Arent Teunisen wants Michiel Modt to pay him for the house and lot.]
[See II:254 1679 April 1, De Modt sells probably same house and lot to Claes Claesen Sluyter. No deed for either sale appears in these records.]

II:391-392
1676 (1677?) January 27, at Kingston
Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen will make for Pieter Cornelis “a piece of work . . . a shed, built of stone. viz. cliff-stone, 8 feet high, back of the house, 20 feet wide, 25 feet long, with loft and floor and doors and a transom-window,” Pieter Cornelissen will furnish shingles and all materials, boards, nails, stone, etc., and also food and drink. Cornelis will go to work next May. 50 sch of wheat. “And if, during the time that the work is in progress, Cornelis Woutersen loses a week by negligence, he shall pay one sch. of wheat, and in case Cornelis Woutersen should have to wait a week for any materials, then Pieter Cornelissen shall also pay a sch. of wheat.”
[For unclear reasons, Cornelis Woutersen is referred to also as Cornelis Cornelissen, generally with both names appearing in the same contract, as if to make clear they were one and the same.]
[Pieter Cornelissen Louw is of the Blanchan-Dubois clan, married to Elizabeth Blanchan; see II:250 1676 November 1.]
[See https://www.jwwerner.com/history/FROGALLEY.html, including photos of the house that stood here, 18-22 Converse Street, possibly the house Woutersen built, by 2021 in considerable disrepair, still standing in 2025 at approximately 36 Frog Alley in Kingston. House is also mentioned at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blanchan-3 , with further family details.]

II:483
1676/7 January 27, Kingston (apparently a special council session)
[no customary header, other than the date]
This January 27, 1676/7
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Eduward Wittaker [Constable]
Joost Adriaensen [“Overseer,” council member]
Hendrick Jochemsen [“Overseer,” council member]

Whereas Thoomas Mattys and Susan Merrit’s marriage bans were being called, why she has prevented the bans?
[She] Answers that she has changed her mind.
They have, in the presence of the court, released each other from their promises. At the request of William Leecq and Susan Merrit they are permitted to marry and their bans will be called in church next Sunday.
[See III:162-163 1682 November 17 when Mattys and Leecq (Leege, Leegh) request and are granted a parcel of land together.]

II:483-484
1676/7 February 3, Kingston (apparently a special council session)
[no customary header, other than the date]
This Feb. 3, 1676/7
Present:
Capt [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
The Hon. Court

The peace has been renewed with the Esopus savages, named [[left open]]. They all signed the articles. They were asked what claim Kaelkop makes in regard to some land.
Answer they do not lay claim to any land. Were asked why Kaelkop was not also present? Answer that he feels ashamed.
They were further asked whether they are willing to sell all the land they have, good as well as bad, mountains as well as valleys?
Answer that Mitsajay is willing to sell his land. In regard to the others they will first see all the partners about it and will then decide.
Lowies DuBoojs was asked why he made an agreement with the savages, without order? [handwriting unclear]
[II:484]
Mitsajay says that Lowis Du Booys made a contract with him, and said: “I shall show it to the court, and in case the hon. court will not permit it I shall show it to the Heer Governor, and in case he will not permit it then the purchase is annulled,” and Lowis has shown a list concerning the purchase of the land.
Lowies DuBooys says that the savages called on him several times, that they would give him land, under condition that the land— [[here it breaks off]]
[It is worth noting that Kaelkop, a name that comes up frequently, is a Dutch nickname that means “bald head” (cf. Kael Berg, “Bald Mountain”), and likely not the name this sachem used at home.]
[See II:491 1676/7 March 6, Louis Dubois asks whether there’s news, II:452, 10 November 1676, sending for the sachems.]
[See DRCHSNY XIII 506-507 1677 May 26, final agreement on transfer of land that becomes New Paltz, including land as far east as the banks of the Hudson River.]
[See II:474 1675/6 January 22, renewal of the peace.]
[See II:493 1677 April 27, confirming the peace before Governor Andros.]
[See DRCHSNY XIII, pp. 399-402, original 1665 treaty between Nicolls and Kingston’s Esopus neighbors (renewing Stuyvesant’s 1664 treaty), and renewals 1669, 1670, 1671, 1674, 1676, 1677, 1678, 1680, 1681, 1682, with various participants over the years.]

II:484
[undated, prob. 1676/7 February 3-4-5], Kingston (no headers from a council session or other meeting)
[This is the original assignment of lots for homes and land within the third extension of the village stockade, to the south of the previous two extensions, from approximately present-day John Street to present-day Main Street. The lots are numbered but mostly not otherwise described. Subsequent property records can be consulted to determine locations and relations to each other.]
New extension of the village
No. 1 [Henry?] Beeckman
No. 2 William De Meyer, through Wessel Ten Broeck, together the length of Jan Jansen’s lot
[Note that no lot is assigned to Jan Jansen Van Amersfoort. For a more detailed explanation, see II:495, 5 July 1679, when Jan Jansen deeds part of his lot to William De Mayer and Jacob Staets.]
One half of it conveyed to Jacob Staedts by Wessel Tenbroeck
No. 3 Jacob Barents[en Cool]
No. 4 [Cornelis] Hoogeboom, Weseel Ten Broeck
No. 5 Dirck Kyser
[bracketed note indicating both No. 4 and No. 5] the length of the Norman’s garden, each 28 paces or 64 feet
No. 6 Marten Hofman
The Church yard
No. 7. Jan Waerdt, 21 paces or 63 feet [John Ward]
No. 8. Robbeson
No. 9 Sueryn Ten Houdt
No. 10 Willem Beeck [Beeckman?]
No. 11 Hendrick Adriaensen
[See II:479 1676 December 12, Kingston, petition regarding extension, description of how lots are to be arranged.]
[The original 1658 stockade enclosed the northeast quarter of today’s “Stockade District,” roughly from the street known in 2025 as Clinton Avenue to Wall Street, North Front Street to John Street. In spring 1661, the stockade was expanded west to approximately Green Street; in 1669-70 the southern wall was pushed another half-block south to roughly the south edge of today’s courthouse and the north edge of the property where the Old Dutch Church sits. (The village’s original worship space was in a loft within the 1658 stockade; in 1661 it moved to Lot 21 in the New Lots; in 1670 Governor Lovelace complained to the town council that they had not pushed the new wall far enough south to enclose the burial grounds, which were more or less where the graveyard around the Old Dutch Church is today.) So the lots being assigned in this new, final extension of the stockade wall will be the ones along the north side of today’s Main Street, from Clinton to Green Street. See https://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/genealogy/dewitt/tjerck/#curtain-wall for some sketches of the expansions. With each expansion of the village, some of the perimeter structures like gates and guardhouses had to be relocated. Generally lots for houses and gardens were set back from the stockade wall, making the space next to the wall effectively a street for all to use. As the walls were pushed back, the streets evidently remained in use, separating blocks of houses. Lots were large enough to include some combination of a house and vegetable garden, a barn, a hay barrack, and room to practice a trade, whether smithing, brewing, saddlemaking, or similar. The old Dutch records do not distinguish between homes and taverns; the word for either (in translation) is “house.” Tapster excise lists give some clues, as do some records of the sale of a still or a fight that erupted in someone’s “house” and spilled out into the street.]
[Original assignment of lots inside the first, smaller stockade can be found at DRCHSNY XIII 195 1661 May 2. First expansion of stockade, at DRCHSNY XIII 230 1662 September, came with a new list of owners in the original stockade area and a list of owners who had been assigned the “New Lots.”]
[In 1669-70, the stockade was expanded again, at the direction of Governor Lovelace, and more new lots were assigned. For the purposes of maintaining the stockade (each inhabitant was responsible for a specific section of the palisade wall), lots were renumbered, 1 to 43, and a list of all property owners was put together, which can be found at KP 461-462 1671 May 15.]

 

II:392
1676/7 February 5
Thomas Newton [signs Thomas Newton; Montagne writes Thoomas Nuton] contracts to sell to Pieter Jansen a certain lot and house “standing in this village [Kingston?], viz. the lot across from a stake in the rear [(after)] of the lot, till a post of the gate, and further, with everything fixed in the ground and fastened by nail to the same, being the remainder of the lot having prior to this belonged to Eduwart Wittaker.” Pieter gets possession next April; he will pay “once for all” 124 sch of wheat, “in two installments,” in wheat and white peas, 10 September 1677 and 20 September 1678. Deed provided after payment. Newton to live in house till next fall. Jansen paying first installment by assigning to Newton what’s coming to him next spring from other people.
[Thomas Newton does not seem to have lingered in the Esopus; this is the only spot his name is found in the Kingston records. He is perhaps the same Thomas Newton referred to in a 1655 letter about conflicts on Long Island; see DRCHSNY XIII p. 41. Possible explanation: Newton bought house and lot from Wittaker, in a document not part of this record, then agreed to sell them to Jansen, in the document above, then left Kingston (or died). It was not uncommon at the time for buyers and sellers to transfer payment obligations; Newton could have left it to Jansen to pay Wittaker the balance of what Newton still owed him for the property, after which Wittaker would give a deed directly to Jansen, rather than to Newton. Transactions like this were frequently recorded; absent a documentary trail, the above is strictly conjecture. See possibly related transfers (deeds) from Wittaker to Pieter Jansen, II:471-472 1679/80 March 1. (See also II:410 1677 December 28, the original contract for one of these transfers.)]
[Note that Pieter Jansen and his brother (?) Jan Jansen later exchanged properties in Kingston; see II:636-637 1682 August 22.]
[Lot location is not clear. The “post of the gate” could be a reference to one of the posts bracketing the Mill Gate in the NW corner of the village, if this is the lot Wittaker bought from Tjerck Claessen DeWitt in that location.]

 

II:484
1676/7 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary session held at Kingston February 6, 1676/7
Present:
Mr. Gorge Hall, sheriff
Eduward Wittaker, constable
[Overseers/Council Members:]
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Hendrick Jochemsen
Joost Adriansen

[First few items are “defaults,” in which the defendant does not appear in response to the summons. Ordinarily after three defaults the case is decided in the absence of the missing party.]

Mr. Hall vs. J. Jansen (1st default)
The same vs. Tomas Quyck (1st default)

Jan Cornelisen vs. Tierck Claesen (1st default, but see below)

II:484-485
1676/7 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Cornelisen vs. Cornelis Fynhoudt, for 19 1/2 sch of wheat

II:485
1676/7 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Tjerck Claesen [DeWitt], having appeared [in case brought above by Jan Cornelisen], claims damage for a gun which has been standing there so long [(dat soo lange daer is blyven staen)]. Parties are referred to good men—or the gun is to be returned in the same good condition as the same has been received.
[See below, II:486, same session; the two settle their dispute.]

II:485
1676/7 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes] vs. Cornelis Fynhout, for 12 1/2 sch of wheat
[Fynhout] says that on account of a horse the “leenw” is to be deducted but admits owing 54 gldrs [9 sch of wheat].
The hon. court orders [Fynhout] to pay the amount of 54 gldrs—and [court] expenses.
[Versteeg struggles to decipher what word “leenw” is supposed to represent; the original handwriting can be examined online at the Ulster County Archives site (using the same spelling Versteeg does).]

II:485
1676/7 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
In regard to the petition of the Heer [Isaac] Grevenraedt, the officer is ordered to proceed with the execution.
In regard to the auction [vendue] in behalf of Mattue Blansjan there is replied that they still confirm the previous order dated January 23, 1676/7 [see above, II:482-483] that Blansjan shall pay the voluntary contributions. To enter a claim concerning the reed [deed?] against those having committed the act, because the deed was done at another village.
[See similar entry above, II:482 1676 December 19. The last sentence here is perplexing. Words may be left out. Possibly the council is telling Blanchan that if he objects, he needs to take it up with the council that initiated the tax, i.e. in Manhattan.]

II:485
1676/7 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Decree in regard to the Sabbath and also in regard to the curtains [stockade walls around the village] and the fences around the land.
Their honors of the court having observed the desecration of the Sabbath of the Lord which is absolutely at variance with God’s commands, being a case of evil consequences in provoking God, and if the same be not discontinued God’s just judgment and punishment may be expected on account thereof, therefore their honors in accordance with their duty and their office prohibit as they are doing by the present, anybody, whoever it be, from desecrating the Sabbath by cursing, singing, dancing, getting drunk, riding or hunting or other abuses. Those being thus found to transgress shall therefore pay to the officer 25 gldrs, or by default of payment be confined during one day in the stocks, before every body’s eyes [(voor alle mans oogen)].
[II:486]
Everybody is also ordered to have his portion of the fences serviceable by April 12th next, under penalty of all claims which may be advanced.
Everybody, also, shall have his share in the curtain in a satisfactory condition by April 12th.
By the present [[the decree]] prohibiting anybody from having unapproved stallions is also renewed.
[For original decree on stallions, see KP 456-457 1671 February 22, also KP 464 1671 June 13.]

II:486
1676/7 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Cornelissen and Tierck Claesen, having re entered, have settled their case.
[See above, same session.]

 

II:500
1676/7 February 8, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 13
[See notes about Hurley and Marbletown council minutes at II:499 1676 December 22.]
This Feb 8, 1676/7 at Horly
Present:
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
Lowis Du Boojs [Constable for Hurley; see II:480 1676 October 24]
Gerrit Cornelissen [Overseer/council member for Hurley]
Lambert Huyberts [Overseer/council member for Hurley]
Constable [Robert] Biggerstaf [Constable for Marbletown]
Mr. [William] Asforbie [Overseer/council member for Marbletown]
W[illiam] Jansen [Overseer/council member for Marbletown]
[This is apparently a joint session for both Marbletown and Hurley councils.]

Mr. Hall vs. R[oelof] Hendr[ix], A. Hymans [Allert/Albert Heymans Roose], Gerrit Cornelissen, A. Crupell [Anthony Crispel], Michiel Modt
[Hall] demands the fine of 50 gldrs, as per an order of the court, owing to being negligent in [[here it stops]]. [(wegens fout van—)]
Gerrit Cornelessen says that his fence was ready, but he had been prohibited to pay [(maer was hom verbooden te betaelen)].

II:500-501
1676/7 February 8, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
The Heer [William? or Henry?] Beecqman vs. Warnaer Hoornbeecq
[Beecqman] demands a balance of 170:16, to be delivered free on the bank, and expenses and interest for the 6 years [Hornbeecq] has been owing the same. Hoornbeecq admits the debt.
The Heer Beecqman says that it must be delivered free on the bank.
[Hoornbeecq] says that he cannot pay this year; therefore [Beecqman] wants interest of the entire amount of 206 [[gldrs?]].
The hon. court orders [Hoornbeecq] to pay or else to agree.

II:501
1676/7 February 8, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Woutersen vs. Adrian Gerritsen for 14 1/2 sch. of wheat; Gerritsen defaults.

Pieter Jansen vs. Warnaer Hoornbeecq for 10 sch [of wheat, equivalent to 60 guilders] and 2 gldrs. Hoornbeecq admits owing only 56 guilders and is ordered to pay that.

 

II:392-393
1676/7 February 12
Orseltie Dirx contracts to sell to Michiel De Modt a still [[distilleer ketel]] with all the hose and three casks, for 127 sch of wheat to be paid in a year from next winter. De Modt gets the still right away, but not allowed to sell it until it’s paid for.
[(signed)] Albert Jansen, as witness; Poulus Voorsz[[?]]
[(signed)] the mark of + Orseltie Dirx, by herself; the mark of Michiel De Mot, by himself
[See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dircks-32 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mot-2 . I have not checked sources to verify these, but the story they tell: Ursula (Orseltie) Dircks from Hamburg married Jan Hendricksen at Hilligersberg, near Rotterdam, 25 October 1653; she was unmarried but already had a son Pieter van den Vos; Jan became Pieter's guardian March 1654. Husband and wife both worked at the brewery Het Witte Paert (the White Horse) in Leuvehaven (Rotterdam harbor). On 29 August 1655 Tuenis Jacobs, unmarried man from Beckum, living at Pannekoekstraat, registered in Rotterdam to marry Orsel Dircks, widow of Jan Henricksen. She came to New Netherland with two children, 2 years and 10 months old, on De Moesman, 1 May 1658. She and new husband Antonis Jansen Westbroek lived in Flatbush on Long Island and then Albany, running a tavern on the south side of State Street, east of Broadway, bought 14 January 1662, sold 15 July 1668. They appear to have buried two children (they rented the small pall from the church), 30 November 1662 and 11 June 1664. On 18 August 1662 Anthony in Rensselaerswyck gives Jan Hendricks Bruyn power of attorney to go back to Rotterdam and collect some things (probably an inheritance) on behalf of Anthony’s wife Orsseltje Dircks. In Kingston council KP 499 1673 June 24 “Orseltje [widowed again?] requests a place for a distillery, lower down near Wyncoop’s meadow.” KP 516 1674 May 21 she repeats the request, adding “near Michiel Modt’s,” and it is granted. On 22 December 1678 at Hurley (in Kingston church records), she sponsors the baptism of her granddaughter Marya, daughter of Michiel de Moth and Annetie Westbroek. So in the record above, she is registering the sale of a still she perhaps brought down from Albany to her son-in-law.]

 

II:486
1676/7 February 13, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary session held at Kingston, February 13, 1676/7
Present:
Mr. [George] Hall, Sheriff
Eduward Wittaker, constable
[Overseers/Council Members:]
Wessel Ten Broeck
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Joost Adrians

Mr. Hall vs. Jan Jansen for 222 guilders
[This goes to judicial enforcement at the next session; see II:488 20 Feb 1676/7]

Nicolaes Anthony as attorney for his father vs. Michiel Modt, for £1-18-3, “still [in addition] for Winder” 3 shillings

Joost Adriaensen vs. Michiel Mot for 54 sch of wheat and two guilders

II:486
1676/7 February 13, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Cornelissen vs. Hendrick Jochemsen
[Jan] demands the amount of 61 gldrs. [Hendrick] admits the debt but demands as a counter-claim 8 1/2 beavers for Poulus Raedemaecker, which [Jan] denies.
The hon. court orders Hendrick Jochemsen to pay the demanded amount. In regard to the rest, he shall adduce better proof.
[Unclear which Poulus in town is the wheelmaker (raedemaecker). He is mentioned again in the inventory of Cornelis Barentsen Slecht’s estate, II:597-598 1684 October 8. Candidates are Poulus Poulussen (likely brother of Gomert Poulussen) and Poulus Cornelissen (possibly father of both). Others mentioned in records included Poulus Berry, Poulus de Boer, Poulus Voorsz. Arent Gerritsen is identified as a wheelwright in KP, as is Poulus (again no other name), KP 445 1670 May 31, when Poulus appears to be out of town.]

II:487
1676/7 February 13, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Montagne vs. Albert Govertsen for 145 gldrs, and some fees for writing

Cornelis Fynhout vs. Claes Claesen (1st default)

II:487
1676/7 February 13, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
DeNeys [?] Hegeman vs. Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
[Hegeman], as attorney for Fredrick Phlipsen, demands the quantity of 100 sch of wheat, for which [Claesen] had become surety. [Claesen] admits but says the surety was for Martin Hofman [(borge was voor M.H.)]. [Hofman is married to DeWitt’s sister Emmerentje.]
The hon. court orders [Claesen] to pay the demanded amount with costs—and to recover the amount from Marten Hofman.
[See next case, same session.]
[See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hegeman-40 .]
[See KP 702 1671 August 8 where Tjerck agrees to become security for 100 sch. of wheat that Marten Hofman owed to Frederick Phlipsen, to be paid in two installments, fall 1671 and spring 1672. Reading between the lines: Martin Hofman travels through the colony frequently, sometimes in Albany, sometimes as far south as New Sweden; he has a home in Manhattan when he meets and marries Tjerck’s sister, but also has a house in Albany later, and see II:484 1676/7 Feb 3-4-5 when he is assigned Lot 6 in the final extension of the Kingston stockade. So in 1671 when Tjerck signed up to vouch for his brother-in-law, possibly Martin was out of town and unable to speak for himself. (Phlipsen normally does business from Manhattan; there must be some story to explain why Martin incurred this debt in Kingston instead of Manhattan.) Now that Phlipsen’s representative has come calling, since Martin is in town again, Tjerck suggests that Mr. Hegeman collect directly from Martin instead of going to Tjerck. Council says Tjerck agreed to pay the obligation, so he should pay it. Next entry shows that Martin is reluctant to pay Tjerck back for it, adding a twist. Martin and Tjerck have other financial entanglements, going back at least as far as when Tjerck administered the estate of his deceased sister Ida, and Martin’s wife Emmerentje was due a significant sum. Martin at that time also agreed to serve as Tjerck’s bill collector (for the estate) in Manhattan. More of that story can also be found in Kingston Papers, ca. 1666.]

II:487
1676/7 February 13, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] vs. Martin Hofman [his brother-in-law]
[Claesen] demands 100 sch of wheat, for which he had become surety. Requests to be relieved of the same.
[Hoffman] says that [Claesen] has enough under him, belonging to [Hoffman], to pay the same. Requests time till next session. Which is granted [to Hoffman].
[See II:491 1676/7 March 6 below.]
[See previous case, same session.]

II:487
1676/7 February 13, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court [[sic]][should be either “Grevenraedt” or “the officer”] is authorized to judicially enforce the judgment vs. Albert Jansen [van Steenwyck, former court messenger], in behalf of Joost Adriaensen.
[Albert has had a year to pay. See original judgment against him II:477 1675/6 February 23.]

 

II:393
1676/7 February 20, at Kingston
Edward Wittaker as attorney for Michiel Garton contracts to sell to Hendrick Jochemsen a parcel of land excepting posts and rails standing on the lot, for 280 sch of wheat, payable in peas and other grains in two [maybe more] installments, “next fall with the last yacht: and the following winter [1677/8] in the middle of winter.” Deed provided after payment. He [Wittaker] accepts in payment two cows for 64 sch of wheat.
[See II:262 1679 October 24, Michiel Garton provides deed to Hendrick Jochemsen for meadow Garton bought from Wittaker.]

II:487
1676/7 February 20, Kingston (apparently ordinary council session)
Kingston February 20, 1676/7 [no further details]
Present:
Sheriff [George] Hall
Constable Edward Wittaker
[Overseers/Council Members:]
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Joost Adriaensen

Mr. Hall vs. Thoomas Quick, for 96 gldrs, with costs
[II:488]
The same vs. Roelof Jansen (1st default)
[See II:490 1676/7 March 6, when Jansen appears at last.]

II:488
1676/7 February 20, Kingston (apparently ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Beecqman vs. Dirck Hendricks
[Beeckman] demands the quantity of 158 lb of hops.
[Hendricks] says that 3 loads must be deducted, yet 4 loads [(dat 3 vrachten moeten ofgaen noch 4 vrachten)].
The hon. court orders Dirck Hendrix to pay the demanded hops, 4 loads whereof are to be deducted, and three remain in question till further proof—with costs—with costs of 5 years.

II:488
1676/7 February 20, Kingston (apparently ordinary council session, continued)
[Mr. Beeckman] vs. Claes Claesen (2nd default)

Hendrick Aertsen vs. Claes Claesen (2nd default)

II:488
1676/7 February 20, Kingston (apparently ordinary council session, continued)
Dirck Hendrix vs. Th [[This was evidently a mistake in the original as the following entry seems to show.]]

Thoomas Quick vs. Dirck Hendrix
[Quick] demands 22 sch of wheat, for sowing [(weegens t gesay)].
[Hendrix] admits the debt.
The hon. court orders [Hendrix] to pay the demanded amount—with costs.
[See related case below, same session.]

II:488
1676/7 February 20, Kingston (apparently ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court authorizes the officer to judicially enforce the judgment vs. Jan Jansen in behalf of Mr. Hall.
[222 guilders; see II:486 1676/7 February 13 above]

II:488
1676/7 February 20, Kingston (apparently ordinary council session, continued)
Dirck Hendrix vs. Thoomas Quick
[See related case above, same session.]
[Hendrix] demands 38 sch of wheat, on account of difficulties with [Hendrix’s] wife [i.e. that were caused by Quick].
Joosje Trophaegen, having been sworn, declares and says having heard that Dirck Hendrix had trouble with Jan Pietersen Hollander.
[II:489]
Then Thomas Quick’s wife [Rymerick Jurianse Westvaal; see https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186062135/thomas-theuniszen-quick ] exclaimed: “Come outside, they will murder each other.” Thereupon Quick came outside with some food and a Knife in his hands. Said they [Hendrix and Hollander] had a quarrel in regard to an axe. Hollander and Griedt [Gooyars, wife of Dirck Hendrix] came together [crossed out: began to quarrel]. Quick was standing with his back against the fence. Griedt said “You [Quick] have also had and made trouble.” Griedt assaulted [Quick] twice, and Quick said to Dirck: “Keep your wife, the devilish whore, away from me.” Then Quick pushed her away from him and said: “There, now, lies the beast.” They right away discovered that one of her legs had been broken.
The hon. court postpones the case till the next session, for the purpose of then examining into everything.
[See II:471 1675 December 13 when Jan Pietersen asked for money from Dirck Hendrix because Hendrix had injured Pietersen in a brawl. Joosje Trophaegen was a witness in that case too, and again it sounds as if Grietje started the fight by attacking a man.]
[See II:489 1676/7 February [27?] below for the conclusion.]

II:489
1676/7 February 20, Kingston (apparently ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court permits Wessel Ten Broeck to dig a ditch from the mountain near the hop garden in a straight line along the valley till the little Kill running from the mill, for the purpose of thus the better draining his land.

II:489
1676/7 February 20, Kingston (apparently ordinary council session, continued)
Jooris [George] Davits, attorney for Jan Bryn, vs. Claes Claesen [Sluyter]
[Davits] demands on account of Johannes DeWitt two hundred twenty-eight guilders in seewan and 12 st. as per a note dated June 21, 1668.
[Claesen] admits the debt
Ordered [to pay it]—with costs.
[[This entry was evidently inserted later on.]]
[Unpacking a bit: Claesen in 1668 probably wrote an I.O.U. to Johannes DeWitt, and DeWitt died, leaving his widow the uncollected obligation; Jan Hendricks Bryn married her, and Bruyn now wants to collect the payment. See II:251 1676 November 9, where Bruyn gives George Davits power of attorney to collect debts like this. See II:479 1676 December 12, when after three non-appearances by Sluyter, the council orders him to pay 200 guilders plus costs, based on the original note and the power of attorney.]
[Johannes DeWitt may be a son of skipper Claes Jansz de Wit, who plied the Hudson in the 1660s; see Correspondence of Jeremias van Rensselaer 1651-1674 (tr. A.J.F. van Laer, Albany 1932) p. 235, just one place his name comes up. See KP 611, Henderick Claesen is “skipper of the scow,” possibly son of Skipper Claes. For Jan De Widt from Seerdam, 24 years old, living at New Amstel, see DRCHSNY XII 340-341 1660 April 9; for Claes de Witt (also on the South River) see DRCHSNY XII 255-256 1659 September 20.]
[Jan DeWitt also is the name of Tjerck Claessen DeWitt’s brother, a ship’s carpenter who travels back and forth from Amsterdam and Ostfriesland to Kingston, but he is a less likely candidate here. That Jan DeWitt registers to marry Geesje Hendricks van Velthuijse 17 May 1670 in Amsterdam ( https://archief.amsterdam/indexen/deeds/80768939-c4f6-4b66-a111-bcc261e653a5?person=961f6b15-fe7a-53f7-e053-b784100aa83b ) and marries her 1 June 1670 ( https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/scans/5001/2.7.1.4/start/0/limit/10/highlight/5 ). He is probably living with his sister Grietje and her husband Jan Hendricx Haen, in Regulierdwarstraet; see https://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/genealogy/dewitt/tjerck/#amsterdam-family . This Jan DeWitt writes his will 31 March 1699 in Kingston (see Anjou).]
[Jan DeWitt is also the name of a son of Tjerck Claessen DeWitt, baptized 14 February 1666 in Kingston.]

 

II:503
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 19
[[The entries appearing on p. 501 (center) and p. 502 evidently belong under the records dated as below, and were entered on wrong page, in original.]]
[2025 note: The session starts on Versteeg II:503 and continues to II:502, then continues on II:504, with the end of the minutes on II:501. Entries on II:501 are mostly the judgments from the cases, entered at the end of the minutes for the session, as well as the last sentence from the final case of the day. The verdicts from II:501 have been re-inserted adjacent to the actual cases they match.
[The jumbled order in Versteeg’s translation matches the order in the original Dutch-language documents, which appear to have been bound into Vol. 5 in reverse order. Page 19 is the first page of the original minutes, continuing on Page 18, a separate leaf. Page 20 (the reverse of Page 19) appears to follow from the bottom of Page 18, and then the record skips to Page 17, on the other side of the leaf that holds Page 18, which includes the last lines of the final case of the day, as well as the council’s verdicts. It appears that the original record was written out of order on the two leaves, and then the pages were bound into the current volume in a confusing order. Page numbers as used here were added later, after the original documents had been rebound. This continues to reinforce the impression that all of these minutes were recorded originally on loose pages, not in a prebound register.]
[See notes about Hurley and Marbletown council minutes at II:499 1676 December 22.]
Horly, February 22, 1676/7
Present: The Magistrates
[Officers appointed II:452, 1676 Nov 10:
Louis Dubois, constable
Lambert Huybertsen, magistrate/council member
Gerrit Cornelissen, magistrate/council member]

Capt. Paelden [Henry Pawling] vs. James Pinnick (3d default)
[Pawling] demands 2 sch of wheat on his own account, 16 on his brother-in-law’s.
[Pinnick is] Ordered to pay after [[or on account of]] three defaults.
[II:501] Robbert Pickey’s [(?)] petition is referred to Capt. Paeldin’s attestation.
[Henry Pawling is married to Neelken Alertsen Roosa, daughter of Aeldert/Albert/Allert Heymans Roosa; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Roosa-23 . She has several brothers; any of them could be the brother-in-law Pawling refers to.]

II:503
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Ragel Ty [Rachel Tyte] vs. Capt Paeldin [Henry Pawling]
[Tyte] demands 253 gldrs 42 st
[Pawling] says not to owe as much, and says that the last time [[she]] did claim fifty gldrs less, and that he has paid nine sch of maize, and says that he is privileged to pay in maize.
[Tyte] says that if, at the time, he had paid, he could have paid in maize, but not now, and that at her last suit she had made a mistake.
Mr. Paeling says that to the best of his knowledge he only had 20 ells of linen and he was charged with 22 ells, and further with one sch of wheat for tobacco. But if she can show it he will be satisfied. Four gldrs the ell of linen.
[II:501] The hon. court orders Capt. Paeldin to pay the entire amount in wheat—the admitted amount.
[Handwriting makes it difficult to know whether she is Tyte or Fyte; see (among other entries) II:443 1678/9 February 8 when she sells house and lot to William Asfordbie.]

II:503
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Rachel Ty[te] vs. Jeremia Kettel
[Tyte] demands 119 gldrs for merchandise.
[Kettel] says having paid on the same:

29 sch of maize
4 sch of rye
4 sch of wheat for a “wollewel”
1 cork [(funt)] for vinegar
4 shirts — 2 shirts
1 sch. of peas [(?—almost obliterated)]

another “wollewil” [[wolvewel? wolf’s skin?]]
bill for 2 days carting with the wagon to fetch the same
6 knitting needles

[[“Wollewil” or “wollewel” may have been an article of dress in those days. If so, the word is at present obsolete and not to be found in the dictionary.]]
[II:501] The hon. court orders Rachel Tyte to settle with Kittel, and to pay each other the balance [(an by balans malcander te voldven)]—the expenses to be paid by the party indebted to the other.

[The above case is at the bottom of Court Records Volume 5, Page 19.]

II:502
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 18
[These entries were apparently added on a page out of order in the original and have been restored to the correct order here; see Versteeg notes and notes above.]
Rachel Fy[te] vs. Ja[mes?] Schot [Scott?]
[Fy] demands 13 1/2 sch. of wheat.
[Schot] says that he had assigned the same on Paelden [Henry Pawling], but admits the debt.
[Schot] Is ordered to pay.

II:502
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Evert Prys [Evert Price] vs. Paeln [Henry Pawling]
[Prys] demands 328 gldrs.
[Pawling] demands for feeding 3 horses 216 gldrs
for a cow 36 "
for rent of a morgen of land 72 "
For 6 days plowing by one horse 18 "
wages during 6 days for one of his servants 18 "
for house rent and fuel 60 "
for [Pawling’s] servant, for harvesting and threshing the grain 170 "
[total: 590 gldrs]
[II:501] The hon. court refers Paeldin and Prys to good men.

II:502
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Evert Prys [Evert Price] vs. Teunes Jacobsen
[Prys] demands 572 gldrs.
[Teunes] denies it, and says they have settled for everything, and offers to prove the same, and produces a counter[[claim]]. He on the contrary demands of [Prys] 107 gldrs, as first claim [(pretentie)] for the land.
[II:501] The hon. court refers Teunis Jacobs and Evert Prys to good men.

II:502
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
William [[no other name in original]] vs. Jan Broersen [Decker]
Requested time which is permitted him.
[See immediately below, II:504, same session, William Fisher vs. Jan Broersen.]

II:502
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Gerrit Clockleyer [(Bell ringer)] vs. Michiel Mott
[Gerrit] demands for a small leather coat he left there 5 sch of wheat.
[Mott] asks why he did not take his coat along? and that the same is torn. Further demands 4 sch of wheat for wages.
[Gerrit] admits owing [Mott] when the work shall be finished, and says that [Gerrit] contracted [Mott] to cut down a cripplebush [(een crupulbosch om te hoecken)].
[Gerrit] says that he only worked by the day.
[II:501] The hon. court orders Michel Mott to pay for the little leather coat [(leer rockje)] 3 sch. of wheat and 4 for his Seed Corn.

[The above case is at the bottom of Court Records Volume 5, Page 18.]

II:504
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 20
William Fisher vs. Jan Broersen [Decker]
[Fisher] says that Jan Broersen has fenced in a portion of [Fisher’s] land, of which [Fisher] had notified [Broersen] by the constable.
Jan Broersen says he knew nothing about it.
William Fisher proves through the constable that the message was left with [Broersen’s] son.
Jan Broersen says that he bought the said land [from] Richard Gaeds [Cage] for 4 sch. of wheat, and maintains that the same has been paid for and bought, and proves by sworn witnesses that he paid for the same.
William Fisjer says that he bought the same and has paid the balance to Tierck Clasen [DeWitt].
And shows by a receipt and conveyance that said lot has been paid for. Asfor[dbie] says that the woman [who?] sold her property for the purpose of satisfying Tierck Claesen.
Tierck Claesen was asked whether he has been paid by order of Caes [Cage], and whether he had been ordered to transfer the same, but that Fisjer looked to Caeds, and took transfer from Caeds and not from Tierck Claesen. [[Something left out?]]
And the land had been partitioned [(afgedeelt)] and delivered before Fisher bought the same of Caeds.
Pieter Hillebrantsen, Roelof Hendrix, Willem Jansen are sworn [as witnesses].
Willem Jansen declares that Jan Broersen bought said land, that Gaeds [Cage] had a piece of land opposite the same [(tegen dat over)] but demanded too much; and sold to Jan Broersen the portion of the lot for 4 sch. and marked the same with a new stick, as far as the same is now fenced in.
Pieter Hillebrantsen [[declares]] the same.
Roelof Hendrix [[declares]] the same, and that he delivered the payment.
[This jumps now to the conclusion of the minutes from this session, on Versteeg II:501, Volume 5, Page 17 in the original Dutch-language manuscript. The final line of testimony from this case is followed by the council’s verdicts in each of the above cases.]
[II:501] William Fisjer says that Tierck Claes has forbidden him to pile any lumber on [Tierck’s] land, for building.

[II:501] The hon. court decides that the first purchase [(de eerste Koop)] of Jan Broersen and Terck [Tjerck Claesen DeWitt] shall be valid in regard to the lot [(de eerste Coop sall stant grypen wegens het erf)].
[Tjerck Claessen DeWitt buys land from Richard Cage in Marbletown (see KP 725-726 1672 November 10), but it is not clear what land he sells to Richard Cage, or William Fisher. The only case found where Tjerck took land from someone as settlement of a debt is II:592 1681 December 16 & 22, Adriaen Fransen transfers land at Mombaccus to Tjerck.]
[Asfordbie’s story might be that a woman (Richard Cage’s widow?) who owed money to Tjerck sold her property to Fisher and had Fisher pay her debt to Tjerck by way of paying for the property. This also does not match any documents in the current record (or KP), but see II:268 1679/80 January 27, a similar transaction where Fisher pays a debt, in this case Leendert Cool’s, and takes over a property in exchange.]

II:501
1676/7 February 22, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
[II:501] Lambert Huybertsen has been appointed examiner of the fences. [[?]]

 

II:393-394
1676/7 February 26
[The following entry, including the additional note from 1679, is on a single sheet in the Dutch original, Liber E p. 29, with no other entries on the page.]
Kingston council grants to Fredrick Hussy a parcel of woodland about 25 morgens [25 was overwritten later, in the same ink as the 1679 entry; original size was 7 morgens], bounded to west by road running [blind? appears to be translator’s scribal slip] behind the Ronduyt, to south by main wagon road; on south runs Ronduyt Kill, on west there runs a small kill. [Probably this is N-E-W-S bounds, but translation is confusing.] In case of necessity he will allow someone to cart “long wood” from the parcel at the foot of the mountain on the water’s edge, where posts and rails can be piled up.
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
[Overseers/council members:]
W[essel] Ten Broecq
J[oost] Adriaensen
D[irck Jansen] Schepmoes

[In different ink, undated:]
Evert Pels is permitted to take as much land from the one side of the path as he can easily get, viz. from the land which belongs to nobody.

[In different ink again:]
II:394
1679 April 29
Court of sessions grants to Frederick Hossy a valley, situated near the falls of the Ronduyt Kill, about 70 morgens, and further 25 morgens of woodland, subject to Hon. Governor’s approval.

[It is unusual in this set of records to have a list of officers present after a land grant from the council, similar to the list of officers present that appears at the start of a council meeting. It appears to function here as a block of signatures affirming the deed. The entry does not appear to come from a sequence of council minutes.]
[See II:575-576 1681 July 11, Frederick Hussy selling to John Garton a parcel of meadow land “lying by the falls,” on the Rondout Creek, meadow as well as woodland. Description says patent is dated 21 July, so it may be a different parcel.]

 

II:489
II:489 1676/7 February [27], [Kingston] (apparently ordinary council session)
Feb 6, 1676/7
[In his manuscript, Versteeg underlines the date, 6 Feb, to indicate what he believes is an error in the original. In this set of minutes, p. 146 in Liber E of the Dutch original, there is no typical “header” information as at the start of most council minutes. The date at the top of the page is in the same handwriting as the rest of the page; it does not appear to have been added later. But the items in the session, particularly Hendrix vs. Quick, suggest that the minutes belong to a February 27 session, not February 6. The entire set of minutes in Dutch fits neatly on one side of a page.]

Jacob Rutgersen vs. Johannes Jurriaensen (1st default)

William Beecqman vs. Johannes Jurriaensen (1st default)

II:489
1676/7 February [27?], [Kingston] (ordinary council session, continued)
Dirck Hendrix vs. Thoomas Quick
[Hendrix] says, as heretofore, that [Quick] has broken [Hendrix’s] wife’s leg, as Joosje Trophaegen, under oath, says that Quick had pushed [Hendrix’s wife] away from him [after she attacked him], and it had been immediately discovered that the leg was broken.
[II:490]
Demands for pain, doctor’s fees and losses 38 sch of wheat and the further expenses.
[Quick] denies having done it.
The hon. court orders [Quick] to pay 15 sch of wheat, with the expenses.
The officer is authorized to judicially enforce the judgment against Quick in behalf of Mr. Hall.
[See II:488-489 1676/7 February 20 above for the first part of this case.]
[Probably the officer, Isaac Grevenraedt, is actually supposed to enforce the judgment on behalf of Mr. Hendrix, who sought the payment. When the Sheriff fines someone for misbehavior, the officer may collect on his behalf, or if the debt is personal and not part of the Sheriff’s official duties (see for example II:488 1676/7 February 20, vs. Jan Jansen). In this case it appears Montagne may have simply put down the wrong name.]

II:490
1676/7 February [27?], [Kingston] (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Volckersen and Jacob Rutgersen request [(versoecken)] the road back of their tannery.

Jacob Aertsen requests a garden across the dam.

 

II:394
1676/7 March 1, Kingston
Leendert Barentsen Cool, living at Marbletown, owes Matthew Blanchan Sr. 74 sch of good winter wheat, to be paid in two years. Mortgages house and lot “in this village.”
[See II:396 1680 May 5, debt is resolved, paid by William Fisher. Note that Leendert is “living at Marbletown”; unclear what house and lot he has in Kingston. He also is granted land at Mombaccus. See II:268 1679/80 January 27, when Cool contracts to sell to William Fisher a house and lot next to Matthew Blanchan’s, probably in Kingston.]
[The original Dutch record is in rebound Liber E, on p. 30 (verso), the back side of the entries starting at II:393-394 1676/7 February 26, which are on p. 29 (recto). Probably the loose sheet translated by Versteeg at II:396 1680 May 5 was meant to be tucked in here, not a few pages later at (apparently) p. 34.]

 

II:490
1676/7 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary session held at Kingston, March 6, 1676/7
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall, sheriff
E[dward] Wittaker, C[onstable]
[Overseers/council members:]
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Joost Adriaensen

II:490
1676/7 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Hall vs. Roelof Jansen
[Hall], as attorney for Jan Coneel [John Connel], demands 158 gldrs, as per judgment. Still [in addition] for Christopel Schaef 4 beavers.
[Jansen] says he has paid on the same 42 gldrs in seewant, and one beaver.
Mr. Hall proves by a letter from [Connel] that nothing had been paid on the same.
[Jansen] is ordered to fully pay as per obligation and judgment—with costs.
[See II:248 1676 October 24 when John Conels gives George Hall power of attorney.]
[Conels has been trying to get this debt paid for some time. See II:478 1676 October 19 (Jansen default), II:488 1676/7 February 20 (Jansen defaults again).]
[See II:399 1676/7 March 27, when Roelof signs an I.O.U. for 55 sch. of wheat deriving from this judgment.]

II:490
1676/7 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Hall vs. Jan Jacobsen Stolle
[Hall] demands, ex officio, by virtue of a decree from the court, the amount of 12 gldrs.
[Stolle] admits the debt.
The hon. court orders [Stolle] to pay—with costs.

II:490
1676/7 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
[Mr. Hall] vs. Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz]
[Hall] demands of [Hendrix] a quantity of 14 sch of wheat [84 guilders], and still [in addition] 4 gldrs.
[Hendrix] admits the debt
The hon. court orders [Hendrix] to pay the demanded amount—with costs.

II:491
1676/7 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
In regard to the petition by Lowies Du booys he is answered that the savages have been spoken to concerning the same, and that the savages, thereupon, wanted time. As soon as the savages return and give their answer the court will reply more fully to the same [[petition]].
[See II:452 1676 November 10, sending for the sachems; II:483 1676//7 February 3, sachems responding to questions. This is about securing the land for a dozen Huguenot families to set up the settlement that eventually becomes New Paltz. For final deal with Esopus, see DRCHSNY XIII pp. 506-507 1677 May 26.]

II:491
1676/7 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Hall vs. Jacob Govertsen, for 7 sch of wheat

Jacob Goverts vs. Hendrie Paeldin [Henry Pawling]
Parties have agreed, by two from the court selected by them, viz. Capt. Chambers and Mr. Hall, that Paeldin shall pay 14 days from date 8 sch of wheat, and next fall still [in addition] 40 sch of wheat—as per obligation—In regard to the expenses, each shall pay one half.

II:491
1676/7 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony, attorney for Samuel Edsael, vs. William Leecq
[Anthony] demands one pound 8 sh.
[Leecq] admits the debt.
[Anthony] says that [Leecq] is obliged to pay the debt where he has contracted the same.
The hon. court orders [Leecq] to deliver the payment here at Kingston—with costs.

II:491-492
1676/7 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] vs. Martin Hofman [his brother-in-law]
[DeWitt] requests that Martin Hoffman shall pay the 100 sch of wheat for which [DeWitt] has become security.
[Hoffman] claims [Tierck owes him] 80 sch of wheat, of which he has lost at least one half, because he sold it at half its value, also claims 7 beavers. The seven beavers are admitted by Tierck Claesen—but there is yet one pistol and other effects coming to him—but says still [in addition] to have a private account:
[II:492]
For a half aem [[about 20 gallons]] of wine, 200 gldrs
Still [in addition] for Harmon Hj, 108 "
To Kip 120 "
Marten Hofman is ordered to pay the 100 sch of wheat—but may deduct the admitted 7 beavers [[sic]]. And at the next session of the court [Tjerck is] to prove his private account.
[See II:487 1676/7 February 13 above.]

 

II:394-395
1676/7 March 7, Kingston
Joost Adriaensen and Willem Montagne, attorneys for Jeronimus Ebbinck [husband of Johanna De Laet], appear before council to provide conveyance (deed) to Thoomas Mattys for two lots of land Edward Wittaker had bought at vendue, “being the lots Nos. 6, No. 6 [[sic]].” Satisfied “from the first to the last penny.” Note at end: “situated in the Meadows.”
[See II:269 1679/80 February 3, when Thoomas Mattias provides deed to Jacobus Elmendorp for “his lots of land in the pasturage across the [Great Bridge], being the lots No. 6 and No. 7,” sold to him by Ebbinghs.]
[Common practice is for official transfers and similar documents to be countersigned by council members as witnesses to confirm their legitimacy. (It is possible for other people to sign as witnesses, sometimes for good reason, but witnessing documents is part of a council member’s official role.) This document and the next are phrased as if they were signed in the presence of council members who would witness them, but no witness signatures appear. The two representatives for Ebbinck—Adriaensen and Montagne—are both council officials (Adriaensen as a council member, Montagne as the longtime secretary), and they are both considered upstanding and reliable, so probably they figured their signatures were sufficient.]
[Note also, from next document, that Thomas Mattys appears not to be present for this transaction. Adriaensen and Montagne are handling this as proxies for two parties who are both absent.]
[See next entry.]

II:395
1676/7 March 7, Kingston
Joost Adriaensen and Willem Montagne [previous entry says attorneys for Jeronimus Ebbinck, husband of Johanna De Laet] appear before “us the undersigned Magistrates” to provide conveyance (deed) to George Hall for “certain half-house and lot . . . in this village, being the house and lot which Thoomas Mattys conveys to Mr. Gorge Hall.” They are “fully” satisfied [no pennies].
[Signed by Adriaensen and Montagne, but no further council member signatures present.]
[See previous entry.]
[Both of these entries may be related to the vendue mentioned at II:477 1675/6 March 10, when Ebbinck was in court tidying up loose ends. He issued several deeds at that time, but for several other properties sold he said he was still waiting on payment. Both of these entries are described as resales: Edward Wittaker bought the first lot, then sold to Thomas Mattys; Thomas Mattys bought the second, then resold to George Hall. (Neither Mattys nor Wittaker sign the conveyances.)]

II:395-396
1676/7 March 13
Teunes Jacobsen at Marbleton owes skipper Jan Joosten 76 1/2 schepels of wheat, to be delivered free on the bank, two weeks from now and a year from now in Nov 1678, at 8%. Land [not otherwise described] is mortgaged as security. Attached note says as of 15 March 1677/8 25 schepels are paid.
Tunes Jacobs signs with a mark +
[This is skipper Jan Joosten, the ship owner from Manhattan, partner of Skipper Lucas Andriessen. Two Jan Joostens come up repeatedly in this set of records: Jan Joosten Van Meteren, a farmer who lives south of Kingston with his family; and Jan Joosten Van Rollegom, a Manhattan-based ship owner and skipper. Generally when records specify “skipper,” it’s to distinguish van Rollegom from van Meteren. When no clarification is included, assumption is that entry refers to van Meteren, since he lives nearby and is the one most people think of first.
[Jan Joosten van Meteren is married to Mayken, lives in Esopus (Hurley?), has kids; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Meteren-8 . For example, see estate tally of Evert Parys [Price] II:419 1678 March 27, where Jan Joosten’s wife is Mayken.
[Jan Joosten van Rollegom in Manhattan is married to Tryntje Jans; see Lucas Andriesen at baptism of their infant 15 July 1665 (Purple, Manhattan baptisms). See III:39-40 1683 April 16 for his signature with “van Rollegom.” Of the two, who own multiple ships together and represent each other in council minutes from Albany and Manhattan, Lucas Andriessen seems to sail up and down the Hudson more than Joosten; Andriessen has a sister in Manhattan, a sister in Kingston, a sister in Albany or across river at Papscanee, all with children, in-laws, etc. He may relocate to Kingston at some point; he is selected as a Kingston jury member III:107-109 1682 May 5, which may imply residence.
[For Jan Joosten’s surname “van Rollegom” see p. 12 Maria van Rensselaer correspondence, August 1675, sending 18 bags of grain with Lucas Andriessen. See extensive footnote details at that citation; Skipper van Rollegom also works with Abram, also sails himself. He too may eventually move to Esopus area, shows up in other future records.]

II:396
1676/7 March 14, Kingston
Leendert Cool owes Skipper Jan Joosten 33 1/3 sch of wheat, at 8% interest, to pay in November without fail. Mortgages horse and cattle.
Cool signs with a mark.
[[below was written: annulled.]]
[“Annulled” on these I.O.U.s and mortgages means the debt was paid; it documents that the instrument no longer has effect.]
[For more on Skipper Jan Joosten, see previous entry, II:395-396 1676/7 March 13.]
[The original Dutch record of this is in rebound Liber E, p. 34.]

II:492
1676/7 March 15, Kingston (special council session, on a Thursday)
This March 15, 1677/6
Present:
Capt [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall, sheriff
[Overseers/council members:]
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Joost Adriaensen
The hon. court has resolved, as it is doing by the present: Whereas this village has had large expenses, on account whereof the village is obliged to levy heavy taxes, for the purpose of thus liquidating accounts, [[therefore]] all the grain received here, belonging to outsiders, for the purpose of making them bear the said expenses together with the burghers, shall pay for each one hundred sch. one and a half [i.e. 1 1/2%], whatever grain it shall be.
Mr. Hall, sheriff, proposes that the other village[s] shall also receive their share from the same.
Mr. Hall, sheriff, is authorized to receive the tax put on the grain of the outsiders, without any exception, provided he shall render a proper accounting of the same.
[See II:480 1676 October 24, when the topic of taxing the goods of outsiders is discussed.]

 

II:396-397
1676/7 March 17, Kingston
Michiel Modt owes Poulus Cornelissen 205 sch of wheat to pay next January 1677/8 without fail. Modt mortgages his land at Hurley, already subject to mortgage for money owed to Asser Levy; Cornelissen will be first in line behind him.
Further note dated 1677 Jan 13 says Jan Joosten bought the land; mortgage is conveyed to him, and Modt is released.
Further note says 1678 April 9 Poulus Cornelisen has been paid in full by Jan Joosten [van Meteren?].
[See II:268-269 1679/80 January 31, when Mott provides deed for parcel at Hurley to Jan Joosten. Mott says parcel was originally conveyed to him by Henry Pawling in minutes of 3 January 1676, but that conveyance (deed) has not been located.]
[See II:382 1675/6 March 9, when Mott mortgages grain in his stack (hay barrack) to Henry Pawling, against money owed for an undescribed parcel of land. Pawling assigns the obligation to Asser Levy, so Mott is to pay Levy instead of Pawling.]
[See II:406 1677 December 17, Modt contracts to sell parcel to Jan Joosten; mentions mortgages to Poulus Cornelissen, Asser Levy.]
[The original Dutch record, including all three notes above, is in rebound Liber E, on p. 35.]

II:492
1676/7 March 17, Kingston (special council session, on a Saturday)
March 17, 1676/7 [no other typical header information]
Present:
Capt [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [Sheriff]
[Overseers/council members:]
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Assenerakan in the name of all the sachems says that they are willing to sell all the land on both sides of the Kill along a high mountain range toward the West, the river toward the East.

[This appears to be northward extension of limits of Kingston, not the New Paltz purchase, which is nearly simultaneous]
[Next document as bound in the original Dutch record, dated 1677 April 28, is out of chronological order but probably bundled with the above on purpose. The fragment from April appears to be only the first part of the document.]

II:492
1677 April 28, Kingston (attached to March 17 special council session)
This April 28 [1677] the contract has been made with Kaelkop and all the Esopus savages that the limits of Kingston or the land of Esopus shall extend Northward to the Great Falls of the Kill which appears [(uytkompt)] [[there]] named Fendeyackameck in the language of the savages and the “Sagers Kill” [Sawkill] in the Dutch language, along the mountain below which runs the road from Katskill. The aforesaid savages acknowledge that of the— [[here it breaks off in the original]]

[Page(s) evidently missing.]
[See II:493 1677 April 27, special council session with Governor Andros present, for more description of this northward extension of the boundaries of the town of Kingston (not the “village,” which usually refers to the houses and lots within the stockade or immediately adjacent), the fields and lands that the Kingston council could say were under its jurisdiction.]

II:504
1677 March 20, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 21
Horly March 20, 1677
Present:
G[errit] Cornelissen [Overseer for Hurley named II:452 1676 November 10]
Lambert Huyberts [Overseer for Hurley named II:452 1676 November 10]
Roelof Hendrix [took oath as Hurley constable KP 522 1674 November 12; replaced 1676 by Louis Dubois]
Mr. [William] Asforbie [Overseer for Marbletown named II:452 1676 November 10]
I. Garton [John/Jan Garton is named as Overseer for Marbletown II:495 1677 October 26]

The Heer Beecqman vs. Anthony Addeson (1st Default)

II:505
1677 March 20, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony vs. [Roelof] Swartwout
[Anthony] as attorney for his [[This was evidently an error in the original]]
[Anthony] demands the quantity of 40 sch of wheat, upon which there have been paid ninety-six gldrs 7 st. [typically 6 guilders per schepel, so ~16 schepels have been paid so far]—which, last year, he had been ordered to prove [(geordonneert te bewysen)].
Swartwout says that he will give security for the money and will present his case at the Manhattans.
Swartwout is ordered to pay, and Nicolaes Anthony to give security: if Swartwout should succeed in his appeal that the same shall be reimbursed to him.

II:505
1677 March 20, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Arent Teunisen vs. Michiel Modt
[Teunisen] demands payment for house and lot in the village. Demands the first installment being 175 sch.
[Mott] says they are unfree goods [(dat het onvrye goederen syn)]. [Does he mean he would pay, but his crop has been attached?]
The hon. court orders deft. Michiel Modt to pay—with costs.
[See II:391 1676/7 January 27, Teunesen contracts to sell to Mott.]

II:505
1677 March 20, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Hans Dyckman vs. Arian Gerritsen Van Vliet

Jeremia Kettel vs. Thoomas Quinel
Both default

 

II:397
1676/7 March 21, Kingston
Jan [Roelofsen] Eltingen [Elting, Elton], living at Hurley, appears before court at Kingston, owes Nicolas De Major, at present governing Mayor of N. Yorck, 324.5 sch of wheat, to be delivered November of this year, to Meyer or his order, without longer delay. Mortgages farm with everything pertaining to same.

II:397
1677 March 22, Kingston
Albert Jansen [van Steenwyck] owes Joost Adriaensen 105 sch of wheat “as per judgment,” 52 on account of Jeroonimus Ebbingh [husband of Johanna de Laet] and 53 “to himself” [Joost?], which Albert promises to pay without fail. Mortgages his house and lot situated in this village.
Signed Wessel Ten Broeck, Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes, Albert Jansen
Note attached from 6 August 1685 says mortgage is made void by a “later” [mortgage] made the same day and date.
Signed John War[d]
[See next entries.]

II:398
1677 March 29
[Not executed; see next item, previous item.]
We the undersigned promise to pay for Albert Jansen Van Steenwyck either 118 or 418 sch of wheat, if he can’t pay, within 3 years, to Claes Bording or Pieter Jacobsen, or to their order. This is for book-debts to those two and not anything else. Mortgages house and lot.
[Original unexecuted document has both 118 and 418 sch; 418 would have been correct, since total debt was 508 sch.]

II:398
1677 March 24
Crew of folks agree to back Albert Jansen [Van Steenwyck]: W. Montagne, Jan Volckers, Jan Eltinge, Severyn ten Hout, Roelof Henderyckx, Jacob Rutgersen, Aerdt Martensen Doorn, Jan Joosten, Jan Coornelisen, 450 schepels of wheat. [No mortgage. This is 9 people, so probably they agree to 50 sch. of wheat each.] Roelof Henderix pays 50 sch of wheat right up front to release himself.
[See previous entries.]
[See II:453 1677 March 23, the special council session that Albert must have known was coming. Creditors come after him for 508 sch of wheat in debt; they are ready to foreclose and sell everything he has. His neighbors band together to stave off doom.]
[See II:277 1680 April 6, note to Pieter Jacobsen [Marius] re “the account between you and Albert Jansen.]

 

II:453
1677 March 23, Kingston (Special Council Session)
Special court held at Kingston, March 23, 1677
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers, Justice [of the Peace]
Lieut. [George] Hall, Sheriff
Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht]
Wm. Nottingham
Jan Bigs
Jan Elton [Elting]

II:454
1677 March 23, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Claes Bording and Pieter Jacobsen vs. Alberdt Jansen [van Steenwyck], for 508 1/2 sch of wheat or security that he will be able to pay in 3 years. Otherwise they ask “that his entire estate shall be inventoried and judicially sold.” He admits debt; court says provide security or it will all be sold.
[See II:397-398 1677 March 22-29, as Albert mortgages his house to raise funds and his neighbors come together to stand for him in his time of need, posting 450 sch. of wheat in security.]
[Claes Bording comes up seldom in Kingston records; Pieter Jacobsen Marius appears a bit more frequently. See https://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A0270/NYSA_A0270-78_V3_076d.xml for a 1651 March 24 power of attorney from the same two men to Pieter Cornelissen to collect money due them at the South River (New Castle, New Sweden on the Delaware River).]
[See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bording-5 for Claes Claesen Bording; Pieter is witness for baptism of 5 of his 10 children (none named Pieter) with Susanna Elias. Marriage record says from Ravox; notarial record suggests Bloemendaal; some say Bording or Danzig in Denmark. Claes is a common name, and at least one other Claes Claesen lives in the Kingston area, more often a debtor than a creditor, probably Claes Claesen Sluyter (see multiple other entries among these records. See also II:512 1680 December 16, Claes Claesen Roosevelt. KP index (p. 796) says Claes Claessen is also called Claes the weaver, but unclear which Claes Claessen (or Klaes Klaessen) that is.]
[See II:277 1680 April 6; Henderick Aertsen and Gerrit Aertsen instruct Pieter Jacobsen to “pay yourself . . . in regard to the account between you and Albert Jansen,” referring also to “the deceased Abraham.” Neither of these men, nor anyone named Abraham, is on the list of friends providing surety for Albert II:398 1677 March 24.]

II:454
1677 March 23, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Pieter Hillebrantsen [[here it breaks off]]

II:454
1677 March 23, Kingston (Special Council Session, continued)
Granted to Robbert Pekock a parcel of land situated under [[the jurisdiction of]] Marbleton, between Thomas Van der Marcken’s and the Breeckebeen Hoeck, but the same is to be measured—subject to the Heer governor’s approval.

II:454
1677 March 24, Kingston (council session, continuation of Special Council Session from March 23)
Special Court held at Kingston, March 24, 1677
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers, Justice [of the Peace]
Lieut. [George] Hall, Sheriff
Wm. Nottingham
Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht]
Jan Elton [Elting]
Jan Bigs

II:454
1677 March 24, Kingston (special council session, continued)
Jan Coly vs. Fredrick Hossy, for 82 sch of wheat, plus expenses. Hossy says he owes only 42 sch, and he paid 19. The deal was that if he didn’t pay, he would owe double. Court orders him to pay 41, plus expenses.

II:454-455
1677 March 24, Kingston (special council session, continued)
Jan Coly vs. Gerrit Cornelissen, for 50 sch of wheat
[See II:385 1676 Nov 14.]

 

II:398
1677 March 24
Mortgage to charge of Thoomas Harmonsen, dated 24 April, was paid to Jan Poppen.
[See II:381 1675/6 March 29, when Hendrick Van Wye agreed to pay Poppen on Harmensen’s behalf; some was paid by carting loads to the river.]
[See II:414 1678 March 25, Harmons provides conveyance (deed) to Van Wyen.]

II:398-399
1677 March 26
Roelof Swartwout [Swardt Woudt] provides conveyance (deed) to Wessel Ten Broeck for “a certain corner of land bounding on Wessel’s land and on the land of Capt. Chambers, and also the Morass or Valley [Dutch original doesn’t say Vly; it says Moras of Valij], all according to the deed existing of the same,” bought from estate of Hendrick Cornelissen. Deed and proofs already delivered. Satisfied from first to last penny.

II:399
1676/7 March 27, Kingston
Roelof Jansen owes Mr. Jan Coneel 55 sch of wheat “originating from a judgment as well in favor of Jan Coneel as of Christopher Schaef,” also catching up all other previous transactions. Pay in 2 installments.
Signed Christopher Hynlote [[?]], Al Wooddrop [[?]], Roelof Jansen
[See II:490 1676/7 March 6, when judgment was delivered. At the time it was 158 guilders (26 sch. wheat) plus 4 beavers.]

II:399-400
1677 March 27, Kingston
Jan De Foreest, heir of estate of deceased Nicolaes Varledt, has received from Jan Joosten 50 sch of wheat and “has learned” that 100 sch have been paid to Baltus Bayard, so “Jan Joosten has paid the debt owing according to the book of the estate, page 129.”

Apr-May-Jun

II:400-401
1677 April 7, Kingston
[Document says it is declared before Sheriff George Hall and council member Joost Adriaensen, though only Hall signs it. Montagne, as the principal, should not serve as witness to this document, though as council secretary he normally would.]
Willem Montagne, residing at Kingston, owes Gabriel Minville, merchant at N. Yorck, 156 sch. of winter wheat, to pay free at water’s edge next winter. Mortgages house and lot in village.
To which testifies [(signed)] G. Hall, Sheriffe
[(signed)] Willem De la Montagne

II:401
1677 April 19
Michiel De Modt provides conveyance (deed) to Gorge Davits for house and lot, also a garden outside the curtains [stockade walls], as Michiel bought from Thoomas Harmenson.
[See II:389 1676 December 3, original contract of sale.]

II:458-459
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court)
Session-Court held at Kingston, April 24, 1677
[No list of what officers are present. Possibly the fragment immediately preceding was from the previous day of this court session (Sessions Courts frequently run on consecutive days), and the top of those minutes might have included the information that customarily appears at the head of a court session.]

George Hall and Nicolaes Anthony, as attorneys for Capt Pamer, vs. Hendrie Paelding [Henry Pawling]
Complainants “as attorneys for Capt. Pamer demand the amount of £41-15-9, which amount originated from an obligation by Jan Richsbell to Mr. Winder, deceased, and from Mr. Winder on account of remarriage to Capt. Pamer, who has married Mr. Winder’s widow, owing to certain servants bought by Paeldin of the aforesaid Richsbell.” Also seek losses “because the grain, at the time, brought a good price, and now [[brings]] a low price.”
Pawling answers “not to have anything to do with Pamer, but claims that Richbell, at the time he transfered the indentures, he made the transfer to run two years longer than is mentioned in the indentures, and that Richsbell had sold him the servants as per the indentures [[sic]]. Also that it is mentioned in the indentures that at the expiration of their time, the servants shall each receive a cow and a Sunday suit and a work-day suit of clothes which the said Richsbell was to pay for, that the last two years’ work of the servants amounts to more than the money [Pawling] is keeping. . . . Has also paid to Richsbell £20 sterling.”
Court says, “with the approval of the jury,” Pawling can keep money until Richsbell has fulfilled conditions [since Pawling evidently was a bit swindled], and that the servants don’t have to serve past the end of the original term. Pawling will give each servant, from his withheld money, those clothes and the cows, or 32 sch of wheat each.

II:459-460
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Jan Ward, attorney for Capt Thoomas De La Vall, vs. Gerrit Cornelissen
Ward [for De La Vall] demands 1600 sch of wheat, for rent of land (132 sch per annum, 924 sch total for 7 years), “and for the principal amount, according to assignment of Jan Thoomas” [possibly Jan Thomasen of Albany?], from whom Gerrit “has bought the land and conveyed to Capt D La Vall,” 480 sch plus 6% interest (28.8 sch per year), “amounting to 196 sch,” and further according to a written demand. Ward demands payment “or else possession of the land,” says Gerrit has been summoned before this, and he asked for more time. Gerrit is still on the land; De La Vall wants to resolve it.
Cornelissen answers that he has requested time until De La Vall gets here, “for the purpose of speaking to him,” but not as a lessee; he wants to be a purchaser, because he “has absolutely bought the land of Jan Thoomasen for 480 sch of wheat, whereupon he has paid 418 sch so that there is a balance of 62 sch of wheat which are ready.” He has a bill of sale to prove it.
Court says “in conformity with the verdict of the jury,” Gerrit is owner of land per bill of sale but owes Mr. Delavall for interest at 6% for 7 years, 196 sch, plus balance of account plus costs.
Ward requests appeal to general court of assizes. Court of sessions allows him to appeal, but he has to give security. Mr. Hall offers himself as security.
Estate of Gerrit Cornelissen is attached pending outcome.
[See II:274 1679/80 March 13, Gerrit Cornelissen sells Thomas de Lavall his lot in Hurley, with portion in valley.]
[See II:553 1680 June 24, Thomas Delaval satisfied by Gerrit for first payment.]
[See III:37-39 1683 April 6, further settlement between Gerrit and Thomas de Lavall.]
[The land referred to here is difficult to locate. No record appears here or in Kingston Papers of Gerrit’s purchase of land from Jan Thomassen. The property in question possibly could be in a different jurisdiction.]

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Anthony Addesen is permitted to build on the land [which land? see below, same session, Robert Peacock and land at Breekebeen Hoeck] and to take up as much upland as he sees fit, subject to the governor’s approval.

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Warrant issued for the person of James Millis to have him appear before me [who?] at the complaint of Francis Wayt.

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Those across the Kill have again been permitted to erect and maintain a serviceable fence for pigs, and again to keep pigs on the other side—to properly fix the fence in 14 days, under penalty of the fines, formally imposed in regard to this matter.

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Mattys Mattysen was granted the Green Kill with the valley, if he builds a mill there, subject to the governor’s approval.
[See II:262-263 1679 October 25, Mattys with partners contracts with Pieter Jansen and Cornelis Woutersen to build a mill.]

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Robbert Pecock is granted the land in the Brekebeen Hoeck at
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Marbleton which has not yet been granted to Anthony Addeson.
[See above, same session. See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
At the request of the residents at Marbleton the hon. Court orders constable and overseers to lay a road through the third piece to the woods.

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
The session court orders all those who have yet failed to make their portion of the curtains, as per the decree dated Dec. 19, to make their portion of the curtains within eight days, under penalty of hundred gldrs fine.
[The “curtains” are the stockade walls around the village, made up of “palisades,” or hewn logs stood upright and stuck into the ground, like an old Wild West fort. No December 19 decree is found in the Kingston records pertaining to this, but see for comparison II:474-475 1675/6 February 14, II:485 1676/7 February 6, II:610 1680 December 30, KP 535 1675 October 17, et al. This may be a specific reference to the lot owners in the most recent extension of the village; see II:479 1676 December 12.]

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
At the request of Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkranz] it is decreed that between the gardens and Wassemaker’s land all [[owners]] shall put up one half of the fence [[between their respective properties]]. [(sal elok half en half heyningen)]

II:460-461
1677 April 24, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Jeronimus Kettel is permitted to lay a road where the same can be most conveniently laid.

[There’s a gap here in the Dutch originals before the next entries, from September 1677, and the previous entries may not all be from this session.]

 

II:455-456
1677 April 25, Kingston (Session Court)
Session court held at Kingston under the authority of his royal highness the duke of York, by the order of the Heer governor Edward Anders [Edmund Andros], April 25, 1677
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers, Justice of the peace
Lieut. [George] Hall, Sheriff
Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht]
Willem Nottingham
Jan Bigs
Jan Elton [Elting]
besides the jury

Mr. Paeldin [Henry Pawling], Complt.
vs.
Madalena Dirx and Leendert Cool, Deft[s].

Complt. demands vindication of his reputation, and [or] that [defendants] shall prove that he is a knave.
The first deft. says that complt. has called her a thief. He has caused discord between herself and her husband.
Complt. says that he has never defamed her.
Deft. produces two sworn statements that Paeldin has said “You lie, you and your husband or your son have stolen it,” but not knowing what “it” was.
Madalena Dirx said that no attention is paid to her testimony and that the testimony of another is believed. And says that she can prove that Paeldin has stolen the pig, agrees to prove it.
Robbert Bickkerstaf, having been sworn, says that Paeldin came to his house and said that he had shot a “hespan” [raccoon] on the Wassemaker’s land, and whether he would go along to get it. Went with Leendert Cooll to the Wassemaker’s land where there was a dead pig which had been covered over. He said if this is a “hespan” then the devil may fetch Paeldin, and would scarcely assist in loading it on the wagon, and was taken in the wagon in front of Paeldin’s gate. And knows nothing more of the affair.
Tierck Claesen, having been sworn, says that shortly after having been wounded, he was at Magdalena Dirx’, who said to him: “You say that Paeldin has shot your pig. He is not guilty thereof, but Paeldin has bought a pig of Everdt Pels.”
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Paeldin says that he never sent Kool for a pig.
The jury, having examined Schepmoes cellar, has found some small bones there.
[[This clause evidently belongs 16 lines below.]]
Madalena Dirx says that a couple days afterward she went in the cellar to get some bacon. She looked in the barrel and was astonished to find the brine so bloody, and found some pieces which had been skinned, but does not know who took them there, and when she [he? apparently Pawling; he was not yet married to Neeltje Allertsen Roosa] came home in the evening she said that she did not want them in her house, for in case a search be made she would also be accused of the [[theft]], and asked him why he had done it, he being an officer of two villages, to which he answered, “Go away, fool, go away.”
Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkranz, husband of Madalena Dirx] declares under oath that Paeldin said that he had shot a sow belonging to Tierck Claesen, and the next day Tierck Claesen said to Paeldin: “Where is my sow you have shot? Here is the place where the sow has lain.” And thereupon they had a quarrel.
Madalena Dirx requests that Schepmoes cellar shall be examined.
[[The clause on the second and third line, top of this page, evidently belongs here.]]
Dirck Schepmoes’ wife having been examined declares having found head bones on the place or in the hole where the jury has found other bones.

[This case continues, but Versteeg inserts, in sequence, an unrelated note at the bottom of the page, before resuming with more of the story of the pig]

II:456
1677 April 25, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
The following is an exact copy of the English in the original:
Granted unto Lenord Cool 10 Akers land upon the Monbakus Kill upon aprobaccon of his honnor the governor in beguisse 10 akers.
[[This was at foot of page and evidently entered later on.]]
[Granted unto Leendert Cool, 10 acres land upon the Mombaccus Kill, upon approbation of His Honor the Governor, in [???] 10 acres.]

II:456-7
1677 April 25, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Mr. Hall, Sheriff
vs.
Leendert Cooll and Madalena Dirx
[Hall] says that [defendants] have been committed by the Justice into his keeping. Demands, ex-officio, that the defts. shall be condemned to pay a fine and be punished as they deserve, because they tax Paeldin with having shot a pig on the Wassemaker’s land, and that Cooll has fetched the same to the house. Paeldin says that he never sent Cool for a pig.
Leendert Cool says whereas he was in Paeldin’s employ, the same forced [(gedwongen)] him to fetch the same [the pig], which Paeldin denies.
Madalena Dirx says because Paeldin feared a search in the house, Paeldin therefore took the whole pig to her house with the skin taken off. She did not want it there and Paeldin again took it
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to his house, and in case the gentlemen would like to get hold of the head, the same is buried in Schepmoes’ cellar.
[Dirck Jansen Schepmoes bought the house later from Henry Pawling, a.k.a. Mr. Paeldin.]
[See II:388-389 1676 November 21, when Pawling provides deed to Schepmoes.]
Mr. Paeldin says that hiding a crime committed so long ago renders them equally guilty, and that they cannot act or be accepted as witnesses. [(dat sy tot geen getuygen connen bestaen en aengenoomen worden)]
In the case of Hendrie Paeldin, Madalena Dirx, it is found that the same has been hidden a long time, but if the same had been revealed in time it would have been more criminal [(soude grooter crimen neel geweert syn)], but now it is an affair of hatred and envy, because Madalena Dirx has declared to Tierck Claesen that Paeldin was not guilty in the case. Therefore it is ordered that Hendrie Paeldin and Madalena Dirx shall each pay two hundred gldrs and Leendert Cool hundred gldrs in behalf of our sovereign the King. [Parties to pay] The [court] expenses in proportion.
[For more on the above story, see “The Case of the Murdered Pig Comes to a Head,” https://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/genealogy/dewitt/tjerck/#pighead .]
[Worth noting: Magdalena Dirx Rosecrans’s daughter Marritje is the wife of Leendert Cool. Her husband is Harmon Hendrix Roosenkranz (Harmon the Portuguese, not because he’s from Portugal but because he served in Brazil). It is not clear where Henry Pawling was living at the time of these events; Magdalena Dirx refers to his coming “home,” where she accosts him about the pig’s remains, but later his own house is referred to. She says he was officer in two villages. This may be a reference to his appointment as liaison to the Esopus villages in the area.]

II:493
1677 April 27, Kingston (special council session, Governor present)
[See II:492 1676/7 March 17 for the precursor to this meeting, when the local Esopus sachems meet with the town council and agree in principle to let the European immigrants use this land, extending Kingston’s jurisdiction north to the Sawkill area. This April 27 meeting, with the Governor present, formalizes the agreement to let the Europeans expand the amount of land they are using.]
[The meeting notes below are repeated verbatim, with a somewhat different translation, in DRCHSNY XIII, pp. 504-506.]
[The notes below are also repeated, again with a somewhat different translation, in The Andros Papers, pp. 57-60. Both alternate translations have better facsimiles of the marks of the Esopus representatives, along with notably different transliterations of their names.]
Kingston, April 27, 1677
Present:
The Heer Governor [Edmund Andros, Governor 1674-1683]
Capt. Salsbury
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Mr. [George] Hall [sheriff]
and the hon. court
Gorge Davits, interpreter

The Heer Governor has asked the Esopus sachems, named Senerakan, Panneerwack, Kaalkop, Ankerop and the larger portion of the Esopus savages, men as well as women, young and old, whether they had any claim upon the land possessed by us according to or since the treaty made with the Heer Nickells.
A little after they went outside to deliberate. [[Returning,]] Kaelkop says that they understood not having sold it so far North, but was perfectly willing that we should possess the same, provided the Heer governor would give him a blanket, a shirt, a loaf of bread, whereupon the Heer Governor asked him whether he was perfectly satisfied therewith, to which he answered “yes,” but if the Heer Governor would yet give him a piece of cloth [(een lap)] it would be well.
Then he, and the sachems, and all other savages were told that they should point out or describe the limits as they are and are at present understood to be.
Have described the same as follows: Commencing from the Ronduyt Kill till a Kill named Kanankasinck northward along the mountain range, to a Kill named Magowasinck, thence to the second Falls, towards the East till Tindegackameck on the Great River, southward along the river till the Ronduyt Kill with everything included in the same, good and bad, mountain and valley, waters etc.
The Heer governor also granted to the interpreter Joris [George] Davits the land on the bank of the Ronduyt Kill named Ragawannick, from the boundaries of Fredrick Hussy’s to a mountain range terminating at the Ronduyt Kill, or where there is a big cliff in the water.
[[This clause seems to have been inserted later. Is at foot of page.]]
Kaelkop also declares that he has granted to the old sawyer [(oude saeger)] his further claim or right upon a Kill named the Saegers Kill and the land to the limits of the Katskill savages along the river and to the above mountains, whereupon the Heer governor has asked the sachems and all other savages, old and young, whether the same was so, that they should
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frankly and boldly answer, whereupon all of them replied that it was so, and that no one else had any claim upon the same.
They having once more been asked whether they were well satisfied with the aforesaid payment, answered “Yes, fully,” whereupon the Heer governor caused to be given to Kaelkop in the presence of all, the aforesaid required payment, viz. a blanket, a shirt, a loaf of bread, a piece of cloth and besides baize for a pair of stockings.
All of them being well satisfied, the Heer governor further told them that he intended to have the limits examined for the sake of being the better satisfied and that Kaelkop and some other savages should accompany them for the purpose of specially pointing them out, provided they should be paid for their trouble. Which they accept with thanks, saying it is well, and that they will always be ready to do so. Dated as above.

Signed:
with the marks of
Kaelkop, for the Magowasinck family
Ankerop, for the Kittsapray family
Wingawaes, for the Mahauw family
Panneewack, for Kakatawis
Sachems, in the name of all the Esopus savages:
Senerahan
Mamarok

S. Salsbery
Wm. Rodny
Joh. West
W. DMajer
T. Chambers
J. Hall
J. Adriansen
D. Schepmoes
E. Wittaker
W. Ten Broecq
Hend. Jochemsen
Joris Davits

[(signed)] W. Montagne

[While Governor Andros is in town, he evidently also gives final approval for the communal purchase, by a dozen Huguenot families, of the piece of land that becomes New Paltz; see DRCHSNY XIII pp. 506-507 1677 May 26.]

II:401
1677 May 1
William Fisher provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Hendry for house and lot, “standing next to the principal guardhouse,” which Fisher bought from George Hall, who owned it by virtue of deed from Richard Nicolls 23 January [sic] 1668. “The same has again been conveyed to Mr. Hall [[sic]] . . . so that the property is now again on the name of Mr. Hall.”
[(signed)] Wm. Fisher
[(signed)] the mark of Jan Hendry
[Is an extra conveyance intended here? Deed does not explain why Hendry would pass the property back to Hall, although it is certainly possible. Other similar deeds may have one or even two transfers in a single deed. Record does not include a document between Hendry and Hall outlining terms of a deal to reconvey the property to Hall, but the second signature, from Hendry, suggests a second transfer.]
[See KP 402 1667/8 March 10/20, George Hall requests lot “near the head watch and powder house in the curtain [wall], for the purpose of erecting a dwelling.” Council hesitates to allow house so close to stockade wall; refers him to Gov. Nicolls for permission.]
[See KP 731 1672/3 March 18, Hall provides conveyance (deed) to Fisher for “a certain house standing to the west of the powder house of this village of Kingston,” also lot as per deed granted by Nicolls 1668 June 23, 20 yards wide, 45 yards long, SW of fort or powder house. Below the deed is a note: “Again conveyed to Mr. Hall.”]
[See III:43 1683 April 18, Matthew Blanchan provides deed to Jan Pietersen for house next to principal guard house; apparently not the same house.]

DRCHSNY XIII 506-507
1677 May 26, Hurley [?]
[Not preserved in the collection of Kingston Dutch records translated by Versteeg, but evidently the following two documents were recorded, or at least copied, by De La Montagne (the second, at least, in Hurley). This land transfer marks a critical development in the evolution of the area, when a dozen Huguenot settler families split off to form the village that becomes known as New Paltz, so the May contract of sale and September conveyance (deed) are included here.]
Today, the 26th of May in the year 1677, an agreement was made by the below-named parties, pursuant to a license from the Honble. Governor Edmond Andros, dated the 28th of April 1677, with the undersigned Esopus Indians, concerning the purchase of a certain tract of land on the other side of the Rondout Kil.
Matsayay, Nehakaway, Magakahoos, Assmarakan, and Wawanis acknowledge to have sold to Lewis Dubois and his associates the land within the following boundaries:
Beginning at the high hill, called Moggoneck, thence Southeast toward the Great River [Hudson River] to the point called Juffrouw’s Hook in the Long Reach, by the Indians called Magaat Ramis [identified by Helen Wilkinson Reynolds in Poughkeepsie: The Origin and Meaning of the Word as Blue Point, just south of Poughkeepsie, on the west bank of the Hudson],
thence North along the river to the island, lying in the Crum Elbow at the beginning of the Long Reach, by the Indians called Raphoos [possibly what in 2025 is called Esopus Island, but that seems too far north],
thence West to the high hill at a place called Waracahaes and Tawaeretaque, [and back] along the high hill southwest to [the starting point at] Moggoneck,
including between these boundaries all contained therein, hills, valleys, waters etc. and a free passage to the Rondout Kil as convenient, as it may be found.
The Indians shall also have fully as much liberty and license to hunt all kind of wild animal and to fish, as the Christians.
This land the Indians have engaged to sell for the goods specified here below:
[long list of goods, including kettles, axes, “addices” (adzes?), shirts, wampum white and black, socks, lead, powder, knives, wine, guns, duffel coats, blankets, nails, pipes, and “Wine has been given for the horses”]

Signed:
Lowies Du Booys
Christian Deyo (his mark)
Abraham Haesbroocq
Andries Lefebre
Jan Broocq
Peter Deyo
Lowie Binevie
Anthony C. Respel [Crespel, Crispell]
Abraham Du Booys
Bugi Frere
Isaack Du Booys
Simeon Lefebre

Matsayay (his mark)
Wachtonck (his mark)
Senerakan (his mark)
Mayakahoos (his mark)
Wawamis (her mark)

Witnesses:
Jan Elton
Jacomintje Slecht
Jan Mattysen

Agrees with the original:
De la Montagne, [Secretary]

DRCHSNY XIII 507
1677 September 15, Hurley
[Deed:]
We the undersigned former joint-owners of the land sold to Lewis Dubois and his associates acknowledge to have received from them full satisfaction [i.e. payment] according to the agreement and therefore convey the said land with a free passage to them and their heirs forever, relinquishing our right and title and freeing them from all further claims: in witness whereof we have signed this with the Justice, Sheriff, Magistrates and others present on the 15th day of September 1677 at Hurley

Signed:
Esopus sachems
Sewakanamy (his mark)
Pannerewach (his mark)
Mamaroch (her mark)
Maheny
Haroman (his mark)
Pagotaramin (his mark)
Wingawis (his mark)
Wessenach (his mark)
Maccamossingh (his mark)

Matsayay (his mark)
Assenerakan (his mark)
Wachtonck (his mark)
Wawamis (her mark)
Machkahoos (his mark)
Wawesaska (his mark)
Namas (his mark)
Tomachkapay (his mark)
Saagarowon (his mark)
Sawonowis (his mark)
Machkakamoca (his mark)

Thomas Chambers
G[eorge] Hall
Wessel Ten Broocq
Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoos [Schepmoes]
Hendrick Jochemsen
Joost Adriansen
Gerrit Cornelessen
Lambert Huysbertsen

Witnesses:
Jan Elton
Roeloff Hendricks
Jan Waerd
Jan Harris
Alberdt Jansen

Matsayay publicly proclaimed before the surrounding Indians that the land had been paid for, and they were all satisfied with it.

[See II:483 1676/7 February 3 and other records noted there for some further references to the timeline of negotiations that led to this purchase.]
[This is not the place for a deeper history of New Paltz, but it is interesting to see that when these settlers set up their village, in an arrangement that lasted for many years, they did it more along the lines of an Esopus village, with communally owned fields and resources, than a traditional European town, with individually owned houses, parcels of farmland, and so on. Such an arrangement is not typical of a European village, though it is not unheard of. Religious communities like monasteries were organized on similar principles, and corporate structures and partnerships, from joint ownership of a sawmill to large outfits like the West India Company, were well known. Still, the arrangement among these settlers stands out.]
[Note also that boundaries of original purchase go all the way to the Hudson, and south as far as the land opposite Poughkeepsie. Later notes ascribe the naming of the Long Reach (Langerack) to Robert Juet, but it can be seen clearly here that the name was already in use by the Dutch at least as early as this document.]
[Note also that on both sides these documents are signed by women and by men.]

Jul-Aug-Sep

II:401-402
1677 August 16
Maria [Jansen Langedyck], widow of Cornelis Wynkoop, leases to Pieter Jans [Sloot] her land except 3 morgens, the plantation and hop garden, for 4 years, starting today. 3 horses furnished too: Tiger, Ready, and Little Fox. 2 milch cows. 1 new wagon with iron work, 1 harrow with iron teeth, to be returned in good condition. [Pieter] Jansen will pay the third sheaf for the fields. For the cows, 12 lb. of butter per year. Natural increase will be equally divided, risk too. For repairing the fences, Pieter Jansen will have the services of a negro for one “bouw” [Versteeg suggests bouw is a season; could also mean one planting: bouwerie is a garden or plantation; boer is a farmer]. The “bridge-money” [shared dues for maintaining the Great Bridge] will be paid by lessor. Taxes on property to be shared. Signed before Sheriff Hall. Pieter Jansen takes contract for bridge on same conditions as Wynkoops had it. She will allow a Negro to work 1 month for Jansen, 14 days this winter, 14 days next winter, instead of paying any bridge charges.
[See next entries, August 19 and September 6.]
[See II:243-244 1676 August 11, will of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[See II:416-417 March 1678, additional transactions of Maria Wynkoop with Jurriaen Teunisen and Jan Willemsen that touch on this contract.]
[See II:417 1678 March 27, when Maria sells the income from this contract to Jan Willemsen, for 85 schepels of wheat.]

II:402-403
1677 August 19th (?)
Aerdt Martensen [Doorn] takes the farm rented by Pieter Janssen [Sloot] from Maria Wynkoop, in partnership with Jansen, to receive the just half of the profits and bear the just half of the expenses and losses. Jansen will have an exclusive on the cows, though.
[See previous entry, next entry.]
[See II:243-244 1676 August 11, will of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[Also see II:248, Roelof Jansen buying Aert Martensen Doorn’s share in this plantation, filed among papers dated 1676 October 24, but must have taken place after this agreement.]

II:403
1677 September 6
Inventory of Wynkoop farm: 149 palisades, with posts and rails, 3 rails high. 1 plow, the wagon, harrow with iron teeth, harrow hook. Add to contract: Maria Wynkoop will pasture her cattle on the stubble-field as long as Pieter [Jansen] grazes his cows there too.
[See II:243-244 1676 August 11, will of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[See previous two entries, August 16 and 19.]

II:403
1677 September 25
[Not executed; see next entry.]
Sheriff Hall as attorney for Samuel Olivier sells to Claes Teunesen [Van Clier] Lot 5, 10 acres, in Marbletown, on the first piece.

II:403-404
1677 September 25
Claes Teunessen [Van Clier] proves that he has satisfied Samuel Olivier through several people who declare having been paid for Samuel Olivier’s account. Olivier is absent. Therefore council grants Teunesson the deed (conveyance). This is for Lot 11 on second piece at Marbletown, 10 acres. Olivier left the patent here, endorsed to sell to Teunessen, dated 16 April 1673.
[See previous entry.]
[See similar in absentia, different case, II:412 1677/8 Feb 20, Kingston.]

II:461
1677 September 25, Kingston
Copy:
We the undersigned members of the congregation of the three villages have agreed together in regard to the preacher’s salary. We oblige ourselves for eight years to maintain the preacher. Horly shall pay hundred sch. of wheat; Marbleton hundred sch. of wheat; Kingston four hundred sch. of wheat. And in case [[some of them]] should want to call said preacher alone, shall notify the other villages of said intention a year beforehand, so that they can thus supply themselves, but if not, the agreement shall remain in full force as stated above. Declare to observe this contract as binding and inviolable, and have subscribed to the same with our own hand this September 25, 1677, at Kingston.
Was signed:
Wessel Ten Broeck [Kingston]
Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes [Kingston]
Jan Hendrix [Kingston?]
Allart Heymans [Roosa] [Kingston or Hurley?]
Roelof Hendrix [Hurley]
Jan Joosten [van Meteren] [Hurley or Marbletown?]
Willem Jansen [Schut or Schoon?] [Marbletown]
Gerrit Cornelis [Hurley][See II:608-609 1680 November 14, reaffirming above agreement.]
[See II:609 1680 December 11, raising funds to pay Domine Gaasbeek’s salary; also III:390 1681 November 22, II:610 1680 December 30.]
[See III:218-219 1681 April 18, April 27, paying for Domine Gaasbeek’s expenses in Holland and passage to Kingston; also III:128 1683 April 24, III:236 1683 April 25.]
[See III:156, 157 1682 August 23, paying for firewood for Domine Weeksteen.]

Oct-Nov-Dec

II:494
1677 October 26, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Kingston, October 26, 1677
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Lieut. Gorge Hall [Sheriff]
Eduward Wittaker, constable
[Overseers/council members:]
Wessel Ten Broecq
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes]
Hendrick Jochemsen [Schoonmaker]
Joost Adriaensen

Mattue Blansjan vs. Petronelle Bentlyn, wid[ow] of Jacob DuBooys
[Blanchan] demands of [Bentlyn] security for what has been sold to her husband, as per contract.
Blansjan is satisfied that Jan Pietersen shall be security for the purpose of complying with the contract which his predecessor [DuBooys] was obliged to fulfill, mortgaging [(met een verbandt van)] the said effects.
Jan Pietersen agrees to comply with the conditions agreed to by Jacob DuBooys, his predecessor [(voorsaedt)] and to satisfy the same at the stipulated time.
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[Blanchan] further demands the amount of 237 gldrs Holland money and yet [in addition] 227 gldrs in money of this country.
[Bentlyn, or Pietersen] admits the debt.
[Blanchan] allows her three years in which to pay the same, and he wants security for the Holland money.

[See II:390 1677 January 8, Blanchan’s original contract with Dubois.]
[See also II:411, 30 December 1677, Jan Pietersen marrying widow of Jacob (Jacques) Du Booys, agrees to fulfill contract between Jacob and Matthew Blanchan.]
[See III:214 1682/3 March 6, again Blanchan demanding payment.]
[See III:195 1684 March 4, 5, 6, Court of Sessions.]

II:495
1677 October 26, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
[not clear whether this is part of same set of council minutes]
In reply to the petitions of the cowherders, they are referred to Anthony Telba and Jacobus Elmendorp who, by the present, are authorized to see to it that the herders are paid, and also to settle the differences between the herders and some residents, so that each shall receive what is due him.

II:495
1677 October 26, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
[not clear whether this is part of same set of council minutes]
There were appointed

For Kingston:
as constable Dirck Jansen Schepmoes
as overseers [council members]:
Jan Williamsen
Mattys Mattysen

For Horly:
as constable Gerrit Cornelissen
overseer [council member] Roelof Hendrix

For Marbleton:
as constable William Jansen
as overseer Jan Garton

They have been sworn according to law.

[See II:496 1677 December 18, a different set of council appointments, also difficult to assign to a particular date.]

II:404
1677 November 15
Juds [(Judge?)] Liedt has failed to put up a fence on the butter field [or “Butterfield”], so Sheriff Hall contracts with Harmon Hekam and Hans Dyckman to fence in the second lot, for 70 sch of wheat. Hall will provide 3000 palisades in the wood, but Harmon & Hans have to do everything else, by May 1.

Will
II:404-405
1677 November 15
Hendrick Cornelissen Slecht is sick in bed. 3 kids [not named]; if wife [not named] remarries, she gives half estate to them. If not, she keeps it. After she dies, they get everything. oldest son gets all clothing.
[(signed)] Jacobus Kip, Gerrit Aertsen
[(signed)] Hendrick Slecht
[Hendrick is son of Cornelis Barentsen Slecht and Trijntjen Tyssen Bosch; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sleght-9 . His wife is Elsje Barentsen Lieveling (m. 8 Aug 1666 Kingston), moved to Flatbush (Brooklyn), wrote a second will 23 Sep 1690 (Flatbush Records A-156), died there. Bought house in Flatbush 1672, so must have gone back and forth?]

II:405
1677 November 20
Christoffel Davits provides conveyance (deed) to Everdt Pels for a parcel south of Ronduyt Kill as described when he bought it from Esopus 9 Jan 1675, starting from small kill, running into Ronduyt, SE on land of Davits.
[Secretary’s Papers in Kingston Papers have a gap (KP 743) from 1674 April 19 to 1675 March 6, roughly the period when the Dutch briefly took over the colony again from the British. Typically purchases from the Esopus had to be approved by the colony government in Manhattan before proceeding; there may be record of this purchase, or Kit Davidts’s petition for approval, elsewhere. See II:589-590 1681 October 27, probably not the same parcel but perhaps adjacent. See also II:632-633 1682 June 24, III:58 1683 December 8.]

II:405-406
1677 December 6
Wessel Ten Broecq has received from Matthew Blanchan 300 sch of good winter wheat on interest, 6% annually, to repay over 3 years.

II:406
1677 December 17
Michiel DeModt contracts to sell to Jan Joosten [van Meteren] his share in a portion of the Wassemaker’s land, which DeMott bought from Henry Pawling; 800 sch of wheat plus a cow and a sheep. First installment 177 sch, “as much as is coming to Asser Levy and Paulus Cornelissen” [did Levy and Cornelissen loan DeMott money for the purchase?], to Poulus Cors. 205 sch of wheat, the balances, next the just half [something unintelligible], maybe 1/2 of the balance the next winter? then one winter later the final balance.
[See also II:268-269 1679/80 January 31, the final deed. That document says Modt got his deed from Pawling in minutes of January 3, 1676, a document that has not been found.]
[See II:382 1675/6 March 9, Mott mortgages grain in his stack to Henry Pawling for some of the money Mott owes him for the purchase of the parcel; Pawling assigns that obligation to Asser Levy.]
[See II:396-397 1676/7 March 17, Modt mortgages land at Hurley to Poulus Cornelissen, already subject to mortgage for money owed to Asser Levy.]
[See II:440 1678/9 March 13; Joosten leases this parcel to Jacob Barentsen Cool.]
[See II:590-591 1681 December 16; Joosten wills this land to Geertie Crom. Joosten survives.]
[See III:241 1684 August 7, Joosten and Jacobus Elmendorp strike an agreement on the line between their neighboring properties on Wassemaker’s Land.]

II:496
1677 December 18, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary session held at Kingston, December 18, 1677
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers [Justice of the Peace]
Lieut. [George] Hall [sheriff]
Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes, constable]
[Overseers/council members:]
Joost Adriaensen
Hendrick Jochemsen
Jan Willemsen

The hon. court has appointed as fire wardens:
Jacob Rutgers and Gerrit Aerdtsen

Instruction and commission for the fire wardens:
Jacob Rutgers and Gerridt Aerdtsen, you are by the present appointed and authorized, as their honors of the court are appointing and commissioning by these presents the aforesaid persons as fire-wardens, who shall conduct themselves in accordance with the following instructions:
1o. They shall, every month, inspect the chimneys and fire places of all dwellings in this village, whether the same are in a satisfactory condition and clean. In case the same are not in a satisfactory condition or not clean, the owners of the same shall be liable to a fine of six gldrs.
2o. Those being negligent shall be warned to clean and fix them under penalty of twelve gldrs fine.
[[This undoubtedly means after the first warning.]]
3o. In case the same are found remiss [[the fire-wardens]] will make a complaint to the court.

[See III:76 1681 March 29, Jan Focken and Hendrick Ten Eyck appointed fire wardens, to replace Jacob and Gerrit.]
[See II:210 1682/3 February 6, Hendrick Ten Eyck’s chimney judged deficient.]
[See III:113 1682 June 14, appointment of Theunes Elesen, Jan Focken, Hendrick Ten Eyck as fire wardens, updated instructions.]
[See III:127, undated, Jan Hendrix appointed fire warden in place of Teunes Eleson.]
[See III:146 1683/4 February 6, Jan Hendrix, Mathys Sleght and Cornelis Fynhout appointed fire wardens.]

II:496
1677 December 18, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
[Versteeg notes that this entry “has no date and was in a different handwriting from the entry preceding it”; it may not be from this session. This entry is the final entry in the volume as rebound.]

Were appointed

[[For Kingston:]]
as constable Jan Willemsen
as overseers:
Benjamin Provoost
Gorge Davits
Gerrit Aertsen

For Marbleton:
[[as constable]] Jan Garton
as overseers:
Jan Joosten
Thoomas Garton

For Horly:
as constable Roelof Hendrix
[[as overseers:]]
Albert Hejmans [Roose]
Johannes De Hooges

[See II:495 1677 October 26, a conflicting set of council appointments, also of an unclear date.]

II:406-407
1677 December 19
Frederick Hussey assigns to Nicolaes De Mayer, merchant at N. Jorck, 298 schepels of wheat that De Majer will receive from Jacob Jansen Van Etten, to be delivered at Marbletown, next January 60 sch, 146 sch one year after, then the final 98 a year later. Quantity originates from Jacob Jansen’s purchase of land from Hussey.
[What land? When? Is this the valley and woodland Hussey was granted?]
[See II:499 1676 December 22, Hossy demands from Van Etten 200 sch. of wheat. Hossy says he owes “De Majer” and wants Van Etten to cover the interest charges.]
[Jacob Jansen’s money troubles go back several years; he is married to Marrietie Hansen, former wife of Aert Pietersen Tack, who got into deep debt and left town. See KP 399-400 1667/8 March 10/20, for example. The purchase from Hussy has not been located in the records.]

II:407
1677 December 19
Joost Adriaensen, attorney for Jeroonimus Ebbinck [husband of Johanna De Laet], provides conveyance (deed) to Hendrick Jochemsen [Schoonmaker] for 4 lots [1, 2, 3, 4], and Lot 9, “situated in the Meadows.” Also a parcel “next to the old farm.”
[See next entry. Also see II:383 1675/6 March 10, II:241 1675/6 March 10, Ebbingh deeds to Cornelis Vernooy and Henderick Van Weyen for lots 4, 5, and 2, evidently in a different area.]
[See II:477 1675/6 March 10, Ebbing says Hendrick Jochemsen owes him 92 1/3 sch. of wheat.]

II:407-408
1677 December 20
Joost Adryaensen, attorney for Jeronimus Ebbing, provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Willemsen Hooghteyling for parcels 5, 6, 7, 8 “situated beyond the large bridge,” further a lot “in the meadows” No. 1, named the Vrieseman’s plantation, owned by virtue of deed from Richard Nickols dated Dec 5, 1666.
[See previous entry. Also see II:383 1675/6 March 10, II:241 1675/6 March 10, Ebbingh deeds to Cornelis Vernooy and Henderick Van Weyen for lots 4, 5, and 2, evidently in a different area.]
[Also see II:394-395, deed from Ebbinck to Thomas Mattys for Lots 6 and 6 [sic] “in the Meadows,” evidently a different location from the numbered parcels across the Great Bridge.]
[See II:242 1675/6 March 16 Jan Willemsen owes Jeronimus Ebbing 211 sch. of wheat, possibly related to this purchase.]

II:408
1677 December 24, Hurley
Poulus Poulussen in presence of council members (“magistrates” rather than “overseers”) at Hurley, provides conveyance (deed) to Johannes De Hoogens for a house and lot in Hurley. To the north Lowies Beverie, to the south Anthony Crespel, extent shown by fence, as Poulussen has bought from Daniel Paryn.
[See KP 746 1675 November 22, original contract of sale; Hoogens was to pay Nicholas De Meyer 60 sch. of wheat that Poulus owed him, plus a new wagon for Poulus. See II:453 1676 November 15 De Majer demands 43 1/3 sch. of wheat from Poulus, plus interest.]

II:408-409
1677 December 26
Before magistrates at Kingston and Sheriff Hall, Wm. Montagne, Secretary, provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Janssen Oosterhoudt and Jan Borhans for all rights to Dodeman’s Wood, owned by virtue of deed granted by Gov. Edmond Andros 26 Oct 1676.
[This is probably Deadman’s Bones, which Montagne originally patented in partnership with Tjerck Claesen DeWitt; see III:34 1683 April 3 (with reference to original grant) and many other times when it comes up, as Oosterhoudt and Borhans resell their shares. See entry below, same date, same buyers, possibly adjacent land.]
[See II:275 1679/80 March 20, Oosterhout and Borhans dividing land.]

II:409
1677 December 16
Before magistrates at Kingston appears Sheriff George Hall who provides conveyance (deed) to Cornelis Hoogeboom for a house and lot in village, bounded by surrounding fence, owned by deed from Nicolls 5 December 1666.
[See II:476 1675/6 February 23, Hoogeboom owes Hall 69 12/ sch. of wheat, possibly related. Contract of sale not located.]

II:409
1677 December 26
Cornelis Vernooy provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Hendricks for “his parcel of land named Magepock,” which Hendricx conveys to Jan Jansen Oosterhoudt and Jan Borhans, “viz. his portion of the aforesaid land,” by virtue of deed dated 16 October 1671 [or 1670; ink smudged].
[Earlier deed not found. See entry above, same date, same buyers, possibly adjacent land.]

II:410
1677 December 28
Edward Wittiker contracts to sell lot [in village] to Pieter Jansen and Jan Focken [shoemaker], “being the lot of Jan Volckers.” 100 sch of wheat, half wheat, half all kinds of grains at market price, maize excepted, plus two pair of shoes. Pieter pays 24 sch then 13 then 13 then 13. Remaining 26 sch of wheat [sic] Jan must pay in shoes whenever Wittaker asks, man’s shoes at 18 guilders, woman’s at 15. Lot indicated by stone landmarks.
[See II:471 1679/80 March 1, formal conveyance (deed). Barent Van Borsum, Roelof Kierstede are neighboring lots; Van Borsum lot to east was also owned at various times by Wittaker and Volkers, but appears to be a separate lot. See II:465-466 1678/9 March 18. Lot to west, later John Hamble’s, was also owned by Wittaker, bought from Tjerck Claesen DeWitt in 1670, but also a separate lot. Wittaker seems to have bought and sold a lot of parcels; he lived in Kingston at one point, then moved to a house on a lot outside of town.]
[See next entry, Pieter Jansen building a barn for Wittaker.]

II:410-411
1677 December 28 at Kingston
[Original text is incorrectly dated 1678/7.]
Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen and Pieter Jansen agree to build a barn for Edward Wittiker. 40 feet long, 24 wide, with an outbuilding [“uytlaedinge” or alley, shed] on one side 10 feet wide, 7 joists, girders and posts to be of cord wood [(vaems-houdt)], with rafterbolts, rafters, “wormtens” on the one side, a “worfs” roof [wolf’s roof?] on the other, a standing gable [(staende gevel)], beams and posts to be square. Back door 4 feet high, main door 8 feet high. Rafters to be fastened with wooden nails, except the wolfs roof. Manger and rack to be a board long [(van een planck lanck)]. Posts and beams to be joined with pegs, standing in the ground [(en in de grondt gerecht)]. Beams and posts they must prepare in the woods, but Wittaker will chop the same and cut to measure, also to furnish all materials. Contractors will have everything ready a month before starting. 54 schepels of wheat to do the job.
[See previous entry, Pieter Jansen buying lot from Edward Wittaker.]
[A wolfskap or wolfsdak can be called a clipped gable in English; kap or dak are words for roof, like English cap or deck. See https://www.joostdevree.nl/shtmls/wolfsdak.shtml and https://www.proz.com/kudoz/dutch-to-english/architecture/1937834-wolfskap.html; an example from the Old World is at https://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/genealogy/dewitt/tjerck/pix/esens_2014/IMG_8956.JPG .]

II:411
1677 December 30
[Original text is incorrectly dated 1677/8.]
Jan Pietersen has married the widow [Petronelle Bentlyn] of Jacob [Jacques] Du Booys, contracts to fulfill conditions entered into before between Jacob and Matthew Blansjan. Binds the money coming to him in the fatherland.
[[no signature]]
[See next entry. It gets complicated.]

II:411
1677 December 30
Jan Pietersen has agreed to satisfy the conditions made by Jacus [Jacques] Du Booys [Dubois] with Matthew Blanchan. He will pay on time, and if he doesn’t, Blanchan can sell the distillery, mill, and lot “on account of which the debt originated.” Balance due is 234 guilders Holland money. 3 installments, paid in wheat. He mortgages as security “the land situate between [(tussen)] Ryser in Flanders, belonging prior to this to Jacob Du Booys, as also the rent brought by the said land.”
[See previous entry. Evidently Pietersen, through his marriage, inherits Jacques Dubois’s land in Flanders as well as his estate in North America?]
[See II:390 1677 January 8, Blanchan’s original contract with Dubois.]
[See II:494 1677 October 26, when Blanchan demands that Pietersen fulfill the contract of Jacob Dubois.]
[Then it starts to get quite complicated. See II:584 1681 November 7, when Pietersen gives Hendrick Ten Eyck a deed for a portion of the lot in question, with Blanchan’s permission.]
[See III:214 1682/3 March 6, again Blanchan demanding payment. Pietersen says Anthony Crispell has gone to Holland to get money that’s coming to Pietersen, possibly from sale of land in Flanders that came from Dubois?]
[See III:42-43 1683 April 18, when Wessel Ten Brock agrees to become surety for Jan Pietersen for the debt. Pietersen and wife Petronelle Benteyn mortgage entire estate. Blanchan provides deed for house and lot “next to the principal guard house.”]
[See III:133-134 1683 November 6, when Blanchan tries to get his money from Ten Broeck.]
[See III:61-62 1683/4 January 18, when Ten Eyck sells his portion of lot, together with another lot “next to the head-watch,” to Nicolaes Anthony.]
[See III:195 1684 March 4, 5, 6, Court of Sessions, when Pietersen asks Anthony Crispell for the money Crispell was supposed to bring Pietersen from Europe. Crispell doesn’t have it; court orders Crispell to pay Blanchan what Pietersen owes him, and to release Ten Broeck from his bond to pay same.]
[See III:152-153 1684 June 13, when Blanchan releases Pietersen and Ten Broeck from their obligations; he will chase Crispell for the rest of the debt.]

1678

Jan-Feb-Mar

II:251
1677/8 January 1
Gysbert Crom has accidentally shot off Dirck Adriaensen van Vliedt’s leg. Joost Adriaensen and Jan Joosten agree to bail him. Dr. Kierstede amputates the leg.
On this January 1st 1678/7
Gysbert Crom has accidently, while discharging a pistol loaded only with powder, almost shot off Dirck Adriaensen Van Vliedt’s leg.
The hon. Justice [Thomas Chambers] having examined Gysbert Crom, the same answers that the same took place accidentally against his will.
The hon. Justice orders Gysbert Crom to give bail, so that if the case should turn out badly he shall answer.
We, Joost Adriaensen and Jan Joosten pledge ourselves to deliver up Gysbert Krom for the purpose of answering wherever the same shall be required.
[Probably this is Jan Joosten van Meteren, a friend of Crom, who has a strong relationship with Joost too, eventually becoming the executor of his will. Joost Adriaensen, despite sharing a patronymic, does not seem to be related to Dirck Adriaensen; Joost is sometimes “Molenaer” and sometimes “van Pijnacker,” but in records never “van Vliedt.” The two Adriaensens seem cut from different cloth: Dirck even after recovering finds himself in brawls more than once; Joost is at different times a constable, a council member, and a mid-size property owner not just in the Kingston area but also on Long Island and on the Delaware. See III:148-149 1683/4 February 24 for more.]

5 Jan 1677/8
On Jan. 5, 1678/7, with the permission of the friends and of the court, the leg has been amputated by Mr. Roelof Kierstede.
[Roelof Kierstede, who has a house and lot adjacent to the Mill Gate on the western edge of the village, serves as a village doctor, in the role Gysbert Van Imborch had before him (see original two volumes of Kingston Papers). Roelof is son of well-known doctor Hans Kierstede of Manhattan and his wife Sarah [Roelofsse] Kierstede, who is tapped frequently when the Manhattan council needs a reliable translator in communications with the area’s prior inhabitants.]
[ See II:457 1678 April 5, Kingston, where Crom is released from liability. Looks as if Dirck’s siblings are Jan, Gerrit, Machtel, and Aegje; their father appears to be Adriaen Gerritsen.]
[See III:199 1684 March 4, 5, 6, when Dirck Adriaensen is brought before the court of sessions for breaking the peace. He apparently is still capable of rowdy behavior even when missing a leg.]
[See also II:541-542 1681 August 9, when Dirck and his brother and their father are brought before the Marbletown council by the sheriff for working on the Sabbath.]

II:251
[no date]
It was decreed by hon. court of sessions that those selling wine to the savages shall be obliged to clear themselves under oath upon accusation.

[Big gap in record may start before previous item. Next entry in Dutch original, as rebound, is dated 1679 June 4.]

II:531
1677/8 February 7, Marbletown (ordinary council session)
Marbelton, Feb. 7, 1678/7
[no list of officers present]
[In these court minutes, the verdicts in the original are listed at the end of the session minutes on II:533, instead of each being matched to its case. For ease of comprehension, in the record below each verdict is shown with its relevant case.]

Capt Paelden [Henry Pawling] vs. James Pinnick [?], 2d default

II:532
1677/8 February 7, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Geremia [Jeremia Kettel] vs. Hans Dyckman
[Kettel] demands of Hans Dyckman 1 “Asterbus,” 2 harnesses, 5 lb. of flax
[Dyckman] says that he [Dyckman] was to sow 1 sch. of hempseed, and he sowed the same among the “cripplebush” and it did not grow, and he promised to again sow a sch. And says that he [Kettel] does not need to pay more than 9 gldrs.
[Minutes leave this unclear, but it appears Dyckman was working for Kettel on Kettel’s land, and Kettel owes Dyckman for the work, but wants his seed and implements back. Also appears part of the deal was that in exchange for the work, Kettel would give Dyckman some land.]
Jeremia Kettel says that he will give the land [?], but Dyckman must plow the same. And is willing to pay the nine gldrs [[sic]]. [(en will de negen gulden betaelen)]
[Verdict from II:533:]
Dyckman shall pay the balance in grain because [[he]] has returned the flax, and the land is to be delivered at the proper time. The [court] costs will be equally paid by each of them.

II:532
1677/8 February 7, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
The same [Jeremia Kettel] vs. Gerrit Lamber[t]s
[Kettel] says that [Gerrit’s] fence is open, and that [Kettel’s] cattle [were] impounded on account of [[or through]] the same. [(en dat syn beesten daer door syn genhut)]
[Gerrit] answers that Anthoy Addesen [Anthony Addison] says that it is not [Gerrit’s] fence, but that it is a common fence and Addesen will guarantee him [(will hem bevryden)].
[Kettel] demands [[This is all.]]
The examiners say that the lot belongs to Anthoy Addesen.
[Verdict from II:533:]
In regard to Gerret Lambert’s fence, Anthoy Addes shall, at the next session of the court at Marbleton, prove that the same is not his fence, or else [will be fined].
[See II:509-510 1679 February 19, Kettel again with fence issues.]

II:532
1677/8 February 7, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Fisjer [William Fisher] vs. Jan Garton
[Fisher] demands 75 gldrs.
[Garton] says that his grain is ready if he will only fetch it.
[Verdict from II:533:]
In regard to Fisjer, Garton is to pay the costs.

Fisjer [William Fisher] vs. [Thomas] Quynel, 1st default

The same [William Fisher] vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker, 1st default

Mr. Nottingham vs. Tomas Van der Maerq, 1st default

II:533
1677/8 February 7, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
[Probably Mr. Nottingham again] vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker, 1st default

[Next entry is in English in original.]
William Mountany [Montagne] vs. Gavalt Clocklyer [(Bell-ringer)]
The plantiff demand 40 gild. for charges of [the] sesion Court, Besides 2 Bonds for securyty, 2 halff Bevors [beavers].
The defendant saeth that [the] plantiff had given him all the Charges.
The plaintiffe proveth that upon condition that her 1 month 4 or 5 dayes would soo him in harvest she would give him [the] Rest the which hee hedd? noll desire judgment for [the] wholle.
[[Literal copy of English in original.]]
[See III:161 1682 November 17, Kingston, and other entries; Gevalt’s husband or brother is probably Gerrit. They seem to use Clocklyer as a family name rather than to describe a profession, though Versteeg faithfully translates it each time it comes up.]
[Verdict from II:533:]
In the causa depending Betwixt William Monntay plantiff and Gavalt Clocklyer defandant, the court lives [leaves] to thee plaintiff to Receve such charges as the Book off Lawe doeth direckt.
[[In English in original.]]

II:533
1677/8 February 7, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
N.B. Regarding the fence at Horly at the same time.
[[This is all.]]

The officer is authorized to legally enforce the judgment. Only for 2 decrees [(actens)] 14—for daily wages 9 gldrs. For 1 summons 30 st.

 

II:411-412
1677/8 February 16
Edward Wittaker provides conveyance (deed) to Lieut. George Hall for Lot 10, 10 acres, on first piece [at Marbletown], granted by Gov. Lovelace deed to George Porter then to Wittaker.
[Marbletown has three surveyed “pieces” of farmland attached to it, each piece subdivided into individual lots. In 1670, DRCHSNY XIII:449, Lovelace assigned members of the English garrison lots on these “pieces,” including Lot 10 on the first piece to George Porter.]

II:412
1677/8 February 20, Kingston
It is known and true that Walraven Dumont has bought of Reynier Van der Coelen a farm having previously belonged to Aerdt Martensen Doorn, which was mortgaged by Doorn and Coelen, to Abraham Wessels, Arent Van Coelen, Asser Levy, and others, and Dumont has paid everything from the first to the last penny, and Van der Coelen is absent, so the council gives Dumont a free and unencumbered deed (conveyance) to the farm.
[See similar in absentia, different case, II:403-404 1677 Sept 25. Van Der Coelen’s story is long and represented in Kingston Papers documents too. See for example KP 394-395, 6 March 1668.]

II:412-413
1677/8 February 20
Joost Adryaensz [Adriaensen], attorney for Jeronimus Ebbinck [husband of Johanna De Laet], provides conveyance (deed) to Edward Wittikar for Lots 10 & 12, across Great Bridge, as laid out. Note adds that this includes house, barn, and lot. Wittaker reconveys in same document, same day, to Jan Gerritsen and Hendrick [Hendricksen] Van Wyen.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens
[(signed)] G. Hall, sheriff; Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes, Hendrick Jochemsz [witnesses]
[second transfer]
[(signed)] Ed Whittaker
[(signed)] Hendrick Jochemsz, Matys Matysen [witnesses]
[See II:383 1675/6 March 10, II:241 1675/6 March 10, Ebbingh provides deeds to Cornelis Vernooy and Henderick Van Weyen for lots 4, 5, and 2.]
[See II:254-255 1679 April 30, Gerritsen selling probably these same lots to a partnership of Roelof Kierstede, Cornelis Hoogeboom, and Jacob Rutger.]

II:413-414
1677/8 February 26, Kingston
Aert Otterspoor has money coming from Utrecht; he is from Jutfaes (Jutphaas) in Utrecht. He assigns it to Nicolaes De Majer (256 guilders Dutch money). Money comes from Willem ??? at Utrecht. Mortgages his house and lot against payment.

II:414
1678 March 25, Kingston
Thomas Harmons provides conveyance (deed) to Hendrick Van Wyen for a barn and lot in this village sold by Jeronimus Ebbing to Wittaker, Wittaker to Harmons.
[See II:381 1675/6 March 29, when Van Wye agrees to pay Jan Poppen on Harmensen’s behalf.]
[See II:398 1677 March 24, when Poppen confirms Harmonsen’s mortage was paid (probably by Van Wyen).]
[See next entry.]

II:414-415
1678 March 25, Kingston
Isaac Grevenraedt provides conveyance (deed) to Hendrick Van Wyn for a house and lot in this village. Grevenraet owns it “by virtue of purchase by him from Alberdt Govertsen and Ed. Wittaker, to Thoomas Harmons. From Thoomas Harmons to Alberdt Govertsen.”
[Probably Thomas Harmons sold to Govertsen, and Govertsen and Wittaker sold to Grevenraedt; now Grevenraedt sells to Van Wyn. Not well articulated.]
[See previous entry.]

II:415
1678 March 25, Kingston
Wallerand Dumont provides conveyance (deed) to Mr. [Isaac] Grevenraedt for a house and lot in this village.
[See II:421-422 1678 April 18, Grevenraedt contracts to sell this house and lot to Jan Focken the shoemaker.]

II:415
1678 March 25, Kingston
Tjerck Claesen De Witt and Sweer Teunissen provide conveyance (deed) for the disputed 20 morgen parcel that Tjerck has never provided a deed for, next to his farm, to Gerrit Aerdtsen and Jacobus Elmendorp. Bounded by land of TCDW and of heirs (or widow) of Aert Jacobsen. Pieter Hillebrant sold to Teunissen. They also convey a house and lot in this village [Kingston]. [Signed Claeszen and Thoonussen.]
[See KP 620-621, 714-717, 730-731, and other records. This is 20 acres between the land of Aert Jacobsen (and his heirs, including Gerrit Aertsen and Aert’s son-in-law Jacobus Elmendorp) and Tjerck Claesen. Albert Gysbertsen bought it from Tjerck; see KP 656-657. Tjerck never provided a deed for it, because he claimed Albert still owed him money; see KP 282, 285, also 103-105, 107, 180-181. Albert died; his widow, Aeltje Wygerts, married Pieter Hillebrants (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wiggers-130 ), who sold the land to Swerus Teunissen in 1666. In 1667 (KP pp. 652-653) Tjerck signed a paper confirming he had no further claims against the land, but that’s not quite the same as providing a deed. So getting Tjerck’s signature on this deed, where Sweer sells it to Gerrit Aerdtsen and Jacobus Elmendorp, Tjerck’s neighbors, is a good way to confirm that Tjerck really does agree the land is no longer his.]

II:416
1678 March 25
Wallerand Dumont has received “at interest” from Matthew Blanchan 162 sch of wheat, loaned for four years, to pay annually 6%, “and also in proportion, so that at the expiration of the four years” he will have paid the whole principal too [i.e. amortized].

II:416-417
1678 March 27
[Date in photostat of Versteeg translation is illegible, top of II:417, but Dutch original Liber E p. 83 shows 27 March 1678, near bottom of main text. See https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/22058/rec/13 ]
Maria Wynkoop rents to Jurriaen Teunisen for three years 7 morgen of land—minus 1/2—with house, barn and orchard and clover pasture. House and barn tight in roof and walls, orchard and pasture well fenced, to be returned in same condition. Maria may want the third sheaf, to be stored in the stack, and threshed in the barn in the fall. “She will also stay in the next little house till fall, till her grain shall have been threshed.” She delivers “her land across the great bridge,” fence and bridge free [i.e. she will pay the upkeep and bridge dues] as long as Pieter Jansen’s agreement lasts. Lease includes 2 mares, one 10 years old, the other 3, and [illegible] milch cows, a wagon with iron work, ropes, and horse collars. Lease starts April or May 1678. Rent is 90 schepels of wheat per year, 6 schepels of apples, and cart 6 loads to the riverbank. Natural increase of horses and cattle, and all their work, to be shared.
[See II:243-244 1676 August 11, will of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[For agreement with Pieter Jansen Sloot, see II:401-402 1677 August 16, a four-year lease starting that day.]

II:417
1678 March 27
[Dutch MS incorrectly says 1677.]
Jan Willemsen buys the claim that Maria Wynkoop owns on account of her contract with Pieter Jansen, i.e. “that which was coming to her for the use of her land, she being paid the third sheaf . . . every year.” He will pay 85 schepels of wheat “in all grain at current prices.”
[See II:243-244 1676 August 11, will of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[For agreement with Pieter Jansen Sloot, see II:401-402 1677 August 16, a four-year lease starting that day.]

II:417-418
1678 March 28
Sweer Teunissen [signs “Sweer Thoonussen”] provides conveyance (deed) to Dirck Jansen Schepmoes for a farm, house, barn, and lot that Sweer bought from “lord’s execution” [i.e. enforced auction] on 7 October 1664, owned previously by Aert [Pietersen] Tack, conveyed to Sweert by court on 9 April 1667 [probably when he finished paying for it and got his deed]. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[Aert Pietersen Tack, beset by debt after the 1663 conflict with Esopus villagers left him unable to harvest his crops, “absented himself” from town, leaving his wife, Annetje Ariaens, with nothing but debts (KP 128-129); see KP 540-541. The Tacks had a 20-acre farm, which Sweer bought at auction, KP 543-544, for 1495 guilders. Annetje went on to marry Jacob Jansen; see KP 400.]
[See next entry, 1678 March 27.]

II:418
1678 March 27
Dirck Jansen Schepmoes provides conveyance (deed) to Teunis Elesen for 18 morgen of land, which Sweer Teunissen has sold to Dirck [some date slop here, as well as parcel size]. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See previous entry, 1678 March 28.]

Will
II:418-419
1678 March 27
Everdt Parys [Evert Price], being sick in bed, makes known his debits and credits. Mr. Nottingham, Mr. [Thomas] Quynel, Gerrit Lambertsen, Mr. [George] Hall, Jacob Lusena, Herman Allessen, Mr. Roelof [[Kierstede]], Warnaer Hoornbeecq, Nicolas De Majer, Mayken [wife of Jan Joosten], Joost Adriaensen, George Davits, Benjamin Provoost, Jan the Smith, Lowies Du Booys, Lambert the Boer [[farmer]], Peter Hillebrants, Jan Biggs, Jacob Ruts. Anything remaining should go to Marie Hals, oldest daughter of Mr Hall, as legatee.
[Evert survives. See II:440 1678 September 23, II:516 1680/1 January 20, and on and on. Mary Hall, daughter of Elizabeth Hall and George Hall, goes on to marry Jan Biggs in 1686, then Pieter Mouritz in 1707; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hall-638 (information on external site hasn’t been checked to confirm).]

Apr-May-Jun

II:419-420
1678 April 1
Heirs of deceased Annetie Gerritsen, late widow of Aerdt Jacobsen, divide land. Gerrit Aerdtsen, oldest son, has received the first lot, already apportioned to him. Jacobus Elmendorp [m. Grietje Aertsen] the lot No. 2, about the same extent and also fenced. Cornelis Fynhout [m. Neeltje Aertsen] No. 3 also fenced in, Cornelis Maston [m. Lyssebet Aertsen] No. 4, Jacob Aertsen No. 5. Partition took place in presence of Capt. Chambers, Jan Willemsen, Tjerck Claesen DeWitt.
[See II:446 (no date but refers to 1676 August 12), excruciating story of how Baltus, a man enslaved by George Hall, killed two women, including Annetie Gerritsen, and wounded another, apparently unprovoked, “on the public street.”]

II:457
1678 April 5, Kingston (special council session)
[See II:251 1677/8 January 1 and 5, when Crom accidentally shoots off the leg of Dirck Adriaensen Van Vliedt.]
This April 5, 1678
Present the hon. Justice of the Peace [Thomas Chambers], the sheriff [George Hall], besides the entire court.
At the request of the sureties for Gysbert Krom, their honors have met together, as also at the request of all the friends, because Dirck Adriansen has again been cured, having lost his left leg. [[This was almost illegible in the original, one word having been written over another.]] The father, the mother, the patient and all together were asked by the Justice and the sheriff whether they had any claim against said Gysberdt Crom? They all answered, “None whatever.”
The said friends and sureties have requested to prevent further suits, because the said Gysbert Crom had been bound over by the Justice to answer, and had been put under arrest in the custody of the hon. sheriff.
The said hon. Justice, the hon. sheriff and also the hon. court have discharged the said Gysbert Crom, and secured him against any claim with the full consent of the hon. sheriff, as also of the friends and of the patient himself.
(signed) Thomas Chambers, G. Hall, sheriff, Joost Adryaens, Jan Willemsen
(signed with marks) Adriaen Gerritsen [father of Dirck], Aegje Adriaens, Gerrit Adriansen, Jan Adrians Van Vliet [Dirck’s siblings]
(signed) Mechtel Arn? Van dercKar? Jelsen? [Dirck’s sister?], Roelof Kierstede, Will Beeckman, W.D. Meyer
To which testifies
(signed) W. D La Montagne, Secretary
[Mechtel, signing above, is likely Machtel Adriaensen van Vliet; she is married to Barent Van Borsum; see III:1-2 1682 November 19. It is not clear what name she is signing on this document. It’s also possible she is Adriaen’s wife, Dirck’s mother.]

 

II:420
1678 April 11
Before Wm Montagne, “secretary at Marbleton,” Jan Joosten provides conveyance (deed) to William Nottingham, per Joosten’s purchase 4 March 1674/5, also per deed granted by Lovelace, also per purchase and grant, for a house, barn, and lot “with everything fixed in the ground and fastened by nail,” plus four lots in “Rugge Hoeck”: Lot 13 of Henry Pawling, Lot 14 of Berresfordt, Lot 15 of Jan Joosten, Lot 4 of Gysberdt Crom. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See II:567-569 1680/1 March 19, when Anna Nottingham, widow of William, marries Thomas Garton, and they divide the deceased William’s estate. To Anna’s son William go 6 lots in the Ruyge Hoeck, likely including above. Property is mentioned III:40 1683 April 10 as SW of William Fisher, when he sells to Jan Cock and William Wood.]

II:420-421
1678 April 12, Kingston
William de Major, attorney for his father Nicolaes De Majer, has delivered to Claes Teunessen [Van Clier] a letter written to Claes, “by or in the name of Jacobus Aernouts, living at Gorinchem, dated March 17, with a deposition before the notary Van Vechten . . . dated March 27, 1672, and further the power of attorney by Claes Teunessen to Mr. Majer, dated November 29, 1671, and further a power of attorney by Mr. Majer to Jan Marcelis Van Os, attorney at law at Gorch***, but no proof that any money has been received for the order of Claes Teunessen.”
[See next entry.]
[See for comparison II:261 copy of minutes from Netherlands 1678 November 12, when parties in the Netherlands refuse to believe that a power of attorney from Jan Elting in New Netherland refers to the same Jan Elting they know. See also III:195 1684 March 4, 5, 6, Jan Pietersen’s frustration when Anthony Crispell returns from Europe without the money he was supposed to collect for Jan. Transoceanic transfers don’t always go perfectly.]

II:421
1678 April 17, Kingston
Willem de Meyer as attorney of his father Nicolaes De Meyer promises that if it turns out money did get paid on Claes Teunessen’s behalf, in the fatherland, the de Meyers will promptly pay it to Teunessen.
[See previous entry.]

II:421-422
1678 April 18, Kingston
Isaack Grevenraedt contracts to sell to Jan Focken [signs with mark], “master shoemaker,” Isaack’s house and lot in the village, as Isaack bought from Wallerandt du [[Mon]]. 330 sch of wheat, 20 sch now and the balance in 3 installments. If installments aren’t paid, Isaack can seize the house and sell it again. If it sells for less, Focken owes the balance. if it sells for more, Isaack pockets it. Deed provided after payment [to be completed in April 1681].
[See II:415 1678 March 25, Wallerand Dumont conveyance (deed) to Isaac Grevenraedt for this house and lot.]
[See II:624-625 1682 April 21 when William Montagne as attorney for Isaac Grevenraedt provides deed for lot to Jan Focken.]

II:422
1678 April 17, Kingston
William Asfordbie contracts to sell to Claes Teunessen [Van Clier] “two lots on the Great piece named the third piece,” which Asfordbie bought from Jan Broersen [Decker], plus one lot that Asforbie bought from Jan Reynols. 800 sch of wheat, half in wheat, half in any grain (except maize) at market prices, but 1/3 of 1/2 in peas, or wheat if the peas don’t “fall out well.” What’s already sown on land belongs to Asfordt, but fallow land is Teunessen’s right away. Conveyance (deed) “shall take place at the last payment,” which is to happen “at the house of Claes Teunesen.”
Witnesses: George Hall, Wilhelmus Beeckman. Signed William Asfordbie, mark of Claes Teunesen
[See KP 748-749 1675 December 18, Jan Broersen [Decker] contracts to sell to William Asfordbie “his farm situated under Marbletown, 20 morgens in extent, 15 morgen being on the second parcel across the great kill and further five morgen on the first piece,” with farm equipment, for 700 sch. wheat; this does not match the description of the farm on the third piece, but see next note.]
[John Reynolds received land at Marbletown when Lovelace distributed it to the garrison; see DRCHSNY XIII 448-450. See II:385-386 1676 November 15 when Asfordbie and Reynolds exchange parcels.]
[This is the last written record that clearly verifies Sheriff George Hall is still alive. By mid-June an inventory of his estate is being taken; see II:431-432 1678 June 14. By June 10 word of his demise had reached Manhattan (see Andros Papers 1677-1678 p. 403, 27:133), but the original notice (with any description of cause of death) may not have been preserved. Probably he died in early June, when other residents of Kingston were writing wills, sick in bed.]

II:422-423
1678 (assumed) April 18, Kingston
Wilhelmus De Meyer, “as attorney of Mr. Johan Coly, by virtue of power of attorney dated November 5, 1677” [the power of attorney is not part of this collection of records], provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Louwersen [? hard to read Versteeg photostat] for house and lot in village of Kingston, as Capt. Pawling bought from Dirck Jansen Schepmoes. Conveyed “without cost and unencumbered” [standard formula], paid from first to last penny.
[See also II:388-389 1676 November 21, Pawling provides deed to Schepmoes for house and lot. Did they trade houses?]
[See II:382 1675/6 March 9, when Pawling conveys house and lot in village to Coly.]
[See II:563 1680/1 February 18, when Louwersen contracts to sell house and lot where he is living to Severeyn Ten Hout.]
[See III:18 1682/3 February 17, when Louwerse provides deed to Severyn Ten Houdt for house and lot next to Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz]; Severyn flips it immediately to Gabriel Minvielle of New York.]

II:423
[undated, filed between 18 and 20 April 1678]
Pa Wierwack [a sachem of the Esopus] declares he has sold [or granted] to Louis Dubois “and his partners” a path through his plantation, because there’s no other way [to get where?] except by crossing. He permits them to cut as much wood as they need, for which he gets one and a half [[measure left out]][but typically ells] of cloth.
[(signed)] Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes, Jacomyntie Slecht
[(signed)] This is the mark + of Pa Wierwack, Sackimaker [[sachem]] of the Esopus
[This may be a road to New Paltz?]
[Original is at Liber E p. 94.]

II:423-424
1678 April 20
Poulus Cornelissen, about to depart province, gives power of attorney to Gommert Poulussen [his son?].
[See II:425-426 1678 June 2.]
[Original is at Liber E p. 95. Page 96 and following pages use a strikingly different ink.]

Will [missing standard “In the name of the Lord, Amen”]
II:424
1678 May 5, Kingston
Aerdt Aerdtsen Otterspoor leaves house, lot, Holland money, in Holland, to Cornelis Barensen [Slecht] and his wife, excepting only a little closet [(kaasje)] which his [Cornelis’s?] daughter Petronella shall receive.
[See II:635, 1682 July 25, when this is annulled.]
[Original is at Liber E p. 96.]
[Implication is that Aert does not have wife or children to inherit his estate. See KP 562 1665 April 29 Aert sells lot in village near Mill Gate to Cornelis. Slecht has recently petitioned council for land closer to town because he says he’s getting older and has trouble getting around. Otterspoor also buys and sells land outside of town; see KP 559, 562-564. See KP 305-306 1666 October 26, Aert petitions for a little piece of land where he can build a house “because age and ill health are rendering him weak”; he gets “the point near the little water gate,” unclear whether inside or just outside stockade, but council tells him house must have a “board roof” rather than easily flammable thatch; property continues to belong to village, not Aert. (More than once various people ask council for permission to build a house at the NW corner of the stockade, adjacent to Tjerck Claessen DeWitt, later Edward Wittaker and others, where it appears the stockade corner extends and has some tempting extra room. Council frequently prefers to keep that area open for purposes of a more secure defense if town gets attacked.) See KP 429 1669, KP 691 1670 December 24, where Aert buys Matthew Capito’s old house in town, likely Lot 17, and KP 501-502 1673 November where he rents house to Albert Govertsen. Otterspoor is made pound keeper KP 481 1672 March 20, KP 484-485; Aert more than once is accused of grabbing animals that weren’t actually loose and putting them in the pound so he can collect the fine. Aert seeks permission to retire from this office KP 516 1674 May 21. See II:579 1681 August 30, Aert sells to Jan Gerritsen his house and lot, with the proviso that Aert may continue to live there as long as he lives, without paying rent.]
[See II:555 1680 June 27, house and lot Anderies Pietersen (then Nicolaes Anthony) owns in partnership with Aert Otterspoor. See also II:579 1681 August 30, Aert sells Jan Gerritsen his house and lot.
[See II:244-245 1676 August 4, will of Tryntje Tysen Bosch, wife of Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, also referring to daughter Petronella and “a little linen closet” she has received.]

II:424
1678 May 20
Isaack Grevenraedt gives power of attorney to Heer Secretary Montagne.
[Original is at Liber E, p. 97, top of page. Very different handwriting; this looks as if it was written in Grevenraedt’s hand, not Montagne’s.]
[See II:624-625 1682 April 21 when William Montagne as attorney for Isaac Grevenraedt provides deed for lot to Jan Focken.]

II:433-434
1678 June 1, Kingston
William Nottingham has leased to Teunes Jacobsen 5 lots on 2nd piece [at Marbletown], with 2 young milch cows. 100 sch of wheat, half in wheat, half in other summer grain, maize excepted. 5 years, Sept 1 1678 to Sept 1683. Fence to be returned in same condition. Natural increase to be evenly divided every 3 years.
[See II:567-569 1680/1 March 19, when Anna Nottingham, marrying Thomas Garton, carefully divides the land that Nottingham, her second husband, leased to Jacobsen. Most of the land actually goes to her children with her first husband, Daniel Brodhead.]

II:434
1678 June 1, Kingston
Roelof Jansen contracts to buy house and lot from Benjamin Provoost, as Provoost bought from Thomas Quick. 80 sch of wheat, 3 installments. House is currently leased by Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen; lease expires 2 months before All Saints Day [so Sept 1] “or thereabouts.” Deed (conveyance) to be granted “After the last payment.”
[See II:267 1679/80 January 12, when Provoost provides deed to Jansen.]
[See II:438 1678 September 10, when Jansen (before he gets the deed) contracts to sell the house and lot to Jan Hendricksen.]

II:435
1678 June 1
William Nottingham leases to [[sic]] Jan Broersen and Jacob Broersen [Decker] their [[sic]] farm, and the lot of William Fisjer, 35 morgen total, with house and lot where Pieter Hillebrant has lived, plus garden surrounding same. With farm come: 5 horses (3 mares, 1 stallion, 1 gelding), 4 young milch cows, 2 sows; 1 new plow, 1 new wagon, iron work & belongings. 6 year lease starts 1 September 1678 and ends 1 Sept 1684. Typical clauses about condition of goods, natural increase of livestock. 140 sch of wheat per year (or summer grain, maize excepted). “In case a general war shall break out with the savages, which God forbid,” lessee is responsible for loss.
[See II:567-569 1680/1 March 19, when Anna Nottingham, marrying Thomas Garton, carefully divides the land William leased before he died among her children, with the Decker lease going to her eldest son with her first husband, Daniel Brodhead.]

Will
II:425-426
1678 June 2
Jacobus Elmendorp is sick in bed but in full possession of his senses. After he dies, wife [Grietje Aertsen] to possess entire estate. If she remarries, she should disburse the just half to the kids. If she remains unmarried, then the kids get it when she dies, as well as everything in Holland with father of Jacobus, Coenradt Elmendorf, living at Rynborch in the “Rynstraet” in the “Gilded Cable” [(Vergulde Cabeltouw)], viz. 450 guilders belonging to Jacobus and his two brothers and two sisters, children of a former marriage of Coenradt Elmendorp and Janneken, their mother, as well as anything else he may inherit. All of this goes to Jacobus’s wife. He gives power [of attorney] to Gommert Poulussen to receive the money in Holland and give it to Jacobus’s wife.
[(signed)] Jacobus Elmen Dorff
[Original is at Liber E pp. 98-99.]
[Jacobus’s wife Grietje is one of the daughters of Aert Jacobsen, neighbor to Tjerck Claesen DeWitt. See II:423-424 1678 April 20; possibly Gommert’s father is the one going to Holland.]
[Jacobus survives; see for example II:462-463 1679 April 30, when he and his brother-in-law Gerrit Aertsen sue their neighbor for access across his property to get their livestock to pasture, and many other entries after that.]

II:426-430
(no date)
[Maria,] widow of Cornelis Wynkoop, auctions estate, starting by setting terms by which she will sell third sheaf [on “hocken” is the term used]. No standard intro to auction, but long list of items sold and who paid how much.
Buyers include Harmon Hekeam, Martin Hofman, Jan Hendrix, many others. II:430 Tjerck Claesen, a strainer, for 6 guilders.
[See II:243-244 1676 August 11, will of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[Original starts at Liber E p. 100 and runs through the very top line of p. 106.]

II:431-432
1678 June 14
Inventory of George Hall’s estate, taken by constable Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes] and overseers [council members, supervisors, magistrates] Joost Adriaense and Jan Willemsen, at Kingston. Many parcels of land. Cloth, livestock, farm equipment, horse harnesses & saddles, a negro and a negress, crops on field, corn in loft (bread corn and brew corn), a gun.
[Original starts at Liber E p. 106, right below final line of record of Wynkoop estate auction.]
[See next entry, June 15.]
[This inventory is repeated in The Andros Papers 1677-1678, pp. 409-411 (27:135), translated from a very similar but possibly not identical copy. Andros Papers also includes an even longer list of debts owed to Sheriff Hall when he died, probably taken from his account books (AP 404-409, 27:134), including what sounds like almost everyone in the Kingston area (and a few in Manhattan), from Thomas Chambers (owes 82 guilders) to Marbletown’s Richard Cage (75), as well as several local Esopus villagers and sachems. Total owed to the estate adds up to 22,513 guilders, a hefty sum. (Part of the sheriff’s compensation was a healthy percentage of all the fines he collected.)]
[See II:400, bound among 1677 March-April documents, note from Governor Andros, authorizing Elizabeth Hall to administer estate of George, who died intestate. Note also AP 411 [27:136a], where Andros offers the assistance of Abraham de Peister if needed in work on the estate’s accounts.]
[See II:433, undated, possibly from June 1678, Elizabeth Hall selling grain on Wassemaker’s Land.]
[See 21 Aug 1678 when Elizabeth Hall sells “Tam Tailler” to Jan Hendrix (who signs Jan Hendericksz). Jan Hendrix sells “Tam Tyler” to Edward Wittaker 13 September 1678, II:438-439.]
[See II:506 1678/9 March 27, Nicholas Anthony trying to settle outstanding accounts George Hall left open as Sheriff when he died; and, same session, Hall vs. Peacock, Elting, Govertsen, for debts to estate.]
[See II:264-265 1679 November 10, Elizabeth Hall providing deed to William Beekman for house (where?).]
[See II:278-279 1680 April 12, Elizabeth Hall settling debts with Thomas Delavall and Gabriel Minvielle in New York.]
[See II:558-559 1680 July 22, Elizabeth Hall selling land to Robert Peacock and Robert Chisholm.]
[See III:83 1681/2 January 10, land of Gerrit Van Slechtenhorst bought from Elizabeth Hall.]

II:432
1678 June 15
Thomas Chambers note, written in English, instructing constable or “stebode” [[stebode = town messenger]] to “arrest the Whole Estate” of George Hall, intact, until his widow posts a bond for it.
[See previous entry, June 14.]
[See Andros Papers 1677-1678 p. 403 (27:133), 1678 June 10, a short note from Matthias Nicolls, secretary to the colony council in Manhattan, to Thomas Chambers, instructing him on behalf of the council “not to grant nor suffer any attachment” to the estate of George Hall until a complete accounting can be made. The council is aware that George Hall had a lot of dealings with “divers persons,” and they expect his estate to be large and possibly complex. They direct Chambers to “cause an account to be taken of his whole Estate whether reall or personall,” and the council would like a copy sent to them (see entry above). Everyone’s understanding is that the Sheriff died intestate, but Nicolls adds that if a will should turn up, Chambers should “send downe a Copie.” They also urge Chambers to treat the widow “with all Civility” and to “[acquaint] her with the Custome in like Cases.”]

Jul-Aug-Sep

II:434
1678 July 2, Kingston
William Nottingham contracts to sell to Aerdt Martensen Doorn a lot [in the village; no house], “[[bounding]] on the East side [[on]] Capt. Delavall’s; on the west side, say Aert Martensen’s [[sic]], Jacobus Elmendorp’s, measuring along the street four rods 13 1/2 feet, and extending to the curtains” [stockade walls]. Price is a cow, already delivered, and 30 sch of wheat, to be delivered next February. Conveyance (deed) granted “with the last payment.”
[(signed)] Hendrick Jochems, Wessel Ten Broeck
[(signed)] William Nottingham, Aert Maertsen Doorn
[Original Dutch record filed with other Nottingham contracts dated June 1; this may have been written up in the same batch of papers, but execution was delayed for some reason.]

II:435-436
1678 August 4, Kingston
Joost Adriaensen and Dirck Jansen Schepmoes have an agreement: Dirck Jansen takes Joost’s portion of the land they hold in common on the Wassemaker’s Land; Dirck will plant Joost’s portion properly, and Joost will get the third sheaf [on “hocken”] for the use of his land, every year. Agreement is good for six plantings [(bouwen)], which shall commence today. Dirck will keep the fence in good shape; if he makes any improvements, Joost will reimburse him after appraisal. The present pasture [for livestock, distinct from the fields where crops are grown for harvest] shall remain in common, and the cripplebush will also remain in common, with the exception of the central cripplebush, which Dirck will clear and use, on the same terms [third sheaf] as the field discussed above. In payment Dirck will use the front portion [of the cripplebush area he clears] for himself. With the land he gets a horse named the Kermits [(fair)], and during plowing Dirck and Joost will keep the pasture fence maintained together. Joost will pay a third of the ordinary village taxes, but he will pay the “heavy” village taxes by himself. He retains for himself a corner of land where hemp has been grown, about 1/2 morgen.
[See II:383 for undated partial deed from Henry Pawling to Joost Adriaensen for a parcel on Wassemaker’s land.]
[See II:618-619 1682 September 21 when Joost sells to Dirck Jansen Schepmoes the land Joost bought on Wassemaker’s Land from Henry Pawling.]

II:436
1678 August 21, Kingston
Elisabet Hals [Hall] contracts to sell to Jan Hendrix “her negro, named Tam Tailler,” for 500 sch of wheat in two installments, February 1678/9 and February 1679/80, delivered at Hall’s house. If “on account of the conditions the sale cannot take place, [she] will have to reimburse whatever losses Jan Hendrix is to suffer in consequence of the same.” Jan signs “Hendericksz.”
[See II:431-432 1678 June 14, inventory of George Hall’s estate.]
[See II:439 1678 September 13, Jan resells to Edward Wittaker.]

II:437
1678 September 7
Pieter Cornelesen provides conveyance (deed) to Wallerand Dumont for a parcel of land Pieter bought from Anthony Crupel, “being the same corner of land having previously belonged to the same farm.” Has been paid from the first to the last penny.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens [witness]
[(signed)] This is the mark of Pieter Cornelisen, by himself
[Pieter Cornelissen Louw is of the Blanchan-Dubois clan, married to Elizabeth Blanchan; see II:250 1676 November 1.]
[See II:390-391 1677 January 9, contract of sale from Cornelissen to Dumont. Apparently this was all one parcel originally, and Aert Martensen Doorn split it, selling part to Wallerand Dumont and part to Anthony Crispel, who sold his piece to Cornelissen. So the piece now being transferred was formerly part of the same farm as Dumont's existing farm next door.]

II:437
1678 September 9
Lowies Du Booys has let to Jan Eltinge and Warnaer Hoorenbeecq “his farm, situated at Horly . . . with house, barn and fence, for the period of three years.” Fence and buildings to be returned in good shape. 100 sch of wheat per year. No movable property nor cattle to go with farm. Lessees will pay taxes on farm.
[(signed)] W. LaMontagne, Secretary, Joost Adryaensz
[(signed)] Louis Dubois, Jan Eltÿnge, this is the mark of Warnaer Horenbeecq
[See next entry.]

II:437-438
1678 September 9
Jan Eltinge and Warnaer Hoorenbeecq agree that Warner will keep “house, stacks, lot and barn, the portion of the farm situated in the village.” For his share he will pay 67 sch of wheat per year.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens, Louys Dubois
[(signed)] Jan Eltynge, this is the mark of Warnaer Hoorenbeecq
[See previous entry.]

II:438
1678 September 10, Kingston
Roelof Jansen contracts to sell to Jan Hendricksen a house and lot “in this village” that Roelof bought from Benjamin Provoost. Jan will pay “once for all” 84 sch of winter wheat in two installments, February 1678/9 and “the year following.” Then Roelof will grant a free and unencumbered conveyance.
[(signed)] the mark X of Jan Focken, Jacobus Beeckman
[(signed)] Roelof Jansen, the mark ooo of Jan Hendrix
[See II:434 1678 June 1 when Provoost agrees to sell lot to Jansen; see II:267 1679/80 January 12, when Provoost provides deed to Jansen and Jansen to Hendrix.]

II:438
1678 September 10
Jan Focken contracts to sell to Roelof Jansen “a certain lot in this village next to the lot of Barent van Borsum,” for 66 sch of wheat in two installments, and then Jan will grant a conveyance. [No house.]
[(signed)] Joost Adriaens, Hendrick Jochemsz
[(signed)] This is the mark X of Jan Focken, Roelof Jansen
[See II:471 1679/80 March 1 when Jan Focken, shoemaker, and Pieter Jansen bought this lot from Edward Wittaker.]
[See II:276 1679/80 March 23, when Jan Focken provides deed to Roelof Jansen.]

II:438-439
1678 September 13, Kingston
Jan Hendrix sells to Eduwaert Wittaker “a negro named Tam Tyler,” for 470 sch of wheat, in two installments, Feb 1678/9 and “February 1679, O.S.” [1679/80], upon which condition [after that payment] [(op welcke conditie)] Jan will deliver to Edward “a new wagon and a new plow, and in case the plow is no good,” Jan will make it good. Jan also will furnish Tam’s clothing: a red coat, a pair of leather pants, a pair of broadcloth pants [(lakense)].
[(signed)] Thomas Chambers, Joost Adryaens, witnesses
[(signed)] Jan Hendericksz, Ed Whittaker
[See II:436 1678 August 21, when Hendrix originally bought the enslaved man from Elizabeth Hall.]

II:439
1678 September 20, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 124
Marten Hofman has contracted to sell to Manus Borger a house and lot at Albany, “as expressed in the deed.” Manus pays “once for ever” 66 beavers, 3 installments through 1680, and then Hoffman will grant an unencumbered conveyance. Can be paid in wheat or zewant. House to be delivered immediately.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens, Jan Teunesse
[(signed)] Marten Hoffman, the mark MB of Manus Borger

II:440
1678 September 23
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 125
Everdt Prys [also written as Parys in Dutch original] provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Broersen [Decker] for a farm at Marbletown, with a house and lot in the village. Paid for “from the first to the last penny.”
[(signed)] The mark of Everdt Prys, by himself
[This is Evert Price, a British soldier; see DRCHSNY XIII 448-450 for lots he received in Marbletown village and each of the three adjacent farm areas, or “pieces,” which were surveyed under Lovelace and divided into parcels to be awarded by lot to members of the British garrison.]

II:440
1678 September 29
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 126 (top)
Mattue Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] has been satisfied by Suveryn Ten Houdt “in regard to all transactions they have had together, from this date till the beginning of the world, whatsoever name they may bear.”
[(signed)] Matheu Blacan [[sic]]

[This entry is at the top of a verso page in a mostly sequential set of Secretary’s Papers. In handwriting and ink it matches the entries on the pages before it. The bottom of the page, though, is taken up by an apparently unrelated entry from II:440 1678/9 March 13, written (still by Montagne) in a different handwriting, with tighter spacing, in a lighter colored ink.
[The next leaf in Secretary’s Papers Volume E, as currently bound, is from II:441 1678 December 12, leaving the impression that two and a half months of secretarial records may have gone missing.
[Possibly this page was the final page in one of Montagne’s notebooks, and as October began, he started a new notebook. Then, the following March, for some reason he needed a bit of space to enter a new record, so he found the empty half-page below this entry and tucked in the new entry there.
[If this is what happened, then the notebook with the entries between 29 September and 12 December have been lost. Or possibly there were no entries to be made in those months.]

Oct-Nov-Dec

II:441
1678 December 12, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 127-128
[In English]
William Asforbie hires out his land at Marbletown to Robard Chissiam [Robert Chisholm?] for 4 years [“the Taimes of foure jaeres”] starting last September “when the corne is from thee field” and ending 1682. [“Corn,” in English usage of the time, means grain of any sort, not just maize.]
With the land, Asfordbie delivers a manservant named William Clarcq [Asfordbie is to find him sufficient clothing], a plow, a wagon, trimming for 4 horses; 3 cows, 4 mares and horses [together], 2 sows and 4 pigs, with Chissam to have the half increase of sow and pigs.
Chissam is to pay the 1/2 crop of what the land produces, and also all the increase of horses and cattle, but Chissam gets 1 of every 3 cows. Chissam to clear all the land “siouwed too him” [all that land that has been pointed out to him: showed] to the “graet tries” [up to where the large trees start?]. Asforbie delivers 10,000 palisades; Chissam to make the fence. 7 schepels of wheat already sowed on land. Chissam has been given 20 schepels of Indian corn, which he will give back “at thee end of thee taime.”
[This entry takes a page and a half, two sides of the same leaf. Montagne’s handwriting in English often is more legible than his Dutch notes, as if he is writing in language not perfectly natural to him. At the bottom of the second page, underneath the end of this record, Montagne (in Dutch) records a grant of land to Jan Waerd, and the next page is another entry from December 1678. The pages in Volume E immediately preceding this are from September, as if perhaps a few months of records have gone missing.]

II:442
[1678 presumed] December 13
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 128 (bottom)
Jan Waerd “was granted a plot of land outside the gate for a pasture, along the small kill, upon the approval of the Heer Governor.” If he doesn’t use it, council will take it back.
[In the Dutch original, Liber E p. 128, this is at the bottom of the page that holds the previous entry, and the 1678 December 28 entry about Kenthamin and Sema is on the next page, as currently bound.]

II:271
1678 December 20
Secretary’s Papers Liber B Page 383
[In English, unexecuted]
Wm Fisher of Marbletown in Esopus sells to John Cock of same town, carpenter, for 1100 schepels of winter wheat, his dwelling house, barne & lots formerly belonging to Mr. Samuel Leete. Payment “made good by [bond] before the [signing] & sealing,” so if it had been executed, this document would have been a conveyance (deed)? Unclear.
[Not clear why this entry is bound into Secretary’s Papers Liber B with papers from Feb-Mar 1680. There’s not an obvious connection to the documents that precede, and what follows is obscure. This leaf was probably added here in error when the volumes were rebound. The Dutch original is on p. 383 of the rebound volume, with nothing on the other side (p. 384), and the succeeding several pages (385-400) are either blank or have been cut from the original (the modern digital scan describes some as “stubs”). The next page in Liber B with meaningful content on it is 401, which continues the preceding sequence with an entry from 1679/80 March 3, a deed from Jacobus Elmendorff to Benjamin Provoost (which involves Fisher, though it appears to be unrelated to this transaction). A typical signature of pages, because of the way a larger sheet of paper is folded to make smaller page sizes, is 16 pages; it is possible that an entire signature was bound into this volume erroneously, with an extra leaf from somewhere else.]

II:442
1678 December 28
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 129
Kentkamin, Kapatagin and Sema, Esopus villagers, have presented to Lowies Du Booys “their lands, arable land as well as woodland, situated next to the lands of Du Booys and his partners [i.e. New Paltz] till Sewakanamie’s land, on both sides of the Kill and named Pawachta, till Pakaslick [Pakaseenk?] Wakankonach, commencing from the high mountains to straight across the wood to the great swamp.” Granted voluntarily.
[(signed)] The marks of Kentkamin, Kapatagin, Sema

1679

Jan-Feb-Mar

II:442
1678/9 January 1, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 130
[In English]
William Asforbie contracts to sell to Thomas Garton “his house baren an stake [stack] as also his hous, lott att Marbleton” for 100 sch of wheat, 3 payments, January 1679-1680-1681 [says first payment is in “Januuway insuwing 1679,” probably January ensuing, so 1679/80 rather than 1678/9?]. Asforbie will “macke free transport,” i.e., grant free conveyance (unencumbered deed).
[(signed)] Wallerand DuMont, Cornelis [Barentsen] Slecht
[(signed)] Wm. Asfordbie, Tho Garton
To which testifies [(signed)] W. D’LaMontagne, Secretary
[William Asfordbie buys, sells, and trades several properties in the Marbletown area in the years before and after this transaction; it is not always clear which is which.]

II:443
1678/9 January 4
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 131
Gerrit Gysbertsen has let to Gerrit Aerdtsen [Adriaensen in one instance, sic] Gysbertsen’s half of the farm that Gysbertsen has in partnership with Gysberdt Crom, for 6 years, starting April 1679. If Aerdtsen wants to release it after 3 years, he may. 60 sch of wheat per year. Farm comes with: 3 cows, 3 horses (1 mare, “de smyt,” “de Joncker”) and also a colt; wagon with iron work half worn out; plow with belongings, harness, chain, rope, 4 bits, 2 reins, a furrow-plow, all to be returned in same condition as received.
[(signed)] Wm. Asfordbie, Jan Corneles Van Gotte Berg
[(signed)] the mark of Gerrit Gysbertsen, the mark of Gerrit Adriaensen
To which testifies [(signed)] W. D.La Montagne, Secretary
[See II:270 1679/80 February 24, Joost Adriaensen providing deed to Gysbert Crom for half-share of parcel, Lots 2 and 3 on first “piece,” which Joost in 1671 bought in partnership with Gerrit Gysbertsen from Christopher Beresford, one of the original commanders of the British garrison in Kingston.]

II:443
1678/9 February 8, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 132
Rachel Tyte or Fyte contracts to sell house and lot in Kingston to William Asfordbie.
Appeared before me Wm. Montagne Secretary at Kingston Rachel Ty [signs Rachell Tey, or possibly Fey] who acknowledges having sold to Mr. William Asforbie her house and lot as the extent and limits [[something left out]] and further her right and title here at Kingston. For which house and lot Mr. Asforbie is to pay hundred and twenty sch. of wheat to be paid in February next. The said house, and lot, right and title are to be delivered with a free conveyance immediately, free, and unencumbered. Promise to comply with the foregoing under obligations as per law, and has subscribed to the present with her own hand, this Feb. 8 1678 [[sic]] at Kingston.
[(signed)] Rachell Tey
To which testifies [(signed)] W. D’LaMontagne, Secretary
[Rachel appears in other records here, sometimes as Tyte, sometimes as Ty, sometimes as Fyte or Fy; the handwriting can be challenging to scrutinize, whether in her signature or in court minutes. Unclear whether they are related, but note that Anna Nottingham’s maiden name was Tye.]
[See II:496 1679 August 15, apparently the deed that goes with this contract, including a complicated set of transactions by which it came into Rachel’s hands. Asfordbie goes on to sell property to Arendt Isaax; see II:622-623 1682 March 31.]

II:432
1678/9 February 27
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 108
Thomas Chambers hires Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen [Sterreveld] for one year [May 1 1679 to May 1 1680] “as a mason and carpenter,” for 200 sch of wheat. “During this period Cornelis Woutersen is obliged to comport himself well.” Woutersen allowed to use, “with his own tools, the tools of Capt. Chambers, without expense.” Woutersen gets “free proper board and washing and bed clothing.”
[(signed)] Wm. Asfordbie, Joost Adryaens, Joris Davis [witnesses]
[(signed)] Thomas Chambers, Coernelis St[[erreveld]]
[Probably this is when original Foxhall Manor main house is constructed. Apropos tools, note that Thomas Chambers, in his Rensselaerswyck days, was originally known as a good carpenter and house builder, earning himself the nickname “Clabbort” for having taught the Dutch the English methods of clapboard siding.]
[Original Dutch record bound into Secretary’s Papers Liber E at p. 108, among II:432-433 1678 June records pertaining to the estate of George Hall. The reverse of this document has on it the end of the inventory of Hall’s estate, and on the same side as this contract, above the contract, is a warrant from Thomas Chambers to freeze the estate. This perhaps was recorded on the same sheet because it was a later document pertaining to Thomas Chambers. The following page is blank. See https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/22083/rec/13 ]

II:253-254
1679 March 3
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 317
Harmon Hekam contracts to sell to Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkranz] “his land, house, lot, stack, and barn” at Marbleton, together “with the sowing of eleven and a half sch. of wheat and 3 sch. of rye,” for 600 sch of wheat, 100 to be paid to Asser Levy, “and to Tierck Claesen his share,” with balance to Hekam. Deed to be provided upon payment.
Note at bottom excludes “a barn, built on the land, belonging to Harmon Hekan”; unclear whether this is the barn referred to at the top.
Further note clarifies that Hendrix “is to satisfy Asser Levy, but only up to the amount of purchase money [still owed?] for the land.”
[(signed)] Claes Teunis[[?]], Jacop Rutse [witnesses]
[(signed)] Harmon [mark] Hekan, Harmen Hyndrickssen
[See KP 741 1674 April 18, where Tjerck sells 10-morgen Marbletown Lot 14 to Harmon Hekan for 500 sch. of maize, and KP 742, same day, where Hekam buys Lot 15 from Thomas Quinel, for 515 sch. of maize. Payments on both sales were due “next winter,” i.e. 1674-75, no date specified.
[The next winter (not included in KP), II:386-387 1675 April 29, Jan Hendrie is released from 1700-guilder debt to Asser Levy; for 412 guilders he will sell Asser Levy 352 sch. of wheat (value 2112 guilders) to be provided by Hekam. Implication, undocumented, is that Hekam has borrowed something from Hendrie; this shifts the debt so that Hekam will owe Levy instead, and Hendrie’s accounts with both are cleared. It is not unreasonable to guess that Hekam borrowed from Hendrie to pay first installments owed to Tjerck and Quinel.
[Apparently by the time Hekam sells farm to Hendrix, he has reduced his debt to Levy to 100 sch. of wheat, but still owes Tjerck something.]
[Note that when Hekam assumes the debt to Levy in April 1675, he is described as a “wild,” an Indian. He appears in numerous other local transactions as well, sometimes serving as a representative of Esopus interests. His mother, likely a sunksqua or tribal leader, also signs official documents on behalf of the Esopus villages that were here before the European incursion, with her mark usually recorded as that of “Harmon Hekam’s mother.”]
[See II:424-425 1678/9 March 18, Heekan contracts to sell to Benjamin Provoost “his land situated at Marbleton, and further house, barn, stack,” plus horses and bricks, for 480 sch of wheat paid to creditors of Hekan. Is this the same land? Is one sale for Lot 14 and the other for Lot 15? March 18 sale is annulled on March 20.]

II:444
1678/9 March 5, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 133
[II:444 is not in the photostat scan of the Versteeg MS; II:443 appears twice. Following entry is taken from Ulster County Archives online database.]
Be it Known that before us there has appeared Leendert Barentsen Cool who acknowledges to honestly and actually owe to and in behalf of Michiel Modt the quantity of forty seven sch. of wheat and two gldrs, to be paid [[as follows]]: twenty five sch. of good winter wheat, the balance in oats, to be delivered all at Kingston, without expense. Promises to make the said payment next November, anno 1679 without longer delay. For the purpose of securing said amount the said Leendert Cool binds and mortgages his lands situated at Monbackus [Mombaccus] and also horse and cattle. Is not permitted to alienate or dispose of the same until Michiel Modt shall have been fully satisfied, and further binds his person and estate, movable and immovable, present and future, and has subscribed to the present in the presence of two [[members]] of the hon. court this March 5, 1678/9 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Wm Asfordbie, sheriffe
[(signed)] this is the mark X of Leendert Barentsen Cooll.
[See II:440 1678/9 March 13 when Jan Joosten leases land on Wassemaker’s Land to Leendert’s brother Jacob; Joosten bought the land from Michiel De Modt. This debt to Modt is probably connected; Joosten is still paying for the property, and he may have asked the Cool brothers to take on some of his debt as part of the lease payment.]

[This is the final page of this set of Secretary’s Papers. This page is a recto, an odd-numbered page. When you turn the leaf over, on Page 134, the verso of this same sheet of paper, you find the last page of the second part of this volume, inscribed upside-down, a set of council minutes from Kingston, II:496-497 1677 December 18.]
[Secretary’s Papers Volume E is made up of two sections: from Page 1 to here, a set of secretarial records (deeds, wills, loans, other transactions between parties); and the rest of the volume, starting on the last page of the volume and working its way back to here, a set of Kingston council minutes. The volume has two “front” pages.
[The first part of this volume is at Versteeg II:381 1675/6 March 29. The records jump to October 1676, then continue more or less in sequence to II:401 1677 May 1. After a break, they continue at II:401-402 1677 August 16 with a few entries from August and September, then skip October to continue at II:404 1677 November 15. At II:411 1677 December 30 the sequence jumps past January to continue with II:411-412 1677/8 February 16. With a few more similar forward skips and anomalies, the records winds its way forward to its last page in March 1678/9, above.
[To read the rest of the volume, you flip it over and start on the other “front page,” Liber E Page 215, at II:444 1676 April 26, a set of minutes from a Session Court at Kingston. The first 28 pages in this direction (Volume E Pages 215-188) are similar minutes from Session and Special court meetings, 1676 to 1679, mostly in order, with a few fragments or missing pages. Then come 10 pages (187-177) of Secretary’s Papers from 1679-1680, followed by a blank Page 176.
[Then comes a series of notes that probably were the original front of the notebook, since they predate anything else in the volume: Kingston ordinary council meeting minutes, December 1675 to December 1677 (Pages 175 to 134), mostly in a continuous sequence, with some Secretary’s Papers interspersed here and there. These overlap chronologically with the Secretary’s Papers in the first part of Volume E (as it has been rebound today), and these ordinary council minutes also overlap with the minutes from Sessions Courts that (as bound today) precede them in this part of Volume E.
[Reconstructing this backwards, on the guess that Montagne probably didn't start making entries in a notebook midway through, but would have started on the front page in a new notebook: Probably the original “front” page of this set was II:471 1675 December 13, a set of Kingston council minutes, and Montagne kept using the book for Kingston council meetings as they took place. After he had used the first several pages for seven local meetings, including some consultations with the village’s Esopus neighbors, Montagne found himself in March 1676 in need of a register for Secretary’s Papers, so he flipped the book over and started using it for that.
[The following month, in a separate notebook, he started keeping minutes from the periodic Courts of Sessions (typically twice a year) and other special court sessions in Kingston, preserving this book for minutes from ordinary council sessions and (writing in order from the other “front” page) Secretary’s Records.
[He continued using this notebook for both council minutes and Secretary’s Papers, working his way in toward the center of the book from both “front” pages, until December 1677, when he stops putting council minutes in this book. By March 1679 he has filled the other side with Secretary’s Papers.
[Years later, when the whole collection was reduced from 22 volumes to 11 and bound in better protective covers, the set of minutes from Courts of Sessions and Special Courts got added in front of the Council Minutes side of this volume, and the front page of the Secretary’s Papers was designated as the main front page of the volume.
[This may not be exactly how this volume ended up in the shape it’s in today, but it’s a working theory to use when trying to understand an odd entry or estimate the date of a document that has none. A few extra pages and notes appear to have been added along the way, sometimes for obvious reasons and sometimes (probably) because there was a spare half-page of blank paper available when Montagne needed to record a transaction.]

II:440
1678/9 March 13, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 126 (bottom)
[This entry is written in a new handwriting at the bottom of a verso page that holds an apparently unrelated entry from six months before, II:440 1678 September 29. The impression is that Montagne was casting about for a place to put this entry and found a half-page that was blank, out of sequence but available, and set the entry there. This page may have been the final page in one of the original Dutch-language volumes.]
Jan Joosten leases to Jacob Barensen Cool [signs I B Kool] his land on the Wassemaker’s land [[bought by him?]] from Machiel De Modt, for 4 years, starting in August or when the grain comes off the field, “in the year 1678 [?],” running to 1682. Barentsen will pay the third sheaf in “hocken.” He gets free use of pasturage and also of the cripplebush. With the land come: a mare, two geldings, two milk-cows, a wagon, a barn, and a coulter. Risk and natural increase to be shared, divided at expiration of lease. Cool will keep fence in repair and bear all ordinary village taxes.
[See II:268-269 1679/80 Jan 31 deed from De Mott to Joosten; land belonged to Henry Pawling before De Mott.]
[See II:444 1678/9 March 5, when Jacob’s brother Leendert acknowledges he owes Michiel De Modt 47 sch. of wheat plus two guilders, to be paid November 1679; Joosten gets his deed from De Modt two months after that. Was Leendert’s payment to De Modt part of the arrangement for the Cools to lease the farm?]

II:424-425
1678/9 March 18
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 97 (bottom)
[Annulled March 20.]
Harmon Heekan contracts to sell to Benjamin Provoost “his land situated at Marbleton, and further house, barn, stack,” plus 2 horses and 4000 bricks, for 480 sch of wheat, paid to creditors of Harman Hekan, or to order. Benjamin gets benefit of everything already sown [17 sch] except 2 sch along the Kill, which his sister Raegel gets. No payment schedule but Harmon is obliged to provide conveyance (deed); land to be delivered immediately, and the debt also will be assumed immediately.
[Witnesses:][(signed)]
Wm. Asfordbie, sheriff
Johannes De Hooges
[Principals:][(signed)]
This is the mark > of Harmon Heekan
Benjamin Provoost
On this March 20th 1678/9 the above transaction has been anulled by both parties [signed by principals as above]
[Original Dutch record is at Liber E p. 97, starting below II:424 1678 May 20 Grevenraedt power of attorney, in faded ink, and concluding at the bottom of the page. The flip side of this page, p. 98, is II:425-426 1678 June 2, and these leaves together with 99-100 may be the center sheet of a signature (visible stitches in gutter).]
[Provoost is a blacksmith, which may be why he would be attracted by a property that came with 4,000 bricks, ideal for building a forge. See II:559-560 1680 August 18 and II:256-257 1679 June 27. It is curious that each of these agreements with Provoost was annulled or never executed.]
[See II:253-254 1679 March 3, Harmon Hekam selling to Harmon Hendrix “his land, house, lot, stack, and barn” at Marbletown. Same property? Hekam bought Lots 14 and 15 at Marbletown KP 741-742 1674 April 18; possibly the Hendrix and Provoost transactions are for different lots.]
[Sheriff George Hall died probably early June 1678 and was replaced by William Asfordbie; see II:431-432 1678 June 14. This may be the first written record confirming that Asfordbie had become Sheriff, although he likely was appointed ca. June-July 1678, immediately after Hall died. No record of his appointment has been located.]

II:465
1678/9 March 18, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 187
Edward Wittaker provides conveyance (deed) to Thoomas Mattys for a house and lot that used to belong to Juriaen Westphael. It was bought by Whittaker and Thomas Mattys in partnership. Wittaker now cedes the whole thing to Mattys, desisting from his right and title. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See next entries.]
[See KP 462 1671 May 15, when Eduward Wittikar is responsible for keeping up the portion of the village’s stockade wall that belonged to “the lots of J. Westphael.”]
[For partnership of WIttikar and Mattys, see KP 725 1672 November 6, for a farm leased to Jacob Jansen; this does not match description of house and lot in village.]
[Juriaen (Jürgen) Westphael died previous to 1667 October 15/25 (KP 365); see also KP 400-401 1668 March 10 and 404 1668 March 26, when his widow Marretie Hans is asked for outstanding debt he incurred ca. 1650. Westphael was a tenant of Petrus Stuyvesant on land later granted to Thomas Chambers and William Beeckman (KP 584 1665 December 3); see KP 559-560 1665 April 15; he gave it up KP 596-598 1 April 1666 “for lack of means to pay” the rent.
[KP 562-564 1665 May 20 Westphael contracted to sell a lot he had bought from the Esopus to Aerdt Otterspoor, who immediately sold the lot to Wallerand Du Mont. House and lot in village appear to be Lot 25 (of “new lots” issued in 1662 at first stockade expansion) near NW corner of stockade, adjacent to Tjerck Claessen and others; see II:471 1679/80 March 1 and later records for neighboring lots.
[Juriaen Westphael was a respected member of community and held various positions (fence examiner e.g.), was considered honest and worthy to arbitrate disputes, but seems to have been in constant debt. When he died, it appears a vendue (auction) was held to sell his effects—now his widow’s—to pay creditors; see KP 405-406 1668 April 7/17, “there were several judgments and executions against Marretie [Hans], on account whereof [the vendue-master] was obliged to proceed with the vendue.” Records of auctions are frequently not kept, but it is possible if not likely that this vendue is where Wittikar and Mattys acquired the house and lot in village.
[See KP 737 1673 April 14 when Wittikar and Mattys buy farm from Hendrick Hendricksen that he got from Maritie Hansen. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Westphalen-10 ; Westphael also was connected to land at Papscanee, from when he originally arrived in North America to live at Rensselaerswyck.
[Note that Jurriaen’s wife/widow, Marretie Hans, goes on to marry Jacob Jansen; see KP 443-444 1670 May 31 and KP 446 1670 June 3-4. It gets confusing fast: Jacob Jansen van Etten (Hoes 501 Item 16) in 1665 married Annetje Ariaens, whose prior husband, Aert Pietersen Tack, had run off, leaving her too with a pile of debt. Jacob Jansen Stol is one of the husbands of Geertruyd Andriessen. Probably Marrietje’s new husband is Jacob Jansen van Stoutenborgh, who may have been a neighbor while Jurriaen was alive; see KP 729 1672/3 February 6 when he conveys farm across Great Kill to Hendrick Hendricksen Van Weyen.]

II:465-466
1678/9 March 18, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 186 (top)
Thoomas Mattys provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Volckersen [deceased son of Volckart Jansen Douw] and Barendt Van Borsum for house and lot in village that used to belong to Mattys together with Edward Wittaker. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See previous entry, next entry.]

II:466
1678/9 March 18, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 186 (bottom)
Volckart Hansen [signs Jans] Douwe, father of Jan Volckersen, deceased, by virtue of his decease provides a conveyance (deed) to Eduward Wittaker for Jan Volckersen’s share of the lot described in previous entries [doesn’t mention house, but should].
[So now the house and lot are owned by Wittaker and Barent van Borsum? Sounds as if sequence is: Jurian Westphael sells to Wittaker and Mattys. Wittaker deeds his share to Mattys. Mattys sells the property (which he now owns 100%) to Jan Volckersen and Barendt Van Borsum. Wittaker buys Volckersen’s share.]
[See previous entries. These are deeds that are each probably tied to contracts of sale from previous years, when Jan Volckers was still alive.]
[See II:471 1679/80 March 1, when Wittaker sells his portion to Jan Focken and Pieter Jansen.]

II:505
1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Court Records Book 5, Page 23
Ordinary session held at Horly, March 27, 1678/9
[No list of officers present.]
[In Court Records Book 5 (1676-1684), this immediately follows the Hurley minutes from two years previous. 1677 March 20 ends on p. 21, followed by blank p. 22 (on the reverse of that badly deteriorated leaf), and then 1678/9 March 27 starts on p. 23. See https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/22298/rec/3 ]

Nicolaes Antho[n]y vs. Claes Teunesen [Van Clier]
[Anthony] demands 613 gldrs balance as per the book, for the account of Mr. Hals, 27 gldrs and for fines 25 gldrs.
Claes Tuenesen [sic] denies 13 gldrs, but admits the rest, and has paid 360 gldrs.
[Anthony] Requests that the attachment shall be declared valid.
[II:506]
The hon. court decides that the attachment shall be declared valid until the amount shall have been paid.
[See next entry.]
[Hals is no doubt the deceased George Hall, former sheriff, whose estate is being administered by his widow Elizabeth Hall; Anthony may be assisting in cleaning up the books. The debts he is collecting could be from Hall’s private accounting, but the reference to fines suggests they also include amounts from the books the sheriff kept in his official role. George Hall died possibly 14 June 1678; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Haal-4 . William Asfordbie was appointed sheriff in his place. See II:431-432 1678 June 14, inventory of George Hall’s estate, and further notes there.]

II:506
1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 5 Page 23
The same [Nicolaes Anthony] vs. Thoomas Quynel (first default)

The same [Nicolaes Anthony] vs. Fredrick Pietersen
[Anthony] demands 11 gldrs book debt, and still [in addition] 27 sch . . . for a quantity of grain bought. Still [in addition] 50 gldrs fines.
Nicolaes Antho[n]y declares that Mr. Hals said that the quantity of grain with the stiver money were [[to be charged]] to Harmon Hendrix’s account.
[Harmon Hendrix is Roosenkrantz.]
[See previous entry, and further notes there.]

II:506
1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 5 Page 23
Mr. [George] Hals [Hall] vs. Robbert Pekock
[Presumably this is again Nicolaes Anthony speaking for the Hall estate.]
[Anthony] demands 294-5 balance for Mr. Hall, still [in addition] for Mr Halls 24 gldrs, together 318-5 st. Still [on top of all that] 50 gldrs as fine for the fence.
[Pekock] answers that 100 gldrs were coming to him for services while he was constable.
Mr. Robbert Pekock produces a counter claim for 167 [[gldrs]]. Is ordered to pay. But the fines shall be enquired into, as also the hundred gldrs. And in regard to 15 gldrs [[here it breaks off]]

The same [Nicolaes Anthony] vs. Jan Elton [Eltinge] (default)

The same [Nicolaes Anthony] vs. Albert Govertsen (default)

[See previous entries, and further notes there.]

[See II:431-432 1678 June 14, inventory of George Hall’s estate.]

[These minutes end at the bottom of Court Records Volume 5, Page 23. The minutes from this meeting appear to continue on Page 26, although it is possible the notes on that page are from a different session.]

II:507
Probably 1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 5 Page 26
William Fisjer vs. Hans Dyckman
[Fisher] demands 57 gldrs book debt, and further, by obligation, 23 sch of wheat
[Dyckman] admits the debt. Has on account of the same already mortgaged his flax in the block house and his implements.
[No other mention of this case has been found in this set of records.]

II:508
Probably 1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
The same [William Fisher] vs. Gerret Lamberts
[Fisher] demands 39 gldrs on account of Addeson, 38 gldrs of book debt.
[Lamberts] admits the debt.
[No other mention of this case has been found in this set of records. Possibly it is related to II:525, unclear date and location, when Lambertsen demands 9 sch of wheat and a can of wine from Addison.]

II:508
Probably 1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Lowies DuBoojs vs. Gerrit Cornelisen (2d default)
[No other mention of this case has been found in this set of records.]

II:508
Probably 1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Lowies (Dubois) vs. Pauwelsen
[Dubois] demands 29 sch of wheat for the vendue of Francois Lach..., whereupon have been paid 10 sch of wheat [to or by] Jacob [Jansen] Van Etten.
[Pauwelsen?] denies the debt, but produces an obligation [(maer brengt 1 obligatie)].
[No other mention of this case has been found in this set of records.]

II:508
Probably 1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Waerdt (Ward) vs. Jan Elton (Eltinge, 1st default)

[Jan Ward] vs. Adriaen Gerretsen (1st default)
[No other mention of this case has been found in this set of records.]

Jan Harmsen? or Meweson? vs. [Roelof] Swartwout
[Jan] demands 20 sch of wheat, and [pay] for 1 1/2 days’ labor.
Swartwout admits one and a half days’ labor.
[No other mention of this case has been found in this set of records.]

II:508
Probably 1678/9 March 27, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Swartwout requests that the hon. court shall write to New Yorcke and examine the case, because William Fisher taxes him with having committed perjury. [(also William Fisher verwydt dat hy Swartwout hem selven soude hebben verswooren)]
[No other mention of this case has been found in this set of records.]

[[Followed by a clause which is absolutely unintelligible.]]
[2025 note: The bottom of Page 26 in the Dutch original is actually six lines, with some crossed out and rewritten between lines. Some names are easy to recognize (Louis Du Bois, Swartwout), and many words are readable. Evidently Versteeg was not able to make sense of the whole.]

 

Apr-May-Jun

II:254
1679 April 1, Kingston
Michiel DeModt contracts to sell to Claes Claesen Sluyter a house and lot at Hurley, fenced, for 80 sch of good winter wheat, in 3 [[sic]] installments, half in January 1679/80, half in January 1680/1; deed to be furnished after payment.
[(signed)] Benjamin Provoost, the mark ooo of Jan Hendrix [witnesses]
[(signed)] This is the mark of Michiel Modt, made by himself; Klaes Klaessen
[Claes Claesen Sluyter is frequently in debt to others; see later records. No deed is included in these records.]
[See II:391 1676/7 January 27, Arendt Teunesen contracts to sell Michiel Modt a house and lot in Hurley. No deed is ever recorded for that transfer either.]

II:413
1679 April 3, Kingston
Symon Lefebre, for his father-in-law Christian Dojoo [Deyo, Du Jou] provides conveyance (deed) to Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen [Sterreveldt] for a house and lot at Hurley, surrounded by fence.
[See will of Christian Du Jou II:243 1676 August 10; he survives. Christian is one of the Huguenot founders of New Paltz. He is not among the Hurley patentees listed at DRCHSNY XIII 446 March 1670.]
[See III:36-37 1683 April 5, when Woutersen sells house and lot in Hurley to Jan Meewesen.]

II:466
1679 April 6, Kingston
William Nottingham provides conveyance (deed) to William Parcker for Lot 9 at Albany, lying near the Mountain. Nottingham previously granted it to Michiel Siston. Parcker has bought Siston’s title. Siston, “as appears, has died,” so he can’t provide conveyance. “For the purpose of preventing any difficulties, [Nottingham] has immediately conveyed” lot to Parcker.
Witnessed by Jan Garton, Constable, and Thoomas Garton, council member [overseer] at Marbletown. Signed at Kingston.
[See Fort Orange Records 1656-1678, pp. 208-209, for William Nottingham paying off mortgage to Andries Teller for two houses, 1676 August 26, witnessed by Michell Siston and Jonathan Walker. Transactions between Nottingham, Siston and Parker may be recorded elsewhere in Albany area documents.]

II:492
1679 April 10, Kingston?
This April 10, 1679, Jan Louwersen has taken over the property right of Suveryn Ten Hout in regard to the lot which [had] been granted to Suveryn. Said Jan Louwersen agrees to comply with the conditions which Suveryn Ten Houdt was obliged to observe, and he is to bear all obligations originating from the same [(en sall alle lasten draegen die daer van coomen)].
[This may be Lot 9 in the new (third) extension of the stockade at Kingston; see II:484 1676/7 February 3-4-5. See also II:563 1680/1 February 18, when Louwersen contracts to sell house and lot where he is living to Severeyn Ten Hout, and III:18 1682/3 February 17, when Louwerse provides deed.]
[See II:260 1679 August 20, when Jan Louwersen sells the lot to William Fisher.]
[See also II:266, 9 Feb 1680, when Willem Jacobsen takes over land of Severyn Ten Houdt at “Steen Rabie.”]

II:466-467
1679 April 11, Kingston
William Fisher provides conveyance (deed) to Mrs. Elisabet Hals [Elizabeth Hall] for three lots at Marbletown: one across the Kill, 10 morgens; another across the bridge, 5 morgens [both? bought from George Porter]; another, 5 morgens, bought from Anthony Addeson. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[For land from Anthony Addesen, see KP 747 1675 November 25, deed (conveyance), for what appears to be 30 acres, maybe 15 morgens. Note that Governor Lovelace prohibited sale of land granted to English soldiers at Marbletown, so some transfers in early years may have been conducted sub rosa. Probably the deed in this record is the culmination of a purchase originally arranged by Elizabeth Hall’s deceased husband George.]
[See next entries. It appears that Elizabeth Hall settled whatever balance was due on these lots by assigning to William Fisher debts that had been owed to her (or to her deceased husband’s estate).]

II:467
1679 April 11, Kingston
Melger [Melchior?] Claes, of Marbletown, owes William Fisher 50 schepels of wheat and 5 guilders, which Claes was supposed to pay to Elisabet Hals [Elizabeth Hall] [from a judgment], and Fisjer has paid it for him. Also he’ll pay interest at 6% per year, amounting to 17 guilders for 8 months, also 9 guilders for “writing fees,” which sums together amount to 331 guilders. Melger will pay October 1 of this year, all in wheat to be delivered free at Kingston. To secure this, Melger has handed Fisher an obligation from Jan Willemsen for horses that Melger sold to Jan, and he also mortgages his house and lot and cattle at Marbletown.
[See previous entry, next entries. It appears that to pay William Fisher whatever balance was due on three lots her husband had contracted to buy, Elizabeth Hall assigned to Fisher the balance due on some debts that had been owed to her husband.]

II:467
1679 April 11, Kingston
Anthoony Adeson [signs Addison] of Marbletown owes William Fisher 23 schepels of wheat, which Adeson owed to Mrs. Hals [Elizabeth Hall] as part of a judgment. He will pay this in wheat delivered free at Kingston. He mortgages his grain on the field. He will pay 1 October. [Note adds: “Besides the above amount there yet comes nine gldrs for writing fees.”]
[See previous entries, next entry. It appears that to pay William Fisher whatever balance was due on three lots her husband had contracted to buy, Elizabeth Hall assigned to Fisher the balance due on some debts that had been owed to her husband.]

II:468
1679 April 11, Kingston
William Fisher owes Johan Hamel [John Hamble, signs Hammell as witness in entries above] 162 schepels of wheat, which he will deliver free at Kingston in March of 1679/80.
[See previous entries. This entry is not clearly related and may have simply taken place on the same day, as long as Fisher was recording the other transactions and had the Court Secretary available.]

II:468
1679 April 12, Kingston
Aerdt Martensen Doorn provides conveyance (deed) to John Ward for a parcel [apparently in town] “prior to this belonging to the hon. Petrus Stuyvesant,” next to the grant of Capt. Delaval, with Aerdt Martensen Doorn on the other side. 5 rods wide on the street [so it’s in the village], 7 rods 9 feet in the back, same length as expressed in the deed. Deed granted [to Stuyvesant? who owned it in 1668?] by Governor Lovelace 8 October 1668. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[Many original Dutch grants and patents were renewed under Lovelace with confirming deeds; the one referred to here probably was not an original grant.]
[See KP 608 1666 June 16, Aert Martensen Doorn and wife Geertruyd Andriessen sell to Willem Beekman “a house and lot [in Kingston] between [their] two farmhouses,” 6 rods wide front and back, 20 rods 10 feet in length, which they own “by virtue of a grant of [Stuyvesant] for a farm.” Is the sale above one more piece of the original larger parcel in the village? Many lots in village were owned by virtue of grants from Stuyvesant, but that does not mean they were previously owned by him. Beeckman resells to Reynier van der Coelen KP 646 1667 April 2, by which time it is between Frederick Pietersen and Jan Hendericks (on one side) and Reynier (on the other). Additional research might be able to locate this lot better. The location of Stuyvesant’s house and lot in the original stockade are of interest.]
[Stuyvesant grants one of his farms near town to Willem Beekman and Thomas Chambers KP 584 1665 December 3; see KP 686 1670 October 10 for more farm description and sale of house in village to Thomas Chambers. Did Chambers go on to sell to Doorn?]

 

II:461-462
1679 April 28 [probably written in New York?]
On this April 28, 1679, by the order of the very honorable Sr. Edmund Andros, it was published and announced in the church that whereas William Fisher has prior to this committed a mistake on account whereof he has received punishment according to the laws, therefore he is again eligible to any office, and also entitled to serve as a juror. And each and every one is prohibited from ever reproaching him for the same.
[See II:252 1679 June 4, possibly related, Fisher’s defamation case against Cornelis Woutersen.]
[Unclear what Fisher’s original “mistake” was. KP 340 1667 February 26 he wounded ropemaker Henderick Cornelisen “in the abdomen”; Cornelisen died on March 3, “leaving neither friends nor last will,” and his effects were auctioned on March 12. This came right after a near insurrection among villagers against the English garrison (KP 330-331 1667 February 14), but it is not clear that Fisher’s injury to Cornelissen was related, or even deliberate. This possibly could be the “mistake” referred to here, although there is no record extant to show that Fisher was ever punished “under the law” for the manslaughter.]

II:462
undated [recorded between entries for 1679 April 28 and 1679 April 30]
Allowed to Jan Joosten 20 morgen of land opposite the path subject to the approval of the hon. Heer governor—the width of his land, which shall be examined by two magistrates.
[This entry is recorded at the bottom of Secretary’s Papers Liber E p. 191; see https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/22166/rec/13 . The item before it is from 1679 April 28, and the next page (which may not have followed this entry before the papers were rebound) is the start of the record of the Kingston Session Court of 1679 April 30. The entry above the copy of the 1679 proclamation by Governor Andros, on the same side of the same sheet of paper, is (also a copy) the II:461 1677 September 25 agreement by the congregations of the three villages to share the costs of a new minister. This follows (p. 192; pages here are numbered in reverse) a series of loose, mostly undated entries about land grants and similar brief public actions, which are entered starting after the end of the 1677 April 24 Kingston Session Court (II:459-460 1677 April 24).]

II:254-255
1679 April 30
Jan Gerritsen contracts to sell to Roelof Kierstede, Cornelis Hoogeboom, Jacob Rutger, land across great bridge, as sold by Jeronimus Ebbing (De Laet) (800 sch of wheat, deed to be delivered after payment). Purchasers can pay in wheat, “but in case they want to pay with peas, said peas will have to be delivered at four gldrs per sch.” Payments due February 1679/80, then 1680/81, then 1681/82.
[See II:412-413 1677/8 February 20, Ebbinck selling to Wittaker who immediately resells to Gerritsen, Lots 10 & 12, across Great Bridge, probably same lots.]
[See II:611-612 1681/2 February 6, two separate conveyances (deeds) completing this transaction, one to Kierstede for 1/3 of the lot, and the other to Hoogeboom and Rutger for the other 2/3.]
[See II:260-261 1679 October 20 and II:266 1679/80 January 1, when Hoogeboom and Rutgersen each sell their respective 1/3 shares of this property to William Fisher, as well as III:8 1682/3 February 2, when they both provide deeds to Fisher for their shares.]

II:462
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court
Session court held at Kingston, April 30, 1679, by his Majesty’s authority at Kingston [sic]
Present:
Capt. Thomas Chambers, Justice
Wm. Asfordbie, sheriff
Commissaries:
Cornelis Barentsen Sleght
William Nottingham
Jan Eltingen [Elton]
Jan Bigs

II:462-463
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court (continued)
Tjerck Claesen DeWitt won’t let neighbors use road that has been there 17 or 18 years; reference later to Coenradt Elmendorph, 31 July 1749.
Gerrit Aertsen and Jacobus Elmendorp vs. Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Complts say that deft has forbidden them [[to use]] a road which has been there at least 17 or 18 years, and that the land has all come from one man [(altemael van een man is gecoomen)], whereupon all of them, as copartners, have made a bridge when it was deft’s will to have the path where the same is at present, as it appears.
Deft answers that a decree has been published prohibiting the running of horses on the land. And they refuse him to take his horses to the woods through their land.
Gerrit Aerdtsen says never having refused, but that Tiarck Claesen leaves the fence-gates open, and that Tierck Claesen put 3 or 4 gates on the path which they have to open and close before they can reach their land.
Deft says that they don’t want to open and close gates, and that they are not entitled to a road, and that they refuse him a road to the high woods for the purpose of pasturing his horses, and that owing to temporary inconvenience he cannot get across the bridge, and whenever they repair the bridge they cart the earth from his land on[to] the bridge.
Jacob Aertsen [brother of Gerrit, brother-in-law of Elmendorp] requests in case a road should be needed to the high woods that men shall be ordered to lay out the same.
Tierck Claesen requests that everyone shall contribute an equal
[II:463]
amount for the bridge, whether he has little or much land.
Gerrit Aerdtsen says that each one ought to contribute in proportion to the number of morgen, as before. Pro rata to the number of morgen.
The case has been referred to the jury.
The jury in the case of Gerrit Aertsen and Jacobus Elmendorp, complt, vs. Tierck Claesen deft, finds that Tierck Claesen, as before, is to keep the [[road]] across his land, and no more than one gate, which is to be opened and closed by those using the land, and complts are to permit a horse-path to the woods which is to be laid out by two [[persons]] commissioned for the purpose.
Jacobus Elmendorf requests a revise of the above decision.
The hon. court of sessions decides, in regard to Jacobus Elmendorp’s revise: Whereas they have a road through Tierck Claesen’s land, they are ordered not only to allow a path for Tierck Claesen’s horses but for everybody because it is necessary that there should be a road there—which is to be laid out.
[[In the margin was written in English: Copied this for Coenraet Elmendorph, 31 July 1749]]

II:463
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court (continued)
Thoomas Garton vs. Thoomas Bisschop
Mr. Paeldin [Henry Pawling] as surety for deft, says that he has run away, and says that the case is not actionable, because deft. has run away, and that the declaration has not been left at his house, nothing but the summons.
The hon. court decides that it is a lawful summons, and whereas deft. is absent, therefore Paeldingh’s bond has been forfeited. But at Paeldin’s request for a reduction he has been permitted to pay with ten pounds, and to be released from paying the costs. And in case complt. finds deft. he is at liberty to proceed with his suit.

II:463
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court (continued)
Teunes De Kay, as attorney for Mr. Minville [Gabriel Minvielle], vs. Hendrie Paeldin [Henry Pawling]
Complt. demands 742 gldrs 10 st.
Deft denies owing as much, but in case complt will prove the book, he will be ready to pay.
Complt says not being able to do so, because he did not keep the book.
The hon. court decides that the case will be postponed until Minville explains or proves his case better.

II:464
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court (continued)
The hon. court notifies Irvine [Davit?] Marshall to occupy the land named Ponckhackie between now and next fall, or else the land will be forfeited, and to acquaint his father [sic] Dirck Smidt with the same.
[See II:465, next court session, September 3, similar item.]

II:464
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court (continued)
Jan Willemsen [Hooghteyling], constable, requests that a pound-master shall be again appointed.
[See II:472-473, 1675 January 11, Aert Otterspoor seeking various fines as pound-master from people whose livestock had been put in the pound. Otterspoor retired KP 516 1674 May 21.]

II:464
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court (continued)
The constable at Marbletown [previously Robert Bickerstaff; II:495 1677 October 26 William Jansen was appointed, possibly II:496 1677 December 18 Jan Garton] requests that the dam at Hurly shall be fitted for a common road, as also the bridge across the sluice.
The hon. court of sessions order Roelof Hendricksen to sufficiently widen the dam at Horly. But when the dam shall have been worn away on account of driving [[across the same]] with wagons, the residents shall fill the ruts and carry earth on[to] the same, the same as upon all other roads, but Roelof is to fix the bridge at his own expense.

II:464
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court (continued)
At the request of Jacobus Elmendorp in regard to a portion of the valley on the Green Kill [[it is resolved]] that the valley shall be examined by two of the magistrates, and further a half-morgen opposite or across [[over]] the Mill-Dam alles afgepaelt aen de suit syde de Jan Willems Jacob Aiertsen de west syd N. Oost syde Gerrit Aertsen. [Versteeg just rewrites the Dutch here; doesn’t translate it, a rare lapse. The text is describing adjacent lots, most within the same family of Aert Jacobsen’s descendants.] Another corner right opposite Wallerand du Mon [[the rest, 3 or 4 words, illegible]].

II:464
1679 April 30, Kingston Session Court (continued)
At the request of Arien Allertsen Roosa, that many houses and lots at Horly remain unoccupied on account whereof the village is weakened, that each shall keep a man there or that the lots shall be granted to others, the hon. court refers the case to the Heer governor.
[Arien will be son of Allert [sometimes Albert] Heymansen Roosa, longtime resident of the area between Kingston and Hurley, occasional thorn in the side of whichever administration was currently running the colony.]

II:496
1679 May 13, Kingston [and 1680 March 6]
“Whereas Henderic Paeldingh [Henry Pawling], defendant, had appealed to a higher court, [yet he] appeared after the session in the presence of the justice [of the Peace, Thomas Chambers] and the magistrates and has acknowledged to owe Mr. De Major [either Nicolaes De Mayer/Majer/Meyer or his son William] the quantity of six hundred twenty eight sch. of wheat which he promises to precisely pay in three installments” in three years, he “Promises to accept the same as a final judgment, without ever doing anything against it.” Mortgage is in full force. No signature. Note attached: On March 6, 1680, the officer is authorized to legally enforce the present.
[See KP 748 1675 November 27, Pawling agrees he owes De Meyer 100 guilders plus 400 guilders accrued interest to the year 1676; Pawling does this as an assignment of debt owed to De Meyer by Thomas Quinell, resulting from a sale of land from Quynell to Pawling (KP, same page, same date, previous entry). (At 6 guilders/sch, 400 guilders would be ~233 sch. of wheat.) In addition Pawling owes ~345 sch of wheat; he mortgages land bought from Richard Cage and Jan Hendrie (John Henry Freeman) as well as Quinell. Total here is about 578 sch. of wheat; something additional was added, perhaps interest.]
[See II:469 1679 July 4, Quynell assigns additional debt to Anthony Addison.]
[See Andros Papers 1679-1680 pp. 313-317, 29:131-134b. As indicated above, the case had been heard first in Kingston, and Pawling appealed the judgment. Rather than keeping the original minutes from the case as part of the Kingston council record and sending a certified copy to Manhattan, it appears the entire written record from Kingston was probably removed and sent to Manhattan, together with Pawling’s petition to appeal—so the original case does not appear in the record above. The record in AP seems to be from a subsequent appeal. Pawling thought his agreement in 1679 to pay the debt in three installments had closed the issue, but apparently De Meyer felt more was due, so Pawling again sought relief from the court. De Meyer’s petition to the Manhattan court is not dated, but it refers to the 1679 document above, the March 6 execution, and an April 1680 Court of Sessions (in Kingston). A permit from the Kingston Sessions Court allowing Pawling to appeal the judgment says the second court session was 1680 April 27-30. The entire packet from the second appeal is endorsed 1680 June 16.]

II:511
1679 May 13, Hurley
Court Records Volume 5 Page 31
[These two proclamations are on a single page, followed by three blank pages. Probably this was originally a single folded sheet, pp. 31-32-33-34, with the proclamation on the “front” page, and was later bound into this volume.]
Anno 1679, May 13
The hon. court is of the opinion that the valley is necessary for the community, and that the community should dig ditches around the same, so that the same should be used for the welfare of the community [(geimplojeerdt ten beste vant gemaen)]. But the petitioners are referred to the hon. Justice [of the Peace, Thomas Chambers], requesting him that his honor be pleased to thus decide and consent that the said valley may come and remain in general for the residents, and will not be granted to private parties, because this would be very prejudicial to the community.
[This is in response to a petition that is not recorded here.]

The hon. justice, in reply to the petition of several residents of Horly, grants the said valley to petitioners, subject to the approval of the Heer governor, under condition that, whereas complaints have been made that every year animals perish in the same, the said petitioners shall ditch and drain the valley as soon as they shall have the approval.
[A number of “valleys” are referred to in various places over the years as the European settlers spread out along the Esopus and Rondout creeks. The Esopus/Rondout valley runs generally north-south and is mostly flat but floods frequently during heavy rains; the land rises and falls gently, but much appears to have been swampy alluvium. The Esopus Kill in particular in the Kingston area is all oxbows. The word here in the original Dutch is either Vally or Valey; further down it is Valy. (Sometimes it can be morass or marsh; sometimes the alternate Vly is used, a term still used in the area, on maps and in common usage, in 2025.)]
[Date appears to have been added later, in a different hand. This record is on its own leaf, bound into Court Records Volume 5 at p. 31; the reverse of this leaf is blank, and it is followed by blank pp. 33-34 before the Hurley council minutes continue on p. 35 with 1680 December 16. See https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/22306/rec/3 . The minutes before this, from 1679 February 19, conclude on p. 29, with the reverse side (p. 30) also blank. Assumption is that it belongs with the Hurley records, but it could have come from somewhere else.]

Will (update)
II:468-469
1679 May 16, Kingston
Maria [van Langedyck], widow of Cornelis Wynkoop, is sick in bed and very weak, so she appoints “during her life” for guardians over her minor children Wessel Ten Broeck and Willem de Majer, to conform to will left by her husband, with a few modifications, not to annul the will but because she’s the survivor:
Her eldest son Johannes gets a piece of silver from [Admiral] Piet Heyn’s fleet.
Eldest daughter [named later as Marritje] gets painted wardrobe and red skirt, silver bell with chain, two silver spoons, all her silver money, a gold ring to be made from the effects, some furniture, a tick and the bed. A cow previously given by her father is at Walraven [DuMont]’s.
To youngest daughter Catharina goes a trunk, all the clothing except the red skirt [eldest daughter is Marrytje], a gold ring, a tick-bed with belongings.
Father’s clothes to sons.
Youngest son Benjamin gets two silver spoons, a cow that is at Teunis Eellesen’s [?].
Asks guardians “to guide her children in the fear of the Lord and to take care of the estate.”
She signs with mark.
Additional note: All of the silver money was Marritie’s money as before, as also some furniture. [(alt silver geldt waer Marrites geldt all vante voren)] [[This clause is very obscure.]] [May have been from a previous settlement/will?]
[See II:243-244 1676 August 11, will of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[See Anjou, pp. 38-39, published version of this record.]
[See II:256-257 1679 June 27, guardians draw up papers to apprentice Johannes Wynkoop to Benjamin Provoost, master blacksmith. Contract not executed. See II:264 1679 November 8, Johannes is apprenticed instead to Bruyn Hage, master smith.]
[See II:257 1679 July 8, guardians apprentice Gerritt Wynkoop to Heyman Allartsen, master shoemaker.]
[See II:555-556 1680 June 29, administrators provide deed to Andre Lefebre for house and lot at Hurley; Maria had been paid.]
[See 1680/1 February 8, guardians instructed to provide accounting, pay to daughter Maria Wynkoop’s husband Moses Du Pue the “just share” coming to Maria. Moses asks again at III:221 1681 April 27. Moses and Maria receive house and lot in town as their complete share, II:620-621 1682 March 31 and III:11-12 1682/3 February 6.]
[See II:582-583 1681 September 1, estate of Maria Wynkoop leases to Thomas Quick about 14 morgen at the “Rondeeltie,” as far as the fence extends to the well and the Calf’s Pasture.”]
[See III:212 1682/3 March 6, III:128-129 1683 April 24, III:200-201 1684 April 24, further administration of the estate.]
[See III:67 1683/4 February 21, administrators provide deed to Thomas Chambers for “corner of land” carved out of a bend in the Great Kill, per bill of sale made with Cornelis Wynkoop May 31 1675.]

 

II:255-256
1679 May 30
Jan Gerritsen contracts to sell to Severyn Ten Houdt a house and lot, 300 sch of wheat, 3 installments, deed to be provided upon payment.
[See II:276 1679/80 March 23, Sueryen Ten Hout contracts to sell to Frans Goederis (Coderes).]
[See II:612-613 1681/2 March 2, Cornelis Fynhout provides deed to Jan Gerritsen who provides deed to Sueryn Ten Houdt, who provides deed to Frans Goderis, for house, lot and barn that originally came from Sweer Teunesen, between Bruyn Haegen and William Asfordbie; Goderis provides deed to William Asfordbie, all in the same day.]
[This is distinct from a pair of lots with house and barn originally owned by Johanna De Laet that Jan bought in partnership with Henderick Van Weyen II:412-413 1677/8 February 20, which can be followed through a separate set of transfers over the years.]

II:573
1679 June 2 (Marbletown?)
[[The entry below was almost obliterated in the original.]]
This June 2, 1679
Marbletown was ordered to survey the Ruyge Hoeck; and that everyone shall build the fence in proportion to his property [(pro rata)]. But Paelding [Henry Pawling] is to sufficiently repair the fence in question until the time when the fence shall have been apportioned.
[Sequentially in the original record, this makes more sense as 1681 June 2, since it is on the reverse of a page with a record from 1681 May 7. The date at the top of the page, badly faded, appears to match what Versteeg reports; the year at least appears clear. It is possible that this page was meant to have been erased by soaking in water (or some other method), and the page reused later for other records, a sort of palimpsest—or there may be some other reason why the original was recorded out of sequence.]
[The II:572-573 1681 May 7 Anthony Addison debt is on p. 181 of Court Records Volume 5. The reverse of this leaf, p. 182, appears to have text on it that either faded or was dissolved in water; it is scarcely readable in the photograph available online. See https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/22461/rec/3 . The II:573 1681 May 7 Cornelis Fynhoudt debt is on p. 183. The reverse (p. 184) appears blank, except for what ink has bled through the paper from 183. The next page, p. 185, shows no text. Pages 186-187 are the II:574 1681 June 4 remarriage of the widow of George Davits. This entry is a translation of p. 182.]
[See III:170-171 and related entries where Henry Pawling has been contracted to build fences and other improvements around Hurley.]

II:252
1679 June 4, Kingston
[In English]
William Asforbie, sheriff, is ordered to arrest Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen [local carpenter] to answer William Fisher in defamation case.
[See later, II:465 1679 September 3, Woutersen gets light punishment, says he knows nothing but honorable, etc., Fisher doesn’t even show up. Fisher is the one who stuck Hendrick Cornelissen the rope maker in the abdomen and killed him; see KP 340 1667 February 26, also KP 638-639, https://www.mrjumbo.com/contents/genealogy/dewitt/tjerck/#two_faces_justice.]
[See II:461-462 1679 April 28, something about a mistake by William Fisher that he has been punished for, so no one is to trouble him about it anymore. Was Cornelis harassing Fisher about the ropemaker?]
[See II:252 1679 July 30, a description of the original Dutch document.]

II:256
1679 June 14
Jan Hamel [John Hammell, Hamble] agrees to work for six weeks building a barn for Jan Coneel [John Connel] for 40 sch of wheat or 80 sch of old maize. Time begins when Hamel gets on “canoe or vessel.”
[Contract is signed at Kingston, but Hamel apparently has to go somewhere else to build this house for Connel, so he’s being paid for traveling time as well as the time spent building.]

II:256-257
1679 June 27
[not executed] Wessel Ten Broeck and William De Majer, guardians of minor children of Cornelis Wynkoop, agree with Benjamin Provoost, master blacksmith, to hire Johannes Wynkoop for 4 years starting after harvest to learn the blacksmith trade. Guardians pledge he’ll serve faithfully. Provoost will strictly instruct him, and not put him to work as domestic laborer. Provides food, shoes, will teach him morals and manners. 50 schepels of wheat a year.
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[See II:264 1679 November 8, when Johannes is apprenticed instead to Bruyn Hage, master smith.]

Jul-Aug-Sep

II:469
1679 July 4, Marbletown
In “the presence of two [[members]] of the hon. court at Marbleton” [only one signs as witness], Anthony Addeson acknowledges to owe Nicolaes D’Major [Mayer, Meyer, Mejer], “merchant at New York,” 228 schepels of wheat, partly from his own debt, also a debt assigned by Thomas Quynel to Mr. D’Major. [Addison owes Quynell; see next entry; Quynell uses Anthony’s obligation to settle Quynell’s debt to De Mayer.] This 228 schepels cancels all other outstanding debts. Addison will pay half in latter part of November, a year later the balance. He mortgages his lands at Marbletown as security.
[(signed)] John Garton [council member at Marbletown, witness]
[(signed)] Antho Addison
[See next entry.]
[See II:496 1679 May 13, complicated case between Henry Pawling and Nicolas De Meyer regarding a debt, part of which was an assignment of debt owed to De Meyer by Thomas Quynell. Sounds as if Quynell borrowed from De Meyer, and then assigned part of the debt to Pawling (KP 748 1675 November 27), now another part to Addison.]

II:469-470
1679 July 4, Marbletown
In “the presence of the hon. court at Marbleton” [none sign at bottom], Thoomas Quynel provides conveyance (deed) to Anthoony Addeson [Anthony Addison] for a house, barn, and lot in Marbletown; he has been “satisfied from the first to the last penny.” Refers to “the protocol of Marbleton,” possibly a list of property owners?
[(signed)] Tho Quynell
[See previous entry.]
[See DRCHSNY XIII 448-450 1670 April for distribution under Governor Lovelace of lots in village and adjoining farmland to soldiers from British garrison; Quynell’s holdings date from then. The description in this deed is of his house, barn, and lot in the village, not the parcels of farmland. Addison was also a soldier in the garrison and received lots in the village and adjacent farmland. He sold Marbletown holdings (probably his original allotment) to William Fisher KP 747 1675 November 25.]
[See II:576 1681 June 14 (in Kingston), Anthony Addison contracts to sell to Jacobs Horne a house and lot in Marbletown, payment to be delivered to de Mayer on Addison’s account.]
[See II:258-259 1679 August 5, Gerrit Lambertsen contracts to sell to Hendrick Van Wey and Harmon Hendrix two lots of land that Gerrit bought from Thomas Quynell and Anthony Addison. Those will be different land (farmland, not house and barn in town).]
[See II:565 1680/1 February 24, Quynell provides deed to Gerrit Lambertsen for Lot 12 on third piece at Marbletown. Note that originally he was given Lots 19 and 20, together with Richard Cage and John Hendrick. DRCHSNY XIII 451 refers to a bridge that is needed in order to get to the third piece.]

II:495
1679 July 5, Kingston
Jan Jansen Van Ame[r]sfordt provides deed [conveyance] to Mr. Willem De Major and Mr. Jacob Staets a lot [no house or buildings mentioned] “extending from Mr. Beeckman’s lot to the East corner of Jacob Barentsen Cool’s lot, to the north the grantor’s lot, to the south Staets and De Major’s lot, 49 feet long, all fenced in and marked.” Satisfied from first to last penny. Jan owns lot “by virtue of a grant by the hon. court at Kingston.”
[(signed)] Jan Janssen
[See II:484, 1676/7 February 3-4-5, original assignment of lots for homes and land within the third extension of the Kingston stockade, to the south of the previous two extensions, from approximately present-day John Street to present-day Main Street. Note that Jan Jansen was not given a lot in that grant.]
[More on Jan Jansen Van Amersfoordt and his lot in Kingston: KP 250-252 1665 October 2, Thomas Chambers requested a special council meeting at Kingston to address some complaints. Thomas Chambers, one of the village’s original founders and eventual Lord of Foxhall Manor, is married to Margarita Hendericks, whose first husband was Matthys Jansen Van Keuren. Margarita’s daughter, Catrina Mattysen, is married to Jan Jansen Van Amersfoort. Chambers complains that Jan Jansen has been abusing Catrina, and the abuse extends to Chambers’s wife, Jan’s mother-in-law. Description goes on at length; the abuse is serious and frequent. Council calls his behavior “dirty, contemptible, despicable,” and after discussing banishment decides to fine him 250 guilders and order him to behave himself “quietly and decently.” Unsurprisingly, he does not. KP 392 1667/8 February 11/21, Catrina petitions the council “that she is no longer able to keep house with her husband on acount of his greatly abusing her every day by pushing and beating and chasing her and her [three] children out of the house, and further by threats to kill her.” Council orders him arrested and banished, to be sent away on the first ship to arrive after the river thaws, for 18 months. By fall he is apparently back in town (or never left? He appears in council records as late as KP 408 1668 April 21); KP 409 1668 September 26, he is granted “a lot outside the gate,” six rods wide, along the wall, “And he shall be obliged to live on the same within [for?] one year and six weeks.” KP 841 index describes this as “granted a lot outside the village to live out his exile.” This lot outside the gate, i.e. along the southern wall of the stockade, is eventually subsumed into the village as the stockade gets extended further south, in the third and final extension of the village stockade, II:484 1676/7 February 3-4-5. And that is why lots assigned within that extension of the stockade use Jan Jansen Van Amersfoort’s lot as a reference, even if he is not assigned one of the lots.]
[Worth noting: KP 392 makes clear that Van Amersfoort and his wife Catrina Matthison had a “house and furniture” in Kingston already when he was banished; she was to keep possession. This should have been one of the lots described in 1662 at DRCHSNY XIII 230, but it is not clear which lot that was. Presumably at some point either he or she or one of their children went on to sell that lot. See KP 146 1664 April 3 when he mortgages the house and lot in the village (together with farmland outside the village), but no description of its location is given. See KP 629 1666 December 3, Jan Cornelissen Van Gottenborch buys from Jacob Barentsen Cool a shed and half of Cool’s lot in Wildwyck, “bounding on the lot of Jan Jansen van Amersfoort to the east” and the rest of Cool’s lot on the west. Jacob Barentsen is Lot 5 in the new lots in the first extension of the stockade, between Jan Jansen Timmerman and Jan de Backer.]

II:257
1679 July 8
Wessel Ten Broeck and William De Majer, guardians of minor children of Cornelis Wynkoop, agree with Heyman Allartsen, master shoemaker, at Hurley, to hire Gerritt Wynkoop for 5 years and 3 months starting this day to learn the shoemaker trade. Guardians pledge he’ll serve faithfully. Master will instruct him, and have him run errands, educate him in the fear of the Lord in all proper modesty. Provides Sunday and workday clothing, food, drink. Inventory of clothing.
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[Heyman will be one of the children of Allert/Albert Heymansen Roosa, longtime Wildwyck/Kingston resident (there for the village’s first communion), member of the consistory through thick and thin, and frequent gadfly to whoever was in charge at any given time. Roosa père had farmland south and west of the village, as well as a house in town.]

II:258
1679 July 10
Jan Focken contracts to sell to Hendrick Ten Eyck “a portion of his garden on the street,” 89 feet wide, going back to the fence of Hendrick Aertsen, 89 feet wide in back too, between two large black cherry trees, bounded by Hoogeboom’s to north, street to east, south by Jan Focken, east by Hendrick Aertsen. 80 sch of wheat and a basin weighing 4 English lbs., to be paid next winter, deed provided upon payment.
[See next entry.]
[Jan Focken is described as “master shoemaker” when he contracts with Isaac Grevenraedt II:421-422 1678 April 18 to buy Isaac’s house and lot in the village, which Isaac bought from Wallerand Dumont. Separately, Jan has a lot in the village that he sells to Roelof Jansen II:438 1678 September 10; Jan bought it in partnership with Pieter Jansen II:471 1679/80 March 1. The garden described above and in the next entry could be part of the lot Jan bought from Grevenraedt. It is also possible that Jan Focken the master shoemaker is the “Jan Schoon” who is given Lot 30 in the new extension to Wildwyck when the village is first expanded in 1662 (DRCHSNY XIII 230), and that Hendrick Aertsen is son of either Aert Jacobsen (Lot 29) or Aert Pietersen Tack (Lot 31).]

II:258
1679 July 10
Jan Focken contracts to sell to Matthys Ten Eyck “a portion of his garden” 59'4" wide, from lot of Jan Focken to the lot of Hendrick Aertsen, extending to south fence of Henderick Ten Eyck, bounded on south by street, on west by Hendrick Aertsen, on east by Jan Focken, on north by Hendrick Ten Eyck. 70 schepels of wheat and a tin basin, weighing 4 English lbs. Deed provided upon payment.
[See previous entry.]

II:531
1679 July 19, Marbletown (ordinary council session?)
Marbletown, July 19, 1679
Present:
W[illiam] Asforbie [Sheriff]
Jan Joosten [van Meteren]
Johannes D’Hoogens
Jan Garton, Constable

Thoomas Garton complains that the pigs destroy his grain, and he has had impounded the pigs. Requests that the damage he suffers shall be paid, which damage has been appraised at 8 sch. of wheat by [[left blank in original]].

The hon. court has ordered, as it is doing by the present, that, whereas great damage has been caused to the grain in and about the Ruyge Hoeck, and the common fence is not in good condition, and the pigs swim across the Kill, and harvest-time is now come, therefore every body is ordered to detain his pigs within 24 hours, viz. those resorting there [(die haer Koers daer hebben)]. Those whose pigs shall be found there shall forfeit 25 gldrs for every time their pigs shall be found there. This decree to remain in force for three weeks, [[or]] till further orders [(tot naerder orders)].

[Pigs are a constant nuisance to everyone around, whether in Manhattan or here or Albany; see also II:458 [undated], similar court session and complaints in Hurley, but also dozens of other similar complaints over the years, including from Esopus neighbors.]

II:252
1679 July 30
Constable of Marbleton is warranted to arrest Garrit Cluyner to answer complaint of Teunis Jacobsen
[(In English, an exact copy)]
For thee Constable of Marbleton [Jan Garton]
You are ordered in his majests Naeme too bringh before mee in his Majestis Naeme Garrit Cluyner too answer a complaint of Teunes Jacobsen too marrie[[?]] [probably “maruw”] about tew[?]] [could be “ten”] a clocq [tomorrow about two o’clock, or ten o’clock]. This shall bee your suffisiant warrant. Given under my hand [unsigned]
Foxhall, 30 July 1679
[Unclear what issue Teunis had with Garrit, who does not appear by the name Cluyner in other records here. It is possible he is Gerrit Lambertsen, who had occasional business with Teunis, though there is no record of a dispute. Cluyner could be a family name for Lambertsen, or he may have been the smaller (kleiner) of two Garrets in Marbletown. Gerrit Lambersen and Huybert Lambertsen may be sons of Lambert Huybertsen. See II:565 1680/1 February 24, where Lambert, as local council member, signs a deed to Gerrit as witness.]
[Issued from Foxhall, this was no doubt from Thomas Chambers, Justice of the Peace and Lord of Foxhall Manor, even if unsigned.]
[This and the adjacent II:252 1679 June 4 record are bound into Secretary’s Papers Book B at p. 294, on the reverse of p. 293, the record of Gysbert Crom’s misfortunate New Year’s celebration of II:251 1677/8 January 1-5; see https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/21825/rec/10 . Both warrants are on a single sheet, one above the other. The next page in the volume as currently bound, p. 295, is II:252 1680 February 29 (Leap Day), a property transaction. Probably 295 and following pages were a collection of loose leaves (unrelated transactions, not in chronological order, in various hands and inks), but the leaf with these four transactions, all from the affairs of the Justice of the Peace, may have been part of the records kept by Chambers. The warrants are written in a distinctive hand that may not be Montagne’s; if it is, it is him writing in a much more formal script, as an official document. It is entirely possible that these two warrants are in Thomas Chambers’s own hand, as the second warrant suggests. Pages 289-292, unfortunately, do not appear in the online collection; the next previous legible page is 276, which is II:251 1676 November 9, a very different set of records. The missing material adds up neatly to a full 16-page signature. Versteeg translates from Liber B p. 276 to Liber B p. 293 without a break or explanatory note, as if the Dutch original were continuous, but it is not.]

II:258-259
1679 August 5
Gerrit Lambertsen contracts to sell “to Hendrick Van Wey and Harmon Hendrix Van Wy” [not Roosenkranz?] his lands, 2 lots of land that Gerrit bought from Toomas Quinel and Anthoony Addesen. 700 schepels of wheat, 3 installments, deed provided upon payment.
[(signed) witnesses:] Joost Adryaens, Benjamin Provoost
[(signed)] This is the mark [upward facing arrow] of Gerrit Lambertsen, this is the mark [asterisk] of Henderick Van Wy.
[See II:469-470 1679 July 4, Quynel provides deed to Anthony Addison for house and lot in Marbleton; this will not be that parcel, but it shows the two in other property trades together. See further notes at that entry. Possibly the property description means the lots were owned by Quynell and Addison who both sold to Lambertsen, or possibly the description means the lots were owned by Addison, who sold to Quynell, who sold to Lambertsen.]
[See II:532 1677/8 February 7, question of whether a fence and lot are Gerrit Lambertsen’s or Anthony Addison’s. Possibly this is one of the lots being sold to the Van Weys.]
[See II:565 1680/1 February 24, Quynell provides deed to Gerrit Lambertsen for Lot 12 on third piece at Marbletown. Probably this is one of the lots Lambertsen is contracting to sell here.]
[See II:586-587 1681 December 30, when Lambertsen provides deed to Hendrick Hendrix Van Wey for “two lots together,” formerly owned by Quinel (Addison not mentioned), across the Kill opposite Marbletown (probably on the third piece?). What happened to Harmon Hendrix?]

II:259
1679 August 11
Louis Dubois sells to Thomas Harmensen & Severeyn Ten Houdt a Negro named Mingoo, for 1000 guilders, to be paid in wheat delivered at house [probably tavern] of Matthew Blanchan, at 6 guilders per schepel [166 2/3 schepels]. Sureties for payment are Matthew Blanchan and Hendrick Van Wey.
[(signed)] Matheu Blanchan, * [asterisk, mark of Henderick Van Wey; see previous entry.]
signed Louys Dubois, Tomys Hermans, Sueveryen Ten Hout
[Mingo is probably a shortening of Domingo; many of the colony’s Africans had come by way of Portuguese and Spanish colonies, some having been born there.]
[See II:260 1679 August 16, when Jacobus Elmendorff buys “the transaction”; he will pay Dubois the 1000 guilders.]

II:259-260
1679 August 11, Kingston
Louis Dubois sells to father-in-law Matthew Blanchan “his runaway negro named Anthony and a negress named Susanna, at present detained at Colonel Maures at New York,” as bought at public auction held “here.” 800 guilders. If Blanchan can’t get the slaves, he still owes Dubois.
[See Andros Papers 1674-1676 24:142, 24:143 (1675, pp. 207-209), then AP 1679-1680 29:20, 29:21, 29:24, 29:25, 29:26 (1679, including documents from previous arguments, pp. 201-210). Colonel Morris is Lewis Morris of the Bronx (Morrisania). When he and his brother moved to the colony from Barbados, they brought enslaved laborers. During the brief Dutch takeover of the colony in 1674, the Dutch government impounded those enslaved workers and sold them at auction. Susanna and Anthony were brought to Kingston and sold to Louis Dubois. Around the time New Paltz was being formed, by Louis Dubois and other Huguenots, Anthony and Susanna fled back to the Bronx, where Morris was setting up the Manor of Morrisania. Dubois sued to have them returned. The British were in charge of the colony again, and the courts sided with Morris. So in the above transaction, Dubois is selling his father-in-law disputed “property” that might never be returned, and his father-in-law is agreeing to pay regardless. This is more or less a gift to Dubois.]
[Not for nothing: Louis Dubois is the ancestor of the better known scholar and author W.E.B. Dubois, from Great Barrington, Massachusetts. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DuBois-2 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Silvina_Burghardt_Du_Bois . William Edward Burghardt DuBois was son of Mary Silvina Burghardt, also from Great Barrington, and Alfred DuBois, from the Caribbean (W.E.B.’s birth certificate says Haiti), who was the son of Alexander DuBois. Alexander DuBois is described as born in Long Cay, in the Bahamas, but he eventually (1812) moved to the U.S.; records show him married to different women at different times. Alexander’s death record describes him as colored and says his father was James DuBois of New York. James DuBois, who supported King George III during the American Revolution, was awarded extensive lands in the Bahamas, where he and an enslaved woman became parents of Alexander. James of Poughkeepsie was son fo Matheus DuBois (1721-1799), who was son of Matheus DuBois (1698-1774) of Ulster County, who was son of Mattheus DuBois (1679-1749) of Hurley, who was son of Louis DuBois and Catherine Blanchan. That makes Louis the 5x great-grandfather of W.E.B.]

II:496
1679 August 15 [Kingston?]
Arent Teunesen provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Gerritsen for a lot “next to Hendrick Claesen’s,” which Gerritsen then conveys directly to Elisabet Craffoort [Crawford?]. Then it gets more complicated. Widow Craffort has died. Her heir, William Fisher [not her husband, because she’s a widow, no?], sells the lot to “Rachel,” who then sells it to “Mr. William Asforbie, who is at present the latest owner.” Whoever’s selling it [probably Rachel Tyte] is satisfied from the first to the last penny.
Signed by Jan Gerritsen [with a mark], and [[The second signature is illegible, and may be that of Wm. Fisher]]
[See https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/22111/rec/13 .]
[See II:443 1678/9 February 8, when Rachel Tyte or Fyte contracts to sell this house and lot to William Asfordbie. Asfordbie goes on to sell it to Arendt Isaax; see II:622-623 1682 March 31, when Asfordbie provides a deed, after a long struggle to get paid by Isaax.]
[In a letter to Governor Lovelace 1671/2 February 27, KP 478, the Kingston council said that Elizabedt Crafford had asked for a bill of divorce from her husband Jeroen (Jeronimus) Douwersen, who she said had left her. The husband said Elizabeth would not “serve him as wife, and will not serve him as servant, and further says that she has said that she never loved him,” but he says he never said he would leave her. On 1673 March 30 (KP 734), William Fisher sells to Dirck Hendrix a house and lot in Kingston bounded on the south by “Elizabeth Craffordt’s” lot.]
[See KP 489 1672 December 7, William Fisher and Jannetie Crafford “of Amsterdam” register their banns, “which banns shall be publicly announced in the church tomorrow.” (She signs her name “Janken Kraffort’ KP 709 1671 December 4 but seems to go by “Jenny”; see II:445 1676 April 26, III:224 1682 April 17. See also III:20 1682/3 February 21, where Anthoony Coeck is referred to as Fisher’s “predecessor,” i.e. Fisher married Coeck’s widow, as confirmed in the 1671 record in KP.)]

II:260
1679 August 16, Kingston
Jacob Elmendorp buys “the transaction” between Louis Dubois and Thomas Harmensen & Severeyn Ten Houdt “in regard to the purchase of the negro named Mingo.” [[The Secretary first wrote Anthony, then crossed it out and substituted Mingo in the margin.]] Elmendorph will pay Dubois the 1000 guilders. His sureties are Jan Tysen and Jan Hendrix.
[(signed)] Jacobus Elmendorff, Jan Mattysen, Jan Hendericksz
[See II:259 1679 August 11 above.]

II:260
1679 August 20, Kingston
Jan Louris has contracted to sell to [William] “Fisjer” mixed lumber “and the claim to the lot in the new addition” for 80 sch of wheat, due next January. Louwrins bought the lot from Severyn Ten Hout. [Contract does not say it, but sounds as if a house is partly finished.] “Besides the said woodwork,” Hendrick Kip is to make a shingle roof with laths, 20 feet wide and 25 feet long, [“at his own expense,” but probably William Fisher is supposed to pay him?], “and he is to make and form [(opslaan)] the shingles”; Fisher to provide nails.
[(signed)] Severyen Ten Hout, [mark of] Jan Louwis, Wim[[?]] Fisher
[See II:484 1676/7 February 3-4-5, Sueryn Ten Houdt is assigned Lot 9 in the third and final extension of the stockade at Kingston.]
[See II:422-423 1678 April 18, Jan Louwersen buys house and lot in village from Johan Coly, a lot that Henry Pawling bought from Dirck Jansen Schepmoes. This is a different house. See notes; appears that Louwersen in 1681 sells this house and lot to Ten Hout.]
[See II:492 1679 April 10, Jan Louwersen takes over property right of Suveryn Ten Hout in regard to the lot which had been granted to Severyn, presumably Lot 9.]
[Henderick Kip is described as a “master cooper” at II:269 1679/80 February 17, q.v.]

II:464
1679 September 3, Kingston Session Court
Session court held upon the authority of his Majesty at Kingston, on Sept 3, 1679
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] Chambers, Justice
Capt. Thoomas Dlavall, major [[sic]]
[Unclear what Delavall is doing here. Ordinarily he is a New York–based merchant. He does not have an official role on this council.]
Mr. Wm Asfordbe, sheriff
Commissaries:
Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht]
William Nottingham
Jan Bigs
Jan [Roelofsen] Eltingh [Elton]

II:464
1679 September 3, Kingston Session Court (continued)
Robbert Pekock vs. Anna Nottinghams
The hon. court finds the case not to be actionable. The case thrown out.

II:464-465
1679 September 3, Kingston Session Court (continued)
The sheriff [William Asfordbie] complains that Jan Pieters has not lived well with his wife. Jan Pietersen’s wife declares that he beats her, and that it is hard for her to live with him, and requests to be released of him.
The hon. court binds Jan Pietersen to behave well, and he shall remain under arrest, until he shall give bail for the compliance with the same.
[Jan Pietersen’s wife is Petronelle Benteyn or Bentlyn, whose first husband was Jacques Dubois; see II:411 1677 December 30, when Pietersen announces he has married her and will take on Dubois’s agreement to buy a house and lot in Kingston from Matthew Blanchan. See also III:42-43 1683 April 18, when Pietersen and Benteyn bind their estate as security for a commitment by Wessel Ten Broeck.]
[See III:211, 1682/3 February 13, when Jan is required to post bail for his good behavior.]
[See III:238 1683 April 25, when Jan has beaten his wife again and loses his bail money, which was posted by Tierck Claesen DeWitt (who is the one actually losing £30).]
[See also II:471 1675 December 13, Jan Pietersen and Dirck Hendrix in a fight that apparently started with Dirck’s wife hitting Jan.]
[See also KP 493-494 1673 February 18, Jan Pieters kicks Madalena Dirx on the public street, calls her a whore.]
[See also KP 518-519 1674 June 19, Schout Grevenraedt says Jan Pietersen “misused the public street and has offended [George] Hall and his wife with many insulting words.”]

II:465
1679 September 3, Kingston Session Court (continued)
Whereas William Fisher has not appeared and parties nevertheless have settled, [therefore] Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen acknowledges not to know anything about William Fisjer but what is honorable and worthy of respect. And for his committed offence is to work three days on the church.
[See II:252 1679 June 4, when Cornelis is arrested to answer for defamation; see also II:461-462 1679 April 28 proclamation that Fisher has made mistakes and paid for them, and nobody is supposed to bring them up anymore.]

II:465
1679 September 3, Kingston Session Court (continued)
Davit [Irvine?] Marshall is notifed to occupy Pekactie [?] or else to forfeit the same. Gives as answer that in case the same is to be occupied he will have to wait for advice from his father Dirck Smidt. Requests time till the next assizes. The petitioner is allowed two months’ time.
[See II:464 1679 April 30, previous court session, similar item.]

Will, sort of:
II:470
1679 September 30, Kingston
Jan Roelofsen Elting [signs Eltynge; also called Elton in some records], now ready to depart for Holland, considering perils of the seas: Wife Jacomyntie [Cornelissen] Sleght keeps full possession of estate; after she dies, she pays to children by her marriage with Gerrit Foocken [deceased] 200 schepels of wheat for their father’s patrimony. Jan Elton [Elting] is bound to do the same if he’s the survivor. He will pay the wheat if he remarries or if the kids desire it after their mother dies. He mortgages his land at Hurley against this commitment.
Guardians of the minor children: Cornelis Barents Slecht, Roelof Swartwout
[(signed)] Jan Eltynge, Jacomyntie Slecht
[(signed as guardians)] Cornelis Barents Slecht, Roelof Swartwout
[(signed as witnesses)] Joost Adryaens, Benjamin Provoost
Note attached in English dated 1683 [[or 1685]] March 3: Executors desire that the instrument be “renewed.” [Did Jan come and go in 1679, and then die in 1683/5? He is still alive September 1684; see II:595-596.] Court of Sessions [“County Court”] refers the question to the Court of Oyer and Determiner. Signed by clerk John Ward.
[See II:261 1679 October 20-23 copy of minutes from Netherlands 1678 November 12, when parties in the Netherlands refuse to believe that a power of attorney from Jan Elting in New Netherland refers to the same Jan Elting they know, who was married to someone else and, they say, died several years before. Jan headed over to patria, to clear up the confusion.]
[See III:79 1681 April 3?, Elting seeks reimbursement from Severyn Ten Hout for expenses Elting incurred for Ten Hout in Holland.]

Oct-Nov-Dec

II:260-261
1679 October 20
Cornelis Hoogeboom has contracted to sell to William Fisjer a 1/3 share in land that Hoogeboom bought with [of?] Jan Gerritsen, for 291 sch of wheat, to be paid winter 1680 and one more installment; deed provided upon payment.
[This probably is the double lot across the Great Bridge that Jan Gerritsen sold to Hoogeboom, Roelof Kierstede, and Jacob Rutger; see II:254-255 1679 April 30 and related notes. Original sale of lot from Ebbinck/De Laet was as Lots 10 & 12. Hoogeboom has a 1/3 share in this property.]
[Note also II:567 1680/1 March 12, Jochem Hendrix’s land bought from Cornelis Hoogeboom across Great Bridge, also 291 sch. of wheat, but apparently not this lot?]
[See II:266 1679/80 January 1, when Jacob Rutgersen also sells Fisher a 1/3 share in this property, and III:8 1682/3 February 2, when Rutgersen and Hoogeboom both provide deeds (transfers) to Fisher for their respective shares.]
[See II:611-612 1681(/2?) February 6, when Gerritsen provides transfer (deed) to the three buyers of the lot, which they must have so they can provide deeds to Fisher or any other buyers.]

II:261
1679 October 20-23 [copy of 1678 November 12 minutes from Netherlands]
[This is entered in Secretary's Papers Book B, pp. 350-351, between II:260-261 1679 October 20 and II:261-262 1679 October 23; see https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16694coll242/id/21881/rec/10 . It may have been received earlier in the spring, but Elting, as he prepares to travel back to Drenthe to resolve the case, does his best to get all the details entered in the local record. As he notes in his September will, misfortunes happen at sea. He wants to leave a record in case anything happens to him. See further notes below.]
Copy of minutes of session held at “Rolde” [in Drenthe, in Netherlands, about 3.5 miles east of Assen] 1678 Nov 12:
Berhard Sussenraet [nicknamed “Luymmiel”] is empowered by Jan Kiersen from New Netherland to act for him; Jan Kiersen is attorney for Jan Eltinge, also from New Netherland; Sussenraet, representing Jan and Jan, is the plaintiff.
The “defendant” is Jan Eltinge at Swichteler [Zwiggelte in Drenthe, near Beilen, about 5 miles SSW of Rolde], who married widow of Bartolt Eltinge and has possession of “plaintiff’s [(principal)] parental estates.”
Plaintiff Jan Elting demands that defendant Jan Elting render an accounting of parental estate, inventory, partition, etc.
Defendant maintains he is not obliged to supply inventory, since there is not proof that Jan Eltinge [the one whose estate he holds] is living. Powers of attorney are suspect and include contradictions. Three witnesses before court at Meppelolt [[?]] [probably Meppel, on the border between Drenthe and Overijssel] have sworn that Jan Eltinge [the one who was the rightful heir] died some years ago.
Plaintiff offers to furnish security, demands restitution of property.
Heeren Droosts [magistrates, bailiffs] and 24 assessors decide they want better proof, ideally Jan Eltinge himself in person.
[This is a copy of the copy that was sent to North America; it was made by William de la Montagne.]
[Jan Elting in the Esopus region is sometimes in these records referred to as Jan Elton. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Eltinge-1 for more biographical detail and citations of earlier records. Documents indicate he previously lived at Amersfoort on Long Island; Wikitree says Flatbush. It is not unusual for someone living in the colony to ask a trusted friend or relative traveling back to Europe to transact business on their behalf. A multilayered document trail of affidavits and attestations is intended to prevent deception in cases like this.]
[Jan Elting of the Esopus region is named more than once as Jan Roelofsen Elting, meaning his father was Roelof, likely Roelof Elting. The record does not clarify whether Jan who married the widow of Bartolt is the brother of Roelof Elting, or whether Bartolt (or his widow?) was the brother of Roelof Elting. Or any of these could be a sibling of Jan Roelofsen Elting. At any rate, suggestion is that the estate that should be inherited by Jan Elting of the Esopus is in the hands of Jan Elting from Swichteter/Zwiggelte. (Wikitree, q.v., suggests that Jan Elting, when he left Europe, signed over any right he had in the family estate to his brother.)]
[See II:470 1679 September 30, when Jan Roelofsen Elting, married to Jacomyntie Cornelissen Sleght, writes a will in preparation for a voyage to Holland.]
[Makes sense that this would have been entered in the Kingston record in October 1679, although it probably was received earlier, maybe spring 1679.]
[For considerable further discussion, see Andros Papers 1679-1680 pp. 145-146 [28:135-136] and NYGBS Record Vol. 113 (1982) p. 196ff, “Documents Concerning Jan Eltinge’s Disputed Patrimony.” Elting apparently lived previously at Amersfoort on Long Island for several years, and his friends there, also from Drenthe, attested to his identity. Once he got to Europe, he also secured a copy of his baptismal record. The eventual outcome of the case is not recorded here, but Elting returned safely to the Esopus after his journey.]

II:261-262
1679 October 23
Severyn Ten Houdt provides Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkranz] a deed (conveyance) for a small island sold to Severyn by Juffrouw Johanna De Laet. Severyn has been paid from the first to the last penny.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens, Benjamin Provoost [witnesses]
[(signed)] Severyen Ten Houdt [with seal]
[See contract of sale above, II:243 1676 July 21.]

II:262
1679 October 24
Michiel Garton gives conveyance (deed) to Hendrick Jochemsen [Schoonmaker] for a meadow Garton bought from Edward Wittaker, satisfied “from the first to the last penny.” Signed M. Garton, sealed
[See II:393 1676/7 February 20, original contract of sale.]
[Note also KP 594-595 1666 March 10/20, Aert Martensen Doorn provides deed to Hendrick Jochemsen for “plot of land named the ‘Weylant’ [(meadow)],” about 16 morgens. This is a separate property.]

II:262-263
1679 October 25
Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen and Pieter Jansen strike a deal with Willem DeMajer, Jan Tyssen [Mattysen, brother of Mattys] and Mattys Mattysen: Cornelis and Pieter will make all the running gear for a sawmill: paddlewheel, cutting wheel, and related stuff, and to set it up properly for sawing. They will saw the wood and split the wood for same. Principals will provide contractors with board for as long as the work lasts. Work will start beginning of January and not stop till it’s done. Contractors will be paid 130 schepels of wheat, and for the other crossbeam work they’ll get proper daily wages. Signed by Cornelis Coernelissen [doesn’t sign Woutersen]
[Mattys Mattysen and Jan Mattysen are stepsons of Thomas Chambers, adopted when Chambers married his first wife; see II:265 1679 November 28. Jan Mattysen is frequently referred to as Jan Tysen; the same variation is repeated elsewhere.]
[Location of this mill is not specified, but see II:460-461 1677 April 24, Mattysen granted Green Kill with valley, if he builds a mill there.]
[See II:266 1679 December 23 below, when Mattys Mattysen’s father-in-law Tjerck Claessen contracts with Pieter Loober to build a flour mill, probably at the same location on Green Kill.]
[See II:274 1679/80 March 16, same principals contract with George Mills to saw for them; also II:281-282 1680 June 7, fresh contract with Poulus Poulussen for same.]

II:263
1679 October 27
Eduard Whittekar contracts to sell to Johan Hamel [Jan, signs John Hommell, later records also say Hamble] “his barn and lot, at present occupied by Gerrit Aertsen.” [Appears two lots are part of the deal.] Buyer gets barn and a portion of the lot when Aertsen’s lease runs out. If he likes the house on the lot, he can buy it at that time, after appraisal. “But the lot between the barn and Willem Van Vredenborch’s will be immediately delivered.” Wittaker retains privilege to stable one or two horses on one of the two lots “for some time to come.” Jan Hamel will pay 220 sch of good winter wheat. Wittekar retains right of first refusal if Hamel resells. And “in case of inundation or war,” Wittaker has permission to re-occupy lot ‘with the whole of his family and all his effects, without contradiction.” 220 sch of good winter wheat. No mention of deed or conveyance, or installments or when payment will be made.
[See III:35 1683 April 3 for conveyance [deed] that results from this sales contract.]
[See II:256 1679 June 14; Jan Hamel contracted last summer to build a barn for John Connel; he knows how to build. Sounds as if the house Gerrit is living in, which probably is the one built ca. 1660 by Tjerck Claessen DeWitt and later occupied by Ed Wittaker, might be of dubious quality. Later on a stone house stands here.]
[See II:624 1682 April 3, for Willem Van Vreedenborgh on lot between John Hamble and Barent Van Borsum.]

II:263-264
1679 November 1
Roelof Swartwout contracts to sell to Cornelis Cornelissen [Woutersen] Van Starrevelt house and lot in village, adjoining Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkranz]; Swartwout bought from Willem Bondt. 200 guilders “Holland money” “by bill of exchange” to be delivered at Lyderdorp from Woutersen’s inheritance from his parents. House is mortgaged until payment. Buyer signs Coernelis Coernelissen Van Sterrenvelt.
[It appears this sale does not go through. No deed has been found to transfer the property to Cornelis, but see II:271 1679/80 February 27 when Swartwout contracts to sell evidently the same house and lot to Nicolas Anthony (for 170 sch of wheat, equivalent to 1,020 guiders), and III:47-48 1683 May 7, when Swartwout gives Antony a deed.]
[See also III:61-62 1683/4 January 18, when Anthony trades the house and lot to Henderick Ten Eyck for his house and lot next to the guardhouse.]
[Cornelis is a local builder; several contracts are in this set of records and Kingston Papers for him to build houses, barns, a mill, et al. He sometimes gets into conflicts with parties who think he should build sooner or more quickly. As of II:434 1678 June 1, he is leasing a house from Benjamin Provoost, through September 1. As of II:432 1678/9 February 27, he is hired by Thomas Chambers for a year as a mason and carpenter (probably building at Foxhall Manor), to be given “free proper board and washing and bed clothing.” As of II:413 1679 April 3, he has purchased from Christian Deyo a house and lot at Hurley.]
[See also III:36-37 1683 April 5, when Woutersen sells a house and lot in Hurley to Jan Meewesen.]

II:264
1679 November 8
Wessel Ten Broeck and Wm. De Majer, guardians of children of Cornelis Wynkoop, agree with Bruyn Hage [sic] Master Smith that Joohannes Wynkoop will be apprenticed to learn the smithing trade for 4 years. Bruyn “shall instruct said boy in good manners and provide him with proper food and drink. And besides pay each and every year to the guardians fifty sch. of wheat and a pair of new shoes.” Also woolen stockings in the last year.
[(signed)] H. Beeckman, Bruyn Hagen, Wessel Ten Broeck
[(signed)] Johannes Wynkoop, W. D’Meyer
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[See II:256-257 1679 June 27, when the guardians tried to apprentice Johannes to Benjamin Provoost, also a master blacksmith. When Evert Price makes out a list of his debts and credits II:418-419 1678 March 27, he also mentions a “Jan the Smith.”]

II:264-265
1679 November 10
Elizabeth Hall, widow and executrix of George Hall, provides conveyance (deed) for house “and its appendages” [no lot or location mentioned] to William Beecqman, “having been satisfied for the same from the first to the last penny.” Beeckman conveys deed to J [someone illegible] on same date, in attached note. Hall and Beeckman both sign and seal.
[See II:431-432 1678 June 14, inventory of George Hall’s estate.]

II:564-565
1679 November 11, Kingston
Was elected constable, in place of Jan Willemsen, Joost Adriaensen.
In place of Mattias Mattison and Gorge Davits, Commissaries [council members], Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] and Wessel Ten Broeck, besides Gerrit Aertsen and Benjamin Provoost, who have taken the oath as overseers in conformity with the laws.
So help you God—

It was also ordered in the Court of Sessions that the decree in regard to the fences shall be translated, and be sent to the villages—which is to be complied with.

The hon. Justice [of the Peace, Thomas Chambers] grants to Pieter Hillebrantsen a parcel of land about eight or nine morgens in extent, being a cove [(Inbocht)], subject to the hon. Heer governor’s approval.
[II:565]

Ordered that no savage or savages shall stay in anybody’s house after eight o’clock in the evening under penalty of 25 gldrs fine for every savage thus found in anybody’s house—to be paid by the party harboring them.
[The village watch would ring a bell every night at 8 p.m.]
[The creation—or really repetition—of the rule indicates that at least some of those with houses (or “houses,” i.e. taverns) in Kingston were comfortable enough in their interactions with Esopus neighbors (“savages”) that they perceived little danger in allowing them to stay the night. Others, clearly disagreed.]
[See for example III:112 1682 June 14, when Geertruy Govertsen is accused of lodging four Esopus villagers in her house in Kingston overnight. It seems likely that at least some of these may have been among the five who II:610 1681/2 January 24 sold to Geertruy and Michiel DeModt (Mott) “all their land” at Shawangunk.]
[See also the long record of Harman Hekam in the area; he was a “savage,” but bought and sold property in the European villages, borrowed and repaid money, and appears to have been well versed in the ways of the immigrant colonists. He and his mother (generally referred to not by name but as “Harmon Hekam’s mother”; she probably was a sunksqua, or village leader) appear as official signers representing the Esopus on several documents when large tracts of land are given over by the original inhabitants for the growing European-derived community to use. Hekam owns a house and farm in Marbletown and presumably stays there with his family.]
[As in the European villages, there probably was a range of personalities among their Esopus neighbors, and those who interacted with them, as the decades elapsed, would have had an informed perspective on who might be safe, risky, cautious, prone to violence, rich, drunk, and so forth.]

II:554-555
1679 and again 1680 November 11, Kingston (farming out the tapster and burgher excise)
[See II:607 1680 November 11 for memorandum of farming of excise, which no doubt followed the form below.]
On this November 11th it is publicly read and announced that, during this farm [(voor dese verpachtinge)], nobody, whosoever, shall sell any strong drink to the savages under penalties as per decrees, and neither to sell at retail without a license.
[Versteeg consistently calls this the “farming” of the excise; the person who wins the auction is the “farmer”; the period of the contract is the “farm.” Above we see the Dutch term verpachtinge, which (in 2025 at least) we might translate as “lease.”]

Conditions and terms whereupon Capt. Chambers, by the order of the governor Sir Edmund Andros, intends to farm out the tapster and burgher excise of these villages of Kingston, Horley and Marbleton etc. and whatever resort under them. Palts. [[This had been added after this heading had been finished in orig.]]
[See arguments elsewhere about whether New Paltz was subject to the Kingston taxes on alcohol. The note was probably added in the second year to clarify what the Governor’s decision had been. See also note from 1680 below, when Montagne takes over as farmer.]
[See III:220 1681 April 27, Montagne seeks 3,000 guilders because he bought the right to collect the excise from New Paltz, but New Paltz refuses to pay it.]
[See II:578-579 1681 August 17, Governor says the excise should be paid to excise farmer.]
[See III:222ff 1681 September 7-8, Louis Dubois arguing that the jury is not properly impaneled to tell him to pay the excise tax. Chambers complains that the council members should consult him before making decisions about the excise.]

The farm shall commence November 11, 1680/79 [[sic]] and terminate 1680/81 November 11.
[This document was used for two years, Capt. DeLavall becoming the farmer in 1679 and Montagne in 1680, so the doubled dates are not for the usual reason of divergence between Dutch and English calendars.]

During this period the farmer will receive of all wines, bier, distilled waters to be consumed at, or peddled by, the tapsters at Kingston, Horly, Marbleton, etc., as also of all burghers laying in rum, brandy or distilled waters, this belownamed excise:
For 1 ancker of Rum, brandy, distilled waters: 26 gldrs
For 1 ancker of other wine [(andere wyn)]: 14 "
For 1 tun of good bier: 9 "
For 1 tun of foreign good bier: 14 "
Smaller or larger fustage in proportion

The farmer shall also receive of the citizens of said places:
For 1 tun of good bier: 1 gldr 10 st
For 1 tun of small bier: 9 st
Larger or smaller fustage in proportion

The same to be paid in what at six gldrs per sch or in seewant, at six sewants for one st. or 3 black ones.
[This treats seewant, often a collective term like “cloth” or “money,” as a countable synonym for “shell” or “bead.” Sewant, made from sea shells, generally came in colors. The black ones were more highly valued. Generally it also has been described in strings or fathoms, rather than in individual shells.]

No distillers shall be permitted to distill until they shall have notified the farmer.

For the purpose of preventing all cabal, misunderstanding and fraud it is stipulated and conditioned that at the expiration of the farm, when the new farming again takes place, the new farmer, on the day of the farming, shall be at liberty to gauge in the presence of the late farmer, and two-thirds of the excise paid for all the wine and bier found, shall be paid out to the new farmer. And the farmer is promised all proper support and assistance.
[II:555]

The principal shall, by the present [[by desen]], be exempt for his own consumption, but shall notify the farmer of the same.
[[“The principal” (verpachter) was Capt. Chambers, claiming exemption as Lord of Manor.]]

It is further stipulated that the grain measurers shall be authorized to require all vessels to show their passport, and declare whatever strong drink is to be discharged here, which shall be communicated to the farmer by list, and the excise is to be immediately paid.

Capt. Thoomas DeLavall became farmer for the amount of six thousand gldrs, this November 11, 1679, in the presence of the hon. court.
[(signed)] Wm. DLa Montagne, Secretary

On this November 11 1680 Wm. Montagne has become famer for five thousand three hundred gldrs. The Palts has also been included in these above conditions, so that it will have to pay as high an excise as the other villages. On the said conditions he has furnished as sureties Lambert Huybertsen and Johannes De Hooges.

[The way the farming of the excise works: The “farmer” agrees to pay the stated amount to the village treasury, a fixed number. Then he collects excise based on actual transactions, a number that could go up or down depending on local conditions. The one who bids highest for the job gets it. But if he agrees to pay more than he ends up taking in, it’s a losing bet. The shrewd bidder will try to pay less than the total excise he will collect, so that he ends up making money for having the job.]
[There is some debate as to whether the lease or “farming” of the excise is a privilege or responsibility of the town council or of the Justice of the Peace, who in this case is Thomas Chambers, also Lord of Foxhall Manor.]

 

II:265
1679 November 15
[In English]
Frederick Pietersen [Maurits, husband of Engelje Hendericks] contracts to sell to Richard Wilson his land “in the 9 lots land” from the bridge to the land of John Cock. 450 sch of wheat, half in wheat, half in Indian corn, at a ratio of 2:1, first payment next March [50 sch], second is 100 sch Indian corn and 50 sch wheat a year later, “and so every Jaer til the condition is preformed [sic].” Land is mortgaged until last payment is made.
[(signed)] William Wood, John Jois [[?]] [witnesses]
[(signed)] Frederick Peeterss, the mark R of Richard Wilson
[See III:117 1682? probably December, when Wilson is granted additional land apparently adjacent to this parcel.]
[Fred. Pieterson is listed as a soldier at Marbletown in April 1670 (DRCHSNY XIII p. 448) when Lovelace passes out parcels for farms and homes, but he is not listed among recipients. He does have a house and lot in Kingston, which is referred to frequently when a neighboring lot is sold or resold (KP 626, 646, 678), but that is not this land. KP 736 1673 April 12 Aert Martensen Doorn describes “his farm situated at Marbleton which has now been sold to Frederick Pietersen and Jacob Elbersen”; he is still receiving payment, so he has not given them the deed (and in this document he mortgages it).]
[Frederick Pietersen Maurits is husband of Engeltie Hendericks, who is daughter of Henderick Albertsen, making him brother-in-law (and frequent partner) of Jan Hendericks; see KP 657-659 1667 May 1/11. When Henderick (Harry) Albertsen died, his widow, Geertruyd Andriesen, went on to marry Jacob Jansen (Slyckkoten), and when Jacob died she married Aert Martensen Doorn. Under Doorn most of the family’s lands were sold; see for example KP 739. It is not clear what land is referred to as “in the 9 lots land.”]
[Frederick Pietersen Maurits has a brother Joost in patria, “schout and secretary at Bruham” or Benkom; see KP 677.]

II:265
1679 November 28
Thomas Chambers, stepfather of Mattys Mattysen and Jan Mattysen, gives them “a portion of his coat of arms, viz. one of the burning fireworks, and the crest which shall be as a complete coat of arms to them.”
[Chambers’ first wife, Margarita Hendricksen, was married to Mattys Janszen [van Ceulen] before Chambers, and pregnant with Mattys when she married Chambers in 1648.]

II:449
1679 December 22, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 208 (final item, bottom of page and written wider than previous items, to fit in short space)
Kingston, December 22, 1679
Whereas Arent Teunesen has entered some claims upon a piece of land commencing from a small whirl-pool [(Kolckje)] to the road or the riff in the Platte Kill, therefore the same is granted to the co-partners in the mill, wherewith Arent Teunesen is satisfied. Said A. Teunesen has also unconditionally permitted a wagon-road as far as a scow can safely sail the Platte Kill, and some land on this side of the Great Kill, for the purpose of carting lumber, and to pile the same, provided the partners do not cause damage to the crops, otherwise they will be held to fence in said land in its length between theirs and Arent Teunesen’s. Thus given on the above date.
(signed) T. Chambers, Wessel Ten Broeck, T. Claes [DeWitt]
[[The above was a copy of the original and evidently entered later on by the Secretary.]]
[See II:266 1679 December 23, Thomas DeLavall and Tjerck Claesen DeWitt contracting with Pieter Louber (Lober? Loober?) to build a flour mill; these are probably the “co-partners” referred to here.]
[See II:449 (same page in Versteeg), undated, Poulus Poulussen and Arendt Teunesen granted 22 morgens near the Platte Kill, also 8 morgen “on this side of the [Esopus?] Kill.” Poulus Poulussen signs contract II:281-282 1680 June 7 to be a sawyer for Jan and Mattys Mattysen and William De Meyer.]

II:266
1679 December 23, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 265
“Pieter [(?)] Lober, millwright,” agrees to make for Mr DeLavall and Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] a water wheel, cog wheel and turnplate for the amount of ninety five sch of wheat, “but the principals are to send two men with the contractor in the woods to hew, and after the timber shall be here it is agreed that another helper shall be furnished [to] him to saw the same and assist in splitting.” Also, “the [millwright], aforenamed, for his own labor on the Green Kill” will receive free board and 2 sch of wheat per day, “no work, no money.” Start right away. “The millwright has besides stipulated for a beaver.”
[(signed)] Pietter[[?]] Loubre[[?]]
[(signed)] Tho. D’Lavall, Tierck Claszen
[Versteeg translation on the second instance incorrectly calls Pieter a “wheelwright,” but the same word, moolemaker, or millmaker, is used in all three places, not rademaker, or wheelwright. (The modern Dutch word for mill is molen, kin to moulin in Moulin Rouge and many other cognates.)]
[See II:262-263 1679 October 25 above, when Tjerck’s son-in-law Mattys Mattysen contracts with Cornelis Cornelissen Woutersen and Pieter Jansen to build a sawmill on the Green Kill, south of Kingston and Hurley.]
[Location of this mill apparently is on the Green Kill, south of Kingston and Hurley, probably where DeWitt Lake is in 2025 (site for more than a century of the former DeWitt mills, a sawmill and flour mill). Perplexingly, the town council has just one day before granted “co-partners in the mill” permission to use land on the Platte Kill, north of Kingston, near Saugerties; see II:449 1679 December 22, where Arent Teunesen agrees to let the partners use some of his land. Apparently that refers to a different mill.]
[For the Platte Kill site, see also DRCHSNY XIII 451-452 where Tjerck Claesen together with William Montagne petitions the Governor’s surveying committee for permission to set up a sawmill “some five Miles North from the Towne of Kingston,” and for land a mile further along called Dead Mens Bones, about 70 acres, for farming. Others petition for nearby land around the same time.]
[See II:627 1682 May 30, “along the low mountains till the Platte Kill where the saw-mill stands,” III:111 same date, same description. The Saw Kill, or Sawyers Kill, south of the Platte Kill, was the site of an earlier saw mill, active for many years.]

 

1680

Jan-Feb-Mar

II:266
1679/80 January 1, Kingston
Jacob Rutgersen contracts to sell to William Fisher his 1/3 portion of land bought in partnership with Jan Gerritsen, for 130 sch of wheat, plus 98 next winter, 88 the following winter; deed provided upon payment. Signed by Jacop Rutgers and Wm. Fisher
[See II:254-255 1679 April 30 and related notes, when Rutgersen, Cornelis Hoogeboom, and Roelof Kierstede buy a double lot that appears to be this land from Jan Gerritsen.]
[See II:611-612 1682 February 6, Rutgersen’s deed to this land. He receives it after agreeing to sell to Fisher.]
[See III:8 1682/3 February 2, when Rutgersen and Hoogeboom provide deeds (transfers) to Fisher for their respective shares.]

II:266
1679/80 February 9, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 368
Willem Jacobsen [Van Tongeren] has assumed the whole of the rights of Severyn Ten Houdt, as per the conditions, so that Willem Jacobsen is to fully comply with the conditions [he probably has to make further payments on the land before receiving deed; see next entries, 2 Jan and 9 Feb], and is owner, as per the conditions, of the land of Teunes Jacobsen, named “Steen Rabie” [Stone Arabia].
This February 9th 1679 at Kingston
[(signed)] John Hommell [witness, a.k.a. John Hamble]
[(signed)] Willem Jacobs v. Tong[[?]] [[two or 3 more letters illegible]].
[See also II:492 1679 April 10, other obligations of Severyn Ten Houdt taken over by Jan Louwersen.]
[Willem is Willem Jacobs van Tongeren; see other entries when he loans money, III:48 1683 June 4.]
[See KP 710 1672 January 23, Teunes Jacobsen contracts to buy Steen Rapie, farm at Marbletown, from Cornelis Barentsen Slecht.]
[See II:565-566 1680/1 February 26 Willem Jacobsen transfers Steen Rabie, “the land bought of Gerridt Lambertsen,” back to Teunes Jacobsen. Unclear whether Willem and Teunes are related.]
[See next two entries, January 2 and February 9.]
[This entry is on a different leaf, probably in different handwriting, possibly the handwriting of Willem Jacobsen van Tongeren. After this leaf comes the next, with two entries on it that are best understood in the context of this one. The first (in William de la Montagne’s hand) is a land transaction that preceed this deal. The second appears to be an acknowledgement of this entry in combination with the other. Some pieces of the story are still missing, but the three items seem to be a set, intended to be understood together.]

II:267
1679/80 January 2
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 369
Teunis Jacobsen has contracted to sell to Gerret Lambersen the land at Steen Rabi [[Stone Arabia]] excepting 1/2 of the calf pasturage and half of the garden, which Teunis will use for 5 years, and a path to the Kil for Teunis and successors for as long as they live there, at most convenient spot at end of garden. Lambertsen gets 5 rods of space for a stack and a house next to house of Teunis, but Teunis’s house remains his. 900 sch of wheat, 4 installments. Deed provided after payments.
[See II:566 1680/1 February 19, when Dirck Schepmoes sells Jan Louwersen a lot named the “Calf’s Pasture,” with a pit or well.]
[See II:582-583 1681 September 1, where estate of Maria Wynkoop leases to Thomas Quick about 14 morgen at the “Rondeeltie,” as far as the fence extends to the well and the Calf’s Pasture.”]
[See previous entry, next entry, 1679/80 February 9.]
[See II:565-566 1680/1 February 26 Willem Jacobsen transfers Steen Rabie, “the land bought of Gerridt Lambertsen,” back to Teunes Jacobsen. Unclear whether Willem and Teunes are related.]

II:267
1679/80 February 9
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 369
Suveryn Ten Hout has accepted above conditions in partnership with William Jacobs; they release Gerrit Lambertsen, but take right and title from him, and assume his obligations [to pay] [and then William buys from Suveryn; see above entries, 2 Jan and 9 Feb].
[(signed)] Roelef Henderyckse, as witness
[(signed)] Severyen Ten Hout, Willem Jacobs V. Tenger [[?]][Tongeren]

II:267
1679/80 January 12
Benjamin Provoost provides deed (conveyance) to Roelof Jansen for a house and lot, which Provoost bought from Thomas Quick. He has been paid “from the first to the last penny.”
[See next entry, same date; Jansen immediately flips it to Jan Hendrix.
[See II:434 1678 June 1, original contract of sale between Provoost and Jansen.]
[Jansen is probably van der Fredrickstadt, master tailor; see II:404 (undated), II:623-624 1682 April 3. He trained under Aert Martensen Doorn; see II:272-3 1679/80 March 2.]
[Original deed (conveyance) from Quick to Provoost not found in these records.]
[Neither of these property transfers (deeds) describes the property location. Benjamin Provoost is described elsewhere as a master smith. Quick is Thomas Tonnesen (or Teunesen) Quick; see KP 704 1671 October 7, KP 236; his wife is Rynbregh Jurriaensen; see KP 489.]

II:268
1679/80 January 12, Kingston
Roelof Jansen provides deed (conveyance) to Jan Hendrix for the house and lot that Roelof just bought from Benjamin Provoost, which is fully paid for and unencumbered, and Jan Hendrix sells in same document to Pieter Loober [millwright]. Document says Hendrix “has been satisfied for the same,” so he provides unencumbered title (deed, conveyance) to Loober. Roelef Jansen signs; Jan Hendrix uses mark ooo, no seals.
[See previous entry, same date (deed to Roelof).]
[See II:438 1678 September 10, when Jansen contracts to sell house and lot to Hendrix.]

II:268
1679/80 January 27
Leendert Barentsen Cool contracts to sell to William Fisher [Fisjer] his house and lot standing next to Matthew Blanchan, 160 sch of wheat, 3 installments, first paid to Blanchan “this winter” [1679/80], 74 sch; second 43 sch next winter [1681/81], final 43 sch. winter 1681/2. Deed to be provided when payment is complete.
Witnesses [(signed)]: Ed Whittaker, Harman Hyndrycssen
[(signed)] Mark of Leendert Barentsen Cool; Wm. Fisher
[See II:396 1680 May 5, when Blanchan says Cool’s debt has been paid by Fisher. See also II:394 1676/7 March 1, original debt to Blanchan, mortgaging this house and lot.]
[See II:617 1681/2 March 11, deed from Cool and Jan Broersen Decker to William Fisher for house and lot in Kingston next to Matthew Blanchan. Unclear how Decker got involved.]

II:268-269
1679/80 January 31, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 373
Michiel Modt [Mot, de Mott] provides deed (conveyance) to Jan Joosten [van Meteren], living at Marbleton, for “certain parcel of land situated at Horly, named Wassemaker’s land,” as conveyed to Mott by Henry Pawling. Satisfied “from the first to the last penny.”
Note of clarification says that “the conveyance by Paeldin [Pawling] [presumably to Mott] is to be found in the minutes of the year 1676 January 3.”
[(signed)] Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriffe, Joost Adreyaens [Adriaensen] [witnesses]
[(signed)] This is the mark of Michiel Mot
[Minutes from 1675/6 January 3 or 1676/7 January 3 have not been found, nor 1674/5. Council minute from 1673/4 January 3 (KP 507) refers only to possible advance on colony by French troops; appears to be a special session. Reference might be to minutes from Marbletown or Hurley council meetings, but those have not been located either. Worth noting: It’s unusual for a deed or conveyance to be recorded in council minutes (but see KP 522 1674 December 20 and 1674 September 26). Generally it’s a discrete document. This suggests the transfer might have been of an unusual sort, for example a settlement of a suit or an execution of a judgment.]
[Could also be a blunder, and intent might have been “conveyance to Pawling,” which could mean it was land granted to Pawling by the council, which would indeed be in council minutes. This is unlikely (see next notes).]
[See II:383 for undated partial deed from Henry Pawling to Joost Adriaensen for a parcel on Wassemaker’s land, adjacent to Little Mud Kill. Deed from Pawling to Mott could have been in adjacent papers, which appear to have been lost. Deed indicates Pawling has land by virtue of deed renewed by Governor Lovelace 30 March 1670, which probably also applies to Mott’s parcel.]
[See KP 727-728 1672 January 21, original contract of sale from Pawling to Mott of “a certain parcel of land situated on Wassemaker’s land, located across the Little Mud Kill between said Capt. Paeldin and Mr. Lavall’s,” outlining final payment due in January 1674. Note adjacent item KP 728, Mott selling a different parcel to Pieter Cornelis, same date. See KP 520 1674 June 19?, when Pawling seeks payment from Cornelis for debt assigned to Cornelis by Mott in a land transaction; Cornelis asks Mott for assurance that Cornelis will get a deed; Mott says he doesn’t have the deed yet.]
[See II:406 1677 December 17, the original contract of sale between Mott and Joosten.]
[See II:440 1678/9 March 13, Jan Joosten leases land to Jacob Barentsen Kool/Cool.]
[See II:382 1675/6 March 9, when Mott mortgages grain in his stack (hay barrack) against money he owes Henry Pawling for an undescribed parcel of land, likely this one.]

II:269
1679/80 February 3, Kingston
Thoomas Mattias [Mattysen] provides deed (conveyance) to Jacobus Elmendorp for “his lots of land in the pasturage across the large bridge, being the lots No. 6 and No. 7,” sold to him by Juffer Ebbings [Johanna De Laet, generally represented in property transactions by her husband, Jeronimus Ebbingh].
[(signed)] Joost Adryaensen [witness]
[(signed)] Thomas Mattias [with a mark]
[See II:394-395 1676/7 March 7, when Ebbinck’s representatives provide deed to Thoomas Mattys for two lots of land sold at auction to Edward Whittaker (who evidently transferred them to Mattys), “being the lots Nos. 6, No. 6 [[sic]] . . . situated in the Meadows.”]

II:269
1679/80 February 17, Kingston
George Davits and Henderick Claesen contract with “Henderick Kip, master cooper,” to engage “their brother Ysack Davits” for 6 years to learn the cooper’s trade, “and also to properly teach him reading and writing, to educate him in good morals and manners,” to provide clothes, food, drink, “and at the exipiration of the said time to provide him with a Sunday and a workday suit, and adz and a draw knife.”
[(signed)] Joris Davis, Heydrick Clasen
[(signed)] Hinderick Kip
[This is the family of Christoffel “Kit” Davits, one of the first Europeans to make the Esopus area his home. (He had land elsewhere in the colony as well; see KP 585 1665 December 5 for his holdings in the Bronx, near Hell Gate.) See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davis-1913 and other family pages linked there. Kit’s first wife, Cornelia de Vos, died ca. 1657, and because he was struggling to manage affairs (and possibly drinking), their children were taken from him and given to her father to raise. Joris (George) is one of these. Henderick Clasen van Schoonhoven is married to Debora Christoffelse Davids, daughter of Kit Davits and Maria Martensen, his second wife. Isaac Davits is son of Kit and Maria. Since it is Isaac's siblings, not his mother and father, who are signing his apprenticeship papers, it is reasonable (though not certain) to infer that his parents may no longer be living. George has died by II:574 1681 June 4.]
[In addition to being a cooper, Henderick Kip contracts to make a shingle roof on laths for William Fisher, II:260 1679 August 20, and he repairs cisterns, III:103 1682 April 4. Kip, for his barrels, is also made a partner with Thomas Delavall and Nicholas DePue (du Puis) in a venture to salt fish, II:277 1680 March 26. He appears to have brothers in town, Johannes and Jacobus; Tryntie Kip also is mentioned (could be a sister or a spouse).]

II:509
1679 February 19, Hurley (1678/9? or 1679/80? ordinary council session)
Court Records Book 5 Page 27
[2025 note: This is being filed, provisionally, in 1679/80. February 19, 1679, was a Sunday. In 1680 it was a Monday. Typically council sessions in Kingston, and often elsewhere, are held on Tuesdays. The Hurley pattern is not clear, but it seems more likely a council session would not be held on a Sunday.]
[The next entry bound into the volume, though, is 1679 May 13. It is entirely possible that either the date or the year has been entered incorrectly (on either record).]
Horly Feb. 19, 1679
Present:
Mr. [William] Asforbie [Sheriff]
Heyman Allersen [Roosa]
Johannes De Hoge
Lambert Huyberts

Gerrit Cornelissen for examiner of stallions for Horly.
[This is an appointment to a post, not an additional name in the list of who is present. See II:485 1676/7 February 6, also KP 456-457 1671 February 22 and KP 464 1671 June 13.]

[Verdicts in the original minutes are entered at the bottom of the page rather than immediately below each case. Transcription below is rearranged to match each verdict with its case, rather than reprinting them in the order translated.]

Jan Biges [Biggs] vs. Jan Willemsen
[[See decision below where orig. has it Willem Jansen.]]
[Biggs] demands the quantity of 70 sch of wheat for rent.
[Willemsen] admits the debt.
[Biggs] says that he has furnished [Willemsen] with eight sch. of wheat for plowing, which [Willemsen] denies—but says that it will thus happen to him on account of the Rugge Hoeck, I to [words missing] [Biggs].
Bigs says that they settled in regard to feeding 2 heifers and 3 colts, which Jan Willemsen denies.

The hon. court orders Willem Jansen to pay Jan Bigs the quantity of 70 sch of wheat provided he may deduct the schepels that have been paid on the same:
12 for plowing
10 for feeding the cattle
___
22

70
22
__
48 this quantity Jan Willamsen [sic] shall pay.

Is ordered to pay 48 sch of wheat.

II:509
1679 February 19, Hurley (1678/9? or 1679/80? ordinary council session, continued)
[See note at II:506 1678/9 March 27; George Hall may have died before this session?]
Mr. Hals vs. Jan Willemsen

Mr. Halls, complt, demands 238 gldrs book debt. [Willemsen] admits the debt. The hon. court orders [Willemsen] to pay.

II:509
1679 February 19, Hurley (1678/9? or 1679/80? ordinary council session, continued)
Capt. D’Lavall declares that several complaints have been made that no deliverable grain is sent, because much unclean grain is shipped so that the Esopus grain gets a bad name here.

II:509-510
1679 February 19, Hurley (1678/9? or 1679/80? ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 5 Page 28
Robbert Pekock vs. Jeremia Kettel

[Pekock] demands for pound-money and examination of the fences 90 gldrs.
[Kettel] says that Pecock is sworn examiner of the fences, and says that he himself [Pekock] takes no care of his own fence.
The hon. court orders Jeremia Kettel to pay the demanded amount, with costs, and to sue those whose fence was not efficient.
[See II:532 1677/8 February 7, Kettel vs. Gerrit Lambertsen, also involving Anthony Addison, about a fence in disrepair.]

II:510
1679 February 19, Hurley (1678/9? or 1679/80? ordinary council session, continued)
Suvereyn Ten Hout vs. Jan Willemsen
[Suvereyn] demands 104 sch of wheat for which he has attached the wheat. Requests that the attachment shall be declared valid.
[Willemsen] admits the debt.
[Suvereyn] says if [Willemsen] is willing to pay now that he will remit him 20 sch.
The hon. court orders Jan Willemsen to pay the demanded quantity, and that after Bigs shall have been first paid [Ten Hout] will be preferred in regard to the priority of the attachment.
[See above, same session, II:509, Jan Biggs vs. Jan Willemsen.]
[See II:551-552 1680 April 1, when Jan agrees to work two years for Claes Teunesen, in exchange for which Claes takes on the debt Jan owes to Severeyn.]

II:510-511
1679 February 19, Hurley (1678/9? or 1679/80? ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 5 Page 29
[The following six cases are on a separate, undated leaf (p. 29) following the court session above. It is not clear that they belong with this court session. They look more as if they might be a list of cases for a different upcoming session. The reverse of p. 29 is blank.]

Jan Ewoutsen vs. Roelof Jansen [no details]

Lambert Huybertsen vs. Pieter Hillebrantsen [no details]

Melgert Claesen vs. Pieter Hillebrantsen [no details]

Capt. Thomas D’Lavall vs. Pieter Hille[brantsen] [no details]

Robbert Pekock vs. Jacob Jansen [Van Etten?] [no details]

Robbert Pekock vs. Andries Pietersen [no details]

 

II:270
1679/80 February 24
Joost Adriaensen provides deed (conveyance) to Gysbert Crom for a half-share of a parcel in Marbletown, half of Lot 2 and Lot 3, sold on 28 Sep 1671 by Christoffel Beresford, the first owner, to Gerrit Gysbertsen [and Joost, in partnership]. The parcel is located on first “piece.” Joost has been paid “from the first to the last penny,” so Gysbert gets unencumbered right to Joost’s half of the parcel.
[See II:443 1678/9 January 4, Gerrit Gysbertsen describing this as land he already has “in partnership with Gysberdt Crom.” Probably any sales contract that precedes this deed, if it exists, predates that lease.]
[Joost stood bail for Gysbert Crom when Gysbert accidentally shot off the leg of his friend Dirck Adriaensen (no relation) in a New Year’s celebration, II:251 1677/8 January 1.]
[When Marbletown was set up under Lovelace, the town’s agricultural lands were divided into three large “pieces,” the English translation of the term “stuck” used by the Dutch, which were then surveyed and subdivided into individual parcels and assigned by drawing lots; most original inhabitants—primarily soldiers from the British garrison who had been quartered with residents in Kingston up to that time—were given lots in more than one piece together with a lot in the village on which to build a house.]
[Christopher Beresford was commander of the English garrison at Kingston under Lovelace. See for example KP 232 1665 May 18.]

II:270
(undated, but see next entry 26 Feb 1679/80) contractor payments
paid to Jacob Barentsen Cool: 35——
to Henderick Kip: 225 lb. of tobacco
to W. B. 112 guilders 10 stivers
to Pieter Jansen 15 guilders
to the contract of Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkranz] 24 guilders
Hermon is obliged to cut and cart 5 beams, 3 something else 16 inches thick, 10 inches wide, 24 feet long.
Jochem Hendrix will cart the wood and stone necessary for making the cellar, except timber for roof and [illegible], and the rest of the spars needed for building a house 20 feet long, 22 feet wide, according to contract made with Ten Eyck, for which he will get 40 sch of wheat.

II:270-271
1679/80 February 26
Capt. Thoomas Delavall has contracted to sell to Henderick Ten Eyck his house and lot, bought from Jurriaen Teunissen [Westphael?] for 250 sch of wheat, “in deduction of the purchase [money] for the yacht.” DeLavall will comply with agreement with contractors who were going to make Ten Eyck a house; work will be completed for De La Valle. Mr. Lavall will pay back Ten Eyck for what he spent so far. [See previous entry for some of the accounting.] House to be immediately delivered; no schedule for payment on installments, and sounds as if deed will be delivered now, rather than later.
[(signed)] Tho De Lavall, Hendreck Teneÿck
[The Dutch original of this entry is in Secretary’s Papers Liber B (as rebound), p. 379. The reverse of this (p. 380) is blank, with ink from the front bleeding through the paper.]
[See II:283-284 when De Laval provides conveyance (deed) to Ten Eyck. Deed specifies that De Laval bought the house from Teunissen “at Albany before notary Adrian Van Elpendam.”]
[See III:61-62 1683/4 January 18, when Ten Eyck trades this house and lot, next to the guardhouse, to Nicolaes Anthony, in exchange for the house Nicolaes Anthony contracts to buy from Swartwout in the next entry, 27 February.]

II:271
1679/80 February 27
Roelof Swartwout contracts to sell to Nicolas Anthony house and lot bought at auction from William Bondt, for 170 sch of wheat, 2 installments, deed provided after payment.
[See III:47-48 1683 May 7, when Swartwout provides deed (transfer) to Antony.]
[See III:61-62 1683/4 January 18, when Anthony trades this house and lot to Hendrick Ten Eyck, in exchange for the house and lot Ten Eyck contracts to buy from Thomas Delavall, next to the guardhouse, in the previous entry, 26 February.]
[The Dutch original of this entry is in Secretary’s Papers Liber B (as rebound), p. 381. The reverse of this (p. 382) is blank.]
[Swartwout first agreed to sell this house to Cornelis Woutersen Cornelissen (van Starrevelt), II:263-264 1679 November 1. That sale was contingent on Cornelis’s receiving money from patria, from the estate of his parents at Lyderdorp, and it apparently was never consummated.]
[William Bondt is a.k.a. Wilhelm Fredericksen Bout (or Boudt); see KP 428 1668/9 March 9, when Beekman as attorney for Domine Megapolensis attaches 133 guilders (in a complicated cascading attachment) that Bondt/Bout owes domine. His wife is probably Geertie Nanningh, named in the same transaction and on KP 430 1668/9 March 22 as Geertie Bouts; Evert Pels seems to owe her some money. Probably this is around the time Bondt’s house and lot are sold at auction, to settle debts, though records are sparse. He is possibly William Fredericksen who was a 22-year-old soldier in 1642 (DRCHSNY XIII p. 9) or Willem Boutje, ship owner in 1655 (DRCHSNY XII p. 96), or neither of these.]

II:252
1680 February 29(!)
Secretary’s Papers Liber B Page 295
Ed Whittaker contracts to sell to Hendrick Alberts a corner of land called “the broken-through corner” that Whittaker bought from Thomas Chambers, 1050 sch of wheat, in good merchantable peas; at Jacobs Hook, near Edward Wittacker’s house, deed to be delivered upon payment.
[See II:252-253 1680 March 15, also Jacobs Hook, in Dutch original recorded on the back side of the page with this entry.]

 

II:471
1679/80 March 1
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 174
Edward Wittaker provides conveyance (deed) for a portion of a lot to Jan Focken and Pieter Jansen, bounded on east by Barent van Borsum, on the south by Master Roelof [Kierstede]. Paid from first to last penny.
[See II:471 1680 March 1, same page in Dutch original, Wittaker gives deed to Pieter Jansen for what is probably an adjoining parcel in the village.]
[Believe this description matches a lot in the village. See II:471 1679/80 March 1 when it is resold; see II:465-466 1678/9 March 18, Kingston, for previous ownership with Thoomas Mattys.]
[See II:410 1677 December 28 for contract of sale.]
[See II:276 1679/80 March 23 when Jan Focken gives Roelof Jansen a deed for his share in this lot.]
[Kiersted is a local doctor, son of well-known doctor Hans Kiersted, who lived in Manhattan with his wife Sara [Roeloffse], who frequently interpreted between Dutch and Native American languages at meetings of consequence. Roelof Kiersted’s children and grandchildren continued to live in the area; the house at the corner of John and Green Streets today is known as the Dr. Luke Kiersted House, the only pre-1800 clapboard house remaining in the Stockade District. Dr. Luke, great-grandson of this Roelof Kiersted, is said to have practiced here from 1767-1820. See https://www.fohk.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/StockadeWT.pdf and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kiersted-57 ]

II:471-472
1680 March 1
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 174
Edward Wittaker provides conveyance (deed) to Pieter Jansen for a portion of a lot bounded by a portion of a lot that Wittaker bought from Tierck Claesen [DeWitt].
Appeared before me Wm. Montagne, Secretary at Kingston in the presence of the hon. court Eduward Wittaker who declares to convey to Pieter Jansen certain portion of a lot, being limited [by] a portion of a lot prior to this bought of Tierck Claesen. For which lot Eduward Wittaker declares having been satisfied from the first to the last penny, relinquishing his right and title, so that the said Pieter Jansen shall possess the same as he pleases in a real and actual possession and ownership. In testimony of the truth we have subscribed to the present with our own hand this March 1, 1679/80.
[(signed)] Ed. Whittaker.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens, Benjamin Provoost
[See II:471 1680 March 1, same page in Dutch original, Wittaker gives deed to Pieter Jansen and Jan Focken for what is probably an adjoining parcel in the village.]
[See II:392 1676/7 February 5 for contract between Thomas Newton and Pieter Jansen for what may be this lot, with some guesses in the notes.]

 

II:272
1679/80 March 2
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 402
Roelof Swartwout provides conveyance (deed) to “Willem dla Montagne” for a house and lot, granted by Governor Nicolls 16 July 1668, bounded to north by Anthony Telba, south by Benjamin Provoost. Swartwout has been paid “from the first to the last penny.” Signed by Swartwout, with the remnant of a wax seal on the original Dutch page.
[Since the buyer is Willem de la Montagne, the Secretary who would ordinarily verify the authenticity of the document, it is instead witnessed by Joost Adryaens and Benjamin Provoost.][As of KP 650 1667 April 4, Montagne lived in “a little house and lot in the village of Wildwyck,” leased from Reynier van der Coele. (See also KP 187, KP 458.)]
[Original assignment of lots inside the first, smaller stockade can be found at DRCHSNY XIII 195 1661 May 2. First expansion of stockade, at DRCHSNY XIII 230 1662 September, came with a new list of owners in the original stockade area and a list of owners who had been assigned the “New Lots.” Swartwout is not mentioned in either of these lists.]
[See KP 670 1669/70 February 10, Anthony Tulpa contracts to buy house and lot in village “next to the dwelling of Jacob Burhans,” from Cornelis Woutersen (Cornelissen, Van Sterrevelt). Does not mention other neighboring properties.]
[In 1669-70, the stockade was expanded again, at the direction of Governor Lovelace, and more new lots were assigned. For the purposes of maintaining the stockade (each inhabitant was responsible for a specific section of the palisade wall), lots were renumbered, 1 to 43, and a list of all property owners was put together, which can be found at KP 461-462 1671 May 15. Swartwout now appears in the list, at Lot 8. Delba is Lot 10. Provoost and Burhans are not in the list. (Provoost does not appear in Kingston Papers; the first time we see his name in the record is II:496 1677 December 18, when he is made a council member in Kingston.)]
[See II:272 1679/80 March 3, deed from Elmendorff to Provoost, which says the lot Provoost buys was originally granted to Matthys Roelofsen, who sold to William Fisher, who sold to Elmendorf. In the 1671 list of all town lots, Elmendorf is Lot 9, between Delva and Swartwout. Presumably this is the third lot cited above.]
[Final lot assignment, the third expansion of the stockade, is at II:484 1676/7 February 3-4-5.]
[Probably a different lot: II:434 1678 June 1, Roelof Jansen buys house and lot from Provoost, as Provoost bought from Thomas Quick. House currently leased by Woutersen. Jansen sells to Jan Hendericksen. Quick has a house (or tavern) in town as early as 1675; see KP 536 and first entry on this page. No record of when he sells it to Provoost, or when he bought it, or from whom.]
[Also a different lot: Swartwout II:263-264 attempts to sell another lot to Woutersen, one he bought from Willem Bondt. That sale doesn't go through; Swartwout ends up selling to Nicolas Antony instead.]

II:272-273
1679/80 March 2, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 403
Roelof Jansen has hired himself to Aert Martensen (Doorn), tailor, for 1 year starting May 1, for 243 sch of wheat.
[(signed)] Mattys Mattysen, Hindereck Kip [witnesses]
[(signed)] Aert Maerten Doorn, Roelf Jansen

II:272
1679/80 March 3, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 401
Jacobus Elmendorf provides conveyance (deed) to Benjamin Provoost for a lot originally granted to Matthys Roelofsen “and which by sale through Wm. Fisher is owned by Jacobus Elmendorf.” Elmendorf has been paid “from the first till the last penny.”
[Signed & sealed by Jacobus Elmendorff, with the remnant of a wax seal on the original Dutch page. One of the witnesses is Gerrit Aertsen, Elmendorff’s brother-in-law and frequent collaborator.]
[Original assignment of lots inside the first, smaller stockade can be found at DRCHSNY XIII 195 1661 May 2. In this list, Matthys Roeleffs is assigned Lot 10.]
[First expansion of stockade, at DRCHSNY XIII 230 1662 September, came with an updated list of owners in the original stockade area and a list of owners who had been assigned the “New Lots.” Again Mathys Roeloffsen is Lot 10, but this time, peculiarly, he is listed in the New Lots. William Fisher arrived with the English garrison in 1664.]
[Mattys Roelofsen, known as “the gunner” (konstapel), ran a tavern with his wife Aeltje Sybrants; they arrived in the colony on the ship De Trouw in 1659, with a three-year-old toddler. He had died eight days before DRCHSNY XIII 371-372 1664 April 26, when well-known Hackensack sachem Oratam came to Manhattan to describe how Roelofsen had been killed in a Wappinger village; see also Council Minutes, O’Callaghan, similar description. Fisher may have bought the house and lot from Roelofsen’s estate. (Aeltje remarried and moved to New Jersey.)]
[In 1669-70, the stockade was expanded again, at the direction of Governor Lovelace, and more new lots were assigned. For the purposes of maintaining the stockade (each inhabitant was responsible for a specific section of the palisade wall), lots were renumbered, 1 to 43, and a list of all property owners was put together, found at KP 461-462 1671 May 15. By now the lot appears to be in Elmendorp’s hands; he is listed for Lot 9.]
[William Fisher buys from George Hall in 1672/3 a house next to the southwest of main guardhouse or powderhouse in the stockade; see KP 720, 731. He buys property in Marbletown from Anthony Addison KP 747 1675 November 25. Neither of these transactions appear to be the lot in question here.]

II:277-278
1679/80 March 6 [possibly April 6], Kingston
Matthew Blanchan [probably Jr., backed by his father] has bought from Mr. Gabriel Minville a “certain negro named Pieter whom he has delivered” for 350 sch of wheat and 15 sch of white peas due now, and 300 sch of wheat next March, then another 50 sch the year after that. If Pieter dies before then, Blanchan owes only 100 sch of wheat. If Blanchan is short, he can pay later at 6%; if he sells Pieter, he still owes.
[(signed)] Matheu Blanchan [[Sr.]]
[(signed)] Mattys Blansan [[the son]]

II:496
1680 March 6 [and 1679 May 13], Kingston
“Whereas Henderic Paeldingh, defendant, had appealed to a higher court, [yet he] appeared after the session in the presence of the justice and the magistrates and has acknowledged to owe Mr. De Major the quantity of six hundred twenty eight sch. of wheat which he promises to precisely pay in three installments” in three years, he “Promises to accept the same as a final judgment, without ever doing anything against it.” Mortgage is in full force. No signature. Note attached: On March 6, 1680, the officer is authorized to legally enforce the present.
[See notes at II:496 1679 May 13 above.]

II:273
1679/80 March 8, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 404
[False entry, start of court minutes, made in the wrong book, so presumably the Secretary switched to the correct place to continue. First case was to be George David vs. Jan Waerdt; next was Jems vs. Cool. No customary headers are here to list officers present or describe the session (court of sessions, ordinary court, etc.). Possibly this is a note indicating two cases that will be presented in an upcoming session. This is on the reverse of p. 403, the Jansen-Doorn contract, and the rest of the page, underneath these few lines, is blank. The next page is also more typical Secretary’s Papers, the March 11 contract between Claes Teunissen and Carsten Lewisen. No other minutes remain from a Kingston council session on this date, and no minutes in this collection include a case where George Davidts files a complaint against John Ward.]

II:273
1679/80 March 11, Kingston
Claes Teunissen [van Cler] owes Carsten Lewisen Master Shoemaker at N York 240 sch of wheat, with schedule to pay it. If Claes “should be visited by any disaster whether fire or water,” he shall pay only interest that year. This all devolves “from the purchase of a negress.” Teunessen mortgages “his farm and person and goods” against the debt.
[Claes Teunesen Van Cler signs with a mark.]
[“Master Shoemaker at N York” is added in the margin, in the same hand as the main entry.]
[See III:60 1683 December 24; Claes Teunesen Van Clier buys land at Marbletown from William Fisher.]

II:273
1679/80 March 13
Thomas Harmons contracts to sell to Mr. Thoomas de’Lavall “two gardens and a half” at Hurley for 10 ells of broadcloth; Harmensen will fence it. Harmonsen to provide conveyance (deed), probably right away.
[(signed)] Tomÿs Hermÿs
[Thomas consistently signs his name Herm-; Montagne just as consistently writes it Harm-. Hermys/Harmons appears frequently in KP (listed in the index under Harmensen); he is a brewer and an excise farmer, also a distiller. (He signs his name sometimes as Tomys Hermans Browers, but Brouwer may be a reference to his occupation, rather than a family name.) See KP 531 1674/5 March 15 when he requests and is granted “place for a garden directly back of his distillery.” This may be the “house and lot besides a garden, situated outside the fort, belonging prior to this to Jan Hendricksen,” that he swaps for a house in town KP 681 1670 June 8. KP 701 1671 June 5 he sells to George Hall some land that Thomas got from Ebbingh and De Laet, “a portion of the said land and parcel which said Harmensen has exchanged for the old farm.” This is not identified as being at Hurley, and likely it is across the Esopus; see KP 729-730 1672/3 February 13 when he sells additional land, also from Ebbingh/De Laet, “across the [Great Bridge] between the land of Mr. Hall and Wyncoop,” in addition to a lot and barn in Kingston. From “Jannetie Crafford, widow of Anthony Koeck” (who signs her name “Janken Kraffort”), KP 709 1671 December 4, he buys land “named Berd Manten’s Hoeck,” location not described but see KP 745 1675 November 11, Baertmantis corner, probably same location. None of these identify the location or provenance of the 2 1/2 gardens at Hurley.]
[Thomas Hermansen is not on the list of original grantees to lots in Hurley under Governor Lovelace, DRCHSNY XIII 448-449 1670 April 4.]
[He also buys and sells land in Kingston proper: KP 583 1665 November 25 he is mentioned as a neighbor of Roelof Swartwout in Wildwyck; he also has land outside of the stockade; see KP 669 1669 December 27, and KP 690 1670 December 13 when he takes part in the partnership to build and maintain a common bridge across the Esopus Kill. KP 700 1671 June 5 he buys a barn in Kingston “next to the house of Capt. Baulin [probably Pawling?]” and pays for it with “proof-distilled wine.” He buys probably the adjacent house KP 671 1669/70 February 10 and contracts to sell it KP 676 1670 April 5; see also KP 681 1670 June 9, KP 681-682 1670 June 12.]

II:274
1679/80 March 13
Gerrit Cornelissen contracts to sell to Thoomas de Lavall his lot in Hurley [and his portion in the valley] and a garden for 5 anckers of rum over 4 years. Deed to be provided after payment.
[See II:459-460, 1677 April 24, Gerrit bought land from Jan Thomas (of Albany?) and sold it to Thomas de Lavall. Gerrit is still on the land; de Lavall wants rent.]
[See III:37-39 1683 April 6, further settlement between Gerrit and Thomas de Lavall.]
[Note that Thomas De Lavall is accumulating land holdings in this area; see previous entry, same date, buying gardens in Hurley, and DRCHSNY XIII 447 1670 April 2, when he is granted 40 acres of the Wassemaker or Washmaker Land between Kingston and Hurley.]
[Gerrit Cornelissen is on the list of original grantees to lots in Hurley under Lovelace, DHCHSNY XIII 449 1670 April 4.]

 

II:252-253
1680 March 15
Secretary’s Papers Liber B Page 296
Ed Whittaker contracts to sell Wiliam Leisce/Leeck/Leegh the right to Jacob’s Hook, 600 sch of wheat in 4 installments, deed to be delivered after payment. Whittaker will put up (or repair) fence for 12 morgens, “being the encircling fence.”
[See II:252 1680 February 29, also Jacobs Hook. In the Dutch original, this entry is on the reverse side of the same leaf with that entry. The ink on this entry is very much faded. Each of these documents takes up a full page.]

 

II:274
1679/80 March 16
Jan Tysen [signs Mattysen], William De Majer (signs Meyer) and Mattys Mattysen sign up George Mills to saw for them for a year; they will provide a dwelling. He gets 1/7 of the guilders paid for anything he saws, but he feeds himself; his wages to be paid only from boards that are sold. The owners are obliged to provide him with logs; he is obliged to saw.
[See II:281-282 1680 June 7, new contract with Poulus Poulussen to be the sawyer, to be taught how to do it by Gommerd Poulussen. Mills didn’t work out?]
[See II:262-263 1679 October 25, same principals as partners contract with Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen [Van Sterrevelt] and Pieter Jansen to build a mill for them, apparently at Green Kill.]

II:274-275
1679/80 March 20, Kingston
Gerrit Aertsen owes Mattue Blansjan 120 sch of wheat, which he will pay 4 years from today, at 6% per year.
[See III:18 [undated] between 1682/3 February 17 and 20, marked “settled.” See also III:58-59 1683 December 14, Gerrit borrows another 170 sch of wheat, 6%, for 4 years.]

II:275
1679/80 March 20
Jan Jansen Oosterhout [signs Hoosterhout] and Jan Borhans [signs Burhans] [and Hendrick Albertsen?] have divided their land at Brabant [across Esopus Kill]; Borhans has the land with the barn, as surrounded by fence on the Saw Kill, and the mountain range, till the path of deadman’s bones, all well fenced, and he is obliged to help Oosterhout in building a barn the same size as his own. Oosterhout takes as his portion the parcel on deadman’s bones, the back portion divided with Hendrick Albertsen. Albertsen gets the front part of the land with house and barn.
[See II:408-409 1677 December 26, Borhans and Oosterhout purchasing William Montagne’s share in Deadman’s Bones.]
[See III:34 1683 April 3, when Oosterhout provides a deed to Albertsen dividing Oosterhout’s share. From the description above, it sounds as if the contract to divide the share was agreed before 1679/80 March 20.]

II:275
1679/80 March 22
Willem Jansen Schut owes Gerrit Slechtenhorst 28 guilders in beavers or 21 sch of wheat, due Nov 1. He mortgages a mare called “the gray mare.”
[Interesting exchange rates. Typically 1 sch of wheat is valued at 6 guilders in this period.]

II:276
1679/80 March 23
Jan Focken provides a conveyance (deed) to Roelof Jansen for half a lot, which Jan bought with Peter Jansen from Edward Witteker, to the west of Barent Van Borsum’s. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See II:471 1679/80 March 1, when Focken, shoemaker, and Pieter Jansen got this land from Wittaker.]
[See II:624, 1682 April 3, when Roelof Jansen conveys this lot to Willem Van Vreedenborgh.]

II:276
1679/80 March 23
Sueryen Ten Hout has contracted to sell to Frans Goederis (Coderes) his house, barn and lot, as bought from Jan Gerritsen, surrounded by fence, for 1300 ells of Ossenburgh linen, due next May. House will be delivered on payment; deed to be provided two years from today.
[Additional note:] This above condition has been satisfactorily complied with this June 13th 1680.
[See II:255-256 1679 May 30, Jan Gerritsen contracts to sell Ten Houdt this house and lot.]
[See II:612-613 1681/2 March 2, cascading deeds: Cornelis Fynhout to Jan Gerritsen to Sueryn Ten Houdt to Frans Goderis to William Asfordbie, all on same day. Lot and barn originally came from Sweer Teunisen.]

II:605
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Session held at Kingston, March 23, 1679/80
Present:
Mr. [William] Asfordbie, sheriff
Joost Adriaensen, Const.
Gerrit Aertsen
Benjamin Provoost
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck

II:605
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Capt. DeLavall vs. Michiel De Modt, for 238 guilders
[See II:600 1680 January 8, DeLavall wants 1488 guilders from Mott.]
[See also III:218-219 1681 April 18, Capt. DeLavall wants 1305 guilders from Mott.]

II:605
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Focken vs. Johannis Juriaensen, for 24 1/2 sch of wheat

II:605
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Capt. DLavall vs. Claes Sluyter, for 283 guilders

II:605
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm De Majer, attorney for [his father] N. De Mejer, vs. Michel De Modt, for 1,044 guilders in wheat, 5 guilders per schepel

II:605-606
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Hendrix vs. Johannis Jurriaensen
Hendrix says he hired Johannis for 2 months. Johannis says true, but he didn’t think Mejer would come back. Hendrix says he hired Johannis unconditionally. Court instructs Johannis to serve out his time or find someone to take his place.

II:606
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Pieter Jacobsen vs. Jan Jansen, for 26 sch of wheat

II:606
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm De Mejer, attorney for N. De Mejer, vs. Hendrick Adriaensen, for 16 sch wheat plus 5 guilders

II:606
1679/80 March 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Hall is granted land for a plantation, subject to the Heer Governor’s approval

 

II:277
1680 March 26
Partners make an agreement: Capt. Thomas De Lavall shall furnish the salt at one sch of wheat per sch of salt, “and Henderick Kip each barrel at seven gldrs viz. a fish barrel for which Kip is a co-partner in the fishery, and he is to furnish as many barrels as he possibly can.” If one of the partners wants to deliver fish, “he shall be paid the amount per barrel as the fish has been appraised by impartial [men].” Signed Kip, DLavall, and Wm. Montagne signing for Nicholas Depeu [De Pue].
[Henderick Kip is a master cooper; see II:269 1679/80 February 17, also III:103 1682 April 4.]
[When Du Pue signs for himself, he writes Niclas DuPuis; see II:245-246 1676 August 21.]

Apr-May-Jun

 

 

II:547-548
1680 April 1, Marbletown?
Court Records Volume 5 Page 115
[The following entries were all in English in the original. They appear to be in the same handwriting as both the Dutch minutes that precede them in Volume 5 of the old records as currently bound (II:547 1681 December 15, Marbletown) and the minutes that follow, which start on the reverse side of the leaf on which these are written. It appears these entries do not belong with the pages that go before. It is possible they belong either before or after the session that starts on the reverse (II:548 1680 April 1, likely Marbletown), or they may be unrelated, jotted here simply because it was an available blank page. They do appear to be from the same era, featuring some of the same cast of characters, and written by the same court secretary, as the minutes that precede and follow. So for the time being they are included with the 1680 April 1 session.]

Johan Ward an axion of 28 sch wheat on Chissem
contra Jan Ewoutsen accordin obligation

Roelof Jans in an axxion of the case against Swartwout

[II:548]
Dirck Keyser in an axxion of the case

Jan Bigs by an arrest against Jan Willemsen Teman?

Mr. Hals agnst the same [Jan Willemsen?] by arrest—as a dito
[Mr. Hals probably is Elizabeth Hall, administrator of estate of George Hall, deceased.]

S. Ten Hout by arrest against the same [Jan Willemsen?]—as a ditto

S. Ten Hout by arrest upon J. Ewoutsen by arrest upon Corn
[The last probably means he attached grain of some kind; Corn in English usage at the time means not maize but a variety of other grains.]

[Bottom of Page 115.]

 

II:548
1680 April 1, Marbletown? (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 116
April 1.
[No year entered, no location, no list of officers present.]
[These minutes are followed by a property transaction dated April 1, 1680, from Marbletown. That transaction is on a completely separate page, clearly a different document, following a blank page. These records were bound together out of order, so the date on an adjacent document sheds little light on the date of this set of minutes.
[However, the final item in this session (Mr. Asforbe vs. Ariaen Allertsen [Roosa]) refers to the date February 29, which means this set of minutes must be from a session that took place in a leap year. This collection of meeting notes from Hurley and Marbletown span from late 1676 to early 1682, so the most likely leap year for this session is 1680.
[Since the next document in the volume, as currently bound, is from Marbletown on April 1, 1680, and may even make reference to this set of minutes, for the time being these minutes have been tentatively marked as belonging to Marbletown. Further evidence of the meeting’s location would be helpful.]

Claes Tuenesen [Teunessen] vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker
[Claes] demands 12 sch of oats, 6 sch of wheat, delivered to him.
[Jacob] says having suffered damage on account of [Claes’s] horses. [Record says Jacob’s.]
[Jacob] admits the debt.
[Jacob is] Ordered to pay.
[See II:549, same session, countersuit.]

II:548
1680 April 1, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Bigs vs. Pieter Gillesen, 1st default

Mr. Halls vs. Pieter Gillesen, 1st default
[Mr. Halls probably is Elizabeth Hall, administrator of estate of George Hall, deceased.]

Are[n]dt Dooren vs. Pieter Gillesen, 3d default
[Arendt] demands 42 guilders.
[Typically on the third default a verdict is rendered.]

Pieter Jacobs vs. Arian Gerritsen Van Vliet, 1st default

Wm. D’Majer vs. Arian Gerritsen Van Vliet, “The deft’s first default.”

II:549
1680 April 1, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Jacob [Broersen] Decker vs. Claes Teunesen
[Decker] demands 38 sch. of oats for damage and for viewing [fee for the fence inspector].
[damage on] September 20th 20 sch.
for viewing [[the fence]] 6 "
[damage on] 23d of same month 6 "
for viewing [again] 6 "
[Teunesen] on the contrary demands damage and viewing [(voor schae en visiteeren?)]
[Presumably defendant is] Ordered [[to pay]]
[See II:548, same session, same players.]

[Bottom of Page 116.]

II:549
1680 April 1, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 117
Richard Wisson vs. Arian Gerritsen Van Vliet, 1st default

Jan [Broersen] Decker vs. Ariaen Gerritsen Van Vliet, 1st default

Robbert Pkock vs. Adrian Gerritsen [[This name crossed out in original]]

The same [Robert Peacock] vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker
[Peacock?] says that [Decker?] has demolished his fence which he had kept in repair for years, by order of Capt. Chambers. And says that they had agreed that it was his fence.

II:549
1680 April 1, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Asforbie vs. Jacob Jansen [Van Etten?]
[Jansen] is to make a good gate, and take care that no damage be done on account of the same. And Jacob Jansen is to pay the expenses.

II:549-550
1680 April 1, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Asforbe vs. Ariaen Allertsen [Roosa]
[Asfordbie] says that Arian Roosa and Mattys Ten Eyck on Feb 29 (!) have drawn their knives, and demands 300 gldrs [[fine]]
[Ariaen] denies having done the same, and says not to know anything about it, because he was drunk.
Nicolaes Anthoony says that Arian Roosa, at the beginning of the year [(int voorjaer)], drew a knife.
Egbert Hendrics says that Arian Roose had a bare knife [(bloot mes)] in his hand.
Symon Barentsen says that Arian Allertsen had a knife in their [[sic]] hands [(hadde een mes in haer hande)].

II:550
1680 April 1, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Biegs requests a piece of land next to Thoomas Van Maricken’s.
[This is Jan Biggs; see document that immediately follows these minutes, II:550-551 1680 April 1, where Jan Biggs leases a farm to Willem Jansen Schudt for four years. The leased farm is described as fully developed; the land Biggs asks for here probably is unbroken and will need to be cleared, fenced, plowed and planted.]

II:550
1680 April 1, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Johan Garton is granted the “Caele Bergh” [(Bald Mountain)] for the path, but the path will first be laid out in the best possible manner [(naer de beste gelegenheit)].

[This is the bottom of Court Records Volume 5, Page 117, apparently the end of this council session. It is followed by blank Page 118. The next documents in the volume (starting at Page 119) appear to belong to a different bundle of papers, from Secretary’s Papers rather than council minutes. They have the same date as the above minutes, and they are from Marbletown, and they name some of the same people as the minute above, but they appear to have originally been from a different set of records.]

II:550-551
1680 April 1, Marbletown
Court Records Volume 5 Page 119
Note: Montagne describes himself as “Secretary at Marbleton.”
Jan Bigs has leased to Wm. Jansen Schudt his farm for four years, 15 April 1680 to 1684.

With farm will be delivered:
Four new wheels, between now and harvest time
One plow, with ropes, iron pins and ring
Four horses, viz. three mares, and a young gelding, 3 years old
Five milk cows
With house and barn and fence around the lot, the whole to be furnished clean [(schoon te leeveren)]

Jansen shall pay 60 sch of wheat this year, 70 sch the remaining 3 years. Property to be returned in same good condition. Natural increase, and risk, to be shared. Taxes evenly shared.
“In case war with the savages should break out—which God forbid—and everything should be destroyed,” lessee not responsible, but should do his best to save everything.
Biggs keeps land across the Kill from the beginning of the heights to the Kill; he can dispose of the apple tree but not the fruit.
The land across the bridge has already been sown; it will be returned in seed as well.
[(signed)] Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriffe; Severyen Ten Hout [witnesses]
[(signed)] John Bigges, Willem Jansen
[John Biggs, an ensign, was one of the original grantees and overseers (council members) in Marbletown when soldiers from the English garrison were given home lots and farm lots under Governor Lovelace, DRCHSNY XIII 448-450 1670 April 4-7.]

[Bottom of Page 120 (this document is two sides of a single sheet). Page 121 is blank.]

II:551
1680 April 1 (Marbletown?)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 122
Jan Willemsen has bound himself to work for Claes Teunesen for two years. Claes will pay him 7 sch wheat [per day? week? month?], except during harvest, when he’ll get paid as much as any other hand. Claes will also, in deduction [[op kortinge]], sow six sch of peas for Jan during this spring, and in fall six sch of wheat.
[Montagne signs as witness; no location on contract, but the parties to the contract live down by Marbletown.]
[Jan is doing this to work off a debt he owes Severeyn Ten Hout. See next entry, same day.]

II:551-552
1680 April 1 (Marbletown?)
Claes Teunesen owes Sueveryn Ten Hout 640 guilders in good wheat, payable in two equal annual installments, delivered at Kingston on the account of Jan Willemsen, “if Jan Willemsen keeps alive [(int leeven blyft)] during said time.”
[Claes is taking on the debt Jan owes to Severeyn, in exchange for Jan’s agreement to work two years for Claes. See previous entry, same day.]
[For Jan’s debt to Severeyn, see II:510 1679/80 February 19. Typical exchange rate is 6 guilders per schepel of wheat, so 104 sch = 624 guilders. Additional interest, court fees, or other miscellany may have been added to the debt.]

[This is the bottom of Page 122, followed by several blank pages (probably a modern insert), and then unrelated entries from a different era.]

II:277
1680 April 6, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 415
Hendrick Aertsen, father of deceased children he had with Aertie Claesen [(van wÿlen de kinderen)], gives full power of attorney to Pieter Jacobsen Mauris [probably Marius], at N. Yorck, to collect from [[estate of]] deceased Lysbet Dircks and Dirck Wygertsen as much as children are supposed to receive as inheritance.
[(signed)] Hendrick Aertsen
[See next entry.]
[Hendrick Arentsen, of Almelo in Overijssel, married Aeltje Claes, of New Amsterdam, widow of Macciel Ferre, 11 May 1664; see Purple, Old Dutch Church records, p. 501, entry 14. Why he would expect to receive an inheritance from the people named is obscure. Their identities are unclear; there was a Lysbet Dircks in Manhattan in the 1640s, a midwife, but it is far from certain whether she is the one referred to above. Connection to Wyggertsen could perhaps make sense if Hendrick had married Aeltje Wygerts, but she married Pieter Hillebrantsen.]

II:277
1680 April 6, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 415
Pieter Jacobsen please pay yourself for the share [(portie)] of the deceased [[?]] Abraham and for payment in regard to the account between you and Albert Jansen [Van Steenwyck]. April 6 1680 at Kingston.
[(signed)] Henderick Aertsen, Gerrit Aertsen
[See previous entry.]
[See II:454 1677 March 23 and II:398 1677 March 24, Claes Bording and Pieter Jacobsen demanding 500 schepels of wheat from Van Steenwyck, and neighbors coming to his assistance. None of the nine neighbors who pledge 50 schepels each is named Abraham, Henderick, or Gerrit.]

p. 278
1680 April 7, Kingston
Roelof Jansen conveys to Jan Coneel 40 sch of wheat to be paid by Willem Van Vredenborch for purchase of a lot “which has again been conveyed” to Thomas de Lavall. Payment due Feb 1680/1. Vredenborch is to pay DeLavall.
[(signed)] Roelof Jansen, John Conell, Willem Van Vredenburgh
[See II:624 1682 April 3, Jansen gives deed to Van Vreedenborgh for lot “bought at auction.” This transaction is confusing, and possibly confused. If the lot has been reconveyed to De Lavall, how can Jansen provide a deed for it? Is this the same lot?]
[See II:478 1676 October 19, II:490 1676/7 March 6, II:399 1676/7 March 27; Jansen owes Conell 55 sch. of wheat for something.]
[Jansen buys and sells other property in Kingston, but nothing that seems connected to Van Vredenburg or De Lavall.]

II:278-279
1680 April 12, Kingston
Elizabeth Hall, widow of George Hall, owes Mr. Thomas d Lavall 8,768 guilders received by George.
Also owes “Mr. Gabriel Minville, merchant at N. Yorcke,” 3060 guilders, which is 510 sch of wheat, 300 to be delivered free at NY, the rest here.
She owes this in one year from today. She will keep “the negro child, belonging to Mr. Gabriel Minville,” for 1 year, then deliver to him at her expense.
For all this she binds “her house, barn, orchard, and parcel of arable land across the bridge,” 5 morgens, “a pasture located in the valley,” about 4 morgens, 4 cows, 2 heifers, 2 calves, 6 horses, a 2-year-old colt, a negro wench named Bettie, and a 6-acre parcel of woodland, all at Kingston.
And at Marbletown a parcel on the 2nd piece across the bridge, 10 morgens, another parcel on the 3rd piece, 10 morgens, and the parcel called “Butterfield,” 20 acres, with a lot for a house at Marbletown.
August 15 DeLaval and Minville have a side agreement about payment between them.
[See II:431-432 1678 June 14, inventory of George Hall’s estate.]

II:279-280
[1680] April 20, Kingston
Edward Wittaker has bought from Dirck Hendrix the crop that’s on the land that Whittaker has bought from Capt. Chambers. Not only the crop, but also the lease that Dirck Hendrix holds on the same land, and so Whittaker has received the land, the crop, the whole entitlement, “under condition that Wittaker shall dig through [(doorsteecken)] the Kill.” For which crop and lease Whittaker pays 300 sch of wheat in two installments, one of which is rent to Thomas Chambers.
[Unclear why Wittaker is required to reroute the Kill as a condition of this, unless Hendrix had previously agreed to do so and wanted to make sure his obligation was satisfied.]
[For lease between Chambers and Hendrix, see KP 724 1672 November 5. Original lease, KP 703 1671 October 7, was to last for 10 years; farm was called “Wisquaemsickx.”]
[Contract of sale between Chambers and Wittaker has not been located, but deed for a parcel matching this description, from Chambers to Wittaker, apparently is at III:188-189 1684 April 4. Timing makes it possible that it is for a different parcel; see next note.]
[See II:252 1680 February 29 when Ed Whittaker contracts to sell Hendrick Alberts a corner of land called “the broken-through corner” that Whittaker bought from Chambers, at Jacobs Hook, near Edward Wittacker’s house. Then see III:31-32 1683 March 26 when Wittaker gives Hendrick Albertsen a deed for “the land named ‘de door gebroocken Hoeck’ which said Wittakar has bought of Capt. Thoomas Chambers.” Albertsen then sells to Jan Jansen Oosterhoudt III:34 1683 April 3. If Wittaker does not get deed from Chambers for this parcel until 1684 (see previous note), he should not be able to give Alberts a deed for it in 1683.]
[For digging through the Kill: See for comparison III:67 1683/4 February 21, a description, on apparently a different parcel, of how “a corner of land . . . has been dug through [(dat door is gestecken) from one bend [(bocht)] of the Great Kill to the other: the easternmost portion . . . is situated on the east side of the Kill, as the same has been separated with [(met)] the current of the Kill.” In the Esopus Creek to this day can be found oxbows and meanders that have been cut off either naturally or through artificial channels, leaving rich tracts of bottomland bounded by old river channel or oxbow lakes. This type of geography is common where an ample river runs through mostly flat land; similar patterns can be seen on a grander scale in the Mississippi River between Arkansas and Mississippi and many other places.]
[See, possibly, III:241 1684 August 7, regarding boundaries set by Chambers and Wittaker. This land may be involved (south of Kingston at Wassemaker’s Land), or this may be a different location.]
[De Door Gebroocken Hoeck appears to be distinct from Broockboone Hooke, a.k.a. Breekbeen Hoeck.]

II:276
1680 April 28, Kingston
Thoomas Harmons owes Mr. Lavall 1717 guilders, to pay next winter without fail, mortgaging house, kettle and everything.
[(signed)] Tomys Hermans

II:280
1680 April 30
Suveryn Ten Houdt has been bound by the court of sessions “to behave well,” on penalty of 100 sch of wheat. Next court annuls it; he “Has behaved well.”
[(signed)] Severeyen Ten Hout
[Unclear what the original complaint was. This does not match minutes in current collection from any court of sessions; original record may have been lost.]

II:396
1680 May 5
[[The following is a translation of a loose piece of paper, evidently referring to the entry occurring on page 394 of this record:]]
I, the undersigned Mattue Blansjan, annul the mortgage on the house of Leendert Cool. Acknowledge having been satisfied by William Fisher, this May 5, 1680.
[(signed)] Matheu Blanchan
[See II:394 1676/7 March 1. This loose leaf probably was meant to be inserted at p. 30 in Liber E, with the related record. If this loose leaf was scanned, the scan has not been found. See Secretary’s Papers Liber E p. 30 ]
[See II:268 1679/80 January 27, when Cool contracts to sell to William Fisher a house and lot next to Matthew Blanchan’s; Fisher is to make first payment to Blanchan, to satisfy this debt.]

II:281
1680 May 7
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 423
Jacob Broersen [Decker] of Marbletown owes Frans Goederis “or his order” 630 guilders for cattle [(veesschuldt)] [vees = cattle, schuld = debt], due immediately but Coderis [sic] says O.K. to be paid in two installments, with mortgage on Broersen’s current crop. Not permitted to thresh any more than needed for seed-corn and bread until paid.

II:282
1680 May 9
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 426
Jan Meuwessen has contracted to buy from William Fisher a lot next to William Beecq’s [Beecqman’s] of the same extent it has been staked out at. 90 sch of wheat, to be delivered in 2 years.
[(signed)] Wallerand Du Mont
[(signed)] Wm. Fisher, the mark of Jan Mewesen
[No mention of deed or conveyance.]

II:280
1680 May 26
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 422
Eghbert Meyndertse has hired himself to do the mason work for Jan Tysen’s house, 45 feet x 24 feet, “Klipsteen,” 9 foot ceilings, parapet 3 feet high, wall thickness “in proportion [(naer beloop)] of the stone or 18 inches,” stone cellar beneath half the house, gables as high as the parapet on both ends, single chimney. Middle wall of brick. Tysen furnishes materials and help “so that the mason does not need to wait,” plus food and drink. Work to commence next week after Whitsuntide if Schepmoes is not ready. Payment to Gysbert Wyndertsen [Versteeg indicates probably a mistake]. 185 sch of wheat
[(signed)] Jan Mattÿsen
[Myndertsen/Wyndertsen could be a handwriting issue (the second instance does resemble a w more than an m), but Gysbert/Eghbert may refer to two people, perhaps brothers. (Egbert appears several times in this collection; Gysbert shows up only here.) Someone named Egbert Mynders/Meyendersen/Meyndertsen appears with some frequency in this period in The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 (Fernow), but it is not clear that he is a mason, although he does have a conflict with Andries Andriessen, a mason, accusing him of adultery. This may be a different person.]
[See II:607 1680 December 8 when Mattysen hires Meyndertsen to finish a construction job Cornelis Woutersen had not completed.]
[See II:584-585 1681 November 7, Mynderson contracting to build a cellar for Wallerand DuMont. Eghbert’s will is at III:190 1684 April 9; his wife is Femmetje Alberts, and they have children.]

II:281
1680 June 1
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 424
Dirck Hendricks provides deed (conveyance) to Jochem Engelbaerdt for house and lot, next to Cornelis Vernooy’s, fenced in. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See II:482 1676 December 19, Dirck seeking payment (for something) from Jochem. Note that Jochem’s wife was murdered in Kingston in the summer of 1676; see II:446 1676 August 12.]
[See KP 734 1673 March 30, William Fisher provides deed to Dirck Hendrix for house and lot in Kingston “next to the lot of Cornelis Vernooy and on the south side bounded by Elizabeth Craffordt’s.” Engelbart does not appear in KP.]

II:606
1680 June 1, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary session held at Kingston, June 1, 1680
Present:
Wm Asfordbie, Sheriff
Joost Adriaensen, constable
Gerrit Aertsen
Benjamin Provoost
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]

II:606
1680 June 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Tysen [Mattysen] vs. Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen [Van Sterrevelt], Pieter Jansen, Jan Hendrix, OR
Jan Tysen vs. Cornelis Woutersen, Pieter Jansen vs. Jan Hendrix
[Versteeg note says either is possible]
Jan Tysen says Woutersen crew contracted to build his house; demands they go to work or pay. Court orders them to complete the job or pay what extra it will cost to have someone else do it.
[If Jan Tysen signed a contract for Cornelis to do the work, it has not survived as part of this collection.]
[Peripherally see II:262-263 1679 October 25 when Jan Tysen, his brother Mattys, and Willem De Majer contract with Woutersen and Pieter Jansen to build a sawmill.]
[See II:280 1680 May 26 when Jan Tysen hires Eghbert Meyndertsen to do the mason work for Jan’s house.]
[See II:607 1680 December 8, Kingston, when Tysen had to hire Eghbert Mejndersen to finish the job.]

II:606
1680 June 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court grants William Fisher a parcel of wood land for a meadow, subject to the Heer Governor’s approval.

II:607
1680 June 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Thoomas Harmonsen is granted a parcel of land, subject to the Heer Governor’s approval.

 

II:281-282
1680 June 7
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 425
Wm. De Majer, Jan Mattysen, Mattys Mattisen, co-partners and owners of saw-mill, hire Poulus Poulussen to saw for one year, starting as soon as Gommerd Poulussen has taught him how, at the expense of the principals. While learning, Poulus gets paid nothing, as long as Gommerd is there, but once he leaves, Poulus gets 1/5 of the boards, but all at his own expense. 3 month notice before either side pulls out of the contract. [This suggests that there’s another contract, somewhere, between the mill owners and Gommerd, or maybe that was strictly a handshake deal.]
[See II:274 1679/80 March 16, original contract with George Mills to be the sawyer.]
[See II:262-263 1679 October 25, same principals as partners contract with Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen [Van Sterrevelt] and Pieter Jansen to build a mill for them, apparently at Green Kill.]

III:239
1680 June 16 (Kingston? Marbletown?)
Court Records Book 6 (A & B) 177
[[The following two entries were in English:]]
Copia: I aknowledce to have receved of Jan Joosten [van Meteren] [payment for?] that stucke of land where Jan Joosten’s house nouw stand. Have my full satisfaction receved in payment. I saye receved by me this 16 of June 1680.
Henry Pawling [[sic]]

John Joosten pray doe me these favur as to pay to Pieter Jacobsen or his order twinty skipel of winter whaete in or uppon the next Novemb and this shall be your quttance. your
Henry Paelden [[sic]]
Kingston the 11 of May 1675
[[was in Dutch:]] I accept these above 20 schepel of wheat.
Jan Joosten

[also in Dutch:]
On the back was written:
This obligation has been satisfied. Pieter Jacobsen Mourus [?]
[Typically his name is spelled Marius, although many variants exist.]

[The above English-language entries are copies from an original that must have been shared with Montagne. It is not clear who had the original or why Montagne was asked to copy them into the official record. They sit between the III:238-239 1683 April 25 record of Jan Pietersen beating his wife again and an undated instruction by the Court of Sessions to survey the fence at Marbletowen, followed by the III:239-240 1683 August 7 sale by the Esopus of land in the Lange Rack. The English-language entries are not on their own page; they are run in with the rest of these secretarial records. Why someone would have wanted to re-record these resolved transactions from 1675 and 1680 is a puzzlement.]
[“Stuck” is a Dutch word, also familiar in German, that simply means “piece,” as in a piece of cake or piece of (here) land. The Dutch referred to a large tract southwest of Kingston as the Groote Stuck, or Big Piece. As with other Dutch terms like kill and vly, the word stuck remained in common usage among the English for some time.]

II:282
1680 June 17, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 427
[In English]
William Fisher will pay 235 schepels of wheat to Francis Goderis for a negro woman.

II:283
1680 June 17
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 428
Jacob Rutgersen is leasing to Dirck Keyser his land on the Ronduyt Kill, “viz. his just share granted him by patent,” for 6 years, from late September 1680 to 1686 after crops are removed from the field. Dirck will not pay rent, but in the 7th year he will sow all the arable land for the 4th sheaf to be delivered at Hurley. He will turn over the land surrounded by an efficient fence, up to the tide-dam where “the dwellings of the savages have stood.”
Keyser is to build and deliver with the farm a house as large as the house occupied by Gerrit Aertsen and a barn 25 feet large, tight and serviceable. Whatever buildings he makes will be for benefit of Rutgersen. Rutgersen will furnish Keyser with 50 one-inch boards at Rutgersen’s expense, but Keyser has to deliver them [pick them up?] at Majer’s sawmill.
Keyser will allow Ankerop [Esopus sachem] to plant 4 schepels of maize, and will plow for him 2 days a year, but as soon as Anckerop is dead, Keyser is exempt from same.
[Not clear which land this is. Rutgersen and William Fisher purchase land from Esopus villagers by Ronduyt Kill in 1682, after this contract, II:629-631 1682 June 23. This may be land Rutgers owned previously; see Kingston Papers.]
[Interesting to see the Green Kill sawmill south of Kingston referred to as Mejer’s; it is a joint venture owned by Mattys and Jan Mattysen and William De Meyer; see II:262-263 October 25. The mill is run by Poulus Poulussen. Meyer may have had more than one sawmill; see II:627 1682 May 30, referring to land north of Kingston, at the Platte Kill.]

II:283-284
1680 June 24, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 429
[Up to this point in this Volume B of original Dutch records, the pages have been in decent condition, a little worn and rough around the edges, but still substantially intact rectangles. With this leaf and the next, that changes. This leaf is discolored and much more ragged on the edges. (The reverse of this page is blank.) The next page is even worse, with tears and a few spots where letters are missing (II:284 1680 September 13, Liber B Pages 431-432).
[On the reverse of that sheet (Page 432) is an incomplete entry from the Secretary’s records, and a note added later, possibly in pencil: “September 1759 This is the Dutch Book Delivered by Mrs. Crook Widdow to George Clinton Clerk of Ulster County.” Evidently these two leaves were the last pages in one of the original 22 books of Dutch records that were later bound (evidently after 1759) into the present 11-volume arrangement. The original sequence of those 22 volumes is difficult to discern.
[When these books were rebound, this last, tattered page of the volume was protected by putting 10 pages of what probably was the next volume (starting at Liber B Page 433, 1680 17 October) right after it.]
[Worth mentioning: For whatever reason, Montagne seems to have kept at least two separate books of Secretary’s Records, at the same time. So for example we see this volume with a collection of notes from May and June 1680, and then in Court Records Volume 5 we see another set of Secretary’s Records, also kept and signed by Montagne, also from Kingston. Possibly these were once a single volume, and it was split into separate parts during later handling. It seems more likely that Montagne actually had more than one notebook going at once, and he perhaps entered a new record in whichever book was more convenient on a given day.]
Thomas de Laval provides conveyance (deed) to Henderick Ten Eyck for a house and everything in it such as de Laval has bought from Juriaen Teunissen 26 May 1679 at Albany before notary Adrian Van Elpendam. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See II:270-271 1679/80 February 26, original contract of sale from Delaval to Ten Eyck.]
[See III:61-62 1683/4 January 18, when Ten Eyck trades this house and lot, next to the guardhouse, to Nicolaes Anthony, in exchange for the house Nicolaes Anthony contracts to buy from Swartwout II:271 1679/80 February 27.]

II:553
1680 June 24 (probably Kingston)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 133
[This page is numbered 133 at the top, but it is the scan numbered 134 online. Page numbering here gets tangled.]
Capt. Thoomas Chambers has been fully satisfied by Wessel Ten Broeck for “certain farm, sold by” Chambers, “so that nobody in the world has any more claim against the same.”
[See KP 734-735 1673 April 1-2 when Ten Broeck buys farm from Chambers; mortgage was for 2,000 schepels of wheat, of which Ten Broeck returned 1,000 schepels right away. He received deed at the same time, which ordinarily would come after full payment was made. Farm consists of multiple parcels.]
[This 1680 document is not a deed or transfer or conveyance; it’s just a confirmation that Chambers got paid.]

II:553
1680 June 24, Kingston
Court Records Volume 5 Page 132A
[This page is numbered 132, but should be numbered 134. It is on the back side of the leaf numbered 133 (above). Online, this is Scan 133 (out of order).]
Thoomas Delavall has been satisfied by Gerrit Cornelissen for the first installment for purchase of land, and rent. Gerrit still owes 1000 sch. of wheat, payable according to terms of contract.
[No signature; see next item.]

[Note: The item above and the item below, two versions of the same document, are on separate pieces of paper.]

Court Records Volume 5 Page 134
Thoomas Delavall has received full payment to date as per agreement between him and Gerrit Cornelissen, 350 sch of wheat. Cornelissen still owes 1000, plus there’s some book debt [boeckschulden].
Cornelissen still acknowledges to owe 374 guilders and 30 stivers.

[This is a complicated situation. See II:459-460; Gerrit bought the land from Jan Thomas (probably Jan Thomassen from Albany), owed him money for it, and then Thomassen transferred the debt to Thomas De Laval, who wants to collect on it. Then II:274 1679/80 March 13 Gerrit sells his lot in Hurley (the same land?) to De Lavall. See also III:37-39 1683 April 6, further settlement between the two.]

II:555
1680 June 27, Kingston
Court Records Volume 5 Page 137
Anderies Pietersen provides deed (conveyance) to Nicolaes Anthony for “his just one half of the house and lot [he has] in partnership with Aert Otterspoor.” No further description of location (and no mention of first and last penny). Pietersen signs with a mark.
[See KP 558-559 1665 April 10 and 16, Andries Pietersen (van Leeuven, also Noorman) with Teunis Jacobsen buys from Albert Gerretsen “a barn and stack on the lot . . . enclosed by its palisades . . . in the village of Wildwyck, being a corner lot bounding to the west on the lot of Swerus Teunissen.” (This was the property Swerus bought when Aert Pietersen Tack skipped town and left his wife with nothing but debts; see KP 652 1667 April 9/19.) Not clear whether this is the house and lot intended. No transfer from Teunes to Otterspoor has been found.]

II:555-556
1680 June 29, Kingston
Wessel Ten Broeck and William De Majer, administrators for minor children of deceased Cornelis Wynkoop, provide deed (conveyance) to Andre Lefebre for house and lot at Hurley, fenced, acknowledging that the deceased widow has received payment for same.
[See next entry, same date.]
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[Cornelis Wynkoop was one of the original patentees granted land at Hurley under Governor Lovelace; see DRCHSNY XIII 446 1670 March 30. This deed does not refer to that (the original patent may have been lost), but it is reasonable to estimate that this is that land.]

II:556
1680 June 29, Kingston
Andere Lefebre provides deed (conveyance) to Heyman Albertsen Roosa for house and lot at Hurley, conveyed by administrators of Wynkoop estate. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See previous entry, same date. Heyman Albertsen/Allertsen Roosa is son of Albert/Allert Heymanse Roose, longtime resident, whose fields were south of Kingston along the road to Hurley; Allert was for a time the sole deccon remaining in the church consistory. Heyman is a master shoemaker; see II:257 1679 July 8.]

Jul-Aug-Sep

III:26
1680 July 9, New York
The following was in English: [[a copy]]
By the Governor
Upon Applicacon of Capt. Henry Pawling that hee may have a vacant piece of Medow ground of a bout twenty Acres lying within the bounds of Hurly in Esopus the same adyoyning on the one side To the Washmakers Land and on the other to the Woodland and also a nother piece of meadow land and unimproved Woodland lying within the bounds of Marbleton over against Cock Sinckx [Coxsing] on the West side of the Rondout Kill containing about fourty acres.
I doe hereby certify that I have granted his Request for such vacant lands. Youw are therefore to cause the said Medouw ground and wood land to be surveyed and laid out for the said Capt. Pouwling and make a Returne thereof heither with its buttings and boundings in order To his having a pattent for the saeme.
Given under my hand in New Yorcke this 9th day of July 1680.
To Capt. Thoomas Chamb[ers], Justice of the Peace at Esopus
was signed E. Andros
[See III:54 and III:170 from 1683, Pawling’s work on fences and improvements in the area.]
[Identical document appears at Andros Papers 1679-1680 p. 325 (29:145), a copy also probably made by Montagne. Note the process involved and the other documents referred to, which are not part of this record: Pawling selected the land, possibly made some improvements, and then probably submitted a written request to the Governor, not preserved. (Frequently these requests were made to the local town council.) The Governor’s response is recorded, and verifies the grant. But the Governor also requests that the local council send him a surveyed description of the parcels in question, another document that is not preserved, and then the Governor would have issued to Pawling an official patent, a document Pawling would have kept and passed to whoever bought the land from him, together with Pawling’s signed conveyance and release of any claim to the land. That patent, and the subsequent deeds, would have included more detailed language describing metes and bounds of the parcels. Typically the boundary language is repeated in subsequent deeds; it might be found through some research in the Ulster County property records.]

 

II:557-558
1680 July 12 (probably Kingston)
Court Records Book 5 142
Cornelis Van Borsum gives power of attorney to Henderic Pauwelding [Henry Pawling].
[(signed)] Benjamin Provoost [witness]
[(signed)] Cornelis Van Borsum

[See next entry, 1680 July 18.]

II:557-558
1680 July 18, Kingston
Court Records Book 5 143
Hendrie Paeldin offers as sureties Barent Van Borsum and Willem Montagne.
We the undersigned Barent Van Borsum and Willem Montagne become security for costs and suit [(en het proces)] [perhaps better translation is “award”] in the sentence pronounced between Van Borsum, defendant, and Hendrick Cornelissen, complainant, to pay everything; because said Paeldin [Henry Pawling], as attorney, has appealed [which is why someone has to post bond that the claim will be paid if the appeal goes that way]. And as counter security said attorney [Pawling] pledges all property of Cornelis Van Borsum in this place [Kingston], until sentence shall have been pronounced by way of appeal [(by forme van apel)]. In testimony of the truth we have subscribed to the present this June 18, 1680, at Kingston.
[(was signed)] Henry Pawling, Barendt van Borsum, W. Montagne
[See previous entry, 1680 July 12.]
[Versteeg translates date as June, but July makes more sense in combination with previous entry, and the handwriting in the original is at best ambiguous if not favoring a reading of July.]
[These two entries, on facing pages in the Dutch original, apparently refer to a court case that is not part of the record, either here or in Andros Papers. Commonly the original minutes of a case would be extracted from the record (instead of copied and left in place) to be put together with minutes from an appeal. The substance of the dispute is not apparent from this record. Volume 4 of New Amsterdam Council Minutes, covering the period from December 1678 to September 1683, appears to have gone missing; see Berthold Fernow, Calendar of Council Minutes 1668-1783, New York State Library Bulletin 58, April 1901, p. 32. (A useful synopsis of extant council records from Manhattan, including the Dutch interregnum, is at the front of this article, pp. 3-4.) New Amsterdam City Council records from 1680 still exist, but the records from the Court of Assizes, where an appeal probably would have been heard, have not so far been located.]

III:78
1680 July 12, New York
[[The following was in English:]]
By the Governor
Copia. Upon applicacon of John Ward that hee may have licence to purchase a certaine piece of Land called Cucksing [Coxing] of the Indians propietors [sic] at Esoopus the saeme Lyeing almost Behind Marbleton, Conteining about Thirty Ackers.
I doe hereby certify to have granted his Request and after the purchase shall bee maede before the magistrates a Returne of the Survey Thereof is to be sent hether in order to his having a patent of confirmacon of the same.
Given under my hand in Neuw Yorcke this 12th day of July 1680
Was signed
E. Androsz

To Capt. Thomas Chambers
Justice of the Peace at Esopus

[See III:94 1681/2 March 1.]

 

II:556-557
1680 July 13, Kingston
Court Records Book 5 140
Frans Goderis [signs Goederis] contracts to sell to Bruyn Hage a portion of his lot: on the North Street [today N. Front Street] 2 rods 8 feet wide; 7 rods 3 feet 4 inches long [deep]; “further till the fence, [in the] back, of Henderick Claesen.” From the length “up to the West Street [probably modern Green Street; eventually village reaches west to Washington Ave/Bridge Street]. All the back portion of the lot belongs to Bruyn Haegen.” Bruyn Haegen will pay next [winter?] 50 sch. of wheat, 1681/2, 50 sch the following winter again. Then Goderis will provide deed (conveyance).
[[To which testify, signed]] Matys Mattÿsen, W. Montagne, Secr.
[(signed)] Frans Goederis, Bruyn Haegen
[See II:559 1680 August 18, when Goederis sells the other half [?] of this lot to William Asfordbie, south of Haegen’s portion, with house on it. Sounds as if Haegen’s portion does not include house.]

II:557
1680 July 14, Kingston
Court Records Book 5 141
Robberdt Pekock contracts to sell to Hendrick Cornelisen his land across the Kill named “the third parcel,” just opposite Marbletown, next to land of Claes Teunesen, for 750 sch of wheat, to be paid in 3 years, delivered at Kingston. Deed provided after payment, land to be delivered as soon as grain is off the field.

II:558-559
1680 July 22, Kingston
[Copy of English original.]
Elizabeth Hall has contracted to sell to Robert Peacock and Robert Chisholm [Chisiam] her three lots of land, the one “upon the piece Land over the Kill,” bounded on one side by Jan Biggs and Hendrick Van Wy; the other two parcels “over the Bids just at the Brig’s” and bounded by Fredrick Pietersen.
Peacock and Chisholm will pay 500 sch of wheat, delivered at Kingston, in three payments. After that Mrs. Hall will provide a deed [conveyance, transport]. Land to be delivered in fall as soon as the grain [carne] is off the field, with a sufficient fence.
[See II:431-432 1678 June 14, inventory of George Hall’s estate.]
[See II:560-561 1680 August 26, Chisholm trades his share of this land for land of Anthony Addison.]
[See II:577 1681 June 15 Chisholm adds George Mills as partner in his share of land at Breekbeen Hoeck, but Mills has to pay Elizabeth Hall (rather than Chisholm) for that share (presumably because Chisholm still owes Elizabeth hall from above).]

Will
II:561
1680 August 1 (Kingston?)
Jacob Joosten is at present sick in bed. He leaves all to Gerrit Cornelissen: At Jan Joosten’s 32 sch of wheat, at Roelof Swartwoudt’s 13 sch, and 2 gldrs at Wyntie Roosae’s.
From that he’d like to leave 4 sch. of wheat to the poor.
In Midwout there was coming to him 170 gldrs; he has received on that some linen at Cornelis Barentsen Van Der Wyk’s, in addition stockings, shoes, knives, tobacco. Still has a running account with Jacob Kip; thinks there is still something coming to him, but presents half of it to Kip out of gratitude, because Kip nursed him when he was sick. Owes 6 gldrs to Tryntie Kip. Wishes happiness and blessings to all his friends.
Witnessed Jan Joosten, Johannes De Hooges
Jacob Joosten signs & seals.

 

II:559
1680 August 18, Kingston
Court Records Book 5 145
Frans Cederis [Goederis] has contracted to sell to William Asforbie his house and lot [in the village]. On south the Heere Street, on the northwest side the Heere Street [sic], on the north side the lot of Bruyn Haege. 370 sch of wheat, to be paid over next two winters, after which deed (conveyance) to be delivered. All trees standing on lot are at disposal of Goederis [seller].
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens, Benjamin Provoost [witnesses]
[(signed)] Frans Goederis, Wm Asfordbie
[See II:556-557 1680 July 13; Frans Goederis contracts to sell to Bruyn Hage the back portion of his lot on (today’s) North Front Street.]
[See II:255-256 1679 May 30, Jan Gerritsen contracts to sell house and lot to Severyn Ten Hout; II:276 1679/80 March 23, Sueryen Ten Hout contracts to sell to Frans Goederis.]
[See II:612-613 1681/2 March 2, Cornelis Fynhout provides deed to Jan Gerritsen who provides deed to Sueryn Ten Houdt, who provides deed to Frans Goderis, for house, lot and barn that originally came from Sweer Teunesen, between Bruyn Haegen and William Asfordbie; Goderis provides deed to William Asfordbie, all in the same day.]

II:559-560
1680 August 18, Kingston
Court Records Book 5 147
Teunes Barentsen Cooll agrees to provide Benjamin Proovoost with charcoal for one year, starting 15 September 1680, delivered here at Provoost’s house. Provoost will himself fetch “drie Kuylen Coolen” from the wood [a kuil is a pit; kolen or kool is coal] [[This may mean: Enough material [wood] to produce three pits of charcoal.]] and teach [Cooll] how to burn the charcoal, up to four pits. Provoost will pay 138 sch. of wheat and provide wagon and horse one day a month, and two bags that Barentsen will keep, plus one to be returned to Provoost.
[(signed)] Joost Adryaens, Jan Mattÿsen [witnesses]
[(signed)] Benjamin Provoost, Teunes Barentsen Cooll [unclear, but appears to be only his mark, with his name added to indicate he made it himself]
Additional note: This agreement has been annulled.
[For context: Provoost is a blacksmith, which is probably why he wants a steady supply of charcoal. See II:256-257 1679 June 27, guardians draw up papers to apprentice Johannes Wynkoop to Benjamin Provoost, master blacksmith.]

II:560
1680 August 25, Kingston
Roeloff Swartwout buys 3 negresses from Eduward Wittakar, 230 + 170 schepels of wheat, + 30 more, same conditions as Wittaker bought them, to be paid to Minville, on account of which Swartwoudt frees [(bemydt)] Wittaker [from his obligation to Minvielle]. Wittaker will deliver negresses immediately, with all the clothes he is to receive with them, and with what the negresses possess.
Additional note, 1684 April 5: Conditions have been met, no more claims open, signed Whittaker and Swartwout.
[See II:253 [no year, incomplete], when Whittaker buys these enslaved women from Gabrielle Minville of New York, with record of how they arrived in Manhattan.]
[See III:190 1684 April 5, Swartwout acknowledges he still owes Minvielle.]

II:560-561
1680 August 26, Kingston
Anthony Addison and Robert Chisholm have made an exchange. Chisholm will get for his land, bought from Elizabeth Hall, the land of Addison, as per grant. Land to be delivered as soon as grain is off the field; anything now fallow can be taken immediately. Chisholm will furnish a deed as soon as he finished paying Hall.
[(signed)] Antho Addison, the mark of Robbert Chissiam
[In other words, Chisholm won’t get a deed from Hall until he’s done paying, so he can’t give anyone else a proper deed since it’s not quite yet his.]
[See II:558-559 1680 July 22, Chisholm buying land from Hall with Robert Peacock.]

III:217
1680 September 5, Kingston (Session Court)
Session court held at Kingston in the name of his royal majesty Charles the second, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, etc., Protector of the faith. In the year of our Lord 1680, September 5th.
[Versteeg underlines the 0 in 1680, as if he believes it to be incorrect or inconsistent or odd. He does this sometimes with people’s names when the original includes an obvious misspelling or inaccuracy. Worth double-checking whether 1680 really makes sense for this session. Start by checking the officers present, to see what period would be the right one for this roster. Wessel Ten Broeck and Tierck Claesen are named on 11 November 1679, II:564, to replace Mattias Mattison [Mattys Mattysen] and George Davits on the council; they will serve together with Gerrit Aertsen and Benjamin Provoost. See also II:609, 11 December 1680, when Tierck Claesen appears to be re-nominated; on that date William Fisher is nominated for constable in place of Joost Adriaensen; Benjamin Provoost and Gerrit Aertsen are also replaced as “Overseers.”]
Present:
Justices:
Cap. Thoomas Delavall
Jan Joosten
Ex Justice (Executive Justice?):
Capt. Chambers
Wm Asfordbie, Sheriff
Joost Adriaensen, Constable
Overseers (council members):
Gerrit Aertsen
Benjamin Provoost
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen

III:217
1680 September 5, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Capt. Chambers says that the more the sale of wine to the savages is prohibited, the more it is done.

The court orders that nobody shall sell any strong drink to the savages under penalty of five hundred gldrs fine.
[See, for one of many examples, KP 463 1671 May 15, Chambers complaining about drunken visitors from neighboring Esopus villages, to which the response—yet again—is a decree forbidding Kingston residents from allowing “savage aborigines” to spend the night in their homes within the village. KP 168 1664 October 26 (O.S.) Governor Richard Nicolls forbade the sale of liquor to Esopus villagers, also subject to a 500-guilder penalty. The topic is not new. Without question there were drunken Europeans in the village in ample numbers (see next entry), frequently violent, but it does not seem to have occurred to the authorities to impose a fine for selling strong drink to them.]
[See II:554-555 1679 November 11, details on liquor tax, with a proscription on selling “any strong drink to the savages.”]

The hon. court orders that a prison shall be built for drunken savages and Christians; but burghers imprisoned for debt shall be kept [[gestellt]] in the church, because the loft [[solder]] has been set apart for that purpose. It is ordered that the loft and the stairs shall be repaired.
[That’s one way to build membership in a choir. The topic of a village lockup recurs with more frequency in the coming years; see III:233 1682 September 25, detailed instructions for a prison to be built, next to Benjamin Provoost’s smithy, also related notes about raising funds, III:119 1682 October 25, complaints that prisoners keep leaving custody, III:104 1682 April 4, III:140 1685 August 1, et al.]
[A zolder can be a separate attic, though Versteeg here translates it “loft.” The structure of the 1680 church is not known. Two examples of what a solder could be, one larger than the other, are in Amsterdam at Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ons%27_Lieve_Heer_op_Solder ) and the Anne Frank House ( https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/who-was-anne-frank/ ).]

III:217
1680 September 5, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
The hon. court grants Jacobus Elmendorp the corner of land next to Tjerck Claesen’s fence, till both sides of the path [(tot aen beyde syden vant padt)]. Subject to the Heer Governor’s approval.
[This is outside of town, on the road from Kingston to Hurley, not inside the village. See II:449 1679 December 22, when Tierck Claesen is granted woodland adjacent to the same fence. Elmendorp is son-in-law of Aert Jacobsen, whose land abutted Tjerck’s and was divided among his five children after he and his wife had died.]

III:217
1680 September 5, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
The court orders that every night a guard shall be kept of five men.

III:217-218
1680 September 5, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
Capt. Chambers vs. Hendrick Ten Eyck, Wm. De Mejer, Jacob Rutgers
[III:218]
[Chambers] says he leased a parcel of land to these three, and that they were supposed to plow it before turning it back to him. They agree but say they sublet the land to others, on the same terms.
Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkranz, their apparent subtenant] says that high water prevented him from going to his farm hand [[knecht]]. He thought the land had been plowed. Was willing to agree concerning the same with Capt. Chambers.
Court orders the original three to plow the land or pay damages to Chambers; they are to file a claim against Harmon Hendrix.

III:218
1680 September 5, Kingston (Session Court, continued)
[In English, a copy of the original:]
Granted unto Mr. William Asfordbie a parcel of [valley] land bondet unto his ouwne lands about 25 morgen—upon approbation of his honor the governor. and more eight morgan woods land to build upon.

Andros Papers 1679-1680 pp. 398-399 [29:221]
1680 September [date unclear; received in Manhattan 1680 September 17], the Esopus
To the Right Honorable Sir Edmond Andros Knight Governor Generall of all his Royall Highness Teritories in America.
The Humble petition of Severall of the Inhabitants of the Esopus humbly sheweth Unto your Honor.
[Standardized to 2025 spelling]
Whereas it hath pleased your Honor to constitute Mr. Wm. Ashfordbie [William Asfordbie] to be Sheriff of this place, to the great content of all, or most of the inhabitants, he having behaved himself, in all his concerns, prudently, and civilly to full satisfaction for the good of the place,
And now it hath happened that there is an aspersion thrown upon him, which hath had a debate in the Court of Sessions here, the proceedings whereof your Honor is already fully acquainted with, the same being referred to your Honor and Council,
So that we, your Honor’s most humble petitioners, together with himself [Asfordbie], desire that your Honor will be pleased to take it into your Honor’s serious consideration [(he having his wife and a great charge of children)], and that your Honor will be pleased to give such a favorable determination of it, as your Honor in his most judicious wisdom shall think fit,
And that it may not be any let or hindrance for the future, in his present employ, but that he may be continued in the same, and confirmed in all respects, and in all privileges, fees, and advantages, as any of his predecessors have had before him.
And your Honor’s humble petitioners shall ever be bound to pray, etc.

Signers include Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, John Bigs, William Asfordbie, Henry Pawling, Thomas Garton, John Cock, Daniel Brodhead, William Fisher, Frederick Hussey, Jan Joosten, Heyman Allertsen Roose, Gerrit Aertsen, Robert Bickerstaff, Robert Pecock, and many others

[The scandal affecting Sheriff Asfordbie is not described in the petition, but apparently the issue was that Elizabeth Hall had accused him of being the father of her child. See Andros Papers 1679-1680 p. 437, 1680 October 1, for a note referring “to the Court of Sessions to determine . . . according to Law” the case of “Mr. Wm. Asfordbys peticion, with the Many hands [i.e. the petition above] about Mrs. Halls accusing him of getting her Child.” No further information appears to be available. There is no record of baptism in the Dutch Reformed Church at Kingston for a child of Elizabeth Hall in 1681.
[Elizabeth Hall is the widow of George Hall, the former Sheriff of the Esopus, who had died in early June 1678; see II:431-432 1678 June 14. Asfordbie probably had been named Sheriff shortly after that, though his appointment is not recorded in these volumes. See II:424-425 1678/9 March 18, possibly the first written record that Asfordbie is sheriff, though he more likely would have been appointed ca. June-July 1678.
[See III:218-219 1681 April 18 and III:224 1681 September 8 for more notes from Court of Sessions about this case. The petition refers to the case’s being debated at a previous Court of Sessions, but that record has not been found.
[Elizabeth Hall marries Robert Bickerstaff by 1683; see III:33 1683 April 2. Bickerstaff is not a sheriff, but he does get chosen for a constable.]

II:562-563
1680 September 6 (Kingston?)
Jan Mewesen has obliged himself to work for Lambert Huybertsen for 36 sch [of wheat] per month, until he has earned the 50 sch which Lambert will pay on Jan’s behalf to William Fisher, plus what Mewesen already owes Lambert. During harvest Jan will earn as much as any other hand. Jan’s grain, stored at Lambert’s, is mortgaged against Jan’s obligation; Lambert is surety for Jan in regard to a sentence pronounced at Court of Sessions.
[See II:544 1681 August 9, Marbletown, for older complaint.]
[See III:115 1682 November 22 when Huybertsen attaches maize and oats belonging to Mewesen.]
[See III:128-129 1683 April 24, when Huybertsen again attaches grain of Mewesen.]
[See II:282 1680 May 9, Jan Meuwessen contracts to buy land from William Fisher for 90 sch. of wheat.]
[See, later, III:85 1681/2 January 10, Fisher wants another 240 guilders (40 schepels of wheat) from Mewesen for “conveying him” from New York.]

II:562
1680 September 8
Emasany, “a Wapinger Savage,” has presented to Warner Hoornbeecq a certain parcel of land, about 30 morgens, “located opposite Juffrou’s Hoeck on the eastwall [Oostwall], named Minissinck,” subject to Governor’s approval.
[(signed)] Benjamin Provoost [witness]
[(signed)] the mark of Anesay Komawesav, his wife
[See similar III:131 1683 August 7, grant of land on east bank of [Hudson] river, opposite Crum Elbow and Juffrouw’s Hook in the Langerack (Long Reach), to several people, not including Hoornbeecq. Helen Wilkinson Reynolds in Poughkeepsie: The Origin and Meaning of the Word identifies Juffrouw’s Hook as Blue Point, just south of Poughkeepsie, on the west bank of the Hudson. Crum Elbow is north of Poughkeepsie, below Hyde Park.]

II:607
1680 September 12, Kingston
Court Records Book 6, p. 14
[No standard header with information about who’s present etc.]
Capt. Sthepanus [sic] Van Cortland shows an order of the Heer Governor Sir Edmond Andros to discharge [(ontlasten)] Capt. Chambers, Justice of the Peace, and other magistrates, and appoints by order, conform[ing] to his commission::
Capt [Thomas] DeLavall, Justice of the Peace [Kingston]
Jan Joosten, Justice of the Peace [Hurley]
[Jan, or John] Garton, Justice of the Peace [Marbletown]
Lowies DuBoojs [Dubois], Justice of the Peace [New Paltz]
Capt [Thomas] Chambers resigns and is dismissed, as are Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht], Jan Bigs [John Biggs], Jan Elton [Elting]
[[bedankt von syn dienst: this has two meanings: it may mean “resigns from office” and “[is] thanked for his services,” should then be “wordt bedankt von syn dienst.”]]
[Either they resigned or they were thanked for their service.]
[Up to now, Chambers has been Justice of the Peace for the whole Esopus region, or Ulster County. With this rearrangement, the office is divided, so each village has its own Justice of the Peace.]

II:562
1680 September 13, Kingston
Court Records Book 5 152
Wessel Ten Broeck, residing at Kingston, owes to Jacob Lucena 7,150 lbs. flour, for “a negro sold and delivered to him.” Two installments, March and November 1681, delivered free in NY, barrels to be paid for by Lucena.
[(signed)] Wessel Ten Broeck
Witnesses [(signed)] Jan Focken [X mark], Willem Montagne, Secretary
[See also II:564 1680 October 28, witness Dom. Gaasbeek, Ten Broeck owes Lucena a total of 8,500 lbs., “upon balance of all accounts.”]
[See II:284, same date, similar transaction, same people present, filed in a separate set of records.]

II:284
1680 September 13, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 431
Jan Focken at Kingston owes Jacob Lusena 5,250 lbs. of merchantable fine flour to be delivered at NY, but Lusena will pay for the barrels, in March 1681 and March 1682, in payment for “a certain negro woman, received to [Focken’s] satisfaction.”
[(signed)] Wessel Ten Broeck [witness]
[(signed)] Jan Focken [mark] X made by himself
[See II:562 1680 September 13, substantially similar transaction, same day, same people present, same court secretary, and yet one record was kept in Secretary’s Papers Liber B, the other in Court Records Book 5. There is no clear reason why these would not have been filed together.]

Oct-Nov-Dec

II:284-285
1680 October 17, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 433
[The reverse of this leaf is a November 2 entry about Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, written upside down, leaving the impression that this was a loose leaf added to the volume later, rather than a page in a regular book.]
Moses du Pue, master shoemaker; and Willem Montagne, guardian of Gysbert Van Imborgh, son of deceased Gysbert Van Imborgh, agree: Mooses will teach the trade to Gysbert. Gysbert will serve for 2 1/2 years, from 28 October 1680 to 1 May 1683. If Gysbert takes off for NY to visit friends, he will serve that much longer. After Christmas he can go to evening school.
[(signed)] Mosis de Pudt, W. Montagne, Gysbert Van [[rest torn]]
[Gysbert van Imborch Sr. (sometimes Imbroch) was an early doctor in Wildwyck, with a French wife, a library that was large for the time, and a house near the Mill Gate on the western edge of the town’s first expansion. He died in 1665, and his estate was auctioned off; see KP 571-575. His wife, Rachel de la Montagne, was captured and taken hostage in the Esopus attack of June 1663; she was ransomed less than a month later. She was the sister of William Montagne, who became the court secretary, as well as guardian of Gysbert and Rachel’s children. (Both were children of the Vice Director of the Dutch colony, Jean de la Montagne.)]
[Other master shoemakers in town are Jan Focken and Heman Albertsen Roosa; see II:421-422 1678 April 18, II:257 1679 July 8, among other references.]

II:564
16[80] October 28, Kingston
[In English.]
Wessel Ten Brock “of Kingston in Esopus” owes Jacob Lusena, “upon balance of all accounts” between them, 8,500 lbs. of flour, to be delivered at Strand or Esopus landing place.
In presence [witness] Dom Gaesbek prediankant [sic] in Esoopus
[signed] Wessel Ten Broecq
[See II:562 1680 September 13, when Wessel takes on debt of 7,150 lbs. of flour in connection with purchase of an enslaved man.]

 

II:285
1680 November 2, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 434
[This entry is written upside down on the back of a page with another entry, leaving the impression that it was a loose leaf added later to Volume B, rather than a page in a regular record book. This leaf is followed by a completely blank leaf and then what appear to be more loose documents.]
Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht] has contracted to sell to Pieter Cornelisen [Louw] Cornelis’s 1/3 portion of the first parcel [of Lot 2 across the Great Bridge], which was bought from Hendrick Van Wy, the whole right of Cornelis Barentsen in the first piece. 145 sch of wheat, two installments, doesn’t mention mortgage or deed (conveyance).
[This is apparently Cornelis’s portion of the right to Lot No. 2 across the Great Bridge, formerly owned by Johanna De Laet, who subdivided her extensive holdings into smaller lots and, with her husband Jeronimus Ebbingh, sold them piecemeal. Ebbinck sold this lot to Van Wye/Van Wey; II:241 1675/6 March 10, then Van Wey contracted to sell Lot 2 to Cornelis together with Cornelis Hoogeboom and Hendrick Ten Eyck. Pieter Cornelissen Louw buys each of their shares. See III:46-47 1683 April 20 and adjacent entries for more history and the deeds from Van Wey to Slecht, then to Louw. As is common in the area, the buyers of the property have already contracted to sell it before they have even finished paying for it, so as soon as they get a deed, they sign it over to the new buyer.]
[Pieter Cornelissen Louw is of the Blanchan-Dubois clan, married to Elizabeth Blanchan; see II:250 1676 November 1.]

II:285
1680 November 3, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 437
[This entry is on a single side of a page, with the other side blank. It has a blank set of pages before it, and blanks follow it. Probably it was originally a loose document, rather than a page in a register of records.]
Edward Wittaker owes Suvereyn Ten Houdt 300 sch wheat, in two installments, from sale of “a Negro named Sam.”
[(signed)] Pieter Yansun, Arie Roose [witnesses]
[(signed)] Ed Whittaker
[See III:121 1682/3 February 7, Ten Hout confirms he has received full payment.]
[See II:438-439 1678 September 13, when Edwart Wittaker buys from Jan Hendrix “a negro named Tam Tyler,” for 470 sch. of wheat. Hendrix had bought the enslaved man from Elisabeth Hall, widow of Sheriff George Hall, for 500 sch. of wheat, II:436 1678 August 21.]
[See II:260 1679 August 16, when Jacob Elmendorp buys from Thomas Harmensen and Severeyn Ten Houdt an enslaved man named Mingo, whom they had bought from Louis Dubois, for 1000 guilders, approximately 167 sch. of wheat.]
[See III:54-56 1683 October 19, when Edward Wittakar sells a tract of land to Hendrick Cornelissen Slecht, but retains an enslaved man who has been working on the land.]

II:607
1680 November 11, Kingston
On November 11 the excise was again farmed out, and the decree or order was read in regard to the sale of strong drink to the savages, and that nobody shall sell at retail without a license.
[See II:554-555 1679 November 11 for extended details on the farming of the liquor excise.]
[Note that as of II:607 1680 September 12, Thomas Chambers has been replaced as Justice of the Peace for the Esopus by Thomas DeLavall for Kingston and three others for each of the other villages in the area. (Ulster County came into existence in 1683.) The farmer of the excise will collect taxes on liquor throughout the Esopus area (all four villages). It is not clear who supervises the farmer under the new circumstances.]

II:607
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Court Records Book 6 p. 15
Ordinary Session held at Kingston, December 8, 1680
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] De Lavall, Justice [of the Peace, for Kingston]
Wm Asfordbie, Sheriff
Joost Adriaense, Constable
Overseers [council members]:
Gerrit Aertsen
Benjamin Provoost
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]

II:607
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 15
Jan Tysen vs. Cornelis [Cornelissen] Woutersen [Van Sterrevelt]
Tysen demands 15 sch of wheat, “which he had to pay more to Eghbert Mejndersen” to finish the work that Cornelis had contracted to complete. Court orders Woutersen to pay.
[See II:606 1680 June 1, start of the complaint. Jan Tysen is Jan Mattysen, brother of Mattys Mattysen, both stepsons of Thomas Chambers.]

II:607-608
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 15
Wm. De Myer vs. James Pinneck
De Myer, as attorney for Nicolaes Bajard [Nicholas Bayard], demands 22 sch of wheat, 5 gldrs of which have been paid. Court orders Pinnick to pay.

II:608
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 15
William Fisher vs. James Pinneck, for 241 guilders. Ordered to pay.

II:608
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 16
Cornelis Barents Sleght vs. Elisabet Hals [Elizabeth Hall] (3rd default), for 119 guilders & costs. Court orders Hall to pay.
[This is a peculiar entry. No previous record shows her defaulting on a court appearance, and there is no record of this debt (though it may have originated with her husband, Sheriff George Hall, who left extensive open accounts when he died), and Elizabeth Hall appears at this council session, just a few entries down on the same page, making it odd that she would be counted here as a default (non-appearance).]

II:608
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 16
Wiliam Fisher vs. Isaack Rochel, for 329 guilders
Court orders Isaack to furnish security before leaving town.
[Unclear what the complaint is here, but see later II:575 1681 June 7, Fisher contracting with Rochel to build a barn, and II:588 1681 October 1 a thresh-floor next to the barn. Rochel is a builder and, like Cornelis Woutersen and many modern builders, finds his customers frequently complain that his work was not completed properly, on time, etc. See III:156 1682 August 23 when Fisher asks the council to assign two competent men to evaluate what he believes is inadequate work done for him by Jan Jansen.]

II:608
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 16
The hon. court decides that the Clock shall be hung in the lot of Anthony Telba, and that the bell shall be rung at noon and in the evening.
[See KP 670 1669/70 February 10, Anthony Tulpa contracts to buy house and lot in village “next to the dwelling of Jacob Burhans,” from Cornelis Woutersen (Cornelissen, Van Sterrevelt). See II:272 1679/80 March 2, reference to Anthony Telba’s lot north of William de la Montagne. Presumably his lot was in a central location within the village.]

II:608
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 16
Mrs. Hals [Elizabeth Hall] vs. Melgel [Melger, Melcher] Claes, for 192 guilders. Claes produces counter claim of 18 guilders. Court orders Claes to pay balance.

II:608-609
1680 December 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 16

Kingston, November 14, 1680.
The residents of Kingston have requested the court to meet in regard to the call of a preacher, if the Heer Governor be pleased to permit the same. The magistrates of Marbel stand on and will adhere to their old agreement made in the year 1677.

[December 8]
The hon. court decides that the contract, in regard to the call on a preacher, between the three villages, shall remain in force for eight years, and that the Heer Governor’s approval for the call shall be requested.

[See II:610 1680 December 30, when Jacob Rutgers and Cornelis Hoogeboom are commissioned to collect money to support the church. See also entry immediately below, same December 8 session, about getting Domine Gaasbeek’s salary paid.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]
[This entry, with the misleading date of November 14 at the top, in the original Dutch record falls into the minutes from the December 8 Kingston council meeting. Evidently the petition was put together November 14 and submitted to the council, but the council did not take it up until the next regular meeting, at which time the original petition was entered into the record, followed by the council’s decision.]

II:609
1680 December 8?, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 18
[No meeting header; these appear to be more notes from the December 8 council session.]
Wm. De Mejer vs. Roelof Swartwoud, for 144 guilders. Swartwoudt says he never refused payment. He is ordered to pay.

Wm De Mejer, attorney for Nicolaes De Mejer, vs. Swartwoudt
De Meyer demands 166 guilders in beavers, 23 in sewant, and 4 sch of wheat, “being the third portion according to signature.” Ordered to pay.

Wm De Mejer, attorney for Nicolaes De Mejer, vs. Swartwoudt, for 93 sch of wheat. Ordered to pay, per account.
[See II:601 1680/1 January 8, De Meyer seeking 500+370 guilders from Swartwout, in beavers and sewant.]

II:609
1680 December 8?, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 18
[No meeting header; these appear to be more notes from the December 8 council session. From position on page, it is possible that this note was added December 30.]
The hon. court orders that the balance of Domine Gaasbeeck’s salary shall be paid, under penalty of judicial enforcement.
[See II:608-609 above, same council session, and November 14 petition.]
[See II:610 1680 December 30 below.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

II:609
1680 December 10, Kingston
Court Records Book 6 p. 17
[No customary header describing a council meeting, naming who was there, etc. It is common for Thomas Chambers, in whatever quasi-official position he feels is his at any given time, to dispense with the niceties of an officially noticed meeting with a date and agenda, and instead just tell the council what he thinks should be done about the town defense, the amount of drinking that goes on, or any other issue that comes to his attention. The issue raised here could have been properly brought up at the regular council session two days prior, but that apparently did not suit Thomas Chambers’s timetable.]
[This entry and the one that follows are on a fresh page, in somewhat different ink from the notes from the December 8 council meeting.]
Capt. Chambers proposed that a watch should be kept.
The hon. Justice[s] and the Court resolve that a watch shall be kept by eight men.
[See several times in Kingston Papers when watches are appointed for various purposes, as well as II:478 1676 December 12, a partial suspension of the watch; II:610 1680 December 30, a new watch is ordered; III:80 1681 August 20 a rattle-watch is appointed.]

II:609
1680 December 11, Kingston
Court Records Book 6 p. 17
On the 11th of the same month
A nomination was made for constable and overseers: Was nominated for constable in the place of Joost Adriaensen, William Fisher
In the place of Benjamin Provoost, Gerrit Aertsen, George Davits, as overseers: Tierck Claesen, William De Meyer, Edward Wittakar
[Note that at the meeting three days prior, the “overseers” (council members) present were listed as Gerrit Aertsen, Benjamin Provoost, Wessel Ten Broeck, and Tjerck Claesen DeWitt. Joost Adriaensen was constable.]

II:493
1680 December 14, Kingston?
The hon. court has granted to Hendrick Ten Eyck as much ground on his side of his house as is necessary to build a forge, viz. twelve feet, being the path having run between [his house and?] the old store house.

II:511
1680 December 16, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Court Records Book 5 p. 35
Horly, December 16, 1680
Present:
A. Crypl [Anthony Crispell]
Roelof Hendrix, Const[able] [for Hurley]
Mattys Blansjan

Constables for Horly: Antho[n]y Crupell, Mattys Blansjan
Constable[s] for Marbelton: Thoomas Garton, Gysbert Crom
[The above is unclear. The list of officers present is in a much smaller hand in the upper corner of the page and appears to have been added perhaps some time later. The list of “Constables” might be a nomination for council members for the coming year, or it could be a list, taken at the meeting, of officers present. It is in a much heavier hand, matching the ink and handwriting of the session minutes. It appears this was probably a joint Marbletown-Hurley council session.]

Mr. Hall vs. Jacob Jansen Decker, for 16 or 17 sch of wheat. Defendant admits the debt.
[Jacob Jansen is probably Jacob Jansen Van Etten. Unclear which Jacob is intended here: Jacob Broersen Decker or Jacob Jansen Van Etten. The entry is fairly clearly written in the original Dutch: Jacob Jansen Decker. Mr. Hall is probably either Elizabeth Hall or her representative; Sheriff George Hall died some time previously, though the accounts of his estate are still being cleared through.]

Gysbert Albertsen vs. Jacob Decker, for 41 1/2 sch of wheat. Decker says this was not done legally.

II:512
1680 December 16, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Gooderijs vs. Jacob Decker for 330 gldrs in wheat

Capt D’lavall vs. Claes Sluyter, for 283:15

Van Campen is allowed a revision.

II:512
1680 December 16, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Book 5 p. 36
[The following entries are on the same sheet of paper as the minutes from the December 16 Hurley session, but they are on the reverse side, and the handwriting is different; the petitions for land may have been made at a later date.]
Claes Claesen Roosevelt requests the house lot next to Ariaen Roosa’s.
[See below, same session.]

Warnaer Hoorenb[eck] and Huybert Lamberts request a piece of land near the Mombackus [Mombaccus].

II:512
1680 December 16, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Claes Roosevelt is granted the street between Arian Roosae and the common fence, because it is judged that the same is not needed as a street, and the magistrates and the constable have shown him: Commencing from the corner of Adrian Roosae’s lot, the width to the said fence, and as long as Adrian Roosae’s lot. Further a little further down [(Voort een wejnich in de leeghte)] for the purpose of putting in tan-vats.
[See previous entry, same session.]
[See also III:41 1683 April 14 when Nicolaes Roosevelt and his wife, Hilletje Jan Kunst, are given the house of her grandmother, Elsje Jans Hendrix, in Kingston.]

 

II:285-286
1680 December 20, Kingston
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 441
[This record and the unrelated record on the reverse of the same page are filed here as an apparent loose leaf, but they look like a page that was originally part of a regular book of secretarial records.]
Ariaen Gerritsen has contracted to sell to Jan Gerritsen [brothers?] his lands at Mombaccus, all that belongs to him, for 550 sch of wheat, in installments. Deed provided after payment.

 

II:610
1680 December 30, Kingston
Court Records Book 6 p. 18
[In the Dutch original, this is on the same page with the final notes from the December 8 Kingston council session.]
It was ordered that a watch shall be kept, and that the curtains shall be made efficient [i.e. the palisade wall of the stockade around the village shall be put into good repair].
[See II:609 1680 December 8 council session above.]

II:610
1680 December 30, Kingston
Court Records Book 6 p. 18
[In the Dutch original, this is on the same page with the final notes from the December 8 Kingston council session.]
The hon. court orders that Jacob Rutgers and Cornelis Hoogeboom shall collect the money for the church.
[See II:609 1680 December 8 council session above, entries about calling a new preacher and paying the salary owed to the old one.]
[See II:611-612 1682 February 6; Rutgers and Hoogeboom own property together and sound like business partners.]
[See III:390 1681 November 22, Rutgers again going around to collect church money, this time with William De Meyer.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

1681

Jan-Feb-Mar

II:600
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas)
Court Records Book 6 p. 3
Ordinary Session held at Kingston January 8, 1680/1
[This appears to be minutes from Kingston town council or court of common pleas, held weekly, from which any appeals will be kicked up to court of sessions, typically held twice a year.]
Present:
Capt. [Thomas] DLavall, Justice [of the Peace, for Kingston]
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers [council members]:
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Wessel Ten Broeck
Eduard Wittakar
William DeMejer

II:600
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Capt. Delavall vs. Michiel DeModt
[Delavall] demands of [DeModt] the amount of One thousand four hundred and eighty-eight [1488] gldrs.
[DeModt] admits the debt
The hon. court orders [DeModt] to pay—with [court] costs.

II:600
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Wm Fisher vs. Adriaen Fransen, for 938 guilders, 12 stivers
[Fransen] admits the debt—excepting 234 gldrs which are to be paid next year.
The hon. court orders [Fransen] to pay—with [court] costs.

II:600
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Wm. Fisher vs. Eghbert Mejndertsen, for 138 guilders

II:600
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 4
Wm. Fisher vs. Roelof Jansen, for 465 guilders

II:601
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Wm. De Mejer, attorney for [hard to read: Suowsel?], vs. [Roelof] Swartwoudt, for 45 sch peas, 68 sch wheat
[See III:185 1684 March 28, Swartwout and De Meyer and a warrant dated 1680/1 January 8 for 45 sch. peas and 68 sch. wheat for Wm. De Meyer, attorney to Thomas Suosell. Apparently 1681 March 30 Swartwout and De Meyer met at De Meyer’s house to settle this, with witnesses present.]

II:601
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Wm. De Mejer, attorney for Nicolaes De Mejer, vs. [Roelof] Swartwoudt, for 500 guilders in beavers, 370 guilders in sewant, 13 sch of wheat
[See II:609 1680 December 8?, Kingston, De Meyer seeking 144 guilders + 166 guilders, beavers, sewant, wheat from Swartwout.]

II:601
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Gerrit [Adriaensen] Van Vliedt vs. Jacob Rutgersen (default)

II:601
1680/1 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Lowies Du Booys vs. William Fisher, 30 sch of wheat owed by Machtel Stoffels

II:603
1680/1? January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 7
[[The court records appearing on the first half of p. 603 may or may not come under Jan. 8, 1680/1.]]
Capt. Chambers, in behalf of his Royal Highness James, Duke of Yorcke, vs. Lowies Du Booys
Chambers wants Dubois to pay excise. Dubois says that “according to law, no excise is to be levied at [New Paltz].” Court orders Dubois not to distill until it’s settled. Hose and “helm” are to be taken away from there.
[[“Helm” is the distilling apparatus.]]
[See III:222 1681 September 7, 8, where Louis Dubois, annoyed at having to pay excise tax for his distilling at New Paltz, throws up procedural objections, arguing about how juries are formed.]
[See III:218-219 1681 April 18 for long list of related disputes over excise tax.]
[Eventually Louis Dubois loses his position as Justice of the Peace because he makes so much trouble over whether he’s required to pay the tax; see III:119 1682 October 25.]

II:603
1680/1? January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, or court of common pleas, continued)
[[The court records appearing on the first half of p. 603 may or may not come under Jan. 8, 1680/1.]]
Joost Adriaensen vs. Roelof Jansen, for 269 gldrs

II:286
1680/1 January 17
Secretary’s Papers Liber B 442
[This record and the unrelated record on the reverse of the same page are filed here as an apparent loose leaf, but they look like a page that was originally part of a regular book of secretarial records.]
Thomas Quick has contracted to sell to Adriaen Fransen his land at Mombaccus for 400 sch of wheat, in 4 installments, Feb 1681-Feb 1684. Deed (conveyance) provided after payment. Fransen mortgages “his grain at present in his barn and stack” [rather than the land].
[See II:544-545 1681 August 9, Quick as surety for Fransen, mentioned again III:82 1681/2 January 10.]
[See II:547 1681 December 15, Fransen owes Tierck Claesen DeWitt 678 guilders; II:592 December 16 Fransen mortgages his land at Mombaccus (unexecuted); II:592 December 22 Fransen sells DeWitt for 225 sch. of wheat (~1350 guilders) “his land on the ‘Great Piece’ at Monbackus . . . laid out for [Fransen] and James Pennick.” III:203-204 1682/3 January 9 Fransen claims DeWitt took a mare of Fransen’s.]
[See II:530 1681/2 January 12, Quick wants 330 sch. of wheat from Fransen, “130 of which were to be paid this year.”]

II:522
1680 [1680/1?] January 20, Marbletown (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 53
Marbel, Jan. 20, 1680
[No list of officers present or other headings, but this is the start of a council session, at the top of a fresh page in the original Dutch-language record. See note at end of this session about possible date confusion. There is a very slim chance that this could be a 1683 session, but more likely it is 1680 or 1680/1.]
[Overseers/council members at Marbletown were listed II:531 1679 July 19 as Jan Joosten Van Meteren and Johannes D’Hoogens (sometimes just Hooges; see below, this session). II:466 1679 April 6 Thomas Garton signs a document identifying himself as council member at Marbletown.]
[Jan (or John) Garton was appointed Justice of the Peace for Marbletown II:607 1680 September 12. He had been Constable before; see II:531 1679 July 19, other entries.]
[William Fisher may be Constable in this session; see final entry.]

Marten Hofman vs. Jan Willemsen

Marten Hofman vs. Claes Sluyter, 1st default

Brant Schuyler vs. Paelden [Henry Pawling]

Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] vs. Lendert Cool
[Tierck] demands that [Cool] shall break 2 1/2 morgens of land.
80 sch. of wheat—6 chickens, 2 roosters. [No explanation for this line.]
[Cool] says if [Tierck] will comply with his conditions, he [Cool] will also comply with his.
[See II:540 1681 February 9, same case]

II:522-523
1680 [1680/1?] January 20, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Tierck Claesen vs. Anto[n]y Addeson, 1st default

[Tierck Claesen?] vs. Claes Sluyter, 3d default [no complainant mentioned, but see next note]
[II:523]
Complainant demands 300 sch of wheat
Defendant is ordered to pay whatever Tierck Claesen can prove by valid [[Here it ends.]]

II:523
1680 [1680/1?] January 20, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Souveryn Ten Houdt vs. Johannes De Hooges, 1st default

Capt. [Thomas] Delavall vs. Claes [Claesen] Sluyter, 3d default
[Delavall] demands 139 gldrs. [Defendant, on 3rd non-appearance, is] Condemned [to pay]

Capt. Delavall vs. Jacob Broersen [Decker]
[Delavall] demands 38 sch. of wheat. For Quyn[[?]] 50 sch. of wheat

The same [Capt. Delavall] vs. Addeson [Anthony Addison], 1st default

[Humphrey] Davenpoort vs. Claes Sluyter, 3d default
58 gldrs—Condemned

Hendrick Kip vs. Lendert [Barentsen] Cool
[Kip] demands 60 gldrs
[Cool] is ordered to pay, provided he may deduct what the woman has earned.

II:523-524
1680 [1680/1?] January 20, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Jacob Rutgers vs. Anthony Addeson, 1st default

The same [Jacob Rutgers] vs. Maggel Stoffels, for 21 guilders
[Rutgers] demands 21 guilders
[[This is all.]]
[Elsewhere Maggel is Machtel (II:601 1680/1 January 8) or Machter (II:547 1681 December 15). There is a Machtel Adriaensen Van Vliet in town, not the same woman, and Barent Van Borsum’s wife is also named Machtel.]

II:524
1680 [1680/1?] January 20, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Antony? Van Dyck vs. [Roelof] Swartwout

[[Several blank pages intervening.]]
[2025 note: Two blank pages come next. These minutes probably were taken on a single large sheet, folded over (a folio, similar to the way a large modern newspaper uses a single sheet for four pages). The minutes start on the “front” page (53) and continue on the “back” page (56), and the two “inside” pages, numbered 54 and 55 in the bound volume today, are blank.]

II:524
1680 [1680/1?] January 20, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 56
Thoomas Garton vs. Evert Prys, 1st default

Wm. Fisher vs. Claes Sluyter, 76 gldrs and 6 gldrs = 82 gldrs
[[This is all.]]

Walter Davis? [[Or Danel?]] vs. Anthoy Addeson [Anthony Addison], 1st default

The same [Walter Davis] vs. Jacob Ham, for 224 gldrs
Ham said he paid 30, is ordered to pay 194.

The same [Walter Davis] vs. Lendert Cooll, for 30 glds 15 st
[Cool] says not to owe any more than 9 cans of cider, and 1 pint of brandy. Adjourned [[sic]]
Ordered to pay 24 gldrs 15 st.

The same [Walter Davis] vs. Richard Willy[[?]]
[Walter] demands 35 gldrs
[Richard] says that he only owes 21 gldrs
[Richard] is ordered to pay

II:525
1680 [1680/1?] January 20, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Leendert Cool vs. Claas Slyter, 2d default

Thoomas Quick vs. Claes Sluyter, 2d default

II:525
1682 November 18?
or
1680 [1680/1?] January 20, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 56
Const. Fisjer, Nov 18 1682 has settled with Cornelis Tack, for 6 sch of wheat for his committed mistake.
[This last note is at the very bottom of the minutes from the 1680/1681 council session. Very much it appears to be in the same hand, with the same pen, written at the same time. The date at the top of Page 53 in the Dutch original is difficult to read. It is barely possible these minutes are from 1683. None of the other minutes in this set are from later than 1682. More likely the “2” in 1682 is a misread “0,” and the actual date is 1680. This answer does not completely satisfy: The figure in question really looks like a 2. But it could be a 0, and in the greater context of the document set, the 0 makes more sense.]
[This is no doubt Cornelis Aertsen Tack, son of Aert Pietersen Tack, who has lived down this way in older records.]
[Whose mistake? Probably Tack committed some minor misdemeanor. But see II:461-462 1679 April 28 and II:252 1679 June 4, a “mistake” Fisher made that nobody else is supposed to mention. It is possible Tack’s infraction was to reproach Fisher for this prior violation.]

II:515
1680/1 January 20, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 43
[[II:516: The entries dated Jan. 20, 1680/1 were very indifferently entered and written in the orig.]]

Horly Jan. 20, 1681/0
[No list of officers present.]
[At the II:511 1680 December 16 council session, the officers were:
Anthony Crispell
Roelof Hendrix, Constable
Mattys Blanchan]

Jeremia Kettel plants till the next session of the court. [[sic]]

Harmon Hendr[ix] [Roosenkrantz] vs. Evert Prys
[Hendrix] demands 6 sch. of wheat for baking [Prys’s] bread and for damages
[See II:516 below, same session.]

Warnaer Hoorn Beeck [[This is all.]]
[2025 note: See below, same session, II:516.]

The constable and Mattys Blansjan say that Alberdt Govertsen says that Jan Elton’s son [Elting] said that the pigs [II:516] have passed through Jan Elton’s fence, and jumped over it [(over heen gesprongh)] like cats and dogs.
Jan Elton is ordered to pay 9 sch. of wheat, and the costs of the court.

II:516
1680/1 January 20, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Evert Prys vs. Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz]
[Prys] demands [[wages for]] 1 day’s plowing.
The hon. court orders Evert Prys [[sic]] [[to pay? or accept? left open in original]] 13 gldrs 10 st. and costs
[See II:515 above, same session.]

II:516
1680/1 January 20, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Elting[[?]] vs. Warnaer Hoornbeecq, for 10 sch of wheat

Jan Bigs vs. Pieter Hillebrants[[?]], for 9 sch of wheat

Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] demands 900 gldrs of Harmen [Hendrix? 1st default]

Johannes De Hooge demands 36 gldrs of Arien Fransen.

[[The entries dated Jan. 20, 1680/1 were very indifferently entered and written in the orig.]]

II:536
1681 January 27, Marbletown? (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 97
Jan 27, 1681
[No further information given. Only a date is written at the top of the session, no location, but this set of minutes is in a collection of Marbletown minutes, so the location is presumed.]
[Overseers/council members at Marbletown were listed II:531 1679 July 19 as Jan Joosten Van Meteren and Johannes D’Hoogens (sometimes just Hooges; see below, this session). II:466 1679 April 6 Thomas Garton signs a document identifying himself as council member at Marbletown.]
Capt [Thomas] Delavall vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker, 1st default

[prob. Capt. Delavall vs.] Anthoy Addeson, 2d default

[prob. Capt. Delavall vs.] Robbert Chissam, 1st default

Onfer [Humphrey] Davenpoort vs. Jeremias Kettel, 1st default, 61 gldrs

[prob. Humphrey Davenport vs.] Anthoy Addeson, 1st default

[prob. Humphrey Davenport vs.] Warnaer Hoornbeecq, 1st default
Complainant demands 10 sch. of oats.
Warner admits the debt.
Ordered [to pay].
[[The above is an exact translation and copy of the original.]]

II:537
1681 January 27, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Wever vs. Arien Gerrits, 1st default

[prob. Jan Wever vs.] William Schut, 1st default

[prob. Jan Wever vs.] Jeremias Kettel, 1st default

II:537
1681 January 27, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Brant Schuyler vs. Hendrie Pauldingh [Henry Pawling]
[Brant] demands, as per obligation, 50 gldrs 17 st., to be paid in two installments: 40 sch [[sic]] this year, the balance in the year 1680/2 [[sic]]
[Pawling] demands a copy of the declaration

Brant Schuyler vs. Teunes Castensen, for 206 gldrs

Brant Schulyer vs. Derrick [no further information]

II:537
1681 January 27, Marbletown? (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Fisher vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker, for 221

The same [William Fisher] vs. Jan Broersen [Decker], for 144 gldrs, 15 st.

II:603
1680/1 February 8, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Session, held at Kingston, February 8, 1680/1
Present:
Capt [Thomas] DLavall, Justice
T. Claesen [Tjerck Claesen DeWitt]
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittaker
Wm DMeyer

II:603
1680/1 February 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Hamel [John Hamble] vs. William Fisher, for payment for 78 boards, 3 guilders each

II:603
1680/1 February 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court orders guardians for estate of Cornelis Wynkoop to make out the accounts by next spring, and to pay to Mooses Du Pue his just share
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[Moses is married to Maria Wynkoop, one of the heirs.]
[See III:221 1681 April 27, Moses requests that the guardians divide up the shares and give him and his wife Maria Wynkoop what is theirs.]
[See III:11-12 1682/3 February 6, detailed description of lot and house in town, with a shared cistern, that he and Maria will have.]
[See II:620-621 1682 March 31, Mooses gets deed to land and acknowledges this is his whole share.]

II:603
1680/1 February 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frederick Hossy demands payment for caring for the path, 70 sch of wheat in 3 years

 

II:537-538
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 99
Marbleton, Feb. 9, 1681
[No further information given.]
[Overseers/council members at Marbletown were listed II:531 1679 July 19 as Jan Joosten Van Meteren and Johannes D’Hoogens (sometimes just Hooges; see below, this session). II:466 1679 April 6 Thomas Garton signs a document identifying himself as council member at Marbletown.]

Thoomas Delavall pl[aintiff?][[sic]]
Johan Cock [Cool?] vs. Jeremia Kettel
[Versteeg note: These records were very indifferently kept]
[II:538]
Complainant demands 6 sch of wheat for thatch-reed, 2 sch of wheat for viewing the fence.
[Kettel] says he did not contract for thatch-reed
Complainant says that [Kettel] bought the straw.
[Judgment delayed until the] Next court.

II:538
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Marten Hofman vs. Jan Ewoutsen [[?]], 1st default

The same [Marten Hofman] vs. Albert Govertsen, 1st default

[Prob. again Marten Hofman] vs. Claes Sluyter, 3d default, 600 gldrs, condemned [to pay]

[Prob. again Marten Hofman] vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker
Complainant demands 119 gldrs
119
–42 for 1 bag 12 gldrs
77 total [[sic]]
[Decker] says having paid 7 sch on the same.
Condemned [to pay; amount not stated]

The same [Prob. again Marten Hofman] vs. Teunes Jacobsen
Complainant demands 303 gldrs. On this there has been received some brew corn [(brouw Coorn)].
[Jacobsen] demands an itemized bill
[Judgment delayed until the] Next session.

II:538
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Thoomas Garton vs. Jan Broersen [Decker] and Jacob Broersen [Decker]
[Garton] demands 262 sch. of wheat and 2 gldrs
Defendants say that they owe 70 sch [[crossed out]] for rent of land. 85 sch. Whereof has to be deducted for Jacob Broersen 121 gldrs, for Jan Broersen 93 ".
In the case of Jan Broersen it is ordered that Jan Broersen shall . . . the balance of [[This is all.]]
The hon. court orders that Jan Broersen shall pay the balance of the rent for the land. Also what Jacob Broersen owes privately for himself privately. [[sic]]
And all that which Jan Broersen owes privately each shall pay privately.

II:539
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Thoomas Garton vs. Pieter Hillebrants

[Thoomas Garton vs.] Arian Fransen, 1st default

[Thoomas Garton vs.] Claes Sluyter, 1st default (daily wages)

II:539
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Evert Prys vs. Claes Sluyter, 1st default

Evert Prys vs. Pieter Hillebrants

[Evert Prys vs.] Dirck Kyser
Complainant demands 8 sch of wheat. Still [in addition] 4 sch. for Mrs. Hals [Elizabeth Hall].
[Kyser] admits 8 sch., but has paid Mrs. Hals.

[For the three cases above, see also II:520 1680/1 February 23, in Hurley, Evert Price against the same three men, and further notes there.]

II:539
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Thoomas Harmons vs. Jan Ewouts, 2d default

[Thoomas Harmons vs.] A[l]bert Goverts[en], 2d default

Arien[[?]] Frans[[?]] vs. Claes Slyter, 2d default

Onfer [Humphrey] Davenport vs. Melger Claes, for 91 gldrs

[Humphrey Davenport vs. Robbert Chissam?]

II:539-540
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Gerrit[[?]] Gysberts vs. Peter Hillebrants, for 26 sch. of wheat

Isack Rochel vs. Jacob D’losse, 1st default

II:540
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Tierck Claes [DeWitt] vs. Lendert Cool
[Tjerck] demands that [Cool] shall break two and a half morgens.
The hon. court refers parties to [[here it breaks off]][possibly refers them to “two good men” to examine the contract and recommend a resolution]
The hon. court orders Cool to properly break as much land at the proper time, in May next.
[See II:522, same case.]

II:540
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goders vs. Claes Tuenesen

[Frans Goders vs.] [Robert] Pekock, 1st default

[Frans Goders vs.] Leendert Cool
Complainant demands 53 sch. of wheat, as attorney for Abraham Schuyler
[Cool] admits the debt, but not so much, but . . .
Schuyler 6 sch

[Frans Goders vs.] Jan Ewouts, 1st default

II:540
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Joost Adriansen vs. Jacob Losjer, 1st default

Hendrick Boogart vs. Dirck Kyser, 1st default

Bram Schuyler [prob. Frans Goderis; see above where he is attorney for Abraham Schuyler, same session] demands 25 sch. of wheat
[Defendants possibly:]
George Porter, Albert Goverts
Admits the debt.

[maybe again Bram Schuyler, Frans Goderis vs.] J. Slyter

II:541
1681 February 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Johans DeHogis vs. Claes Sluyter, 2d default

William Wood vs. Jacob D’losjer, for 12 sch of wheat

[Prob. again William Wood vs.] Claes Slyter, 1st default

[Humphrey] Davenpoort vs. [Robert] Chissam [Chisholm?]
[Davenpoort] demands £4-10 sch-6 pence to be delivered free at [New] Jorck
[Chisholm] admits the debt

Melger Plant[[?]]
James Pennick[[?]] 1st default
Jacob [Broersen] Decker, 1st default

Robbert Pekock vs. James[[?]] Pennick, 1st default

II:563
1680/1 February 18 (Kingston?)
Jan Louwersen has contracted to sell to Severeyn Ten Houdt his house and lot, where he [Jan?] is living, for 600 sch of wheat, to be paid in 2 installments, Feb 1681 and 1682, after which deed (conveyance) will be provided. Includes everything fixed to ground and fastened by nail, “excepting the iron stove.” House to be delivered next May. Mattys Mattysen and Wm. Montagne are sureties.
Jan Louwersen signs with mark (nuclear symbol); Severyen Ten Hout signs himself.
[See II:422-423 1678 April 18, when Louwersen gets the deed for house and lot in Kingston from Johan Coly.]
[See III:18 1682/3 February 17, when Louwerse provides deed to Severyn Ten Houdt for house and lot next to Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz]; Severyn flips it immediately to Gabriel Minvielle of New York.]

 

II:516
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Horly Feb. 23, 1681
Court Records Volume 5 Page 47
[No list of officers present.]
[This set of minutes goes on for several pages in Versteeg, probably not in the original order from the Dutch record. The original minutes appear in Court Records Volume 5, bound into the volume as pp. 47-48-49-50. These four pages originally would have been a single sheet of paper, folded in half. It appears the secretary started the meeting on what is now Page 47 (the “front” page of the folded sheet), then continued on Page 50 (the “back” page), and concluded the notes on Page 48 (the first “inside” page), finishing 2/3 of the way down the page. Page 49 (the facing “inside” page) is blank. Working from the bound volume, Versteeg translated straight through, 47-48-[empty 49]-50.]
[Dutch original order is restored below.]

Anthony Addeson vs. Claes Teunesen (1st default)

The same [Anthony Addison] vs. Hendrick Cornelis, for 2 1/2 sch of wheat

Francis Cooyn? (1st default)
Jacobs Hoon? (1st default)
Hendrick Jansen
Compl[ainant] demands 12 gldrs as per appraisement.
[[This is the way it appears in the original. First two names hard to make out.]]
[2025 note: The complainant in all of these, including the next few items, is probably Anthony Addison. Typically council sessions start with a set of fines and minor infractions, with the local constable or sheriff listed as complainant, before suits between residents begin. There is no indication in this record that Addison is an officer of the court.]

II:517
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
[No complainant listed; see note above.]
Adrian Frans, 1st default
Claes Sluyter, 1st default
Gerrit Decker, 1st default
[[This is the way these appear in the original.]]

Annetie Andries vs. Jan Broersen [Decker], for 33 gldrs; he admits 4 1/2 sch of wheat [27 guilders]

[Possibly Annetie Andries again vs.] Jacob Decker. The compl[ainan]t demands 72 gldrs for wages earned in harvesting [(bouwgelt)].
Def[endan]t admits the debt.
[[The record does not say more in regard to this.]]
[2025 note: Complainant is not named, but a long line on the page suggests it may be the same as in the case that precedes it. It is common for a worker to demand wages owed from an employer; it is unexpected for a woman te demand wages earned in harvesting. Versteeg interprets Jacob Decker as the complainant, with an unnamed defendant.]

William Wo[o]d vs. Jan [Broersen] Decker, for 48 sch of wheat

[Probably Wood again] vs. Jacobs Horne (2nd default)

II:517
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Aertsen vs. Hendrick Paelden [Henry Pawling]
[Aertsen] says that he worked 21 days for Paelding. Jan Waerdt [sic] denies having received anything.

II:517
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Sueryn Ten Hout vs. Jacob de Looper (1st default)
[A “Looper” is a runner; this may be someone whose name is Looper, or it could be Jacob who is the court messenger or a runner of some other type.]

II:517
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
William De Majer vs. William Jans Schut, Jacob Broersen, Jan Broersen [Decker]
[De Majer] demands hundred six sch. [of wheat?] of which 30 sch. have been paid.
[Defendants] admit the debt.

[Probably de Mayer again] vs. Jan Euwoutsen, for 5 sch of wheat.

II:518
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Onfre [Humphrey] Davenpoort vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker, for 34 gldrs.

[Onfre [Humphrey] Davenpoort vs.] Jacob Bastiaansen (1st default)
[Onfre [Humphrey] Davenpoort vs.] Gerrit [Broersen?] Decker (1st default)

[unclear whether these are defendants and the complainant has gone unnamed]

Marten Hofman vs. Jan Ewoutsen, for 158 gldrs 10 st.

[This is the bottom of Page 47 in the original Dutch record. The minutes, as originally entered, continue on Page 50, then finish on Page 48 (Page 49 is blank). Versteeg translates 47-48-[blank 49]-50 instead of 47-50-49, as originally entered.]
[Original order restored below.]

II:519
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 50
Jan Mewesen vs. Marten Hofman, for 60 sch of wheat.
Hoffman demands an account.

Nicolas Antony vs. Jacob Broersen [Decker], for 286 gldrs.

Frans Goderis vs. Robbert Peekock

??? vs. Claes Teunesen, 2nd default

??? vs. Jan Ewoutsen, for 203 [no further words]. Condemned [to pay]

??? vs. Anthohj Addesen [Anthony Addison]
Complainant demands 241 gldrs, as per mortgage.
Declares 72
Total 179
Condemned [to pay]
[[These are exact copies and translations.]]

II:520
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Paelden [Henry Pawling?]
Complt demands, as per an obligation

Evert Prys vs. Claes Sluyter (2d default), Dirck Kyser (2d default), Pieter Hillebrants
[See below; see also II:528 1682 March 3. This complaint appears to repeat a case (or cases) Price brought in Marbletown II:539 1681 February 9.]

Mr. Paeldin [Henry Pawling] and Jacob Rutgers—good men.
[See reference near end of session, II:519, to the decision of the “good men” assigned to arbitrate the Hillebrants case. The minutes make it appear that Hillebrants is named in the case above, brought by Evert Prys, but the notes do not offer details on either case.]

Garton vs. Gorse Porter (1st default)

Walter Danil vs. Lendert Cool (1st default)

[Probably again Walter Danil vs.] Jan Van Campen (1st default)
[Probably again Walter Danil vs.] Dirck Kyser (1st default)
[Probably again Walter Danil vs.] Robbert Peekock, Jacob Decker, Jan Cool, Jeremia Ketel (2d default)

Jeremia Ketel, complainant, default
[Something is confused here; Ketel’s complaint is listed in the block of defendants from the case above, and the next three lines are crossed out.]

Melger Claes, Claes Slyter?, 2d default

Joost Adriaensen, Adriaen [Gerritsen] Van Vliet, 1st default
[Adriaen Gerritsen Van Vliet has several children (Dirck Adriaensen, Jan Adriaensen, Aegje Adriaensen, Gerrit Adriaensen, Machtel Adriaensen), but Joost does not appear to be part of his family.]

Unfer [Humphrey] Davenport vs. Willem Schut
[Humphrey] demands 30 gldrs—yet [in addition] 7 sch. of wheat
The balance has to be proved at the next session of the court.

Wm. Fisser vs. Robbert Chissam, 1st default

[This is bottom of Page 50 in original records. Minutes from this session continue on Page 48.]

II:518
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 48
[William] Beeckman vs. Gorge Porter [[or Proctor?]]
Attached, under the hands of Paelden, 15 sch of wheat

[William] Beeckman vs. Gorge Porter
Under the hands of Gerrit Adriansen—Jan Ariese? shall appear

Brant [no other name mentioned in original] vs. Gorge Porter, for 30 sch. of wheat, in the possession of Addeson

Aerey? Van Dyck vs. [no name given], 1st default

Roelof Swartwout, 2nd default

Wolter Daniel, complainant [no case or defendant indicated]

Brant Schuyler vs. Albert Govertsen, for 51 gldrs

II:519
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Cornelis vs. Jan Elton [Elting], 1st default

Hendrick Jansen vs Claes Teunisen, 1st default

The good men find that there is still coming to Hillebrants the amount of 28 gldrs.
[Typically when a case is too complicated for the council to determine, the parties are referred to “good men,” third parties, like arbitrators, who can sort through the records and the issues and come up with a recommendation. The recommendation of the “good men” is then sometimes entered in the court record. In this case, no prior dispute is logged—only the recommendation of the good men.]
[See Evert Prys vs. Pieter Hillebrants earlier in this session, but no argument is described.]
[See II:528 1682 March 3, when Price still owes 28 guilders.]

Willem Schut vs. Teunus Jacobsen, 1st default

Marten Hofman vs. Jan Willemsen, at [Marbletown], for 28 1/2 sch. of wheat.
Willemsen is condemned to pay, owing to 3rd default.

[This is the last entry on Page 48 of the original record, and the end of this council session.]

II:521
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
[This set of minutes goes on for several pages, and appears to include notes from multiple sessions, not in order.]

Mooses DuPue vs. Teunus? Carsen, for 130 gldrs
Ordered to pay while the court sits (in de court daegen)

Thoomas Garton vs. Jan Arien, 1st default

Thoomas Garton vs. Evert Prys, 3d default
89 gldrs—Condemned [to pay]

Cornelis Hoogeboom—Robbert Chissam, 1st default
[Hoogeboom] demands 74 gldrs 10 st.

Jan Cock vs. Jeremia Kettel, 1st default

William Woods vs. Melger Claes, for 96 gldrs. Claes admits debt, less 3 gldrs; ordered to pay within 14 days.

??? vs. Jacob Broersen [Decker]
Complainant demands 112 gldrs
[Broersen admits?] owing 16 sch of wheat [96 guilders] and 1 gldr
Ordered to pay within 14 days.

Jan Wood vs. Thomas Quick
[Wood] demands 9 sch. of wheat on account of (wegens) Michiel Garton
[Quick] says if Michiel Garton will set his hand (syn handt geeft), then he is willing to pay the same

II:522
168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
[This set of minutes goes on for several pages, and appears to include notes from multiple sessions, not in order.]

Marten Hofman vs. Teunessen
[Hoffman] demands 8 sch of wheat.
[Parties] Are to settle with each other.

Albert Govertsen (defendant), 1st default

Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] vs. Addeson [Anthony Addison], 2d default
[See below, same page: Is this an entry from a later council session?]

Lendert Cooll, 2d default
[See below, same page, Tierck Claesen vs. Lendert Cool]

Mr. Joseph Parre? requests the woodland near Mr. Paling’s (dicht by Mr. Palings)

II:566
1680/1 February 19 (Kingston?)
Dirck Jansen Schepmoes has contracted to sell to Jan Louwersen a lot “named the ‘Calf’s pasture,’ with which lot Dirck Jansen is to deliver a stone pit (stene pudt).” 250 sch of wheat, 100 next winter and 150 the following winter. Then Schepmoes will deliver the pit “with the structures (staende werck) in the summer following,” with the deed (transfer), “but the lot is to be delivered immediately.”
[See II:267 1679/80 January 2 when Teunis Jacobsen sells to Gerrit Lambertsen his land at Steen Rabi, excepting half of the calf pasturage.]
[See II:582-583 1681 September 1, where estate of Maria Wynkoop leases to Thomas Quick about 14 morgen at the “Rondeeltie,” as far as the fence extends to the well and the Calf’s Pasture.”]

II:565
1680/1 February 24, Marbletown
Thoomas Quinel provides deed (conveyance) to Gerrit Lambertsen for parcel of land on third piece, named No. 12, [which he owns] by virtue of a deed granted by Gov. Lovelace, 1670 April 18. Satisfied from first to last penny.
Witnessed Anthoine Crespel, Lambert Huybertsen (with mark)
Signed Tho. Quynell

II:565-566
1680/1 February 26 (Kingston?)
Willem Jacobsen “is again transferring to Tuenes Jacobsen the land bought of Gerridt Lambertsen, viz. that, named, Steen Rabie [Steen Arabie].” Teunes to comply with conditions [of contract of sale], but Willem has advanced to Teunes 400 sch of wheat, to pay in four years, each year 1/4, with 6% interest every year, payable at Kingston. Land is mortgaged until it’s paid for and Willem is released from first purchase.
Without prejudice to Thoomas Quick’s lease, who shall stay out his lease.
[Additional note, which Versteeg describes as “in english, poorly written”:]
December 30, 1684. I, An Garton do obliedge myself . . . to pay the sum of four hundred seaventy and five skeples of good marchantable winter wheat unto William Jacobs,” having bought the land from Teunes.
Signed & sealed by Ann Garton
verified by John Mar [Ward?], clerk
[See II:567-569 1680/1 March 19 below; Anna Nottingham, widow of William Nottingham, married Thomas Garton; this is probably Ann Garton.]

II:604
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Present: Capt. DLavall, Justice; Tierck Claesen, Wessel Ten Broeck, William De Mejer, Edward Wittakar

II:604
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisjer vs. Claes Sluyter, for 50 guilders

II:604
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Claes Sluyter, for 209 guilders

II:604
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Matthias Blansjan vs. William De Mejer, for damage caused to garden, 12 guilders

II:604
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Hoogeboom vs. Isaack Rochell, for 160 guilders

II:604
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Cornelis Hoogeboom, for 84 sch of wheat, for the purchase of Rum. Court orders barrels to be gauged.

II:604
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
[Versteeg note: Two entries have been omitted here which have been inserted on page 64 of Volume III]

[ BREAK IN SEQUENCE. The following notes were inserted, per Versteeg instruction, from Vol. III of his MS translations. ]

III:64
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Bigs vs. Thoomas Quick, for 7 sch. of wheat

III:64
1680/1 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Montagne, farmer [of the liquor excise, i.e. tax collector] vs. Johanna Davits
[Montagne] says that [Davits] has smuggled rum, contrary to the conditions of the farm [the system for collecting taxes on liquor]—which he proves. Therefore demands the liquor, found, besides five times its value.
Regarding the litigation between Wm. Montagne, farmer, and Johanna Davits, the hon. court decrees: Whereas some rum has been found which has been proved not to have been declared by Johanna Davits to the farmer, [therefore she] is ordered to pay twenty sch. of wheat, and as much rum as has been found—with costs.

[ RETURN TO SEQUENCE ]

 

II:512-513
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session)
[2025 note: Minutes for 1680/1 Jan 20 start on II:515; minutes for 1681 Feb 23 start on II:516. Pages may be out of order, and not all entries below may appear in the correct council session. March 10, 1680, was a Sunday. March 10, 1681, was a Monday. February 23, 1681, was a Sunday. January 20, 1681, was a Monday.]
Horly, March 10, 1680[/81]
[No list of officers present.]

Mr. Asford[bie] vs. James Pinick (1st default)

Mr. Nottinghans (Nottingham) vs. Pieter Hillebrant, Quick (1st default for both)

Jan Gerritsen vs. Adriaen Vledt, for 12 sch of wheat for which he is surety.

Cornelis Woutersen [Cornelissen] vs. Gerrit Cornelis

II:513
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Dmajer vs. Antho[n]y Addeson (3rd default)
[De Mayer] demands as per mortgage 228 Schepels
As per obligation 6 "
As per book debt 9 1/2 "
[ordinarily at the third default, the judgment is entered]

II:513
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. D’Mejer vs. Gerrit [Adriaensen] Van Vledt
[De Meyer] demands 410 gldrs 14 st.
[Gerrit] admits the debt.
Also 15 sch of peas for a hat.
[Gerrit] says he bought the hat under condition that the same was to be good (dselve most goedt wesen).

II:513
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Wouters vs. Thomas Qujnel
Whereas Cornelis Woutersen [also goes by Cornelissen, a carpenter] cannot prove that Qujnel is indebted to him; therefore Cornelis Woutersen shall pay all the expenses of the constable, besides daily wages [dachhuur] of Quynel.

II:513-514
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Fisher vs. Hendrick Jansen, for 79 gldrs 15 st

The same [Wm. Fisher] vs. Jan Gerritsen, for 86 gldrs (5 st, 32 gldrs paid, so balance is 54-5) and 72 gldrs

II:514
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Toomas Quick vs. Antho[n]y Addson
[Quick] demands 3 sch of wheat
[Addison] says having paid 2 to Rachel Thy[ssen]
[Quick] says he did not give [Addison] authority to do so, but [to pay] Mr. Nottinghams

Mr. Nottinghams vs. Toomas Quick, for 36 gldrs

II:514
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Cock requests some land bounding on his own land, 10 acres (in extent). Still [in addition] two house-lots in Marbletown next to Francois’s. [Odd that he would request Marbletown lots from the Hurley council, since Marbletown has its own council to make such grants.]

II:514
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
[Typically land grants come at the end of council minutes. These council minutes go on for several more entries, and it is not clear that all of the items are from the above council session. Next dated council session is 1680/1 Jan 20. The following items were probably entered in sequence in the register as they took place, but they may not have all been from the session dated above.]

Tax for Marble[town]: 1000 gldrs
By the order of the court the tax has been fixed at 171 sch of wheat.
Present two: Jan Joost and J. Garton [council members?]

[Why is the Hurley council calculating the Marbletown tax? Marbletown has its own council, which should take care of this. N.B. at 6 guilders per schepel of wheat, the going rate, 171 schepels would work out to 1026 guilders.]

II:514
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Wouters vs. Gerrit Cornelis, for 6 sch of wheat.

Frans Goderis vs. [Roelof] Swartwoudt (2d default)

II:514
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Fredrick Hossy vs. Jacob [Jansen] Van Etten
[Hossy] says [Jacob] having taken over [a debt of] 300 sch. of wheat, and per obligation still [in addition] 20 sch of wheat.
[Jacob] Is ordered to pay the 20 sch. of wheat.
[Versteeg note: This is a full and literal translation of the original.]
[2025 note: It appears something has been left out. Best guesses interpolated above, but that still leaves questions.]

II:515
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Jacob Rutgers vs. Jan Ewouts (1st default)

Huybert Lamberts vs. Evert Prys for 24 sch of wheat, and costs.

II:515
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Hals [George Hall, but more likely his widow and executrix Elizabeth Hall] vs. Robbert Chissiam [Chisholm?]
[Hall] demands 234 gldrs
Denies 1 gallon of cider, 6 gldrs
Still [in addition] for the stack [or rick, hay barrack], 30 "
Still [in addition] 3 cans of rum for 8 [sic] gldrs, 6 [sic] "

Total: 198 gldrs
6
Total: 204 gldrs

[Versteeg note: This is exactly as it appears in the record.]

[Chissiam] Is ordered to pay the amount.

[See II:558-559 1680 July 22, Elizabeth Hall selling land to Robert Peacock and Robert Chisholm.]

II:515
1680 (probably 1680/81) March 10, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
J[ohn] Big[g]s vs. A[n]dries Pietersen
[Biggs] demands for damages to the plantation (schaeden van plantage) in the Ruyge Hoeck 5 sch of wheat and costs
Adries shall pay 2 sch. for costs, each one half.

II:567
1680/1 March 12, Kingston
Jochem Hendrix has contracted to sell to Hendrick Ten Eyck “his land, bought prior to this of Cornelis Hoogeboom, located across the great bridge.” 291 sch of wheat, in two payments, immediately 100 and next February 191 sch. This quantity [the whole thing or just the second payment?] to be paid to Cornelis Hoogeboom, to release Jochem from his debt to Cornelis. At the last payment, Cornelis (not Jochem) will provide deed, unencumbered except for “the Lord’s right” (standard in all these transfers) “and charges for the bridge” (maintenance dues etc., per contract when the bridge was built).
[See II:260-261 1679 October 20, when Cornelis Hoogeboom sells William Fisher a 1/3 share in land Hoogeboom has across the Great Bridge, also for 291 sch. of wheat, but apparently not this property?]

III:75
1680/1 March 15, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary [session of] the court, held at Kingston, March 15, 1680/1
Present:
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen
Edward Wittakar
William De Meyer

III:75
1680/1 March 15, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. William Asfordbie [sheriff, but here as private citizen?] vs. Arendt Isaax
[Asfordbie] demands seventy sch. of wheat, being the first instalment for [Isaax’s] purchase of the house.
[Isaax] admits the debt.
The hon. court orders [Isaax] to pay—with costs.
[Asfordbie is selling the house and lot he bought from Rachel Tyte or Fyte. Original contract of sale does not appear in these records, but deed for property (after Asfordbie, eventually, gets paid) is at II:622-623 1682 March 31. Asfordbie’s deed from Rachel Tyte is at II:443 1678/9 February 8, with further notes.]
[See III:94 1681/2 March 1 for more notes on the tussle between Asfordbie and Isaax over getting paid. Isaax sold the house, not yet paid for, to Simon Hawkins, who agreed to pay Asfordbie for it, then offered Asfordbie a cow in payment, which Asfordbie said he could accept, “if he liked the cow.”]

III:75
1680/1 March 15, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Hendrie Pauwldingh (Henry Pawling)
[Anthony] demands 1300 gldrs, says he has attached horses and wagon. Requests the same shall be sold, “for as far they will reach in deduction of the debt” [in other words, he doesn’t expect them to get as much as Pawling owes him].
[Pawling] appeals to the court of sessions.

III:75
1680/1 March 15, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Jochem Engelbaerdt
[Anthony] demands 45 sch. of wheat and 1 guilder.
[Jochem] says there were 3 or 4 lb. of nails less, but admits the balance.
The hon. court orders [Jochem] to pay 45 sch. of wheat, and 1 gldr, with costs.

III:75-76
1680/1 March 15, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
[Entry starts with a document from a week ago]
Assignment to Capt. Thoomas D’laVall
Capt. Thoomas D’laVall pays to Joost Adriaensen the amount of one thousand six hundred gldrs, and yet [in addition] seventy gldrs. You will be credited for the same as valid payment, on the balance of the farm money. Kingston, March 8, 1680/1. Say 1677 [sic] gldrs.

was signed: Wm. Asfordbie, Wm. Fisher, Wessel Ten Broeck, Edward Wittakar, Tierck Claesen [DeWitt], William D. Meyer
Capt. Thoomas Delavall answers that he does not find it mentioned in the laws that the court has authority over the excise.
Secondly the conditions of the farm have not been well made (niet gaet gemaeckt).
Thirdly, he has advanced moneys for the village three years before they fell due, and wants to first collect his own.

III:76
1680/1 March 15, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wessel Ten Broeck and Jacob Rutgers have agreed together in regard to keeping in repair the road to the land and the tanneries, and Jacob Rutgers is to keep in repairs the one tenth part.

 

II:534
1680/1 March 17 Marbletown (ordinary council session?)
Marbleton, March 17th 1680/1
[no list of officers present]

Hendrick Ten Eyck vs. Rachel Quynel

Jacob Rutgers vs. Jan Eewouts

Mr. Asfordt vs. James Pennick, 2d default

William Fisher vs. [Henry Pawling] Pauldin
[Fisher] demands 656 gldrs 15 st. per settlement 476 gldrs 15 st
[Pawling] says that he did not settle with him—but denies.
The hon. court orders Paelden at the next session of th court, to prove—

II:534
1680/1 March 17 Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Francis Coom vs. [Thomas? or Rachel?] Quynel, for 81 – 6 = 75 gldrs

[Probably Francis Coom vs.] Antoy Addson [Anthony Addison]
Complainant demands 10 days labor. Demands payment.
[Addison] says that he had his plow and horse for two days and a half.
Complainant is refused his demand.

[Probably Francis Coom vs.] Jan Van Campe

The same [Francis Coom?] vs. Gorge Porter
Complt. demands 13 sch. of maise and 18 gldrs for milk (an melck).
[George] says [complt owes him] 30 gldrs for house rent, and he looked during 5 weeks after his 30 pigs.
[II:535]
In the case between Frans Coon and Gorge Porter: settled for 1 gldr.

II:535
1680/1 March 17 Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
[Francis Coom vs.?] Gerrit Lamberts, 1st default

Thoomas Quick vs. Richard Wilsy [Wilson]
[Quick] demands 18 gldrs in chickens [for chickens?]
[Wilsy] says that he did not buy [the chickens?] of [Quick]
The hon. court orders Richard Wilson to pay the 18 gldrs.

II:535
1680/1 March 17 Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court orders the planter to free himself.
[No further explanation]

The hon. court orders that the draft horses and young calves shall, this summer, pasture on the land, three weeks before the fair (Kermis) and three weeks thereafter. Those letting them pasture longer will have to look out for the consequences.

The poundmaster has been released of his oath.

Jan Broersen [Decker] and Atthoy Addeson [Anthony Addison] were sworn as viewers of the fences.
[See II:533 1688 July 22, Hurley, above.]
[See II:542 1681 August 9, Marbletown, below, where they “condemn” a fence of Henry Pawling’s, as well as II:543, another set of fence disputes.]

II:535
1680/1 March 17 Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
[This looks like the start of a new court session, but there is no header information to indicate it—not date, or place, or list of officers attending.]
Isaack Bochel [Versteeg note: “hunchback”] vs. Jan Roosa
[He is named in this case, and the next, Rochel, probably Rochelle, which is the name used elsewhere in this set of old records as well.]
[Isaac] demands 45 sch of wheat.
[Roosa] says that [Rochel] has not finished his work, because he was to build a barn at the Pals [New Paltz].
Johannes De Hooges says that Isack Rochell had agreed to build for Jan Roosa a barn, as at the Pals, the same as Symon’s and Jan’s barn
[II:536]
The hon. court orders Isack Rochel to give satisfaction as per his contract—as shown by the barn of Jan or Symon at the Palls.

II:535-536
1680/1 March 17 Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Isack Rochel vs. Paelden [Henry Pawling]
[Rochel] demands 14 sch. of wheat and 4 gldrs.
[Pawling] says he does not owe the same because [Rochel] did not make his floor right.
The hon. court orders Isack Rochel to fulfil his conditions.

II:536
1680/1 March 17 Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Roelof Jansen vs. Jan Mewesen
[Jansen] demands 13 sch. of wheat, for working a year.
Jan Mewesen says that he is able to prove that Roelof did not fulfil his contract.
Jan Mewesen says that he went for Roelof and could not find him, and was obliged to have his clothes made by another which he accepts to prove.
The hon. court orders parties to prove their assertion at the next session of the court.

II:536
1680/1 March 17 Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
William Wood vs. Melger Claes, 1st default

Wallerand Du [Mond] 20
Johannes De Hoges 7
[Versteeg note: This is all in the original]

II:567-569
1680/1 March 19
Thomas Garton and Anna Nottingham are getting married; they settle out what she owes her kids.
1. They will observe the marriage, and Anna conveys to Daniel Brodhed for himself and heirs “the farm at present leased to Jacob Broersen [Decker] containing [omitted] morgen, with house, barn, plow, wagon, straps, ropes, and also the garden opposite the gate on this side of the Ruyge Hoeck. Only 5 morgen must be deducted and joined to the land, leased to Teunis Jacobsen.
[II:568]
With which farm Daniel Brodhed gets 2 geldings, or stallions, 2 mares, 4 cows, to receive in 1687, in January
2. Anna deeds to Charles Brodhead 15 morgens of land of the farm leased by Teunes Jacobsen, and 2 cows. The land bounds on Daniel’s. He will receive same when he reaches 23 years of age.
3. Anna conveys to Richard Brodhed 6 morgens of Teunes Jacobsen’s land, with a cow, which he gets when he reaches 23 years of age. Land is situated next to his brother Charles.
4. William Nottingham gets 6 lots in Ruyge Hoeck, with 9 1/2 morgens of Teunes Jacobsen’s land.
5. All rents and profits, natural increase of animals, the mother, Anna Nottingham, reserves to herself, which she will employ to the benefit of the youngest children of her former marriage, whether sons or daughters: Charles, Richard, Elizabeth Nottingham, Jan Nottingham, as she sees fit, without Garton’s being permitted to do anything against it.
6. The land on the 4th piece, as also house and barn, orchard and everything belonging to it, will be jointly owned by Garton and Nottingham, and whatever they acquire will be jointly owned by them and any heirs they create together. But if Garton dies and they haven’t had any kids, all that reverts to her.
7. If Nottingham dies first, and they haven’t had kids, the land, house, and orchard revert to Garton, but if there are kids, the same will go to the kids.
8. The animals that are with Mrs. Nottingham shall be taken care of by her as she pleases, for the profit of the children.
Richard Brodheads takes a cow named “the young hare” and a heifer and a horse.
Elisabeth Nottingham takes 2 cows, the “Jacomeyntie” and the “Marretie,” a heifer, a calf, a young ox.
William Nottingham takes a cow, “the young Rinnels,” a heifer, a mare named “the gray mare.”
John Nottingham takes two heifers.
[Anna (née Tye) married Daniel Brodhead 1661 in Yorkshire, England; William Nottingham 1669 in Kingston; Thomas Garton 1681 in Ulster County; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tye-75 .]
[For lots in Ruyge Hoeck, see II:420 1678 April 11, when William Nottingham père gets deed for 4 lots in Rugge Hoeck.]
[For land leased to Teunes Jacobsen, see II:433-434 1678 June 1, when William père agrees to this lease.]
[For land leased to Jacob Broersen Decker, see II:435 1678 June 1, when this lease commences.]

III:76
1681 March 29, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary session held at Kingston, March 29, 1680
Present:
Mr. Asfordbie, sherif
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen
Eduward Wittaker
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm. DeMeyer

Cornelis [Barentsen] Sleght vs. Wessel Ten Broeck for 40 sch wheat; Wessel admits owing 37 sch

III:76
1681 March 29, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendricus Beeckman vs. Jan Waerdt
[Beekman] says that [Ward] while living in [Beekman’s] house has broken 25 panes of glass in his windows. Demands satisfaction.
[Ward] denies having done so.
The hon. court orders [Ward] to pay for every pane of glass which Beeckman can prove having been broken.

III:76
1681 March 29, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court again decrees that the curtains [stockade wall around the village] shall be put in good condition, under penalty as [fixed] heretofore.

Jan Focken and Hendrick Ten Eyck are appointed fire wardens, in the place of Gerrit Aertsen and Jacob Rutgers.

 

Apr-May-Jun

III:76-77
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Kingston, April 3, 1681
Present:
Capt. DlaVall, justice
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm. DeMeyer

Hendrick Kellerhouse [?] vs. Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], for 320 gldrs in wheat

Frans Goderis vs. Jacob Aertsen, 1st default

Frans Goderis vs. Capt. Delavall

III:77
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Gerrit Sleghtenhorst vs. Claes Teunesen
[Gerrit] says that he has bought hops [from Claes] for duffels [a kind of cloth], and that [Claes] will not accept the duffels [as payment].
[Claes] says that he sold the hops at 25 stivers per lb., and the duffels at 10 gldrs per ell.
The hon. court orders Slechtenhorst to deliver good duffels.
[See III:104 1682 April 4, probably an extension of the same case.]

III:77
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Jacobus Elmendorp [Elmendorff]
[Nicolaes] demands 20 sch of wheat, for which [Jacobus] has become surety, to pay for old Berent, and took it upon himself to pay the same.
Ordered to pay.
[Unclear who old Barent is. Barent Van Borsum writes his will 1682 November 19; see III:1-2. But there are other Barents in town.]

III:77-78
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hillebrant Lootman vs. Gerrit [Adriaensen] Van Vliedt
[Hillebrant] demands 8 sch of wheat and 4 gldrs.
[Gerrit] says that [Hillebrant] is still obliged to work for the same six days.
The hon. court orders [Hillebrant] to do his work, and [Gerrit] will then pay.
[See II:507 1681 April 28, possibly Hurley council session, same complaint?]

III:78
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
(date is likely, but not certain)
Owing to the complaint of Wessel Ten Broeck and Jan Mattysen in regard to their negroes having run away, Isaack Rochel has been examined, and has been found not guilty, he not being the cause of their running away.

III:78
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
(date is likely, but not certain)
Cornelis Hoogeboom vs. Jan Joosten [van Rollegom, skipper (not van Meteren, who lives near Hurley)]
[Cornelis] says that, according to Dechamp’s letters, [Joosten] transported for [Cornelis] in [Joosten’s] yacht forty-five gallons of rum, and that [Cornelis] is an ancker short.
[Joosten] says that he never made any claims but has delivered the same through the cartman at [Cornelis’s] house.
The hon. court decides that Jan Joosten is blameless in the affair, but that the fault is between Hoogeboom and [Isaac] Duchamp, who must pay for his wrong proceeding [literal translation] 20 guilders.
[Versteeg note: This undoubtedly refers to Hoogeboom as having made a wrong complaint against Jan Joosten.]
[Hoogeboom does other business with DuChamp; see II:589 1681 October 3, when he represents DuChamp in sale of “a Negro, named Pompkin,” to Frederick Hussey; also III:93 1681/2, Hoogeboom and DuChamp conflicted regarding bolting (?) grain.]

III:78
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
(date is likely, but not certain)
The hon. justices and court decree that those of the Palts shall pay excise, as well as the other villages.
[This is a hot topic, both for Louis Dubois, who moved to New Paltz and wants to be able to distill there without paying the tax, and for the excise farmers, who have to estimate in advance how much excise tax they will collect during a year, so they will know how much to bid for the job.]
[See III:218-219 1681 April 18 for long list of related disputes over excise tax.]

III:79
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
(date is likely, but not certain)
Jan Elton [Elting] vs. Severyn Ten Hout
[Jan] demands of [Severeyn] twenty four gldrs Holland money, expenses [Jan] incurred for [Severeyn] in Holland. Still [in addition] eleven sch. of peas which [Severeyn] took for [Jan] to New York to be delivered there but [Severeyn] kept the same, for which [Severeyn] owes [Jan] thirty-three gldrs in wheat.
The hon. court orders Severeyn Ten Houdt to pay Jan Elton twenty-four gldrs ten stivers Holland money, with costs.
[See II:470 1679 September 30, when Jan Roelofsen Elting, married to Jacomyntie Cornelissen Sleght, writes a will in preparation for a voyage to Holland.]

III:79
1681 April 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
(date is likely, but not certain)
Mooses DeGraef vs. Aerdt Martesen, for 56 gldrs, and court costs

Frans Goderis vs. Schepmoes, 1st default
[See III:389 1681 November 22, Goderis vs. Schepmoes for 23 sch. wheat.]
[See III:84 1681/2 January 10, case between Gerrit Van Slechtenhorst and Dirck Jansen Schepmoes referred to arbitrators.]

Cornelis [Barentsen] Sleght vs. Schepmoes, 1st default
[See III:165-166 1682/3 January 9, Schepmoes attaching 20 sch. wheat that Sleght has, which belong to Hendrick Van Wye, who owes Schepmoes money. (Possibly unrelated.)]

 

II:563-564
1681 April 5 (stray notes)
[The following look like notes Montagne made for himself to remind himself of details for documents to be drafted later, perhaps minutes from a council meeting of date inscribed.]
April 5, 1681

William Fisjer, Complt. [Versteeg note: This had been crossed out in original.]

Claes Tuenesen, No. 42

Robbert Pekock, an attachment against the money of Hendrick Cornelissen Bogart.

Hendrick Cornelissen an attachment against Jan Elton (Eltinge).

Mr. Nicolaes DeMajer an attachment first [against property] in the custody of Peeckock, and [second] in the custody of Hendrick Cornelissen Boogaerdt.

III:218-219
1681 April 18, Kingston
Kingston April 18, 1681
[Delarations filed in advance of coming Court of Sessions, held April 27; see below III:219ff. Many of the items listed here are repeated there, with more complete details.]
Capt. Thomas Delaval entered his action against:
The widow of Albert Heymans
Wessel Ten Broeck
Jan Joosten
Jan Thysen [Mattysen]
[Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes
Jan Hendrix
[Delavall] demands three hundred sch. of wheat, advanced [by him] for Domine Gaesbeeck’s passage and expenses in Holland.
[See III:219 1681 April 27, same issue.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

Action by Wm. Asfordbie and Elisabet Hals [Elizabeth Hall], referred by the Heer Governor to the [court of ] sessions.
[See III:224 1681 September 8 for a further note.]

Wm. Montagne vs. Capt Chambers
Demands the excise for the [residents] of the Palts, according to conditions.
[Longstanding debate with the tapsters of New Paltz, notably Louis Dubois.]
[See II:554-555 1679 November 11 and II:607 1680 November 11 for rules of excise collection, adding New Paltz apparently during the course of 1680. Thomas Delavall becomes excise farmer in November 1679; Montagne gets the post in November 1680.]
[See II:603 1680/1 January 8, Thomas Chambers telling Louis Dubois he will have to pay the liquor excise. Dubois says no; council tells him to turn in his distilling equipment until it’s resolved.]
[See III:75-76 1680/1 March 15, Thomas Delavall saying he does not find it mentioned in the laws that the council has authority over the excise.]
[See III:78 1681 April 3, Kingston council determines that New Paltz should pay liquor excise, same as other villages.]
[See III:220 1681 April 27, excise farmer William Montagne seeking to collect the excise from New Paltz or otherwise be reimbursed 3,000 guilders. Chambers refers it to the council (court) to decide. Council again tells Dubois to stop distilling until it’s resolved.]
[See II:578-579 1681 August 17, instructions from Manhattan that the excise should be collected, without quite saying whether it should be collected from New Paltz.]
[See III:222-224 1681 September 7, 8 when Dubois, irked at the situation, throws up procedural objections and says the jury picked by the council is not legitimate. He eventually loses his position for being such a nuisance; III:119 1682 October 25. Council say the farming of the excise is up to the Justice of the Peace: Thomas Chambers until 12 September 1680, and Thomas Delavall since then.]

[III:219]
Hendrick Van Wy vs. Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht] for 100 sch of wheat

Capt. Delavall vs. Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] for 728 guilders
[See III:220 1681 April 27, repeat.]

Capt Delavall vs. Michiel Modt for 1305 guilders and costs
[See III:220 1681 April 27, apparently the same claim.]
[See II:600 1680 January 8, Delavall wants 1488 guilders from Mott.]

Humphre Davenport, attorney for [Gabriel] Minville, vs. Elisabet Hals [Elizabeth Hall], for ??? “as per mortgage”
[See III:221-222 1681 April 27, when this is fleshed out with details.]

 

II:571
1681 April 21 (Kingston?)
Jan Hamel (signs John Hammell; is Hamble in some deeds years later) has agreed to build a house 22 feet long, 20 feet wide, gable to be made tight with boards, work to be satisfactorily finished, even to the plasterwork (tot plackwerck; Versteeg suggests the hanging of wallpaper and says it’s ambiguous whether Hamel will do that or do everything up until the house is ready for it). A cross-sill, two doors, two windows, joists and rafters wherever necessary, with five cross-beams, all at his own expense.
But Bruyn Hagen is to furnish all materials with the work.
Jan Haemel will be paid 135 sch. of wheat.
[See III:91 1681/2 February 22 when Hamble asks Hagen to pay for the work. Hagen says the job wasn’t done right.]
[See III:228 1682 April 27, when Hagen still balks at paying the full price; court orders him to pay 123 sch. for work he says is not quite right.]

II:571-572
1681 April 22, Kingston
Tierck Clasen (DeWitt) rents out “his farm situated at Monbackus” (Mombaccus) to Claes Claesen for 6 years, starting May 1681. 100 sch of wheat per year, delivered at Kingston. With the farm come 3 horses (mare and 2 geldings), 3 cows of which Tierck gets half the natural increase, to be divided every three years. Risk also equally shared.
Farm also includes a new wagon, without ironwork, a plow (for 35 sch of wheat) 28 iron harrow teeth, by weight, and 36 of wheat already sown, to be replenished at end of lease, 3 weeks after the fair (Naer Kermis drie weecken).
Tierck will build [a fence?], but Claes will help. Whatever Claes improves on land will be deducted from rent.
Rent to be paid every January.
Signed Tierck Claszen, Klaes Klaessen

III:219
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions)
Session Court held at Kingston by the authority of his royal majesty Charles the second, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Protector of the faith, in the year of our Lord 1681, April 27
Present:
Capt. Thoomas Delavall, Justice
Jan Joosten, Justice
Jan Garton
Lowies DuBooys

III:219-220
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Capt Thomas Delavall vs.:
The widow of Albert Heymans
Wessel Ten Broeck
Jan Joosten
Jan Thysen [Mattysen]
[Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes
Jan Hendrix
[Delavall] demands three hundred sch. of wheat, advanced [by him] for Domine Gaesbeeck’s passage and expenses in Holland.
[Defendants probably are the local consistory, responsible for managing the church’s secular business.]
Defts. answer that they have subscribed for the congregation.
Court orders that the congregation must pay.
[See III:218-219 1681 April 18, same issue.]
[See also III:236 1683 April 25, Cornelis Steenwyck seeking 192 sch. wheat reimbursement for Domine Weecksteen’s passage from Holland.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

III:220
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Wm. Montagne vs. Capt Chambers
[Montagne, probably in official role as farmer of the excise] demands three thousand guilders, because he [Chambers] has farmed out the excise [i.e. paid to become the tax collector] with the condition that those of the Pals [New Paltz] shall pay excise, and they refuse the same.
Capt. Chambers leaves it to the judgment of the court.
The court orders Lowies Du Booys to discontinue distilling until he pays the excise or else to come to an agreement (of anders te accordere).
[add reference to other New Paltz tapster excise cases]
[See II:554-555 1680 November 11, when Montagne leases the right to be the “farmer” (i.e. collector) of the excise on alcohol sales and distillation, paying 5,300 guilders for the privilege. The amount he attempts to collect here suggests that he believes more than half his income from the job would have come from the Huguenot village at New Paltz.]
[See II:578-579 1681 August 17, Governor says the excise should be paid to excise farmer.]
[See III:222ff 1681 September 7-8, Louis Dubois arguing that the jury is not properly impaneled to tell him to pay the excise tax. Chambers complains that the council members should consult him before making decisions about the excise.]

III:220
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Hendrick Van Wey vs. Cornelis Barentsen [Slecht] for 100 sch of wheat

Capt Delavall vs. Tierck Claesen for 728 guilders
[See III:219 1681 April 18, same claim.]

Capt Delavall vs. Michiel Modt for 1305 guilders
[See III:218-219 1681 April 18, apparently the same claim.]

III:221
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Mooses Du Pue requests that the guardians [of the minor children] shall divide (deelinge doen) his wife’s share in the inheritance [left by Cornelis Wynkoop, first husband (or father?) of Maria, now married to Moses: The children are entitled to half the original estate, and Moses is making sure they get it and it’s recorded].
The hon. court orders the guardians to divide and give [Moses] his share, and to render a proper accounting for Wynkoop’s estate.
[Moses is married to Maria Wynkoop, one of the heirs.]
[See II:603 1680/1 February 8, council instructs estate guardians to make an accounting and give Mooses Du Pue his share.]
[See III:11-12 1682/3 February 6, detailed description of lot and house in town, with a shared cistern, that he and Maria will have.]
[See II:620-621 1682 March 31, Mooses gets deed to land and acknowledges this is his whole share.]

III:221
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Frans Goderis requests per petition that the Great Valley shall be granted him for the purpose of making use of the same, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.
The hon. court gives as answer that the same has already been granted [to someone else?].
[add reference to II:448, currently undated, when Cornelis Barentsen Slecht is granted the Great Valley]

III:221-222
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Humphre[y] Davenport, attorney for Capt. [Gabriel] Minville, vs. Elisabet Hals [Elizabeth Hall], for 3060 guilders. She says some is paid; there are witnesses, and a jury is selected. Complicated accounting. Court asks both to get it in order before next court.

III:222
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The constable of Kingston gives notice that several residents request that a gate shall be made near the church.
The hon. justice Capt. Delaval advises that all the inhabitants shall be called together to hear their advice, whether or not the gate is necessary near the church. [Stockade wall has been extended; is church at this point inside the stockade, where Old Dutch Church stands today?]

III:222
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The constable of Kingston requests that Capt. Chambers shall show his patent [to find out] whether he is exempt from paying village taxes.

III:222
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The court orders that the mill-dam at Kingston shall be widened so much that two wagons can pass each other—and also at Horly, between now and harvest time.

III:222
1681 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The hon. court appoints Wm. Fisher, Joost Adriaensen, Jan Focken and Cornelis Fynhoudt as street-commissioners. And they shall, with the assistance of all the residents, render them as serviceable as possible, inside of three weeks.

 

II:507
1681 April 28 (Hurley council session?)
Court Records Volume 5, Page 25
April 28, 1681
[These notes are jotted at the top of a page with no description of location, what type of session this is, or officers present. They appear to be less a set of minutes and more a memorandum to the secretary, with the intent that they will be fleshed out later. It is also possible that this note is a memorandum of cases that have been registered to be heard at an upcoming meeting on the date listed.]

Cornelis Sleght vs. Gerrit Adriaensen Van Vliet
per attachment (by arrest)

Ganete Davits vs. Gerrit Van Vliet (per attachment)

Hillebrant Lootman vs. Gerrit Van Vliedt (per attachment)
[See III:77-78 1681 April 3, Kingston, same complaint?]

II:570
1681 April 30, Kingston
Claes Teunesen owes Frans Goderis 591 sch of wheat; he will pay immediately 50, then in December of this year 441, and in 1682, in the fall, 100. He mortgages his land, bought from Mr. Asfordt (Asfordbie)

II:570-571
1681 May 2, Kingston
Roelof Swartwout owes Frans Goederis 34 1/4 sch of wheat, which he will pay next January 1681/2 without fail. Still [in addition] owes 109 sch. of white peas, which he will pay October 1. Mortgages his farm.
Witnesses Wessel Ten Broeck, Tierck Clasz De Witt
[II:571]
[Attached note, 1682 April 1: Upon this obligation have been paid: eighty sch. of white peas and twenty sch. of wheat. Remains twenty-nine sch of peas and eleven sch and one quarter of a sch of wheat. Signed Frans Goederis.]

II:572
1681 May 5, Kingston
Jan Eltingen owes Mattue Blansjan (Matthew Blanchan) 948 guilders, “without prejudicing the mortgage which remains in full force as executed in the year 1675.” Interest that was 10% will now be 6%. Eltingen to pay interest every year and principal when it pleases Blanchan.

II:572-573
1681 May 7 (Kingston?)
Anthony Addison owed Frans Goderis 241 guilders, to pay October 1, mortgages land in “Breeckebeen Hoeck”
Witnesses: Wessel Ten Brock, Tierck Claszen De Witt
[See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]

II:573
1681 May 7, Kingston
Cornelis Fynhout owes Elisabet Driesius 600 guilders at 6% “for the past year” to be delivered free at the bank next January. Mortgages farm and goods.
Witnesses Tierck Claszen DeWitt and Wessel Ten Broeck
Cornelis Fynhoudt signs with a mark (+ in a circle)

II:591-592
1681 (date unclear: 1 Ju 1681?), Kingston
(in English) Thoomas Mattias [Mattysen?] has mortgaged to Robert Story the first payment of his land sold to Edward Wittaker, so first payment will go to Story instead of Mattys.
Signed in presence of William Fisher and Tjerck Claesen [DeWitt], magistrates (council members)

 

II:574
1681 June 4, Kingston
Johanna [Loopers], widow of George Davits, remarries, to Henry Beekman [5 June 1681 per church record; his first marriage]. Grants as patrimonial possession to the kids she had with George (Jacobus, Samuel and Salomon) 500 sch of wheat each, to receive when they have reached mamority. Also will give them honest and Christian education. With the above they “shall have received the full share of their paternal inheritance.”
All the other estate she joins to the goods and effects of Beeckman, to be common property.
The bridegroom is entirely satisfied with the above.
Bridegroom also contributes all his property to their joint holdings.
Bride appoints as guardians of her minor children David Davidts, their uncle; and Dirck Jansen Schepmoes.
As security for the portion she’s reserving for the three kids, she mortgages her house and lot at Kingston, also her half-portion in the Mill on the Twaelfs Kill.
Signed Joanna Loopers and Henr. Beeckman
[See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lopers-1 ]

II:575
1681 June 7, Kingston
Isaack De Rochell has contracted to build for William Fisjer [Fisher] a barn, viz. without making it tight all around (sonder rondorn dicht te maecken).
1. Barn to be 25 feet long, 20 feet wide, measured from the inside (Binnes Wercks), of satisfactory lumber, with two “uydtlatinge” [side alleys] as long as the barn and as wide as they can be made. Four crossbeams, two with carbels [corbels] and two without; height to ceiling 12 feet, breastwork 3 feet high.
Further: joints, rafters, lintels, a good roof covered with shingles. Structures to rest on beams in the ground. Door-posts with “sponningen” (rabbets, grooves).
Isack De Rochel shall prepare the heavy timber in the wood, and the light timber [probably lumber] at the house. To receive free board and 55 sch of wheat; will complete the work before it’s time to till the soil.
Signed with marks of Isaack Rochel and Jan Pelje, also signature of Wm. Fisher
[See II:588 1681 October 1, contract to build a thresh-floor next to the barn.]

II:576
1681 June 14, Kingston
(in English, written by Montagne) Anthony Addison had contracted to sell to “Jacoson Harne[?]” [signs Jacobs Horne] a house and lot in Marbletown, for 110 sch of wheat, to be delivered to Nicolaes de Majer on the account of Addison, in two payments, next January and the year following.
[See II:469-470 1679 July 4, Thomas Quynell gives deed to Anthony Addison for house, barn, and lot in Marbletown.]

II:577
1681 June 15 (Kingston?)
(in English, written by Montagne) Robbert Chissam and Gorge Mills; Chissam is adding Mills as a partner [?] “in the land named de Breeckbeen Hoeck,” but Mills has to satisfy Elizabeth Hall. If either partner sells, the partner not selling has right of first refusal to buy the first one out.
[See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]
[See II:558-559 1680 July 22, when Chisholm incurs debt to Elizabeth Hall, not for this but for other land he exchanges later.]

II:628-629
1681 June 22, Kingston
Mattue Blansjan, Jr. (Matthew Blanchan Jr.) owes Aabraham Frackfordt [sic], merchant, 225 sch of wheat and 2 sch of white peas, to be paid to said Abraham Franckfordt next Jan of this current year (1681/2) and the winter following. But in case of remarkable calamities, which God forbid, such as fire, war, floods, failure of crops, Blansjan will for that year, but no longer, be permitted to only pay the proper interest. Originating from purchase of “certain negress” by Blanjan.
Mortgages person and estate, real and personal, present and future, none excepted; Franckfordt on this condition declares said negress free and without expense; when Blanjan has paid, the negress is his free and unencumbered.
[Versteeg note: See page 631 top for marginal note]
[II:631 marginal notes attached here]
Acknowledged to have received the hundred thirteen and a half sch. of wheat [sic], this Feb 5, 1682/3 (signed) Aberham Franckfort
[Versteeg note: This receipt was in English:]
I, Abraham Francfort, acknowledge to have recived full satisfaction of Mathys Blanshan as witness my hand this 20 day of February Anno Domini 1684/5 in Kingston
(signed) Aberham Franckfort
quod Attestor
(signed) John Ward, Clk

II:631
1681 June 22 [Actually 1683 February 5; see II:628-629, where a marginal note is attached.]

Jul-Aug-Sep

II:577-578
1681 July 5, Kingston
Aert Martensen Dooren (signs Maertsen Doorn), widower of Geertruy Anderiesen, and Jan Hendrix, son of Geertruy Andriesen, have agreed in regard to property.
Jan Hendrix assumes all debts and credits, papers, documents.
Doorn, stepfather of Hendrix, gets bedclothes and garments.
Hendrix will pay to Doorn 400 guilders Holland money “or the value of the same” (i.e. in wheat or other currency), wherewith Doorn is disinherited, and
[II:578]
Hendrix inherits everything, whether houses, lots, personal and real estate.
This replaces any prior contracts or agreements.
Witnessed Tierck Claszen D.Witt, W.D. Meyer
Signed Aert Maertsen Doorn, Jan Hendericksz
[Geertruy Andriessen married Harry Alberts, from London, ferryman at Rensselaerswyck, and then Jacob Jansen Stol [who also signed his name Hap], who succeeded Alberts. This is a different Geertruyd Andriessen from the one who lives at Papscanee with husband Jan Thomas, sister of Barbara Andriessen who lives in Kingston, wife of Tjerck Claessen DeWitt.]

[attached note]
On July 5, Aerdt Martensen Doorn has surrendered what has been specified, so Hendrix inherits everything. Present: Jacobus Elmendorp and Eduward Dyre, and Cornelis Barentsen.
Signed Jacobus Elmendorff, Edward Dyer, Cornelis Barents Slecht

[attached note]
Jan Hendricx owes Aerdt Martensen Doorn 500 guilders Holland money, to pay in two installments, Feb 1682 & 1683.
[See III:10-11 1682/3 February 7, when Doorn and Hendrix and Severyn Ten Hout and William Fisher settle up some accounts, including this one, and transfer real estate.]
[See KP 613-614 1666 September 10 when a more detailed account of Geertruyd Andriessen’s estate is rendered; this is a postscript. The record there names additional children Geertruy had with her two previous husbands, Harry Alberts (Jan’s father) and Jaccob Jansen Stoll (a.k.a. Slyckoten).]

II:527
1681 July 9, Hurley (extraordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 61
Extraordinary Court session at Horly, 9th July, 1681
Present:
Justices:
Jan Joosten
Jan Garton
Sheriff: [William] Asfordbie
Constables:
Antony Crupel [Crispell]
Thoomas Garton
Overseers (council members):
Lambert Huybertsen
John Coele
Mattus Blansjan

Onfer [Humphrey] Davenpoort, attorney for Minville, vs. Gerrit [Adriaensen] Van Vliet, 2d default

II:527
1681 July 9, Hurley (extraordinary council session, continued)
Roelof Jansen vs. Jan Mewesen

[probably the same, Roelof Jansen] vs. Aerdt Martensen, for 13 sch of wheat.
[[Versteeg note: All there is of this in original.]]
[Original record has these two cases entered next to the list of officers present. Probably the reason for the extraordinary session, which would have been paid for by the complainant, is the case between Matthew Blanchan and Adrian Roosa, below. Possibly the three cases at the start of the minutes, and others between pieces of the Blanchan complaint, were heard during recesses in the main case, or possibly they were heard at the start of the session, to clear the docket before the main case of the day.
[One of the interstitial notes in the Dutch original, apparently in the same ink and handwriting as the rest of the minutes, is dated 1682 March 3. The haphazard order in this set of minutes is very difficult to parse.]

II:527-528
1681 July 9, Hurley (extraordinary council session, continued)
[This case is split into three pieces in the minutes, with other business recorded between the different pieces. For clarity, the Blanchan case has been put together again here. Versteeg’s translation follows the order in the original, which seems disorganized for no clear reason.]
Matthue Blansjan vs. Adrian Roosa
[Blanchan] demands as per declaration that they have imprisoned him for fine of “Frejn” [?] being a magistrate did not need tol [[Here it ends] (De Eyr Eyst volgens declaratie dat syhem hebben vast geset wegens boeten van “Frejm?” een magistraedt synde niet hoefde tol—)]

[Top of next page: [The following is doubtless a continuation of the case of Matthue Blansjan vs. Adrian Roose, though it does not very well fit in where the last sentence ended.]]
[II:528]
Treyn, and in case he was a private person, ought to have been left off with five shillings [fine], according to law, and besides while he was in prison property of his to the value of twenty sch. of wheat was sold. He is of opinion that a person cannot at the same time be made to suffer in body and in his possessions.

[II:528 continued]
Court Records Volume 5 Page 64
Adrian Roosa leaves the case to the discretion of the court—both civil and military [(byde civiele en militaire)]
Mattiue Blansjan leaves it to the pleasure of the justice and the magistrates—and not to the military [authorities]. [[The clause concerning Blansjan was crossed out in the original, and the following had been substituted in its place:]]
Mattiue Blanjan also leaves the cause to the pleasure of the civil and military Court.

[The opinions of the individual officers:]
Hendrick Jochems says that Blanchan shall pay the fine and that the lieutenant shall return the balance.
Lambert Huybertsen [says] the same—2 half and half
Biggs understands that he shall pay the fine and still [in addition] for the mistake one half of a fine—1 half and half
Mattys Mattysen says [he must] pay the fine, and still five shillings to the poor, and the balance is to be returned to him.
Gysbert Crom says the fine, and five shillings for the poor, on both sides one half
[Thomas?] Garton says to pay the fine and the balance to be returned, and Arian to pay all expenses
Mr. Asfordt the same
Jan Cock [Cool?] the same
Jan Garton says to pay the fine and to return [to him] the balance.
Anthony Crupul [Crispell] says [he] shall pay the fine, and shall receive the balance. Arian Allers [here it breaks off]
Capt. Chambers says to return to him the balance after the fine has been paid—the costs half and half
Jan Joosten the same.
[II:529]
[The combined verdict:]
The court orders that Blansjan shall pay the fine, according to law, and that Ariaen shall return the balance. And each [shall bear] one half of the costs.

[This verdict is entered at the bottom of Court Records Volume 5 Page 64. (Pages 62 and 63 are blank.) The next item is recorded in the middle of the first page of the Blanchan case, Page 61, but here has been moved down, to make the Blanchan complaint easier to read.]

II:527
1681 July 9, Hurley (extraordinary council session, continued)
[This entry is recorded between the first two parts of the Matthew Blanchan case from 1681 July 9, in Hurley.]
Wm. Asfordbie (Eyr) vs. Johannes De Hooge
[Asfordbie] says that Johannes De Hoge has drawn the knife against Adrn [Adriaen] Roose.
[[A portion of this entry had been crossed out viz. the name of the Compl[ainant] and the words “de eyr sejt dat” (complainant says that) and “getrocken tegen” (drawn against).]]

II:575-576
1681 July 11 (signed at the Rondout)
[Original was in English.]
Frederick Hossy [signs Hussy] contracts to sell to Justice Johan [signs John] Garton “a parcel Middouw Land” and the appurtenances [“apportunantel”] belonging thereto. Hossy has it “according to pattent in dato the 21 day of July, being the land lying by the falls. Upon the Rondoupte Cricke as wel Medouw as wodland.” Hossy holds for himself 6 acres of meadow at the northeast side toward the creek.
Garton will pay 575 sch. wheat (“whinter waente”) in 4 payments, [starting] Feb 1682, delivered at the Strand.
[See II:393-394 1676/7 February 26 and 1679 April 29, council grants to Frederick Hussy for woodland and meadow on the east bank of the Rondout, “situated near the fall,” a 70-morgen valley plus 25 morgens of woodland. Date is not 21 July, so it may be a different parcel.]

 

II:541-542
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session?)
Marbleton August 9, Ao. 1681
[no list of officers present]

Mr. Asfordby vs.:

Luer Jacobsen
Cornelius Tack
Broer Decker
Jan Van Camp
Ariaen [Gerritsen] VanVliet [sic]
Jan [Adriaensen Van] Vlit
Dirck [Adriaensen] Van Vlet
Cornelis Gerritsen
Arian Gerritsen [Van Vliet][sic]
Maddalena Schut
Frederick Gerritsen [Is this a brother of Adriaen Gerritsen Van Vliet? Name doesn’t come up among Adriaen’s children.]

[Asfordby] says that [defendants] have worked on the Sabbath, contrary to the laws.
Demands 20 gldrs and for Adrian Van Vliet 100 gldrs.
Jan Van Vliedt says that Justice Jan Joosten gave permission if it could be done before church time.
Justice Jan Joosten says that nobody could give them permission.
Jan Van Vliet admits (bekendt) that he would hold all of them [free?] (dat hy haer alle soude [vry?] houden).

The hon. court condemns each of them to [pay a fine of] 25 gldrs—Adrian Gerritsen [the father of two of the other accused] 50 gldrs

[See II:251 1677/8 January 1, when Dirck’s friend Gysbert Crom accidentally shoots off Dirck’s leg in a New Year’s celebration. Dirck seems to have recovered.]

II:542
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Henderick Jansen vs. Claeas [sic] Teunesen
[Jansen] says that he has a parcel of land on which damage is caused owing to Claes Teunesen’s fence.
Claes Teunesen says that he has sold the land to Harmen the savage [Harmon Hekam].
The examiners have appraised the damage at 25 sch. of oats.
Adjourned till the next arrival of Harman, but in the meantime Claes Teunesen shall take care that no more damage be caused on account of the fence.
[Have not found contract of sale for this land.]

II:542
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Anthoy Addeson [Anthony Addison] and Jan Broersen [Decker] vs. Hendry Pauwlden [Henry Pawling]
[Complainants] say that they have condemned his fence.
The hon. court orders that the Ruyge Hoeck shall be fenced in, each in proportion of their lands, and Mr. Pauwlding is to repair the fence which is at present in dispute, until the [general] fence shall have been erected.
[Complainants are the appointed fence examiners; see II:535 1680/1 March 17 above.]

II:543
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Jeremia Kettel vs. Jacob [Jansen] Van Etten
Jeremia Kettel says that last Sunday Jacob Jansen”s boys destroyed his canoe by throwing stones, and that he complained to their father who said that he would chastise the children for the same.
The hon. court refers parties to Jan Broersen [Decker] and Anthony Addeson [“two good men” to resolve the claim.]

II:543
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Joosten [van Meteren] vs. [Roelof] Swartwout
Jan Joosten says that Evert Prys and Gerrit Cornelisen have complained to him that they suffer damage through [Swartwout’s?] pigs and cattle.
Evert Prys says that each year he suffers great damage in his grain on account of his [Swartwout’s?] pigs.
Gerrit Cornelissen says that Swartwout drove his cattle across [Gerrit’s] land—and [Gerrit] has forbidden [Swartwout] the same—and requests that he shall not do so any more—and that Swartwout is the ruin of everybody (en dat Swartwout is bedeef voor alle man).
Swartwout requests proof—and that the [break]
Jan Joosten says that at the commencement of the season a square of the fence was open through which several pigs entered [Joosten’s planting?]. [een vack heyninghe open was)
The hon. court orders Evert Prys to bring proof at the next session of the court.

II:543-544
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Broersen [Decker] and Anthoy Addesen [Anthony Addison] vs. Mr. Garton
[Complainants are the appointed fence examiners; see II:535 1680/1 March 17 above.]
The examiners say that they did not find his fence was in an efficient condition.
[Garton] says that no damage is caused through his fence.
The hon. court orders Garton to pay the fine as per decree, and to properly repair his fence.

[probably the fence examiners again vs. more defendants:]
Dirck Schepmoes, 1st default
Capt. Delavall, 1st default
T. Terwilliger [? hard to read, and Versteeg here has a note that is even harder to read]

[II:544]
Jan Elton [Elting] and Huybert Lambertsen, Complainants, Examiners
[Examiners] say that their [whose?] fences have been found insufficient, demand the fines as per instructions.
And have found Harmon Hendrix’s fence insufficient
[See below, same session, Hendrix vs. Elting & Lambertsen. Hendrix says that Elting & Lambertsen are fence examiners. See above, where appointed examiners are Jan Broersen Decker and Anthony Addison, appointed five months ago. Elting and Lambertsen may be examiners for a different jurisdiction? Or this may be from a completely different sequence of meetings. Harmon Hendrix is Roosenkrantz.]

Jan Elton [Elting] demands the fine because his [whose?] fence has been found insufficient.
Mattys Blanchan says that he repaired the same right away

Jan Meeuwesen
Dirck Kyser
Evert Prys

II:544
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Beecq[man] vs. Jan Ewoutsen, for 93 gldrs

Lambert Huybertsen vs. Jan Mewesen, 1st default
[See II:562-563 1680 September 6, when Mewesen agrees to work for Huybertsen., who will pay some of Mewesen’s debts in exchange.]
[See III:115 1682 November 22 when Huybertsen attaches maize and oats belonging to Mewesen.]
[See III:128-129 1683 April 24, when Huybertsen again attaches grain of Mewesen.]

Cornelis Cool vs. Evert Prys, for 12 sch of peas, “for cutting his peas”

II:544
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz] vs. Jan Elton [Elting] and Huybert Lambertsen
[Hendrix] complains that [cattle? or pig?] come through Jan Elton”s garden fence and through the gate, and whereas they are examiners, [therefore] demands damages.
Harmon Hendrix is ordered to bring proof at the next session of the court.
[See above, II:543-544, apparently the same council session. Hendrix here says Elting & Lambertsen are fence examiners, and in that entry they also are described as examiners, but Jan Broersen Decker and Anthony Addison were appointed fence examiners in March and took the oath (see II:535 above) and are also described as such in this session, immediately prior. Examination of the original Dutch text may show that not all these entries belong together. Note on II:545 suggests that some pages here may have been mis-bound together. Scans of these pages are not online.]

II:544-545
1681 August 9, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
[This probably is a loose leaf, not actually connected to the above council session.]
[Versteeg note: This is the way this entry appeared in the original.]
March 23, 1682:

Arian Van Dyck?

vs.

Fredrick Segers
[Roelof] Swartwout
Claes Teunesen—warrant
Pieter Winne—66-16
Gore Porter [see below]
Dirck Kyser
Gorge Porter [see above]
Symon Westphael
[II:545]
Robbert Bickerstaff by arrest
Leendert Barentsen Coole, Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], Surety

Marten Hofman, complainant by attachment (arrest)
grain in the hands of Clas Tun [Claes Teunissen]

Gerrit Lamberts, Complainant
per attachment on the grain of Jan Eltg [Elting]
Quick surety for Arian Fransen
for Jan Focken and [Cornelis] Hoogenboom
[See II:286 1680/1 January 17, Thomas Quick contracts to sell land at Mombaccus to Adriaen Fransen.]
[See III:82 1681/2 January 10, mentioned again.]

[Versteeg note: The above entries were written upside down on page in original.]

II:578-579
1681 August 17 [Manhattan]
(in English)
To Capt. Tho D’Lavall Presidt. and Justices and Scherriffe at Esoopus
“By the Commaender in Cheife These aere to desire and in his [Majesty’s] Naeme Require [Versteeg: Begive]” that the excise be paid to the excise farmer. Amount not specified.
[add reference to long list of comments about New Paltz and tapster excise]

 

III:79-80
1681 August 20, Kingston (extraordinary council session)
Extraordinary [session of the] Court held at Kingston, August 20, 1681
Present:
Capt. Thoomas Delaval, justice
Mr. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm. D.Meyer

Capt. Chambers vs. his servant Rigard [Richard] Berry
[Chambers] says that his servant behaves badly, calling names and threatening—and he has said that he will turn Foxhall upside down
[Berry] admits his guilt
[III:80]
Jeremia Kettel has contracted with Capt. Chambers in regard to said servant, as per indenture, so that the said servant shall serve Jeremia Kettel during the time he still has to serve.
Jeremia Kettel is to pay Capt. Chambers one hundred sch. of white peas, the value of the same [to be paid] in peas and wheat in the month of February next, without fail, under penalty of judicial enforcement, as follows a final sentence. And, besides, he is to pay all expenses.

III:80
1681 August 20, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
Whereas it is found that no guard is kept, and this place ought to be guarded, therefore the hon. court is obliged, for the sake of protecting the place against fire as well as other [dangers], to appoint a rattle-watch (ratel-wacht) as they are doing by the present. Which man shall go around every hour and call out the time of the night, and thus to look out for all fires, and for night walkers (nacht wandelaers) etc.
[See III:81 1681 November 22 below, when a rattle-watch is appointed.]

 

II:579
1681 August 30, Kingston
Aerdt Otterspoor has contracted to sell to Jan Gerritsen his house and lot for 300 sch of wheat, in 3 installments; Otterspoor shall live there as long as he lives, without paying any rent. Gerritsen may repair the house if he likes. Otterspoor will provide deed (conveyance) after last payment.

II:579-580
1681 September 1 [Kingston?]
Hendrick Van Wey has leased to Luer Jacobsen his farm at Marbletown for 7 years starting [omitted] and ending in September 1687. 100 sch of what per year, due in February, delivered at Marbletown.
With the farm come a wagon with ironwork, 4 half-worn pendents, 4 new wheels, 1 new harrow with iron teeth, 1 plow, 3 cows, an ox in its 3rd year. For each cow, 10 lbs. of butter per year.
Lessee sows at his own expense, for the lessor’s benefit, 8 sch of wheat on the bank. Risk for horses [not mentioned above] and cattle is absolutely assumed by lessee. Fence and all to be returned in same good condition as received.
Natural increase of cattle to be equally divided.

II:579-580
1681 September 1 [Kingston?]
Everdt Prys has bought from Thoomas Mattias a stallion, 4 years old, which a joncker (cadet) has stabled (gehouden) with Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]. Prys will fetch the horse from the woods, but if he can’t locate it, he doesn’t have to pay. Price 43 sch of wheat: this winter 40 sch of oats, 3 sch of oats to be valued at 1 sch of wheat; balance next January.

II:582-583
1681 September 1 [Kingston?]
Wessel Ten Broeck and William De Majer, administrators of estate of Maria [van Langedyck] Wynkoop, lease to Thoomas Quick “about thirteen or fourteen morgen of land at the ‘Rondeeltie,’” for 6 years, starting today, “as soon as the grain shall be off the field in stubble” (so haest alst coorn vant velt is in stopelen) [but see other timeline below]. He will pay “the third sheaf” (1/3 of the crop), to be delivered free “op hocken” (standard phrase with the third or fourth or whatever sheaf). With the lease, Quick gets “the little house, barn, garden, as far as the fence extends to the spring (put) [Versteeg note: or well] and the Calf’s Pasture. For the free use of the well he will pay annually 35 sch of wheat. Fence to be appraised; everything to be returned in same condition as delivered.
Lessee will receive house, barn, garden etc. next May,
[II:583]
the pasture early in the spring.
Lessee shall also cultivate a parcel of land called “the Baker’s plantation” for the fourth sheaf.
And the other plantations for two years free of rent, and in following years for the third sheaf.
Lessee has to pay village taxes, and provide his portion of the stockade wall [the “curtains”].
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[See II:267 1679/80 January 2 when Teunis Jacobsen sells to Gerrit Lambertsen his land at Steen Rabi, excepting half of the calf pasturage.]
[See II:566 1680/1 February 19, when Dirck Schepmoes sells Jan Louwersen a lot named the “Calf’s Pasture,” with a pit or well.]

III:222
1681 September 7, Kingston (Court of Sessions)
Session court held at Kingston by the authority of his royal majesty Charles II, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, Ireland. Protector of the faith. [no date given till after list of officers]
Present Justices:
Capt. Thoomas Delaval
Jan Joosten
Jan Garton
Lowies Du Booys
In the year of our Lord, 1681, September 7th

III:223
1681 September 7, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
[Big bicker about how to form juries, really about whether the Kingston administration has the power to tell Louis Dubois to pay excise tax on liquor he brews or distills in New Paltz.]
[This appears to be the session that convinces Governor Brockholst to demote him, although Brockholst’s letter saying so (III:119 1682 October 25) comes a full year later. It is possible that Dubois creates more ruckus between this session and that letter.]

Lowies Du Booys [Louis Dubois], justice, says that the jury must be formed, according to law, of overseers [council members, magistrates], and in case their number is insufficient, of free-holders, or else he will not sit.
The president asks whether the jury [here] has not always been . . . thus selected by the sheriff, and whether anything can be said against the jury?
Those sitting in the court answer that the jury has been always this selected, and that nothing can be said against the jury.
Lowies Du Booys, not giving in, has created a disturbance in court (heeft de geheele court in roer gesteldt), and was ordered by the members of the court to leave the same, which he would not do. Thereupon the constable was ordered to remove him from the court[room], which has been done.
In the afternoon the court again met together.
It was resolved upon a majority of votes that the court shall be adjourned till the next sessions or till further orders of the Heer Governor, because Lowies Du Booys takes exception at the jury, though he cannot prove anything against the same, as is shown by the advice of the justices and constables.
[See III:228 1682 April 27 and III:231-232 1682 September 25, just a few months later, when Louis Dubois sits as one of the justices in a Court of Sessions and makes no objection to the selection of a jury using apparently the same method he objects to here.]

III:223
1681 September 7, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Frederick Hossy, besides the land granted him, is further granted the land till the end of the little valley, and along the wagon-road.
[See II:480, a second record of the same decision.]

III:223
1681 September 7, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Capt Chambers requests a special [court of] sessions because his case cannot be heard, owing to the fact that Lowies Du Booys disturbs the court.

 

II:480
1681 September 7 (Kingston Court of Sessions, not attached to minutes)
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 162 (middle, quite faint)
[Emblematic of the challenges facing the researcher attempting to find order in this collection of records: This note and the one immediately beneath it in the original Dutch record, from a 1681 court of sessions, sit right below notes, also clearly dated, from a September 1676 land grant (Liber E p. 162). The page immediately before this (p. 163, numbered in reverse) contains the tail end of minutes from the 12 December 1676 council session, followed by two memoranda of council actions, in different ink, that are probably (but not definitely) contemporaneous. On the reverse side of p. 162 (with its 1676 and 1681 entries) is p. 161, the 24 October 1676 appointment of local officials. It is particularly unclear why the 1681 notes got tucked in among these 1676 records, other than because a half-page apparently was available. Montagne’s notes are often roughly sequential within a series of pages, but anomalies like this crop up with some regularity.]
[Minutes from this Court of Sessions begin at III:222.]
1681 Sep. 7. The hon court of sessions orders that the mill-dam at Horly and at Kingston shall be made twice as wide as they now are so that two wagons can pass each other, to be done within three weeks from this date.

II:480
[undated, but from same 1681 September 7 Court of Sessions]
Secretary’s Papers Liber E 162 (bottom two lines)
Fredrick Hossy is further granted the land at the end of the Little Valley
[See II:223, a second record of the same decision.]

III:223-224
1681 September 8, Kingston (Special Session)
Special Session held at Kingston September 8th, 1681
Present:
Capt. Thoomas Delavall, Justice
Jan Joosten, Justice
Jan Garton

[Louis Dubois continues to bicker about how juries are selected.]
[The question is about whether Louis Dubois has to pay tax on what he distills at New Paltz, which he claims is out of Kingston’s jurisdiction and so exempt from excise. This is why he keeps trying to stall the proceedings.]

Lowies Du Booys yet says that the jury is not composed according to law. Says that they must not proceed until there shall be another jury, according to law.
It was asked whether the jury has not always been selected
[III:224]
in the same manner.
Capt. Chambers and the Constables answer “Yes.”
Lowies Du Booys was further asked what he knew against the jury, and [was told] that he should select another. Said Du Booys remained as obstinate as before.
The constable was again ordered to remove im from the court[room].
Capt. Chambers complains that the magistrates [council members, overseers] dispose of the excise without his consent.
The magistrates say that the excise belongs to the village, and that Capt. Chambers has no authority to farm the same out.
[Note: The list of officers present included only the Justices, with no list of magistrates/overseers/council members present. Evidently they were in attendance too, although unlisted.]
The case is referred to the jury.
[Normally a list of the members of the juries comes here.]
The jury finds that Capt. Chambers had full authority to farm out the excise till September 12th 1680, when Capt. Delavall was appointed Justice of the Peace, and no longer, without new authority.
The court concurs with the verdict.
Capt. Chambers is to pay the [court] costs.
Capt. Chambers appeals to the court of assizes, because he was to convoke a special session on account of Lowies Du Booys’ disturbing the court so that [Chambers] could not be heard on the first day.

III:224
1681 September 8, Kingston (Special Session, continued)
The case between Elisabet Hals [Elizabeth Hall] and Mr. Asfordt [Asfordbie] is adjourned till the next court of sessions.
[See III:218-219 1681 April 18 when this first comes up, with no further details.]
[See Andros Papers 1679-1680 p. 437 for a note dated 1680 October 1, referring “to the Court of Sessions to determine . . . according to Law” the case of “Mr. Wm. Asfordbys peticion, with the Many hands about Mrs. Halls accusing him of getting her Child.” The petition appears above, AP 1679-1680 pp. 398-399 1680 September. No further information appears to be available. There is no record of baptism in the Dutch Reformed Church at Kingston for a child of Elizabeth Hall in 1681.
[Elizabeth Hall is the widow of George Hall, the former Sheriff of the Esopus, who had died in early June 1678; see II:431-432 1678 June 14. Asfordbie probably had been named Sheriff shortly after that, though his appointment is not recorded in these volumes. See II:424-425 1678/9 March 18, possibly the first written record that Asfordbie is sheriff, though he more likely would have been appointed ca. June-July 1678.
[Elizabeth Hall marries Robert Bickerstaff by 1683; see III:33 1683 April 2.]
[Elizabeth Hall’s first husband, George Hall, was sheriff. Her second husband, Robert Bickerstaff, is constable. Between the two she accuses William Asfordbie, sheriff, of fathering her child. Elizabeth Hall has a type. William Asfordbie has a wife. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Asfordby-2 enumerating his wife (married by 1667, in Lincolnshire in England) and several children. (Asfordby, by the way, is descended from at least two Magna Carta Surety Barons.)]

 

II:581
1681 September 20 [Kingston?]
??? LaForest (or LaFore) and Frederick Pietersen have contracted with each other at Marbletown.
Laforest will deliver silver money, pieces of eight at 12 gldrs. Pietersen will deliver the wheat, at 4 gldrs 10 st. “the piece [sic]” [is this per schepel? Rate up to now has been 6 guilders per schepel.] But Lafore will deliver pieces of eight as soon as they arrive together at Manhattan. Pietersen will deliver wheat next year, 150 sch delivered free at New York, total of 56 pieces of eight and 3 gldrs.
Pietersen mortgages land, house, horses, cattle etc.
[Other records refer to François Lafore. Unclear whether this is the same person.]

III:80
1681 September 20, Kingston (extraordinary council session)
Extraordinary [session of the] Court held at Kingston, September 20, 1681
Present:
Justice Jan Joosten
William Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen
Eduward Wittaker
William De Meyer

Frans Goderis vs. William Montagne, Farmer [of the excise: collector of the liquor tax]
[Goderis] demands, as per declaration, to have returned to him his rum, which Montagne has confiscated, with all damages and interest.
[Montagne] answers in writing that the same had not been declared, has done it upon orders (volgens order).
The hon. court refers the case to the general court of assizes.
[See III:389 1681 November 22, same case.]

III:80-81
1681 September 20, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
[Could also be November 22; see note at III:81 for that date. Original pages should be examined to see where one session leaves off and the next begins.]
Michiel Modt requests a parcel of land near the Twaelf Kill, about 15 morgens in extent.
The hon. court grants the same, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.

William Fisher requests a parcel of land near Jacob Rutgers’ land.
The hon. court grants the same, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.
[See III:112 1682 June 14, Jacob Rutgers making similar request.]
[See III:81 1681 November 22, Rutgers granted 4 morgens, no explanation or description.]

 

II:581
1681 September 23 [Kingston?]
Thomas Harmensen sells to Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] and Pieter Lassink (Laszen) a house, lot, kettle, hose and everything, the lot till the ditch, for 80 pieces of eight, ready money, plus 3200 lbs. flour a year from next winter.
Harmansen to deliver the brewery within four weeks from now.
Harmansen may live in house till next May.
If Harmansen sells hop garden, Pieter Lassinck has right of first refusal.
Signed (witnesses) Jan Thomas [probably brother-in-law of Tjerck Claesen], Marten Hoffman [another brother-in-law]
Signed Tomys Hermans, Tierck Claszen DeWitt, Pyetter Pyetterszen Laszen
[See II:582 1681 September 25, Harmensen sells Martin Hofman his hop garden, wagon, etc.]

II:582
1681 September 25, Kingston
Thoomas Harmonsen contracts to sell to Martin Hofman his hopgarden with everything belonging to it, hops and everything, as expressed in Harmonsen’s grant, but Marten Hofman is himself to procure the deed.
Harmonsen is yet to deliver all the pigs coming to him. Is still [in addition] to deliver his wagon with harness, traces, bolts, hoops, reins, bridle-bits, “tour houten,” hammer, tar-bucket (teerputs).
Hofman will pay 175 sch of wehat, two installments, this winter (February) and February of next year (1682/3)
Witnesses Michiel Modt and Jan Hendrix, both signing with marks (Hendrix is ooo mark).
Signed Tomys Hermans and Marten Hoffman
[See II:581 1681 September 23, Harmensen sells brewery to Tierck Claesen and Pieter Lassinck.]

 

Oct-Nov-Dec

II:588
1681 October 1 [Kingston?]
Isaac De Rocel [Rochelle] has contracted to build for William Fisher a thrash-floor, of the same dimensions as the barn, to be of sawn lumber. of the same length as the barn is wide, four inches thick with four ground beams. Fisher will cart the lumber from the wood, and provide board and drink. He will pay 18 sch. of wheat as soon as the job is done. Work to commence in three weeks.
[See II:575 1681 June 7, Kingston, contract to build Fisher’s barn.]

II:589
1681 October 3, Kingston
Cornelis Hoogeboom, attorney for DeSheap [Isaac DuChamp, New York merchant], has sold to Frederick Hossy [signs Hussey] “a Negro, named Pompkin,” for 300 sch of wheat, two installments, March 1682 and 1683.
[See III:23 1682/3 March 6, DuChamp has sold “a negress, named Anna” to Pieter Cornelissen.]

II:587-8
1681 October 5-6, New York, 33th year of Reign of Charles II
(in English) General Court of Assizes in NYC: Whereas several persons lately have made “divers causlesse and vexatious accusations and indictments” in the courts “against severall magistrates” and others involved in public affairs, “which causet great Troble and disturbens,” “to the end that the same may bee for the future prevented,” “it is ordered by this court . . . that no person . . . presume to Bringh . . . any accusation” unless the matter has first been examined by two Justices and found worthy of the court’s time.
[Sounds as if this is both to cut down on frivolous lawsuits and also, maybe, to cut back on complaints about His Majesty’s officers.]

II:589
1681 October 20 [Kingston?]
Lourents Smit [Lawrence Smith?] declares that he pushed Roelof Hendrix out of the house. Then Jan De Brabander arrived and drew his knife against him, and said: “You fat dog. I shall cut you with this, until your bowels drop out of your body.” Which took place on the 17th [of this month]. So truly help you God!
Sworn to before Sheriff and Constable and Wittaker, overseer [council member], this October 20, 1681.

II:589-590
1681 October 27 [Kingston?]
Evert Pels provides deed (conveyance) to Capt. Thoomas Chambers for parcel “commencing at the foot of a mountain back of the house of Everdt Pels till a wagon-road leading to the mill. From there along the small kill to the Ronduyt Kill; thence again to the foot of the mountain, the mountain comprised in the same till a marked stone.” He owns it “by virtue of a deed, dated November 2, 1668, granted by the hon. Governor General Lovelace.” Satisfied from first to last penny.
Pels also confirms that Chambers has full right and privilege (and ownership) of the mill and water course, but Chambers will have to procure the patent. Also, Pels will, for his household, “have his grain ground free of cost, as long as they both shall be living.”
Chambers can make the dam as high as he finds necessary, but not higher than the common wagon road.

 

II:583-584
1681 November 7 [Kingston?]
Pieter Cornelis has contracted to sell to Jacob Bastiaen[se] a lot, “back of the orchard, next to the land of Mattias Mattesen [Mattys Mattysen?], size as indicated [i.e. shown to Bastiaen by Cornelis], by a large stump. For rent Bastiaen will help mow during two harvests and will thresh on his own land the grain raised by Pieter Cornelisen. Delivery immediately. Bastiaense will also, this winter, thresh whatever is necessary.

II:584
1681 November 7 [Kingston?]
Jan Pietersen provides deed (conveyance), with permission of Matthew Blanchan, to Hendrick Ten Eyck, for a portion of a lot, as has been pointed out to Ten Eyck. It’s a portion of a lot bought by Pietersen from Blanchan; Pietersen has been satisfied from first to last penny.
Signed Jan Pietersen (with mark), Matheu Blanshan
[This is a very complicated land deal. Pietersen is selling a lot that was originally bought from Blanchan by Jacques Dubois, who died before he paid for it. Pietersen married Jacques’s widow, Petronelle Benteyn. He eventually agreed to honor the contract Dubois had with Blanchan, but when he sells this portion to Ten Eyck, Pietersen has not finished paying for it, so he doesn’t have a deed yet from Blanchan. The case winds on in court for a few years. See II:411 1677 December 30 for many notes.]

II:584-585
1681 November 7 [Kingston?]
Egbert Myndersen has contracted to build for Wallerand Du Mont a cellar, 25 feet square, measured from within, 8 feet deep, clean on both ends, “all the portion coming above ground” [?], a wall running through the center from one end to the other, with a door between, for a store room. Stone stairs near outer door, walls properly plastered. During work Egbert gets free board and half a pint of rum per day. Du Mont will furnish all materials, and two helpers. Price is 34 sch of wheat. Work starts ASAP in spring; Egbert will not wait for carpenter’s work or materials.

III:115-116
1681 November 15, New York (copied into Kingston records between entries for 1682 November 22 and 1682 November 8; unclear whether there was a reason it was inserted at that point)
True copy of original:
[Notary Public in New York has long tract about owed money.]
Appeared before me Wm. Bogardus, Notary Public at New York, admitted by the very and right honorable Sir Edmond Anders, Knight, governor of New York, etc., and the below named witnesses, Frederick Pietersen Maures [probably Mauritz or similar; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pietersen-98 ; not related to Lewis and Richard Morris of Morrisania in the Bronx], living at Marbleton in the Esoopus, being about to depart with the ship, the Bever to England and Holland, known to me notary, who acknowledges and declares for himself, his heirs and descendants, to actually and honestly owe Mr. François Romboudt and Mr. Guliam Verplanck, merchants here [New York], the quantity of five hundred and eight sch. of good merchantable winter wheat, originating from a sentence and execution to the charge of the appearer, obtained from the court at Kingston in the Esoopus.
Which before named quantity of five hundred and eight sch. of wheat the appearer agrees and promises to pay or to have paid to the before mentioned Messrs. Rombouts and Verplanck or their order or assigns in the time of four years, to be reckoned from the first day of March next when a just one fourth portion of the aforesaid quantity of five hundred and eight sch. of wheat must be satisfied and paid—and so further from year to year in the month of March an equal quarter till the
[III:116]
full payment of the same, with the interest on the same at six percent per annum, beginning with the present date and running till the full and effective payment.
With this understanding, however, that the appearer, under the pretext of paying interest, shall not be permitted to retain the principal any longer than the said Rombouts and Verplanck shall permite. Every payment to be made free of expense at this city.
For further security and satisfaction of the before mentioned five hundred and eight sch. of winter wheat the appearer mortgages in behalf of the above named Rombouts and Verplanck, specially his farm and land situated in the Esoopus at the aforesaid [village of] Marbleton, on the second piece, between Robbert Pekock’s and Jan Bigs, ten morgen in extent with all annexes of the same, for the purpose of, in case of failure and neglect of payment at the specified period of the said debt of 508 sch. of wheat and interest, collecting the same.
Further binding for this purpose also in general his person and other estate, personal and real, however named and wherever located, none excepted, submitting all to the jurisdiction of any courts and judges.
And the appearer has further requested and authorized Mr. Willem Montagne, Clerk at Kingston, to have this mortgage entered in the village protocol, to serve its purpose (omme te dienen naer behooren).
In testimony the minute of the present has been subscribed to by the appearer, besides by Benjamin Blage and Pieter De Riemer, and Andries Grevenraedt as witnesses, and sealed here at New York November 15, 1681

 

III:81
1681 November 22, Kingston (ordinary council session)
[Versteeg note: For Session of Nov. 22, 1681, see page 389 Vol. III]
[Start of session is on III:389; end appears below.]

III:389
1681 November 22, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston November 22, 1681
Present:
Mr. William Asfordbie, sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. D’Meyer

Frans Goderis vs. Willem Montagne
[Goderis] demands eight hundred gldrs for court expenses in a case originating from the attachment of rum, levied by the said Wm. Montag[ne], which had been referred to the general court of assizes. [Goderis] obtained an order that said rum was again to be returned upon demand.
The hon. court finds no order concerning the expenses. Orders [Goderis] to request the same of the said court of assizes to which the case had been referred.
[See III:80 1681 September 20, same case.]

III:389
1681 November 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes
[Goderis] demands twenty-three sch. of wheat.
[Schepmoes] says he paid eleven sch. on the same, the balance was assigned to [Gerrit Van] Slechtenhorst.
Adjourned till the next session of the court.

III:389
1681 November 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Leendert Cool vs. Pieter Jansen
[Cool] says that [Pieter] was to build [Cool’s] house with a stone foundation.
[Pieter] says that [Cool] was to cart the stone.
Referred to good men [to arbitrate], viz. Mr. Beeckman, Mr. Hossy.

III:389-390
1681 November 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Everdt Prys vs. Marten Hofman
Whereas witnesses declare that Marten Hofman had
[III:390]
bought the horse for thirty-six sch. of wheat and a sow, with eleven sch. and a winter-hog, therefore Marten Hofman is ordered to pay the same.

III:390
1681 November 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. D’Mejer and Jacob Rutgers request to [be permitted to] go around for the expenses of the domine, which is permitted them.
[See II:610 1680 December 30, Rutgersen again being asked to go around and collect church money, that time with Cornelis Hoogeboom.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

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III:81
1681 November 22
This November 22d Arent Isax has been appointed rattle-watch (Ratel Wacht), as per instructions, till the first of May. He is to receive for his service forty sch. of wheat.
[See III:80 1681 August 20, when council decides to create a rattle-watch.]

Granted to Mr. Willem Asfordbie, 4 morgens of land

Granted to Jacob Rutgers, 4 morgens of land
[No context or description, but Rutgers buys and sells land with William Fisher and Cornelis Hoogeboom over a period of many years, and seeks and receives other grants as well. Whether this is related to any of those parcels is unknown. See II:611-612 1682 February 6, III:112 1682 June 14, II:629-631 1682 June 23 for more notes.]

Granted to Hendrick Ten Eyck, 4 morgens of land across the dam between the path leading to the little valley, and between the little valley [sic, literal].

 

II:585-586
1681 November 29, Kingston
Arendt Isaax (signs Arent Ysacks) has contracted to sell to Simon Hakins (signs Symen Haec) his house and lot, “in the village of Kingston,” which Isaax bought from Mr. Asfordbie, for 187 sch of wheat, 150 sch to be paid February 1681/2 to Mr. Asfordbie, plus 37 sch to Nicolaes Du Pue, or actually to Du Pue only as much as Arent owes Du Pue, with the balance of the 37 to be paid directly to Arent. House and lot to be delivered on 1 May. With last installment Arent will provide deed (conveyance).
[Isaax is selling a house that Asfordbie bought from Rachel Tyte or Fyte. Original contract of sale from Asfordbie to Isaax does not appear in these records, but deed for property (after Asfordbie, eventually, gets paid) is at II:622-623 1682 March 31, including transfer to Hawkins. Asfordbie’s deed from Rachel Tyte is at II:443 1678/9 February 8, with further notes.]
[See III:94 1681/2 March 1 for more notes on the tussle between Asfordbie and Isaax over getting paid. Hawkins, who agreed to pay Asfordbie for it, eventually offered Asfordbie a cow in payment, which Asfordbie said he could accept, “if he liked the cow.”]

II:586
1681 December 2, Kingston
Jan Hendrix [Hendericksz] has contracted to sell to Severyn Ten Houdt his house, “in which he is living at present, with as much ground near his barn or in a straight line to the curtain [stockade wall], being the northernmost portion of the lot.” Lot to be delivered May 1682. Payment in 3 installments: First immediately, 10 anckers of good merchantable rum; second next winter, “the value of one hundred sch. of wheat, half in good merchantable rum, at current prices, the same as Jan Hendrix can buy the rum with ready wheat, the balance in good winter wheat.” Third installment following winter, same split. Then Jan will provide deed (conveyance).

 

II:545
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 111
Marbleton Dec. 15, 1681
Present:
Mr. Asfordbie, sheriff
F. Garton, Constable
Lambert Huybertsen
Jan Cock
Gysbert Crom
Matteus Blansjan

Garton vs. Evert Prys

Capt. Delavall vs. Jan Hendrix Capt. [sic], for 26 gldrs

Gertruy Gouw? vs. Jan Capt, for 25 sch of wheat

II:545
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Fisjer [Fisher] vs. Jan Capt
[Fisher demands?] 113 gldrs, book debt, wherefrom are to be deducted 60 gldrs in the hands of Gerrit Adriaensen. [Jan ordered to pay?] 53 [gldrs]

II:545
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Marten Hofman demands 80 sch of rye under the hands of Lambert Huyberts—And says that he has bought the rye—and shows a declaration.

II:545-546
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Lambert Huybertsen vs. Jan Capt
the charges—for mowing. And taking in board a mare. [[Literal.]]

II:546
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Fisjer [Fisher] vs. Jan Coptly
Lambert proves
[[This is all and may not even belong here, though entered here.]]

II:546
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Fisjer [Fisher] vs. Gerrit Clockluyer [Bellringer]
[Fisher] demands 30 sch. of wheat. Attached 3 sch. under the hands of Gerrit [Adriaensen] Van Vliet.
[Verdict:] Condemned [to pay]

II:546
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Marten Hofman vs. Claes Sluyter, attached his grain for [[here it ends]]

[Bottom of Page 111 in original Dutch record. The minutes were kept on a sheet of paper folded to make four “pages.” The minutes start at the top of the “front” page (numbered 111 after the minutes were rebound into a single volume, like a book), then continue on the “back” page (114), then conclude on the first “inside” page (112). This is common in this collection.]

II:546-547
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 114
Marten Hofman vs. Gerrit Lambers [Lambertsen], for 21 gldrs

[II:547]
Mr. Asford per attachment 34 sch 1:16, under the hands of Hendrick Van Wy [Van Wey]

Capt Delavall and Terck Claesen [Tjerck Claesen DeWitt] vs. Claes Sluyter, 1st default
Per attachment against his corn.

Honfer [Humphrey] Davenpoort vs. Claes Sluyter, 1st default
[Davenport] demands [this is all]

II:547
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] vs. Adrian Fransen
[DeWitt] demands 678 [gldrs] 14 st. and yet [in addition] some book debt.
[Fransen] admits the debt.
Per attachment. [Tjerck] Requests bonds.

II:547
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Asford, sheriff [William Asfordbie], vs. Adriaen Fransen
[Asfordbie] says that Adrian Fransen has drawn a knife against [George] Porter, and [uttered] vile expressions against the English nation.
Machter Stoffels declares that Adrian Fransen has drawn a knife against Gorge Porter, and said: “Come outside you English dogs; the best Englishman is a rascal” (de beste Engelsman is een schellem).

II:547
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Capt D’lavall vs. Pieter Gillis, for 270 gldrs
180 gldrs paid by Henry Pawling
[Gillis] admits [to owe] 24 [guilders].

[Bottom of Page 114 in the original record. From here the minutes conclude on Page 112. Page 113 is blank.]

Court Records Volume 5 Page 112
Capt. D’lavall vs. James Peacock? or Peneck? (Pinnick?), for 173 gldrs
[Held till] Next Court

[Capt. D’lavall vs.] Jan Gerits [Gerritsen], 1st default

The same [Capt. D’lavall vs.] Adrian Fransen, for 46 [gldrs? sch?]
[Held till] Next Court [but see verdict, next line]
Adrian Fransen ordered to pay 35 gldrs—and costs.

II:546
1681 December 15, Marbletown (ordinary council session, continued)
Dirck Wessels has been granted the use of the block house to keep school if the same is not wanted in an emergency. [(als by gelegentheyt tselve niet van Noodt hebben)]

[This is the last item on Page 112 in the original record and evidently the end of the session. The bottom half of this page is empty, as is Page 113.]

Will
II:590-591
1681 December 16, Kingston
Jan Joosten Van Meeteren is at present weak, so:
1. Recommends his soul into the hands of God
[There is no 2.] His wife Maycken [Hendrix] retains full possession. His wife also consents that survivor shall possess everything. But after demise of both, the remainder shall be inherited by their children, viz. Joost gets half of everything, and for him and Gysbert the land at Marbletown; half for Joost and the other half to be divided between them. Geertie Crom gets the land at Wassemaker’s Land. The children of the deceased Lysbedt get their portion in money from the other children, upon appraisal.
Signed Jan Joosten, mark of Maycken Hendrix
[See II:268-269 1679/80 Jan 31 deed from De Mott to Joosten for the land at Wassemaker’s; it belonged to Henry Pawling before De Mott.]
[Jan survives; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Meteren-8 . He is granted land in New Jersey in 1689, 1695, 1700. Will at Ulster County Deeds AA:361 says he is deceased; see Anjou. Inventory of estate is filed in Burlington County, New Jersey, 13 June 1706.]

II:591
1681 December 16, Kingston
(in English) Anthony Addison has sold to George Mills his half of a parcel called Breekebeen [Hoeck].
George will pay 140 sch of wheat delivered free at Kingston in two payments, next Feb 70 sch (50 to De Majer for his father), 70 again the following year.
Addison will give deed (transport)
If either party wants to sell, the other party will have right of first refusal.
[See also III:153-154, 1684 August 19, Anthony Addison “late of Marbleton,” selling half-share of Broockboone hooke to George Mealls of Marbletown.]
[See also III:7, 1682/3 January 19, Addison contracting to sell to Ann Garton a parcel called Breeckebeen Hoeck, half the parcel he has in partnership with George Mills.]

II:592
1681 December 16, Kingston
Adriaen Fransen owes Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] 131 sch of wheat and 5 guilders. He will pay this winter, mortgaging land at Monbackus, horses, a cow, plow, and everything he owns.
[Not executed; see next item 22 December.]

II:592
1681 December 22, Kingston
[See previous item 16 December.]
Adrian Fransen has sold to Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] “his land on the ‘Great Piece’ at Monbackus [Mombaccus], viz. that [land] laid out for him and James Pennick.” James Princk [sic] to till land for 4 years. If he plants, he is to protect it; “if he sows, he need not keep the fence.” James is to work 10 days at Tierck’s expense. Crop on land belongs to Fransen; Tierck pays “cash” 225 sch of wheat for it. Fransen provides deed (conveyance) as part of this document (both contract of sale and deed, no pennies mentioned).
[See II:286 1680/1 January 17, Thomas Quick contracts to sell land at Mombaccus to Adriaen Fransen.]

II:593
1681 December 30, Kingston
Gerrit Lambertsen gives power of attorney to Jacob Rutgers, residing at Kingston for anything in the Esopus.

 

II:586-587
1681 December 30 [Kingston? Marbletown?]
Gerrit Lamb[ertsen] provides deed (conveyance] to Hendrick Hendrix Van Wey for a plot of land, apparently two lots, one possessed by Lambertsen and one by (or bought from) Quinel, across the Kill just opposite Marbletown.
[See II:258-259 1679 August 5, when Lambertsen contracts to sell to Van Wey and Harmon Hendrix (Roosenkrantz) 2 lots that Lambertsen bought from Quinel and Addison.]
[See II:565 1680/1 February 24, Marbletown, when Quinel provides deed to Lambertsen.]

1682

Jan-Feb-Mar

III:81
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, January 10, 1681/2
[Versteeg originally wrote November 22, 1681, then crossed it out]
Present:
Mr. William Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. De Meyer

Thoomas Harmonsen vs. Jan Janson Amesfordt, 1st default

Geertruy Govertsen vs. Eghbert Meyndertsen, for 25 sch. of wheat
Court adjourns case until next session.

III:81-82
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Capt. Chambers vs. Edward Wittakar
[Chambers] demands, as per account, the rent for his land
[III:82]
[Wittaker] says [Chambers] has sold to Edward Wittakar his grain, to pay him, which [Chambers] proves. [Versteeg note: literal translation.] [2025 note: This appears to have the roles confused.]
In the case between Eduward Wittakar and Capt. Chambers, the hon. court finds that Capt. Chambers must sue Eduward Wittakar—because [Wittakar] has sold the grain, therefore, at the time of the land.
[Versteeg note: The whole of this sentence is a literal translation.]
[See III:89 1681/2 February 22, probably same complaint.]

III:82
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Roelof Jansen
[Fisher] demands five hundred forty-two gldrs, five stivers.
[Jansen] denies four pairs of stockings, says having received only two pair.
The hon. court orders Roelof Jansen to pay the demanded amount, with costs.

III:82
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Hoogeboom vs. Adriaen Fransen
[Hoogeboom] says that Thomas Quick has become surety for [Fransen], to the amount of hundred and forty gldrs.
The surety did not appear, and the hon. court orders Thomas Quick to pay.
[See II:286 1680/1 January 17, Thomas Quick contracts to sell land at Mombaccus to Adriaen Fransen.]
[See II:530 1681/2 January 12, Quick asks Fransen to finish paying for the land at Mombaccus. Fransen sold land at Mombaccus to Tjerck Claesen DeWitt as part of a debt settlement.]

III:82
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Robbert Bickkerstaff vs. Leendert Cool
[Bickerstaff] demands, as per obligation, the amount of hundred ninety six gldrs.
[Cool] says he only owes ninety six gldrs.
The hon. court orders [Cool] [to pay] as per obligation, with costs.

III:83
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Claes Teunesen
[Fisher] demands three hundred and eighty sch. of wheat, balance of obligation now fallen due.
[Claes] admits the debt.
The hon. court orders [Claes] to pay, with costs.

III:83
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davelpoort [Humphrey Davenport] vs. Robbert Bickerstaf, for £8 sixpence
Bickerstaff appeals to the court of sessions

III:83
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Aerdt Martensen Dooren vs. Tierck Claesen De Widt [DeWitt]
[Doorn] demands of [DeWitt] the quantity of thirt-five sch. of wheat.
[DeWitt] admits the debt.
The hon. court orders [DeWitt] to pay the demanded amount, with expenses.

III:83
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Dirck Hendrix vs. Eduward Wittakar
[Hendrix] demands three hundred sch. of wheat.
[Wittaker] appeals to a higher court.

III:83
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Severyn Ten Houdt vs. Dirck Hendrix, for 15 sch of wheat

III:83
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Gerrit Van Slechtenhorst was permitted to erect his fence on the heights, along the path, near his pasture, bought of Elisabet Hals [Elizabeth Hall].
[See II:431-432 1678 June 14, inventory of George Hall’s estate.]

III:83-84
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Joseph Parrot, attorney for Jan Collyn, vs. Bruyn Haegen
[Parrot] demands as per obligation the quantity of hundred and sixty sch. of wheat, yet [in addition] as per a fresh account hundred and thirty-one gldrs.
[Haegen] says having paid on the same hundred and twenty sch. of wheat.
The hon. court orders Bruyn Haegen to pay the balance, with costs.

III:84
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Anthony Addeson, for 241 gldrs

III:84
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The case between [Gerrit Van] Sleghtenhorst and Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes] is referred [to arbitrators]. Each of them shall select a good man to decide their case.

III:84
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Adriaensen vs. Claes Jurriaensen, for 60 sch. of wheat, “owing to purchase of a horse.”

Claes Jurriaensen vs. Adriaen Gerritsen, for 52 sch. of wheat, “owing to purchase of the same horse.”
Adrian Gerritsen appeals to the [Court of] Sessions.

III:84
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Capt. Thoomas D’lavall vs. Poulus Poulussen
[Delavall] demands, as per the contract, the rent for his land. Still [in addition] for book-debt three hundred forty-two gldrs, five st.
The hon. court orders [Poulus] to pay, provided he may deduct what has been paid on the same.

III:85
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Jan Meweson, for 240 guilders with costs, “for conveying him from N. Yorck.”

III:85
1681/2 January 10, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff, vs. Hillebrant Lagier
[The sheriff] says that [Hillebrant] has been shooting pigeons on Sunday
[Hillebrant] is ordered to pay twenty-five gldrs.

 

II:593-594
1681/2 January 11, Kingston
Claes Teunessen, residing at Marbletown, owes Frans Goderis 4428 gldrs, which Claes will pay to Mr. Jamis Graham or his order, when Graham will demand it. Claes releases Goderis of the obligation. If Claes doesn’t pay, he will pay “proper interest.”
He mortgages “lands or farm” which he has bought from Mr. William Asfordbie.

 

II:529
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 65
Horly January 12, 1681/2
[no list of officers present]

Tierck Claesen DeWitt vs. Leendert Cool, 1st default

Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] vs. Claes Sluyter, 2d default

II:529
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Capt. D’Lavall vs. Claes Sluyter, 2d default

[probably same, Capt. D’Lavall] vs. Evert Prys, 1st default

Gerrit Lambertsen, 1st default, vs. Jan Elton [Elting], 1st default

Wm. Fisher vs. Claes Sluyter, 2d default

II:529
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Johannes De Hooges
[Frans demands] 18 sch. of wheat and 5 gldrs—1 hops worth 4 gldrs, 1 bottle of rum worth 4 gldrs to be deducted.
[Johannes] says that he received 14 ells of Osenburg [linen] too little.
[Johannes is ordered to pay] provided he may deduct what has been paid on the same.

II:529
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Roelof Swartwout, 1st default

II:530
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Onfer [Humphrey] Davenpoort vs. Claes Sluyter, 2d default

[probably the same, Humphrey Davenpoort] vs. Evert Prys, 1st default

Thoomas Quick vs. Adriaen Fransen
[Quick] demands 330 sch. of wheat—130 of which were to be paid this year.
[Fransen] admits the debt.
[See II:286 1680/1 January 17, Thomas Quick contracts to sell land at Mombaccus to Adriaen Fransen.]
[See II:592 1681 December 22, Adrian Fransen sells “his land on the ‘Great Piece’ at Monbackus” to Tierck Claesen DeWitt as part of a debt settlement.]
[See III:82 Cornelis Hoogeboom comes after Thomas Quick, as surety for Adriaen Fransen, for a debt Fransen has not paid.]

II:530
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 5 Page 66
Johannes De Hooges vs. Claes Sluyter, 1st default

Thomas Quicq vs. Lambert Huyberts
[Quick] says that he sold to Jan Endersen [?] 13 sch of peas, and carted the same to Lambert Huybertsen’s. Demands the pease of him.

II:530
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Adriaen Fransen vs. Claes Sluyter, 1st default

Thoomas Quick vs. Claes Sluyerter [sic], 1st default

Leendert Cool per attachment (by arrest) vs. Claes Sluyter, 1st default
[[This is the way it appears in the original. Was Claes Sluyter defendant?]]

II:530-531
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Marten Hofman vs. Jan Captn.
Thoomas Harman declares that Jan Werens? [[or Mewesen?]] bought the rye of Jan Capt, and that Jan Werens [or Mewesen] was to pay Marten Hofman 80 sch. of rye.
The court decides that the costs and rent for the land shall first be deducted and that Marten Hofman is preferred.

II:531
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Asfordbie vs. Dirck Kyser
[Asfordbie] says that Dirck Kyser has made much trouble [[groote questie]] at the house of Gorge Porter. Demands 100 gldrs [fine] in accordance with the decree.
Adjourned till next [session] of the court.

II:531
1681/2 January 12, Hurley (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court grants [William] Asfordbie the valley in the woods, because the hon. court does not deem [the grant] prejudicial.

[Bottom of original Dutch-language Court Records Volume 5 Page 66.]

III:85
1681/2 January 17, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court, held at Kingston, January 17th, 1681/2
Present:
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen De Witt
Wessel Ten Broeck
Eduward Wittakar
Wm. De Mejer

Thoomas Harmonsen vs. Jan Jansen, 2d default
Thoomas Harmonsen vs. Leendert Cool, 2d default

Hendricus Beeckman vs. Johannes Jurriansen, for 153 gldrs 5 st.

III:85-86
1681/2 January 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Willemsen vs. Humphre Davenport
[Willemsen] says that he institutes proceedings about a negro without ears, and says that he requested Humphre Davenport, through Jan Focken’s boy, to call on him. Humphre came there (daer gekoomen) and [Willemsen] asked him about the negro, whether he was for sale. The answer was “Yes.” Further asked whether said Negro had lived long amont Christians. [Davenport] answered that the Negro had lived long in Barbados, afterward two years at Boston from Boston to the Manhatans, and had for some time lived with Ariaens, but did not know how long. Thereupon Jan Willemsen said: Then he can easily do some farm-work. Then Jan Focken said that the negro could thresh and winnow and hew (hacken) like a farm hand. Jan Willemsen was surprised that Adriaens had sold so [valuable] a Negro. Davenport replied that the wife could not agree with him.
[Davenport] says having sold the negro as per contract. Jan Focken declares that Jan Willemsen wanted to buy the Negro, and Humphre offered the Negro for 335 sch of wheat, and Jan Willemsen offered him 325 sch, and fully settled for 328: This year 113 and next year the rest. And in case Jan Willemsen could promptly pay said installment he could satisfy with 325 [sch.]. Then Jan Willemsen said: “Now I may say, now I have two negroes with two ears.”
The hon. court decides that the contract shall stand—Jan Willemsen to pay the expenses.

III:86-87
1681/2 January 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Johannes Juriaensen, for 7 1/2 sch of wheat, “as per obligation” [i.e., Goderis has a paper note committing Juriaensen to pay]

Frans Goderis vs. Lafore [no further name], for 134 gldrs. 3d default; court orders him to pay.
[Other records refer to François Lafore. Unclear whether this is the same person.]

Frans Goderis vs. Theunus Elesen, for 37 sch. of wheat, 5 gldrs, and another 7 sch.

III:87
1681/2 January 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Pauwldin [Henry Pawling]
[Anthony] demands 1326 gldrs.
[Pawling] appeals to the [Court of] Sessions

 

II:610
1681/2 January 24, Kingston
Five Esopus village members declare in presence of Justice DeLavall and council to be willing to sell their land to Geertruy Govertsen and Michiel DeModt, [viz.] all their land named Sawan Konck [Shawangunk], on which they “owe a part” (?). Balance shall be paid by Geertruy & Michiel.
[Versteeg remarks: “It will be observed that only two of the names of those who signed the document correspond with the body.” Actually, that’s not true. Those named in the document are: Semay, alias Jochem, Wapahes, Nahentanio, Nuthakaunamay, Wawe Jakamin. Signers are Wawajakan (Wawe Jakamin), Wapahoes (Wapahes), Jochim (Jochem), Semau (Semay), Narachnemauw (possibly Nuthakaunamay).]
[See III:112 1682 June 14, when Geertruy is accused of lodging four Esopus villagers in her house in Kingston overnight, which she is not supposed to do, per decree. Geertruyd’s husband is Jacob Bruyn.]

III:87
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, January 24, 1681/2
Present:
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
William DeMejer

Humphre[y] [Davenport] vs. Jan Jansen, 2d default

Hendricus Beeckman vs. Jan Jansen [who is listed as not appearing in the case right before and right after this]
[Beeckman] says having paid for Jan Jansen 12 days @ nine gldrs per day
[Jansen is?] Ordered to pay

Thoomas Harmonsen vs. Jan Jansen, 3d default
[Harmonsen] demands twenty-one and one half sch of wheat.
The hon. court orders [Jansen] to pay.

III:87
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Severyn Ten Houdt vs. Marten Hofman, for 176 1/2 sch. of wheat

III:88
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Severeyn Ten Houdt vs. Machiel Modt
[Severyn] demands fourteen beavers. Still [in addition] for the Heer Lavall four hundred and eighty-two gldrs.
[Mott] admits the debt.
[Mott is] Ordered to pay.

III:88
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Henderick Kip vs. Robbert Bickerstaff
[Kip] demands of [Bickerstaff] sixty-nine gldrs, and that he shall give security that Mr. Lavall will not sue [Kip] for the hundred and two gldrs which he, [Bickerstaff], also claims of [Kip?]
[no verdict recorded]

III:88
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Marten Hofman vs. Jacob Rutgers
[Hofman] demands thirty six sch. of wheat, for the account of Gerrit Lambertsen.
[Rutgers] says the he took it upon himself [to pay] thirty-five sch. fo wheat, when Gerrit Lamberts’ grain should be harvested.
The hon. court orders [Rutgers] to pay 35 sch. of wheat when Gerrit Lambertsen’s grain comes in.

III:88
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Jan Jansen, 1st default, for 222 gldrs 10 stivers

Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Cornelis Wouters[en, a.k.a. Cornelissen], 1st default, for 32 sch. of wheat.
Condemned.
[Versteeg note: This (“Condemned”) had been entered later on, and may be an error.]

The same [Nicolaes Anthony] vs. Adriaen Gerritsen, 1st default

III:89
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Hoogeboom vs. Hendrick Kip, for 23 sch. of wheat

III:89
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz] vs. Jacob Barentsen Cool
[Hendrix] demands twenty-two sch. of wheat.
[Cool] says he only owed twenty sch. and has paid eight sch. on the same.
The hon. court orders [Cool] to pay twelve sch.

III:89
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mattias Blanjan vs. Adriaen Fransen, for 30 sch. of wheat

III:89
1681/2 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis says: “When the hon. court again imposes a tax, it must do so more conscientiously.” (dat se tselve sullen doen met beter consientie)

 

II:611
1681(/2?) February 6, Kingston
Jan Gerritsen provides conveyance (deed) to Roelof [Kierstede] for 1/3 of Jan’s lot that was conveyed to Jan by [difficult to read: Sieur?][Jeronimus] Ebbinck [Johanna de Laet’s husband], “viz. the land that at the survey was marked No. [blank].” Paid “from the first to the last penny.”
”This above transfer has been conveyed with the same rights to Pieter Cornelissen . . . from the first to the last penny.”
[See next entry, the other 2/3 of this lot.]
[See II:254-255 1679 April 30, original contract of sale. Final payment was due Feb 1681/2.]

II:611-612
1681(/2?) February 6, Kingston
Jan Gerritsen “declares to transfer” (rather than “convey” as is typical, but this follows the form of a conveyance or deed) to Cornelis Hoogeboom and Jacob Rutger 2/3 of a lot “prior to this transferred to [Jan] by Mr. Jeronimus Ebbinck, according to the survey of the N. [?] of the same.” Satisfied “from the first to the last penny.”
[See previous entry, the other 1/3 of this lot.]
[See II:254-255 1679 April 30, original contract of sale.]
[See II:260-261 1679 October 20, when Hoogeboom contracts to see his 1/3 to William Fisher.]
[See II:266 1679/80, when Rutgersen contracts to sell his 1/3 to William Fisher (before Rutgersen has this deed).]
[See III:8 1682/3 February 2, when Rutgersen and Hoogeboom both provide deeds (transfers) to Fisher for their respective shares.]
[See II:476-477 1675/6 February 23 Hoogeboom and Rutgersen in a previous transaction over a house.]
[Rutgersen also buys, with William Fisher, some land on the Ronduyt; see II:629-630 1682 June 23.]

 

II:583
1681/2 February 13, Kingston
Hendrick Ten Eyck and Nicolaes Anthony (usually written Anthooy, but he signs N. Anthony] have made a deal: Ten Eyck will convey his house and lot for the house and lot owned by Anthony. Anthony in addition will pay 1100 guilders “light money” (usually means seewant, or wampum, pieces of shells drilled and strung in strands), and 50 lbs. of nails. The money is to be paid within 2 years, but the nails will be delivered next May. Delivery of house and lot within 3 days of signing.
Witnesses: Tierck Claszen DeWitt, Benjamin Provoost
Signed Hendreck Ten Eyck, N. Anthony

II:594
1682 February 16, Hurley (regular council session, skipped)
(in English)
Hurley, Feb [the] 16, 1682
At a court held then
Present:
Wm. Asfordbie
Thomas Garton
Anthony Crepell
Lambert Hubertson
John Cock

The court findes fit to Adjorne till [the] 23th day of this Instant [month] by reason [that the] [Session] Court is not Compleat [i.e. no quorum] [the] Secretary being absent & two of [the] maiestrates.

[Versteeg note: “Several blank pages here intervene” (in Hurley record book).]

III:89
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, February 22, 1681/2
Present:
Wm Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm DMejer

Capt. Chambers vs. Eduward Wittakar
[Chambers] demands 300 sch. of wheat.
[Wittaker] appeals to the court of sessions.
[See III:81-82 1681/2 January 10, probably same complaint.]

III:89-90
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Wood vs. Jan Garton
[Wood] demands thirty-two sch. of wheat, earned with him.
[Garton] admits eighteen days’ labor, but denies the rest, because Gorge Mils [George Mills] received the pay.
Adjourned till the next session of the court.

III:90
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendricus Beekman vs. Johannes Jurriaensen, for 154 gldrs, 2 stivers

Humphre Davenport vs. Jan Jansen, for 87 gldrs

Levinus Van Shaeeck [Shaieck?] vs. Jan Hammel [Hamble], for 109 gldrs 10 stivers

Brandt Schuyler vs. Arendt Isaax, for 72 gldrs

William Fisjer vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for 158 gldrs

III:90
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Permission to the sister [? Juffer?] [of] Benoni Jan Sijekins. [Versteeg note: This is all.]

III:91
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Jan Hamel [Hamble], for 112 gldrs

III:91
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Hammel [Hamble] vs. Bruyn Hagen
[Jan] demands the quantity of hundred thirty seven sch. of wheat.
[Bruyn] says that [Jan] did not build the house properly.
[no decision of the court]
[See II:571 1681 April 21, when Hamble contracts to build the house. Hamble is a builder; see also II:256 1679 June 14 when he agrees to build a barn for Jan Coneel (John Connell) somewhere outside of town.]
[See III:228 1682 April 27, when Hagen still balks at paying the full price; court orders him to pay 123 sch. for work he says is not quite right.]

III:91
[Versteeg note: Now there comes a large space between the above and the following entry, as if some matter had been left out for insertion later on.]
[2025 note: Perhaps space was left open for discussion of house, and evaulation by two good men, and a verdict in the case immediately preceding?]

III:91
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Hammel [Hamble] vs. Broer Decker
[Jan] demands sixteen sch. of wheat owing to purchase of a horse.
[Broer] says he did not find the horse.
The hon. court, having examined the witnesses, orders [Broer] to pay, with costs.

III:91-92
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Hamel [Hamble] vs. Jochem Hendrix, for 36 sch. of wheat.

Robbert Bickerstaf vs. Hendrick Albertsen, 1st default
[Note that Albertsen, a no-show, is apparently present just below.]

Robbert Bickerstaf vs. Jan Hamel [Hamble], for 382 gldrs.

Jan Hendrix vs. Hendrick Jochemsen, for 41 sch. of wheat, and 3 gldrs.

Sueryn Ten Houdt vs. Hendrick Albertson, for 115 gldrs.
[Note that Albertsen was a default, or no-show, just above.]

III:92
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Pieter Jansen vs. Jacob Aertsen
[Jansen] demands fifty-five sch. of wheat.
[Aertsen] requests [to see] a receipt.
The case is referred to Mr. Majer and Nicolaes Anthony.

III:92
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Theunes Carstensen vs. Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz]
[Teunes] demands twenty sch. of wheat.
[Harmon] says that he has settled accounts with [Teunis].
The hon. court orders parties to liquidate their accounts, and whatever Harmon Hendrix is indebted, as per account, he will pay [Theunes].

III:92
1681/2 February 22, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendricus Beecqman, Jan Tysen, Jacobus Elmendorp [Elmendorff], Jan Focken are authorized to take a census of the estate of all the inhabitants (omme alle inwoonders staet op to neemen) and to report to the court. They have been sworn.

III:93
1681/2 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, March 1, 1681/2
Present:
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm DeMeyer

Humpre [Humphrey] Davenport vs. Arendt Isaax, for 68 guilders.

Humphrey Davenport vs. Cornelis Woutersen [Cornelissen], for 123 guilders.

III:93
1681/2 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Claesen vs. Abraham Lameter
[Claesen] demands seventeen sch. of wheat for making a chair (een stoel) in church.
The hon. court orders the chair to be paid for within fourteen days, or [Claesen] shall be at liberty to appropriate the chair.

III:93
1681/2 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. D’Meyer vs. Cornelis Hoogeboom
[De Mejer] says that he made an agreement with Isaack DuChamps to bolt (buylen) all the grain, received here for the account of Duchamps.
[Hoogeboom] says that he has contrary orders of Duchamp.
[Versteeg note: no decision of the court]
[See III:101 1681/2 March 21, when the court instructs Hoogeboom to respect the contract De Meyer made.]
[Bolting is tricky to understand here and might not be correct reading. Vegetables can “bolt” if they sprout flowers prematurely. Possibly De Meyer is talking about malting grain (mouten), as in the process of making beer. Possibly De Meyer means he was to buy the grain sent to Kingston for DuChamps. Original text should be studied to see whether “buylen” is a misreading.]

III:93-94
1681/2 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Asfordbie vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for 30 sch. of wheat

III:94
1681/2 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Asfordbie vs. Arendt Isaax
[Asfordbie] demands fifty sch. of wheat, for the purchase of a certain house, being the balance of the purchase money.
[Isaacs] says that he has assigned [the debt to] Simon Hakins [Hawkins] who has taken over the purchase.
Symon Hakins declares that Mr. Asfordbie had agreed with him for a cow, for which twenty-six sch. of wheat were to be deducted. Is willing to pay the balance.
[Asfordbie] says that he agreed, if he liked the cow.
Symon Hakins swears to the same (tselve beedight).
The hon. court orders that Asford shall have the choice of the cows in Jan Oosterhoudt’s stable, to the amount of twenty-six sch. of wheat, and that the balance shall be paid.
[Original sales contract between Asfordbie and Isaax not located.]
[This is the house and lot in Kingston that Asfordbie originally bought from Rachel Tyte or Fyte; see II:443 1678/9 February 8.]
[See III:75, 1680/1 March 15, when Asfordbie has to sue Isaax in court for first payment on house (70 sch wheat).]
[See II:585-586 1681 November 29, Isaax contracts to sell house to Simon (signs Symen Haec), Hakins agrees to pay Asfordbie.]
[See III:100 1681/2 March 21, when Asfordbie has to drag Isaax back before the council to get him to pay the balance.]
[See II:622-623 1682 March 31, when Asfordbie provides deed to Isaax for the house, and Isaax turns right around and deeds it over to Symon Hakins. Sellers now are satisfied from first to last penny.]

III:94
1681/2 March 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Swits requests to be permitted to buy the land of the savages, named Koxsinck (Coxing). He has received this reply, that Jan Waerdt has the governor’s privilege to purchase the same.

Jan Waerdt [John Ward] produces before the court Mamariochqua, a female Esopus savage, proprietor of the said land, who answers she cannot dispose of the same until her son’s return home from trapping beavers (bever-jagen).

[See III:78 1680 July 12]

II:612-613
1681(/2?) March 2, Kingston
Cornelis Fynhout [son-in-law of Aert Jacobsen] provides transfer (conveyance or deed) to Jan Gerritsen for a house and lot [and barn] sold to Fynhout by Sweer Teunesen. Jan Gerritsen transfers same to Sueryn Ten Houdt, satisfied “from the first to the last penny.” Same is then transferred to Frans Goderis, same date, “because Frans Gooderis has paid the full price.”
[See II:255-256 1679 May 30 Jan Gerritsen contracts to sell to Severyn Ten Houdt.]
[See II:276 1679/80 March 23, Sueryen Ten Hout contracts to sell to Frans Goederis (Coderes).]
[See next entry.]

II:613
1681(/2?) March 2, Kingston
Frans Goderis transfers (conveyance or deed) to Wm. Asfordbe the house and lot (per bill of sale) transferred to Goderis by Suveryn Ten Houdt, “the limits [being] between Bruyn Haegen and Asford[bie]’s. . . . satisfied from the first to the last penny.”
[See previous entry. House and lot go from Sweer Teunesen to Cornelis Fynhout, then all in one day from Fynhout to Jan Gerritsen to Suveryn Ten Houdt to Frans Goderis to William Asfordbie. From the description, Asfordbie now has a double lot.]
[See II:559 1680 August 18, Frans Goederis contracts to sell to William Asfordbie his house and lot in the village. Goederis sold a portion of the lot to Bruyn Haege II:556-557 1680 July 13; the part he sells to Asfordbie is described as south of Bruyn. This lot likely fronts on what in 2025 is John Street, but the location has not been determined with certainty. Further study of neighboring lot descriptions is warranted.]

II:613-614
1681(/2?) March 2, Kingston
Jan Jansen owes Joost Adriaensen 624 guilders, to pay next April, 1682, mortgages house and lot in this village. Witnessed by Wm. Montagne.
Addendum dated 17 November 1683: Whereas Jan Jansen has exchanged his house and lot for Pieter Jansen’s, therefore Jan Joosten [not Joost Adriaensen?] is satisfied that this mortgage rests on the house that Jan Jansen at present possesses.
Further note: [The entry below was in English:] August the 6th Anno Domini 1685 is the above written mortgage wholly made void by a later [mortgage] made this day. (signed) John Ward, Clerk.
(see II:621, 30 March 1682, apparently a second mortgage on the same house?)
(see II:636-637, 1682 August 22, Kingston, when Jan & Pieter exchange lots)

 

II:528
1682 March 3 [Hurley?]
[This entry is recorded between the second and third parts of the Matthew Blanchan case from 1681 July 9, in Hurley, q.v.]
1682 March 3
The hon. court, in the case of Pieter Hillebrants vs. Everdt Prys, finds that Everdt Prys still owes 28 gldrs because Mr. Paeldingh and Jacob Rutgers have examined the accounts.
[Evert Price is a soldier with the British garrison. See II:539 1681 February 9 (Marbletown), II:520 1681 February 23 (Hurley), other entries.]

Will
II:614-616
1681/2 March 4, Kingston
Hendrick Jochemsen [Schoonmaker] and his wife Elsje Jochems [signs Elsje Jansen; she is Van Breestede]: Hendrick is sick in bed but in full possession of his mental faculties. Omnipotent God. Survivor shall possess everything. If survivor remarries, they yield up half of estate [for the children].
Elsje’s children from former marriage [to Adriaen Pieterszen van Alcmaer], viz. Jannetie [Adriaensen] and Sytie [Adriaensen], shall receive for their mother’s share 150 guilders each, “but whereas both have died, therefore the children, left by them, shall receive the same,” but must relinquish any further claim to maternal share. [This is only for the daughters of Elsje and Adriaen; note that their son is included in the list below among the children of Elsje and Hendrick, although it appears his sisters’ share of Adriaen’s estate has remained in the estate as well, no different from Pieter’s.]
Children of Hendrick and Elsje get the estate after both have died. Named heirs:
Jochem Hendrix, Eghbert Hendrix, Engeltie Hendrix, Hendrick Hendrix, Pieter Adriaensen, “who in everything shall share as much and as well as the others without exception, because his share of his father has remained in the estate, and has improved the estate.” All these named children share equally.
[(signed)] Wessel Ten Broeck, W.D.Meyer [witnesses]
[(signed)]Hendrick Jochemsen
[(signed)]this is the mark E of the wife of Hendrick Jochemsen, named Elsje Jansen
To which testifies [(signed)] Wm. Montagne, Secretary

Attachment, dated 8 October 1684:
Elsje Hendricks or Elsje Jans [van Breestede], wife of deceased Hendrick Jochemsen, “in the unimpaired enjoyment of her senses,” considers “how certain friends have exerted pressure and forced her, not leaving her rest, so that she thoughtlessly signed certain illegal document, passed at N. Yorck before Notary Bogardus, dated May 22, 1683, in regard to the inheritance of the children of Jacob Abrahamsen Santvoordt [?] and Jan Barentsen Kunst,” and she more “maturely” declares that she “absolutely annulls” the document signed in NY, restoring the will of her husband.
[(signed)] Jan Stol, this is the mark of Jan Van Vliet
[(signed)] Elsje Jans [the E that is her mark appears between her names, as if she wrote the mark and someone else wrote her name? Or did she write her name as well?]
To which testifies [(signed)] Wm. Montagne, Secretary
[This document is bound with the 1682 will above, but the 1684 date shows that it was executed together with numerous other documents generated II:595-599 1684 September 26 to October 15 when Cornelis Barentsen Slecht and Elsje Jans [van Breestede] are preparing to marry, q.v. Additional research is recommended to determine whether the 1683 May 22 document notarized by William Bogardus can be found.]

[See III:41 1683 April 14, when Elsje gives her house in Kingston to her granddaughter, and many other related entries noted there. Elsje’s daughter Jannetje Ariens (or Adriaens), named above, married Jan Barentsen Kunst, also named above. Their daughter, Hilletje Jans Kunst, is entitled to Jannetje Ariens’s paternal inheritance, as described above. Eventually Elsje gives Hilletje her house in Kingston. Hilletje, incidentally, marries Nicolaes Rosenvelt 16 December 1682; they, and their various forebears, are ancestors of both U.S. Presidents Roosevelt.]
[Elsje Jans van Breestede and her first husband Adriaen Pietersen van Alcmaer (married 1643 May 17 in Manhattan) likely lived in Manhattan; when their daughter Sÿtie A[d]riaens, named above, marries Jacob Abrahams Santvoort, also named above, 11 January 1667 in Manhattan, Sÿtje says she is of “the Manhatans,” i.e. born there. They have seven children together; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Abrahams-509 . When she dies, he remarries Magdaleentje van Vleck, 16 December 1677.
[See II:595-599 1684 September 26 to October 15, when Elsje Jans (van Breestede) marries Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, widower of Tryntye Tysen Bosch, and several pages are spent on estate inventories and settlements to various offspring.]

Will
II:616-617
1681/2 March 7, Kingston
Wessel Ten Broeck and Maria Ten Eyck his wife: survivor inherits everything. If children marry, survivor “is privileged to present whatever dowry he or she likes and sees fit to the children, depending on their deportment, but cannot be forced to do so.” If survivor remarries, he or she pays out half of the estate [to the children]. Real estate (land, houses, gardens) can’t be sold outside family. Eldest son (Wessel Ten Broeck Jr.) shall have right of first refusal for house and lot, as long as he pays appraised value. All children get equal share, young or old, boy or girl. But none get anything until the youngest is full grown, because youngest must be maintained from the estate until then. If estate is rich enough, and children could be well educated, then the older kids can receive their share each year. (Witnessed by Tjerck Claessen DeWitt.)

III:94
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, March 8, 1681/2
Present:
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm DeMeyer

III:95
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Capt. Thoomas Delavall vs. Matthias Matthyson, 1st default, for 465 gldrs

Captt. Thoomas Delavall vs. Hendrick Albertsen, 1st default, for 124 gldrs 4 st. (124-4)

III:95
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Robbert Bickerstaf vs. Jan Wood
[Bickerstaff] demands ten sch. of wheat.
[Wood] says that he paid four sch. through Thomas Caddock.
The hon. court orders parties to settle with each other at the next session of the court.

III:95
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Robbert Bickkerstaf vs. Jochem Hendrix
[Bickerstaff] demands ninety-six gldrs.
[Jochem] admits the debt, but says that he agreed to pay Nicolaes Anthoony sixty guilders [on Bickerstaff’s behalf], and that he called on [Bickerstaff] to get sacks for the balance.
The hon. court orders [Jochem] to pay the balance, with costs.

III:95
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Marbleton: Granted to Mr. John Garton and Gorge Mils [George Mills] thirty acres of woodland near the Bald Mountain (Caele Bergh), which will be examined by two magistrates—Subject to the Heer Governor’s approbation.

III:95
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Joseph Parrot vs. Severyn Tenhoudt
[Parrot] demands twenty-four sch. of wheat.
[Severeyn] says that he earned five sch. for carting—admits the balance.
The hon. court orders [Ten Houdt] to pay the balance, with costs.

III:96
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Josep Parrot vs. Jacob Rutgers
[Parrot] demands thirty gldrs.
[Rutgers] says he has a counter-bill
Adjourned till the next court.

Josep Parrot, attorney for Jan Colyn, vs. Wm. De Mejer
[Parrot] demands the amount of fifty-six gldrs.
[DeMeyer] wants him to prove his account.
[Parrot] says the court is not complete.
Non-suited.
[In other words, Parrot says there aren’t enough on the court right now to form a quorum, so the court can’t render a decision, so the case is thrown out.]
[See III:99-100 1681/2 March 21, when Parrot brings a case to council again (different defendant), gets rejected by the council.]

III:96
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Francis Goderis vs. Cornelis Hoogeboom
[Goderis] demands payment for eighty-four gallons of Rum.
[Hoogeboom] says that he assigned [his debt to Goderis] upon Willem Jansen.
[Goderis] says he was not satisfied with [the assignment; i.e. he didn’t get paid].
Willem Jansen declares that Hoogeboom asked Frans Goderis whether he would be satisfied with Willem Jansen. Then Frans Goderis answered that he would be satisfied if Willem Jansen paid him.
[Hoogeboom] appeals to the Court of Sessions.

III:96
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Joost Adriaensen
[Goderis] demands of [Joost] the amount of ninety-two sch. of wheat.
[Joost] says that he has a counterclaim, and has contracted for eighty sch., thirty-three sch. whereof he has paid, and had agreed with Wessel [Ten Broeck] for eighty guilders [sic].
Is willing to pay the balance.
The hon. court orders [Joost] to pay the balance.

III:96
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz] vs. Teunes Carstensen, first default

III:97
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Pietersen vs. Hendrick Kip
[Pietersen] says that [Kip] has agreed to satisfy Elizabeth Hals [Hall] for him for fourteen sch. of wheat, for which he has not yet a receipt. Demands a receipt or money.
The hon. court orders Hendrick Kip to secure Jan Pietersen against Elisabet Hals.

III:97
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Hoogeboom vs. Hendrick Ten Eyck
[Hoogeboom] demands payment of two hundred sch. of wheat.
[Versteeg note: This is all.]
Nicolaes Anthoony, having appeared for [Hoogeboom], appeals to the hon. Court of Sessions.

III:97
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Severyn Ten Houdt vs. Michiel Garton, 1st default

William Fisher vs. Jan Hammel [Hamble], for 245 gldrs, 10 st.
[Hamble] requests time till next session of council.
The hon. court orders [Hamble] to pay.

Broer Decker vs. Dirck Hooghlandt, for 12 sch. of wheat
[See below, same session, III:98.]

III:97-98
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mooses Du Pues vs. Marten Hofman
[Moses] demands of [Hoffman] Seven hundred fity-five gldrs, eighteen stivers and sixteen beavers.
The hon. court orders [Hoffman] to pay, provided he may deduct what has been paid on the same.

III:98
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Severyn Ten Houdt vs. Jan Oosterhoudt, for 94 gldrs.

III:98
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Richard Wilson vs. Marten Hofman
[Wilson] demands ninety [gldrs? sch. of wheat? beavers?] for flax sold to [Hoffman].
[Hoffman] says that he bought the flax but [Wilson] said that it would not lose any more (dat het niet meer sorede verlissen).
[No decision indicated.]

III:98
1681/2 March 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Benjamin Provoost attaches twelve sch. of wheat belonging to Broer Decker in the hands of Dirck Hooghlant, as per sentence.
[See III:97 above, same session.]

 

II:617
1681/2 March 11, Kingston
Jan Broersen [Decker][and Leendert Cool] appear to provide conveyance (deed) to William Fisjer [Fisher] for a certain house and lot, standing and situated at Kingston, extent indicated by fence; to the west, Hendrick Aertsen, to the east Mattue Blansjan. Broersen and Cool satisfied “from the first to the last penny.”
[See II:268 1679/80 January 27, original sale contract from Cool to Fisher. Unclear how Decker got involved. Cool owed money to Matthew Blanchan next door and had mortgaged his house till he paid it back; Fisher’s first installment payment cleared this debt and the mortage.]

[Time jump; probably the January document below from Manhattan, written while the Hudson was frozen and ship traffic halted, arrived in Kingston only after the river thawed, so was entered when it arrived. Notes like this give us hints about when the river thawed and ship traffic started up again.]

II:617-618
1681/2 January 12, New York
[Entered in Secretary’s Papers between March 11 and March 23, probably reflecting when the document arrived in Kingston, after the spring thaw made the river navigable again.]
[[The following was in English:]] By the Commaender in Chiefe
Whereas Wm. Fisher of the Esoopus did on the 11th of Aprill past [1680] make applica[tion] on the court there for Liberty to buy of the Indians a parcel of land over the Rondout Kill lying against his land which the said court granted him—on condition if I should approve thereof—and the said Wm. Fisher nouw dissiringh my approbation: These are to certifie that I have and doe hereby approeve of the saeme and grant Liberty and License to the said Wm. Fisher to purchase of the Indians proprietors the said parcel of Land making due Returne thereof to the office of Records here in Order for Confirmation and Inproevement [?] according to Lauw. Given under my hand in New Yorcke, this 12th Jannuwary 1681.
[(signed)] Antho Brockholst
Past the Office
[(signed)] John West, Clerk

III:98
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, March 21, 1681/2
Present:
Mr. William Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen
Wm. DeMeyer

Capt. Delavall vs.:
Matthias Matthison, 2d default
Hendrick Albertson, 2d default
William Leegh, 1st default

III:98-99
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Brandt Schuyler vs. Hendrie Pauwldingh [Henry Pawling]
[Schuyler] demands of [Pawling] the quantity of seventy sch. of wheat or ninety-two sch. of white peas.
[Pawling] demands a copy of the declaration [sic]; therefore appeals to the court of sessions.

Brandt Schuyler vs. Jacob Stouten Borgh, for 85 guilders.

III:99
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Claesen vs. Cornelis Vernooy
[Claesen] demands twenty-two gldrs as per a settlement of accounts.
[Vernooy] admits eighteen gldrs—the balance are expense.
The hon. court orders [Vernooy] to pay in full.

III:99
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Marten Hofman vs. François Lafore, 2d default

Marten Hofman vs. Isaack deRochel, 2d default

William De Meyer vs. Hendrick Albertsen, 2d default

William De Mejer vs. Jacob Stoutenborgh, for 137 gldrs

III:99-100
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Joseph Parrot vs. Thoomas Matthias [Mattysen], for £16 six pence, 1st default

Joseph Parrot vs. Severeyn Ten houdt
The case has been thrown out of court, because Josep Parrot, at the last court session, said that the court was not complete, and there were the same judges (sitters) in court there are now, the same persons and the same number.
[See III:96 1681/2 March 8, previous session, when this came up, in a separate case (different defendant).]

III:100
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Asfordbie vs. Arent Isaax
[Asfordbie] demands the balance of the purchase money for the house, being twenty-four sch. of wheat.
[Isaax] admits the debt.
The hon. court orders [Isaax] to pay, with costs.
[See III:94 1681/2 March 1 for notes on long history of this debt.]

III:100
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mattue Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] vs. Severyn Ten Houdt
[Blanchan] says [Severeyn] has beaten him; that he could not save himself (dat hy hem selven niet heeft konnen redden)[Versteeg note: this “redden” may also mean “help”: “that he could not help himself”].
[Severeyn] says that he is not ready (klaer) with his witnesses.
[See next item; Blanchan is the father-in-law and business partner of Louis Dubois.]
[See III:104 1682 April 4, when this comes up again and is postponed again.]
[See III:105-106 1682 May 2, when this is discussed in much detail.]

III:100
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Lowies Du Booys [Louis Dubois] vs. Severeyn Ten Houdt
[Dubois] requests to be paid for his loss, because he had agreed to sail with [Severyn] to New York, and when [Louis] came, [Severyn] would not take him along. Has been obliged to wait nine days.
[Severyn] requests time till the next court session.
The hon. court orders [Severyn] to produce his witnesses at the next session of the court.
[See previous item; Dubois is son-in-law and business partner of Blanchan.]
[See III:104 1682 April 4, when this comes up again and is postponed again.]
[See III:105-106 1682 May 2, further development when Delavall asks Dubois for damages, presumably because he did not show up on time?]

III:100
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mooses De Graaef vs. Marten Hofman
[Moses] requests reparation of honor (reparatie van ear) because [Martin] has called him a rogue, and double rogue.
The wife appeared. [Emmerentje Claesen DeWitt, wife of Martin Hoffman.]
The hon. court orders that Marten Hofman himself shall appear.
[See III:103 1682 April 4, when Martin himself appears.]

III:100
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Cornelis Hoogeboom vs. Willem Hooghtylingh, 1st default

Bruyn Haegen vs. Broer Decker, 1st default

III:101
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jacob Aertsen vs. Thoomas Harmonsen
[Aertsen] says that [Harmonsen] took to his premises [Aertsen’s] palisades which have been fetched from the wood. [I.e, Aertsen fetched them from the wood, and Harmonsen took them home.]
[Harmonsen] says that he paid Lodowyck Ackerman two pieces of eight for palisades, and Michiel Modt was to cart the same. Said Lodowyck: They [the palisades he picked up] lay near the little bridge. Does not know whether wrong ones have been taken.
The hon. court orders [Aertsen] to prove that they are his palisades.

III:101
1681/2 March 21, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court orders Cornelis Hoogeboom, attorney of Isaack DuChamp, to comply with the contract entered into between DuChamp and DeMeyer concerning the bolting of all of Duchamp’s wheat in this place.
[See III:93 1681/2 March 1, when the question arose.]

 

II:618
1681/2 March 23
Mattias Ten Eyck (signs simply Matthuys) annuls condition entered into by him with William Fisher concerning the purchase of a sloop, which payment Ten Eyck has received to his entire satisfaction. Sloop is Fisher’s.

II:621
1682 March 30, Kingston
[See II:613-614 1681(/2?) March 2, Kingston, apparently a second mortgage on the same house?]
Jan Jans[en] owed Hendricus Beeckman “at a settlement of all accounts,” for both Jan and his wife, plus on account of any court-ordered obligations to date, 666 guilder, to pay “next January of this current year” (i.e. Jan 1682/3). Mortgages his house and lot. If he doesn’t pay, they can be sold by execution. [Even if this were the only mortgage, would that add up to 666 guilders, or 111 sch of wheat?]
Attached note, dated 17 November 1683 [considerably after original due date], says mortgage is on the house and lot that Jan presently possesses
[See II:636-637, 1682 August 22, Kingston, when Jan & Pieter exchange houses.]

II:622
1682 March 30, Kingston
Jacob Staedts contracts to buy from William Loverage a house and lot located at Albany, next to the house of Sargeant Parcker, up to the property of Pieter Schuyler, 70 1/2 deliverable beavers, to take place in the latter part of next May. Deed (transfer) to be delivered after payment.
[Why are these two guys recording this transaction here instead of at Albany? See II:627-628, April 10 and August 17 1684 transactions regarding enslaved woman Parthenia by Mrs. Temperance Loveridge “of Katskill,” widow of William.]

II:620-621
1682 March 31
Wessel Ten Broeck and Wm De Meyer, guardians of the minor children of deceased Cornelis Wynkoop, provide conveyance (deed) to Mooses Dupue (who married the eldest daughter, Maria Wynkoop), by way of inheritance. The real estate has been appraised; a certain lot has been valued at 175 sch of wheat. That’s a share in the house, barn, lots and meadowland. This lot has been sold to Mooses Du Pue, viz. the lot that was bought from Reynier Van der Coelen: to the east Hendrick Jochemsen, to the west the house and lot belonging to the estate. The administrators convey and cede to Mooses the unencumbered lot.
Mooses acknowledges that this is his whole share of the estate and will not claim any more of it.
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[Moses is married to Maria Wynkoop, one of the heirs.]
[See II:603 1680/1 February 8, council instructs estate guardians to make an accounting and give Mooses Du Pue his share.]
[See III:221 1681 April 27, Moses requests that the guardians divide up the shares and give him and his wife Maria Wynkoop what is theirs.]
[See III:11-12 1682/3 February 6, detailed description of lot and house in town, with a shared cistern, that he and Maria will have.]

II:622-623
1682 March 31, Kingston
William Asfordbie provides conveyance (deed) to Arendt Isaax for house and lot that Asfordbie bought from Fisher, who bought from Elisabet Crafford. Isaax in turn conveys it to Symon Hakins. Safisfied from first to last penny, freeing Symon Hakins etc. etc.
[This is the house and lot in Kingston that Asfordbie originally bought from Rachel Tyte or Fyte; see II:443 1678/9 February 8.]
[Contract of sale from Asfordbie to Isaax has not been found, but see III:94 1681/2 March 1 for extensive history of all Asfordbie had to do to get paid for the property.]
[Isaax contracted to sell house to Simon Hakins, who agreed to pay Asfordbie what Isaax still owed on the house, II:585-586 1681 November 29.]

Apr-May-Jun

II:623
1682 April 1, Kingston
Jan Mattysen sells to Pieter Pietersen Winne his 1/4 part of his sawmill in partnership with Wm. De Meyer, “as well the beams belonging to the same, as everything else.” Price is 2800 boards 1" thick (duyms delen) and 100 ceiling boards (zolder delen), paid over 3 years, 1/3 per year, deliverable at the mill. Deed (transfer) after payment.

II:623-624
1682 April 3, Kingston
Roelof Jansen, master tailor, will hire Bennoy Arentsen Van Hoeck (specifically Bennoy will bind himself to serve) for one current year starting 1 May. 150 sch of wheat, paid quarterly, plus board. (both sign; Roelf and Benony).
[Versteeg note: In the Margin of the above contract stood: Annulled.]
[See II:634, 26 June 1682.]

II:624
1682 April 3, Kingston
Roelof Jansen provides conveyance (deed) to Willem Van Vreedenborgh for lot, bought at auction, surrounded by fence, being house and lot [sic; lot doesn’t have a house on it] to the West [of] Baerendt Van Borsum, to the east [of] Jan Hammel (John Hamble, where Hoffman House is today). Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See II:438 1678 September 10, when Roelof Jansen contracts to buy this lot from Jan Focken, and II:276 1679/80 March 23 conveyance [deed] from Focken. Why does Roelof now say it was bought at auction?]

II:601-602
1682 April 4, Kingston
Jacob Jansen Van Etten owes William Fisjer 270 guilders on behalf of Matthew Blanchan, for which reason Fisher releases Jacob from his debt to Blanchan. Further private debt 280 guilders, 550 all told, due at Christmas of this year. Mortgages land and cattle.
Attached note: Fisher got paid, 21 December 1682

II:602
1682 April 4
[Not executed]
Claes Teunesen [Van Clier] owes Frans Goderis 1200 guilders; Claes binds his land, bought of Wm Fisher.
[See III:60 1683 December 24, Claes Teunesen Van Clier gets deed for land at Marbletown from William Fisher. Contract for purchase has not been found, but it appears Teunessen was slow to make the payments; see III:83 1681/2 January 10, III:161-162 1682 November 17.]
[Teunessen also has land at Marbletown bought from William Asfordbie and Frederick Hossy.]

III:101
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, April 4, 1682
Present:
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Eduward Wittakar
Wm. D.Meyer

Joost Adriaensen vs. Joseph Parrot
[Joost], by virtue of an attachment against Severyen Ten houdt, demands the amount of seventy gldrs nine stivers.
[Parrot] says that he owes nineteen sch. of wheat [114 guilders at 6 gldrs per schepel] to Severyn Ten Houdt.
The hon. court orders [Parrot] to pay Joost Adriaensen the amount of seventy guilders, nine stivers, the balance to Severyn Ten Houdt.

III:102
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenpoort vs. Wallerand DuMont, 1st default

Humphre Davenport vs. Chlaes [sic] Teuneson, for 209 guilders

Humphre Davenport vs. Jacob Bastiaensen, 2d default

III:102
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Yet granted to Wessel Ten Broeck eight morgen of land, opposite [or across] (over) the mill dam near the land of Jacob Rutgers and Hendrick Ten Eyck.

III:102-3
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Van de Waeter vs. William Beeck[man?], for 14 guilders

Barbara Jans vs. Theunes Eleson, 1st default

Thoomas Harmonsen vs. Marten Hofman, for 90 sch. of wheat

Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Pieter Winnen, 1st default

Dirck Wessels vs. Jacob Barentsen Cool, 2d default

III:103
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mooses De Graef vs. Marten Hofman
[Moses] demands six sch. of wheat which [Martin] owes him, and reparation of honor, because [Martin] has called him a rogue.
[Martin] admits the debt, but says that he did not call [Moses] names.
The hon. court orders [Martin] to pay.
And the other [is] to [be] proven [if Moses wishes to pursue it further].
[See III:100 1681/2 March 21 for original complaint, when Martin’s wife came to the hearing instead of Martin himself.]

III:103
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Lodowyck Ackerman
[Anthony] demands of [Ackerman] fifty-six gldrs, and further two hundred fifty palisades.
[Ackerman] admits the debt, but says that he paid seven sch. of wheat [42 guilders at standard exchange rate] on the same.
[Ackerman] is ordered to pay the balance, and the palisades, and the costs.

III:103
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Arendt Van Dyck vs. Pieter Winnen, 1st default

Arendt Van Dyck vs. Symon Westphael [default? no further details]

III:103
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Kip vs. Jan Focken
[Kip] demands twenty sch. of wheat, for keeping the cistern in repairs.
[Focken] says that the time [for payment] has not yet appeared.
The hon. court orders that the contract shall be shown at the next session.
[Henderick Kip is described as a “master cooper” at II:269 1679/80 February 17, q.v.]
[Focken is a shoemaker; see II:624-625 1682 April 21, II:421-422 1678 April 18, and particularly II:410 1677 December 28, when he agrees to buy a lot in Kingston in exchange for men’s and women’s shoes. The seller is presumably satisfied from the first to the last penny loafer.]

III:103
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Hammel [Hamble] vs. Bruyn Haegen, 2d default

III:104
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Lowies Du Booys [Louis Dubois] vs. Severeyn Ten Houdt
[Dubois] requests, as before, to be indemnified for his losses.
The hon. court adjourns the case, until the Heer D’lavall has given his decision (vordeel) or attends to it (of order daer sind stelt).
[See III:100 1681/2 March 21, when this first came up.]
[See III:105-106 1682 May 2, when DeLavall asks Dubois for 80 gldrs (Dubois default).]

III:104
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Matthias Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] vs. Severeyn Ten Houdt
[Blanchan] demands [indemnification] for his pain and suffering, because [Severyn] has beaten him, and he has been obliged to keep to his bed.
Adjourned till the next [session of the] court.
[See III:100 1681/2 March 21, when this first came up.]
[III:105-106 1682 May 2, when the case is finally thrashed out in detail.]

III:104
1682 April 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Matthue Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] vs. Jacob Van Etten, for 40 sch. of wheat

III:104
1682 April 4 (ordinary council session, continued)
Tierck Claesen vs. Jan Waerdt [John Ward]
[Tierck] demands eight sch. of wheat, on account of Isaack Rochel, because Waerdt permitted him to leave the jail [may also mean: not prevented his escape](illegible Dutch here).
Waerdt says there is no proper jail.
[Versteeg note: This is all. No decision.]
[See III:217 1680 September 5, discussion of a prison to be built for drunks; see also III:233 1682 September 25, detailed instructions for a prison to be built, 20 feet square, with a cellar 8 feet deep, next to Benjamin Provoost’s. See also III:119 1682 October 25, when Governor Brockholst mentions that a courthouse and prison should be built, financed by the inhabitants of Kingston and surrounding towns.]
[See also III:140 1684 August 1, when John Ward again complains that there is no fit jail to detain a prisoner.]

III:104
1682 April 4 (ordinary council session, continued)
Gerrit Van Sleghtenhorst vs. Claes Teunesen, for 27 sch. of wheat
[See III:77 1681 April 3, an argument between the same two over the quality and value of duffels Gerrit is using for payment.]

 

III:101
[1682 presumed] April 6 [Kingston?] [entered between minutes for Kingston town council sessions of 1681/2 March 21 and April 4]
This April 6th
Was granted and allowed, subject to the Heer governor’s approval, to Thoomas Quick and Francis Coin, the land situated on the Ronduyt Kill on the Great Falls half way [between] Monbackus [Mombaccus]. Which is to be laid out and examined. (twelck sall worden uytgeleydt en besien)
[See III:232 1682 September 25, when the Court of Sessions says that Francis Coin has “run away” and redivides the land three ways, among Quick, John Ward, and Dirck Keyser.]

 

III:224
1682 April 17, Kingston (Actions entered for coming court of sessions)
[See III:228 1682 April 27 for minutes from the actual session. Items marked (settled) here generally will not appear in the minutes of the court session.]

Capt. Chambers vs. Eduward Wittakar, for 300 sch. of wheat (settled)

Capt. Chambers vs. Dirck Hendrix, for the balance of the rent (huer penningen), as per agreement, as per contract [sic] (settled)

The following entries were in English:
[III:225]

Thoomas Garton vs. Jan Cock
The plantif entered his axsion of trespas for [???] his hogs by his dogh.
(settled)

Gene Fishers vs. Leedert [Leendert] Cool, in an axsion of defamation (settled)
[Gene Fishers will be Jannetje Crafford (Crawford?), wife of William Fisher; see KP 489 1672 December 7, when the Kingston council registers their banns. She seems to go by Jenny; see below (Jene) and II:445 1676 April 26 (Jeny).]

Huphre [Humphrey] Davenport, atturney of Capt. Minville, vs. Hendrie Pauwldin [Henry Pawling]
[Davenport] demands by Ballance of accompt fif honderet seaventy aight gilders. Alsoo cost and chiardsies [charges]. (settled)

Humphre Davenport, atturney of Capt. Minville, vs. Edward Wittakar, for 400 sch. wheat, 12 “for interest, accordingh to bond.” (settled)

William Fisher vs. Joseph Parrot
The plantif according to declaration demands . . . [Versteeg note: here it ends] (settled)

Jene Fishers vs. Josep Parrat, in an axsion of defamation (settled)
[Jene Fishers will be Jannetje Crafford (Crawford?), wife of William Fisher; see KP 489 1672 December 7, when the Kingston council registers their banns. She seems to go by Jenny; see above (Gene) and II:445 1676 April 26 (Jeny).]

William Asfordbie vs. Josep Parratt
The [plaintiff] entered his axsion of asault an battary. (settled)

The following entry was in Dutch:
[III:226]

William Fisher vs. Willem Jansen Schoon [possibly Schudt?], for 208 guilders.

The following entries were in English:

Humphre Davenport, atturny of Capt. Minville, vs. Capt. Chambers
The plantif demaends four honderet twinty aight gilderes of Capt. Minville and thrie honderet thartien gilderes [for] gods [goods] bought of him.

Jan Waerd vs. Joseph Parrot, for an axsion of misdemeanor (settled)

John Hamel [Hamble] vs. Bruyn Hagen, for 135 sch. wheat
[See III:228 1682 April 27 for more.]

William Wood vs. Thoomas Garton, an “axsion of trespas for killing his dogh” (settled)
[See above, same date, where Thomas Garton accuses Jan Cock’s dog of killing his hogs.]

Humphee Davenport, atturny [for whom? Minville again?] vs. Wessel Ten Broeck, for 780 guilders, 10 stivers (settled)

Humphre Davenport, attury of Capt Minville, vs. Marte Hofman [Martin Hoffman], for 700 sch. wheat (settled)

[III:227]
Humphre Davenport, atturny, vs. Mattiue Blansjan, junior [Matthew Blanchan Jr.], for 100 sch. wheat

Humphre Davenport [vs. William Montagne], for 936 guilders (“neyne hunderet tarty six], “according to mortgage”

Humphre Davenport, atturney of Capt. Minville, vs. Sueryn Ten Houdt, for 880 sch. wheat

The following entry was in Dutch:
Joost Adriaensen vs. Pieter Hillebrantsen, for 250 guilders

The following three entries were in English:
Joseph Parrot vs. William Fisher, an action “of asault an battary” (settled)

Joseph Parrot vs. William Fisher “for faels imprisson” (settled)

Josep Parrat vs. William Fisher “in the behalve of his Majest.” (settled)

 

III:104-105
1682 April 20 (coroner’s inquest)
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers (“magistrates,” council members):
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm. DeMejer

Whereas on April 20, 1682, the wife of Arendt Isaax died very suddenly, therefore the constable and two magistrates went to view the corpse. The two doctors also examined her and could not discover that her husband or anybody else was the cause of her death. Arendt Isaax, her husband, was ordered to place his hand upon her chest, which he did, calling upon God Almighty to give a sign if he were guilty of his wife’s death. But no change was visible from the former.
The constable and the aforesaid Magistrates after having examined and viewed [the corpse] find that Arent Isaax is innocent of his wife’s death, and therefore has been declared innocent and set free.

 

II:624-625
1682 April 21, Kingston
Wm. Montagne has power of attorney from Isaak Grevenraedt; Wessel Ten Broeck and Wm. De Meyer serve as witnesses here. Montagne on behalf of Grevenraedt provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Focken, shoemaker, for a house and lot transferred by Wallerand Du Mon to Grevenraedt on 25 Mar 1678.
[See II:421-422 1678 April 18, original contract of sale between Grevenraedt and Focken.]

II:625
1682 April 26, Kingston
Eduward Wittakar owes Capt. Chambers [amount omitted] as a “voluntary judgment” in regard to Dirck Hendrix, to pay Feb 1, without going to law. On payment, Chambers will grant Wittakar a free transfer (deed) “for land bought of him.”
[Versteeg note: Not executed]
[See next entry.]

II:625
1682 April 26, Kingston
[See previous entry.]
Eduward Wittakar owes Capt. Chambers 1632 guilders on account of Dirck Hendrix, to pay on Feb 1 without going to law, as a voluntary execution. Up to time of payment, Chambers keeps the deed for the land. All to be in wheat.

III:228
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions)
[See III:224 1682 April 17, actions submitted for this session, some of which were resolved before the session took place.]

Session Court held at Kingston by the authority of his majesty Charles the Second by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Protector of the faith etc., in the year of our Lord 1682, April 27.
Present:
Jan Joosten, Justice
Jan Garton, Justice
Lowies Du Booys

John Hammer [Hamble] vs. Bruyn Hagen
[Hamble] demands hundred thirty-five sch. of wheat.
[Hagen] says that the work has not been made as it should be.
The hon. court orders [Hagen] to pay hundred twenty-three sch. of wheat, and costs.
[See II:571 1681 April 21, when Hamble contracts to build a house for Hagen.]
[See III:91 1681/2 February 22 when Hamble first asks Hagen to pay for the work. Hagen says the job wasn’t done right.]
[See III:103 1682 April 4, Hagen’s second default after being sent a summons.]

III:228
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Joost Adriaensen vs. Pieter Hillebrantsen, for 250 guilders.

William Fisjer [Fisher] vs. William Jansen, for 208 guilders.

III:228
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The jury finds that Mattue Blansjan only needs, this year, to pay the interest at six percent (Kan van dit jaer vrij met de rented ses percento).
Each to pay one-half of the [court] costs.
[Versteeg note: This entry was undoubtedly a duplicate of the verdict on page 229, near the center.]

III:228-229
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The following entry was in English:
Humphre Devonport [Humphrey Davenport), atturney to Capt. Minville, vs. Wm. D’la Montagne
[Davenport] demands nine hondert thirty-six gild.
And eighty-five gilder boocke debt.
[“Book debt,” totted up from a book of open accounts, vs. the larger sum probably from a single contract, recorded in Secretary’s Minutes, but not entered in an account book.]
[III:229]
[Montagne] demand his Bills of exchaings in the hands of Capt. Minville.
[Montagne] brings in [receipts showing] payd upon it 666 gilders.
Hat [That he has?] sworn to [the] saem pay to Mr. Minville and Thomas deKay upon the mortgage.
Moor by his accoumpt brough [?] in 298 gilders 12 stvers.
Rest due for ballance one hondert sixty aight gild 12 stvrs.
Which the court condemns Wm. Montagne to pay wth cost and charges.

III:229
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Humphre Davenport vs. Matthias Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan Jr.]
[Blanchan] says that this year he only needs to pay the interest.
Submitted to the Jury (sworn):
Edward Wittaker, foreman
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm. De Mejer
Lambert Huybertsen
Jan Cock
Gysbert Crom
Jacob Rutger
N. Anthony
The jury finds that Blansjan only needs to pay the interest this year.
The court approves the same.

III:229
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The court orders Sueryn Ten Houdt to pay Mr. Minville the quantity of eight hundred eighty sch. of wheat, with costs.
[Ten Houdt] appeals to the court of assizes.

III:229-230
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Humphre Davenport, attorney to Capt. Minville, vs. Capt. Chambers
[Davenport] demands three hundred thirteen gldrs [for merchandise] bought [from Minville].
Further, as per account of Capt. Minville, four hundred twenty-eight gldrs.
[Chambers] says that he was charged twenty gldrs too much for the salt, and that Minville owes him three anckers of wine, viz. Madeira wine.
Admits the balance.
Ordered to pay the three hundred thirteen gldrs (313 gldrs).
In regard to the balance he is to correspond with Capt. Minville himself.

III:230
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The hon. court decrees that if anybody shall be found to leave open a gate of the grain field (een heck vant cooren landt), the same shall forfeit a fine of twenty-five gldrs.

III:230
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The hon. court decrees that those driving alongside the path of the land across the great bridge, where the same has not been laid out (die besjden het padt vandt landt over de groote brugh rydt daert niet is uytgelydt) shall pay six gldrs fine for every time.
To be applied as follows: two-thirds for the sheriff, one-third for village charges.

III:230
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The hon. court also orders that whatever shall be submitted to a majority vote shall be decided by a majority vote. [Versteeg note: This clause is unintelligible; the Dutch is as follows: De E. Court ordonneren meede dat de by de meeste stemmen sall worden omgegaen sall by de meste stemmen vastgestelt worden de varckens te jocken en te ringe). Resolved to yoke and ring the hogs.

III:230
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Granted to Hendric Albertsen, woodland opposite his gate (over syn deur) for a pasture, the length of his land.

III:230
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Granted to Humphre Davenport and William Hains a parcel of woodland, No. 5, hundred sixty-four [feet?] in length and as wide as Joost Adriaensen’s lot. In the width N.S. [sic].

III:230
1682 April 27, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The hon. court orders that the outer fence (ringh heyninge) shall remain where the same stood prior to this (sall staen als van te vooren), and if anybody wants a path back of the same, [they] shall be obliged to pay for and make the same (syn gehouden de selve te bekostigen en te maken).

 

III:105
1682 May 2, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, May 2, 1682
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. D.Meyer

III:105-106
1682 May 2, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Matthias Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] vs. Severyn Ten Houdt
[Blanchan], as heretofore, demands [to be indemnified for] damage [schaeden], because [Severyn] has beaten him.

[Severyn] says that, at a certain time, he had been invited by Blansjan to pay him a visit and to take a drink with him, and Nicolaes DuPue was also present. While he was there, a silver cup was missed. Sueryn Ten Houdt and the others were examined, when [it was found] that Mattue Blansjan had the silver cup under his arm. Thus tried to make [Severyn look like] a thief, [and Severyn] regards it a great insult, and says that [Blanchan] has called him Laval’s [DeLaval’s] informer (verklicker).

Nicolaes DuPue, having been sworn, declares that they together took a drink at Blansjan’s, and a little afterward the cup was gone. DuPue asked: “Where is the cup?” Answered Severeyn: “It stands beside me” (sy is aen mejn sy). [Versteeg’s handwriting difficult here.]
Answered Due Pue: “There is a thief here, either one of us must have the cup; we shall see who has the same; we shall examin each other.” Said Sueryn: “I can find the same, and felt the cup under Blansjan’s arms.
Further says that when Anthony Crupel [Crispell] had been caught [(was gevangen) also means: was a prisoner], he went to Capt. Delavall to hear what Capt. D’lavall was saying, [and] for the purpose of speaking about the affairs, but there was no opportunity for speaking of it. Then Severyn arrived there and said: “I gave the old Walloon [Blanchan, though Crispell and Dubois and DuPue are all also Walloons. Delavall, despite his name, is not; he is British, born in London] a blow before the head so that he tumbled down.” Then Due Pue answered: “You ought not to have done that.”

Sueveryn Ten Houdt says: “At the time of Anthony Crupel’s detention in the guard house, Blansjan hit [Sweryn?] on the chest, and Blansjan twice said: ‘What were you doing here, you are Laval’s informer.’ Then he hit Matthias Blansjan on the head.”

Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes], having been sworn, declares that Blansjan pushed Sueryn Ten Houdt away from the door, and heard some words about “informer” (verklicker).

Pieter Jansen, having been sworn, declares that Lowies DuBooys was busy breaking open the lock. Severeyn wanted to assist at it, Blansjan hit Severeyn Ten Houdt on the chest and spoke some words about “informer.”

The hon. court condemns each [to pay a fine of] six sch. of wheat, one fourth for the poor, the balance for the sheriff.

[See III:100 1681/2 March 21, when this first came up.]
[Speaking of Delavall, note that in another month he will write his will; it is presented at probate 25 July 1682. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Delavall-5 ]

III:106
1682 May 2, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Fortune, attorney for the Heer Lavall [Delavall], vs. Lowies Du Booys, 1st default
[Fortune] demands eighty gldrs.

III:106
1682 May 2, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Lodowyck Ackerman vs. Mooses DeGraef
[Ludowyck] demands fourteen sch. of wheat.
[Moses] admits only owing to ten [sic], because he paid three [sic] to the saddler.
The hon. court orders [Moses] to pay thirteen [sic] sch. of wheat.

William Fisher vs. Lodowyck Akerman, for 28 gldrs 15 st.

III:107
1682 May 2, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court orders Jan Matthysen to deliver the rafters, because Meyer has given security. In case Jan Tysen [Matthysen] has anything to claim, he may sue Wessel Ten Broeck and Willem DeMeyer.
[Jan Matthysen is one of the stepsons of Thomas Chambers; he frequently goes by Tysen. See II:265 1679 November 28. See II:262-263 for Jan Tysen’s sawmill on the Green Kill, probably adjacent to DeWitt’s flour mill, also on Green Kill.]

III:107
1682 May 2, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenport vs. Jacob Bastiaensen, 2d default, for 43 gldrs

 

II:626
1682 May 5 [Manhattan, sent to Kingston] [entered in records between entries for 1682 April 26 and May 30, presumably reflecting when the document arrived in Kingston]
(in English) Kingston, t 5 of May, 1682
Youw are in his Majst. Naeme ordered to aprehed [sic] the body of Richard Hayns in an axtion of debt and damage due to Theopheles Furfords.

III:107-109
1682 May 5, Kingston (special council session)
Special Court held at Kingston, May 5, 1682
Present:
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Tierck Claesen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. DeMeyer

Humphre Davenport vs. Hillebrant Lootman
[Davenport] sues, as per declaration [filed previously] and complaint against [Lootman] in a suit, for having injured him, and says that [Lootman] on the 4th [of this month] at about eight o’clock in the evening, has chased [Davenport’s] horse off his own land and opened the fence, so that his horse chanced into the woods, or outside the aforesaid enclosure, and now is in the constable’s custody, on account of which [Davenport] has been hindered in his work, owing to not having the services of the said horse.
[Davenport] Has several opportunities for opening accounts with many people outside the village, and after this had been done, he intended to take the horse to New York, which is the reason that the sloop had been obliged to wait [since yesterday?] at a loss.
Humbly prays the court to pronounce judgment for five pounds damages and the expenses of the court.

[Lootman] says that he did not chase [Davenport’s] horse off his land.

Jan Louwersen declares under oath that Hillebrant Lootman was after the horse. Then the horse was on Davenport’s land, and [Lootman] chased the same. Then Davenport said: “Don’t chase the horse; it will cost you twenty gldrs.” Hillebrant answered: “I shall drub them out of your snout” (ick sall die uyt u beck kloppen).

Thoomas Harmonsen declares under oath that he saw the horse running, and Hillebrant Lootman ran after the same.
[III:108]
Then Davenpoort said that [Lootman] should let the same alone, or tomorrow it would cost him at least twenty gldrs. Then Hillibrant said: “I shall drub those out of your snout.” Then Davenport forbade him. He answered [that he] wanted to chase the same away.

Joseph Parrot declares under oath that Hillebrant Lootman came to Jan Focken’s house where said Hillebrant Lootman [sic] came, and said that Davenport’s horse spoiled (bedorf) his trees. Davenport answered that his horse did not do it, but it was done by the children and the pigs. Jan Focken answered why [Lootman] did not repair his fance? Jan Focken said that he would lend him, Davenport, a rope to tie the horse, whereupon Hillebrant said that he would chase the horse out of the garden. Further says that Hillebrant was after the horse on Minelle’s ground. [Minville?]

Theophiele Thereford declares under oath that he heard Hillebrant Lootman say that the horse spoiled his trees. Davenport answered it was not the horse which did it but the boys and the bigs. In case the horse did it he would indemnify him ten times as much [as the damage amounted to]. Hillebrant said that he would chase the horse away. Afterward, about an hour later, he passed by there, and did not see a rail down.

Johannes Westbroeck declares under oath that Hillebrant said to Davenport, “Keep your horse away from the garden; if it comes in mine, I shall chase it outside.”

Jan Focken declares that Hillebrant said: “Why did you again drive your horse into the garden, about which I have at least two or three times warned you?” Then Davenport said: “It is not in your garden but in mine.” Then Hillebrant said: “If you want it in your garden, I don’t want it in mine.” Then Jan Focken said: “Take a rope and tie its front leg.” Then Davenport said: “I have no rope.” Answered Jan Focken: “I shall send one with the boy,” and he sent one with the boy. Then Davenport said: “If you don’t want it in your garden, put up your fence. If you will fence I shall fence right away.” To this Hillebrant answered: “In case you won’t keep up your horse, I shall drive it outside.” Davenport again
[III:109]
returned the rope with Kip’s boy. Hillibrant said: “The horse has already broken two or three grafts. I don’t want to have my trees spoiled. If you want it in your garden, keep it there.”

The case was given to the jury, and there were selected for the jury:

[Sworn:]
Mr. Joseph Wilson, foreman
Jan Hamel [Hamble]
Gerrit Van Sleghtenhorst
Jacobus Elmendorp [Elmendorff]
Luyckas Anderies
Mooses Dupue
[Note that Luyckas Anderies, one of the jurors, used to live in Manhattan. Has he moved north? His sister is Barbara Andriessen, married to Tjerck Claesen DeWitt, who lives south of Kingston village on the road to Hurley.]

The jury finds for [Hillebrant], because Davenport had been offered a rope to tie the horse, so that it could do no damage. [Davenport] to pay all costs.

The court approves the jury’s verdict that [Davenport] shall pay the costs.

[Davenport] appeals to the court of sessions.

The hon. court permits the appeal to the hon. court of sessions.

[Standard court costs involve a fee for bringing the case before the council, a fee for the court messenger to carry a summons to the defendant (like a modern process server), and probably some fees to the court secretary for writing up the complaint and making copies for the defendant and other parties. To call a special council session (i.e., not on the regular Tuesday schedule) involves extra fees. So for a guy who is allegedly very busy and has a sloop waiting at the landing to carry him and his horse back to New York, Davenport is taking some extra time and spending some extra money just to hector his neighbor. (Davenport should have been able to get his horse back quickly from impoundment by simply paying the pound master who seized it when it was loose.) There may be more to the story, and the relationship, than appears in the record. The council determines who pays the fees when a case is heard; typically the party determined to be at fault pays the fees, but sometimes they are split, or other arrangements are made. Once a complainant has ordered a special hearing, and paid the extra fee, other parties with business before the council can add their cases to the agenda, presumably without having to pay the extra fee, as if it were a regularly scheduled session.]

III:109
1682 May 5, Kingston (special council session, continued)
Granted to Wm. Trophaegen a parcel of woodland, subject to the Heer governor’s approval, about twenty morgen in extent, along the Kill till the Cripple Bush or Common Bush in an easterly direction, to the said Trophaegen’s [already existing] land.

 

II:627
1682 May 30
Granted to Wm. De. Meyer, subject to the Hon. Heer Governor’s approval, a parcel of woodland, handy to the mill where they saw, starting at the woodland of Jan Borhans, Jan Oosterhoudt, Hendrick Albertsen, in a direct line WNW till a large white oak tree, then along the low mountains till the Platte Kill where the saw-mill stands, and so further till the Great Kill [Esopus Creek], excepting Arent Teunesen’s land.
[See III:111, same date, apparently a duplication, but with a somewhat different description of bounds.]

III:109-111
1682 May 30, Kingston (extraordinary council session)
Extraordinary Court held at Kingston, May 30, 1682
Present:
Wm. Fischer [Fisher], Constable
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. D.Mejer

Thoomas Harmonsen vs. Jan Louwersen
[Harmonsen] says that [Louwersen] shall try to find [Harmonsen’s ] servant, because it is through [Louwersen] that [the servant] has run away. [Louwersen] threw [Harmonsen’s] servant’s things out of the window, and fought with his servant, while [Harmonsen] himself was in the room.

[Louwersen] says that they were together at the table and while they stood up [or when they arose] Jan Trof [the servant] took his knife
[III:110]
and made a lunge at [Harmonsen], but he hit the door so that his knife broke, and he followed him with an adze and his knife, and they met on the street, and they came to blows, but he held Jan Trof’s hands and bumped his head against Jan Trof’s mouth so that his teeth were bleeding. The difficulty originated in that [Harmonsen] said, “I believe the weather is going to be fine.” Then Jan Trof said: “Oh blood” and drew his knife.
Further says that Thoomas Harmonson complains that he does not get any fare but meat and pork, which he agrees to prove.
Further requests that Jan Trof shall be bound over for his good behavior. [This means that Jan Trof would have to post a bond guaranteeing his good behavior, and if he misbehaves, he forfeits the bond. The same type of bond has been used on a few other occasions in Kingston, typically for men with a record of violence.]

Jacobus Elmendorp [Elmendorff] declares that he heard Thoomas Harmons say that Jan Trof had a quarrel with Jan Louris and was not in the wrong, because they had nothing to eat but pork, and a little sour beer, and [that he] had served long enough.

Severyn Ten Houdt declares that Thoomas Harmonsen said: “They don’t eat anything but pork, and small beer, and they were tired of it—and could not work on that.”

Jan Jansen and Hendrick Claesen declare that Jan Loures has proper food and drink.

Anthony Telba declares that he has seen that Jan Loures ran out of his house. Jan Trof followed him with a knife and a “siap” [adze] in his hands. And Jan Louwersen took hold of a spar. Then [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes said, “Don’t do that, you will crush his brains.” Jan Louwersen dropped the spar. Then Jan Trof saw them coming, took hold of the knife and broke it to pieces against the window. Jan Loures approached the door for the purpose of entering the house. Then Jan Trof again grabbed Jan Lourens’s head. Then they were separated. Said Jan Trof: “I’ll catch you yet, you devil.”

Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes] declares that Jan Lourisen came running out of the house and Jan Trof in hot pursuit with a knife and “siap” in his hands. Said Dirck Jansen: “That spar is too large—take another.” Jan Lourensen [then] threw down the spar [evidently much omitted in the original].

Theunes Elesen says the same.

Jan Focken says having seen that Jan Lourens ran out of the house and Jan Trof was after him with a “Siap” in his hands. And Jan Lourens took hold of a spar, but threw the spar down again. Then Jan Trof thrust at the window
[III:111]
so that the knife broke.

Johannes West Broeck declares the same.

The hon. court orders Thoomas Harmonsen to pay all costs.

Jan Trof is bound over for his good behavior, because the same cannot be permitted.

[See III:4 1682/3 January 6, where Thomas Harmonsen is hired to build a house, and Jan Trof is a helper.]
[See III:57 1683 November 8, where Jan Trof contracts to work for a year for Thomas Harmonsen.]

III:111
1682 May 30, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
Granted to William De Mejer, subject to the Heer governor’s approval, a parcel of land being woodland, handy to the mill where they saw, commencing at the woodland of Jan Oosterhoudt, Borhans, and Hendrick Albertsen, commencing [sic] in a direct line W.N.W. till a large white oak, further along the little mountains to the Platte Kill where the sawmill stands, and so on along the Great Kill [Large Kill], excepting the land of Arent Teunesen.
[See II:627, same date, apparently a duplication, but with a somewhat different description of bounds.]

III:111
1682 May 30, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Albertsen, Jan Oosterhout, Jan Borhans are granted some woodland, back of their land, about forty morgen in extent, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.

III:111
1682 May 30, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
Jan Oosterhout, Jan Borhans is [sic] granted the strip of land back of his [sic] house, along the Kill behind the house, about 18 morgen of woodland, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.

III:111
1682 May 30, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
Pieter Winnen is granted 25 morgen of woodland commencing from the Platte Kill and Poulus Poulussen’s [land] and [continuing] further in a northerly direction along the Albany road, subject to the hon. heer governor’s approval.

III:111
1682 May 30, Kingston (extraordinary council session, continued)
Granted to Jacobus Elmendorp [Elmendorff], Jan Mattysen, Mattys Mattysen, some woodland commencing at an outlet of the spring (spruyt van een fontyn) near an inner water (binnewater), along the river and further along the mountains, all pointed out by the hon. court, subject to the heer governor’s approval.
[South of Kingston, east of Marbletown and Hurley, are several “binnewater” lakes, long enclosed ponds (probably glacial troughs) that are mostly interconnected and flow generally northeast toward the Rondout. The Mattysen and DeWitt mills were both down in this direction too, on the Green Kill (just below today’s DeWitt Lake, where DeWitt Mills Road turns into DeWitt Lake road as it crosses the county highway). Further research would be required to determine which binnewater lake is described here, but probably that’s the general area of this land grant.]

Will (mostly)
II:635
1682 June 1, Kingston
Jan Broersen [Decker] and his wife Willemtie Jacobsz: If either of them should die first, survivor inherits the entire estate: land, houses, money, moveables, “without being obliged to pay out anything to any friends, relatives, heirs, or anybody whosoever.” No mention of children. Both sign with marks

III:111-112
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Session held at Kingston, June 14, 1682
Present:
Justice Jan Joosten
Jan Garton Justice
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm. DeMejer
Edward Wittakar
Tierck Claesen

III:112
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher, Constable, vs. Geertruy Govertsen Bruyn
[The constable] says that contrary to the decrees, she has lodged, at night, four savages. Demands the fines according to the decree.
[Geertruy] says that with her consent, no savages lodged in her house.
Her husband, Jacob Bruyn, says that he did not know there were savages in the house.
The hon. court condemns Geertry Govertsen Bruyn to pay a fine of one hundred gldrs, in conformity with the decree; one half for the church, one half for village-expenses.
[See II:564-565 1679 November 11, a recent reiteration of a rule that has been repeated several times in the history of the village: “[N]o savage or savages shall stay in anybody’s house after eight o’clock in the evening under penalty of 25 gldrs fine for every savage thus found.”]
[See II:510 1681/2 January 24, when five Esopus village members agree to sell their land at Shawangunk to Govertsen.]
[See III:167 1682/3 January 9, when Wessel Ten Broeck and William De Meyer are ordered to pay this, for unclear reasons.]
[See III:203 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session, adding the note “because they have become surety for the same,” which is a partial explanation.]
[See III:205 1682/3 February 6, when William Fisher says that Ten Broeck and De Meyer have signed up as sureties for Govertsen.]

III:112
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The constable and overseers say that they have found a can, belonging to Joost Adriaensen, with which he measures, and which is false (die vals is). Had asked him what measure he used, answered: “Dutch measure.”
Joost Adriaensen says that there never was a law, ordering to gauge the cans, and that the can has been gauged, but that the same is bunched (de selve is gebult).
The hon. court orders that Joost Adriaensen shall not measure any more with the same can.

The hon. court decrees that when anybody sells at retail, whether by cans, weight, ells, etc., they shall beforehand publish with which measure they measure, whether English or Dutch measure, and that they shall use perfect measures whether English or Dutch measure, used by them in their sales.

[See III:164 1682 December 19, when an offical rule is promulgated, and gage measurers are appointed.]

III:112
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. William Kelsy requests by petition some arable land, back of Hendrick Albertsen’s.
The reply to Mr. Kelsy’s request is that the land he petitions for has been granted to others, subject to Heer governor’s approval.

III:112
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jacob Rutgers requests some woodland just back of his land.
The court grants him the same, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.
[See III:113, same session, probably same grant, slightly different language.]
[See III:80-81 1681 September 20, William Fisher making a similar request.]
[See III:81 1681 November 22, Rutgers granted 4 morgens, no explanation or description.]

III:113
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Albertsen requests [the grant of] a parcel of land straight opposite his house, across the Kill, the length of his land till the cripple bush, about forty morgens in extent
The hon. court grants him the same, under condition of preventing nobody from getting wood, subject to the Heer governor’s approval—But [the court?] will go and examine the same. [Versteeg’s handwriting challenging to read.]

III:113
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Marten Hofman and Pieter Lussinck request some woodland, next to the mountains, about ten morgens in extent.
The hon. court grants the same, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.

III:113
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court orders the examiners of chimneys to make their rounds, and to act according to the instructions:
Instructions for Theunes Elesen, Jan Focken, and Hendrick Ten Eyck, appointed and authorized by the hon. court as viewers of the chimneys and of all places where fires are lit (alle plaetsen daer gestouckt worde).
First to go around every three or four weeks and to view all chimneys, and fire-places, [to see] whether the same are clean. In case the same are dirty to fine the proprietors to the amount of six gldrs, and to warn them to clean the same.
At the second visit, when yet finding them to be dirty, to fine them twelve gldrs.
At the third visit, still finding them negligent, to acquaint the hon. court with the same, thus [?] to be punished as they shall deserve.
To condemn [Ten vuylte Keuren] all dangerous fire places, as ovens, cook-houses etc.
In case of negligence to fine as per instructions.

[See III:127 undated, probably 1682/3, when Jan Hendrix replaces Teunes Eleson.]
[See III:210 1682/3 February 6, when the “arbitrators” declare Hendrick Ten Eyck’s chimney unfit.]

III:113
1682 June 14, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court grants Jacob Rutgers two parcels of valley-land (valey land) North East of his land (Noordt Oost van syn landerye), subject to the Heer Governor’s approval.
[See III:112, same session, probably same grant, slightly different language.]

[ Chronology in this set of records seems to keep going forward, but council minutes have a big gap; what’s here is loose notes rather than regular sessions. Possibly council stopped meeting until winter. Or possibly those council minutes are elsewhere. ]

III:114
1682 June 18 (coroner’s inquest)
Kingston, June 18, 1682
The daughter of Anthony Koeck, named Maria, having bathed in the water of the Mill dam at Kingston, was taken from the water dead. The hon. court went to the place and appointed a jury of seven men, viz.:
(Sworn:)
Jan Willemsen, Foreman
Willem Jansen
Benjamin Provoost
Jacob Rutgers
Thoomas Quick
Hendrick Ten Eyck
Willem Van Vreden Borgh

Verdict of the jury:
The jury judges that the said maiden was drowned without being able to know (sonder te konnen weten) whether anybody was the cause of her death.

II:626
1682 June 21, Kingston
Everdt Prys has contracted to sell to Johannes De Hooges house and lot located at Hurley, except the stack-pins (bergh-naegels) [stack, barn, etc., not mentioned, but apparently included, except the stack-pins]
De Hooges to pay 100 sch of wheat in 4 payments, 1683-1686.
Transfer (deed) to be provided after payment. House and lot to be delivered next May, 1683.

II:629-630
1682 June 23, Kingston
Esopus villagers contract to sell to William Fisher and Jacob Rutgers a “certain parcel of land, situated across (over) the Ronduyt Kill (Oost syde Kill [?]), towards the Pals [New Paltz], and also the land on the West bank of said Kill, viz. good and bad, mountains and valleys and everything, till the right [sight?] of Koxsinck (Coxing), as also the little island in the Ronduyt Kill, and so further till the boundaries of the Nieuwe Pals.” Fisher and Rutgers will pay in two years 400 guilders in sewant, and a long list of goods, some already paid (blankets, guns, kettles, cloth “strowwaters,” cloth “duffels,” adzes, axes, shirts, stockings [trousers], shoes, needles, fishing hooks, rum, beer, tobacco, pipes, powder, lead, hats).
[These transfers typically include both the contract of sale terms and a kind of conveyance or deed, in a single document, with somewhat different legal formulas than on European-to-European transfers.]
[Later added notes say everything has been paid, in front of town council members.]
signed by 15 Esopus villagers, including Harmon Hekan’s mother, and Fisher and Rutgers
[See III:52-53 1683 September 17, confirmation that payment was made.]
[See III:57-58 1683 December 4, division of tract]
[See next entry, same date.]
[See III:112 and III:113, both 1682 June 14, Rutgers 11 days ago requesting and receiving “some woodland just back of his land,” “two parcels of valley-land northeast of his land,” possibly this land on the Ronduyt that he buys with Fisher, or possibly land he bought with Cornelis Hoogeboom from Jan Gerritsen; see II:611-612.]
[See II:283 1680 June 17, Rutgersen leasing to Dirck Keyser his land on Ronduyt Kill, “viz. his just share granted him by patent.” Seems unlikely it is this land?]

II:631
1682 June 23, Kingston
William Fisjer and Jacob Rutgers have agreed re the purchase from the Esopus that “each shall receive the land directly opposite his own land: The full width and as far as the limits extend, and whenever one should receive more than his part, he will compensate the other, in proportion of the purchase.”
(signed as witnesses:) Wessel Ten Broeck, Tierck Claszen DeWitt
(signed) Wm. Fisher, Jacop Rutgersen
[Rutgers consistently signs his name Jacop, not Jacob. Also Rutgersen, not Rutgers.]
Added note: 27 May 1683, Fisher and Rutgers have agreed to the division and had trees marked by impartial men (Ed Wittaker, Thomas Garton, Jacob Aertsen, Jan Mattysen); they are satisfied. The same division line shall be extended as far as the limits of New Paltz.
[See previous entry, II:628-629 1682 June 23.]

II:632-633
1682 June 24, Kingston
Esopus villagers have contracted to sell to Hendricus Beeckman a parcel of land named Mogowaersinck, starting at SW corner of William Fisher’s land and going till the limits of Everdt Pels or the high Hoeck, below the small island, and then in a straight line through the woods till the limits of New Paltz, good as well as poor land, cliffs, mountains, etc. He pays with a long list of merchandise. Land to be delivered as soon as the maize is off the field
Signed by 15 Esopus villagers, including Harmon Hekam’s mother
Note attached dated 15 January 1682/3 at Kingston: It’s all paid. Signed by 8 villagers

II:634
1682 June 26, Kingston
(see II:623-624, 1682 April 3, Kingston)
Roelof Jansen, master tailor, contracts with Bennony Arentsen Van Hoeck to work for him for 1 year, starting 27 June (tomorrow), 4 guilders in wheat per day, “when he works,” “which he shall receive from the best customers they work for, at the choice of” Bennoy. When they have no work, Jansen gives him free board and “a place to sleep, rent-free.”

II:633-634
1682 June 27, Kingston
Everdt Prys has rented from Edward Wittaker six morgen of land (five morgen of old land). Every year he will pay the third sheaf “in hocken,” free on the land, summer and winter grain, not the first year but every year after, for seven years, starting in September. He is required to contribute to the repair of the fence in proportion to the number of morgens he’s renting and also to the bridge charges. (So this land is across the Great Kill, across the common bridge.)
If he builds, he’s entitled to keep what he builds (or they can come to an agreement).
He’s entitled to pasture two cows and three horses in the wheat during harvest, together with Whittaker’s cattle, but must fence the pasturage. On the stubble, he can pasture his cows as long as Whittaker pastures his, but no longer.
In the fall, Prys is obliged to dig the ditch in front of the meadow along the meadowland, from the pasturage coming from the wood until the pond.
Prys is not allowed to build inside the outer fence (the ring fence). All the land he sows with summer grain must be [???] twice. He must plow in the spring.
Ed Whittaker signs his name; Prys signs with a mark

Jul-Aug-Sep

II:626
1682 July 10, Kingston
Eghbert Meyndersen owes Jan Loodtman 100 sch of wheat, to pay “as soon as he acquires wealth” and is able to pay. Mortgages lot and house “which he intends to build next to Marten Hofman’s.”

II:635
1682 July 25, Kingston
Aerdt Otterspoor annuls will he made in favor of wife of Cornelis Barentsen. The little closet he willed to Pieternel is also annulled. (No alternate arrangements mentioned.)
[See II:424 1678 May 5, original will.]

III:114
[1682?] August 1 [Kingston?] (Attachments of Joseph Parrot’s financial assets)
[See further attachments August 18, same page: III:114]

No court session, but several attachments of property

Attachment by Wittaker, in the custody of Schepmoes, of sixteen sch. of wheat, belonging to Parrot—this August 1.
[See III:156-157 1682 August 23, when the council validates the attachment.]

Same date [August 1]. Attachment, of the money of Joosep Parrat, in the custody of Schepmoes, for [the account of] Severyen Ten Houdt, hundred twenty-five sch. of wheat. [See subsequent entries, where Severyn Ten Houdt is attorney representing Jan Bruyns, not himself involved.]

Same date [August 1]. Nicolaes Anthony attaches, under the hands of Schepmoes, 350 gldrs of the money belonging to Parrat.
[See III:156-157 1682 August 23, when the council validates the attachment, now for 384 guilders.]

III:114
[1682?] August 5 [Kingston?] (Attachments of Joseph Parrot’s financial assets)
Aug. 5. Fredrick Hussy levies an attachment against an ox which Parrat had permitted to run away (heeft lasten loopen), belonging to him.
[See III:156-157 1682 August 23, when the council validates the attachment.]
[See III:163 1682 November 17, when it is determined that the ox was not Parrot’s.]

Jan Waerdt [John Ward] attaches the money of Parrat [Joseph Parrot], under the hand of Garton, for fifteen sch. of wheat [90 guilders, at the standard exchange rate of 6 guilders per sch. of wheat].
[See II:595 1682 November 7, when John Ward attaches “the money belonging to Parrot, under the hands of Garton, amounting to 92 gldrs 10 st.”]
[See III:149 1684 April 1, when the council awards Ward 80 guilders.]

 

II:636
1682 August 17
Edward Wittaker has let to Jan Wood “certain land named the meadow land,” for 7 years, starting next May 1. 30 sch of wheat first two years, 60 sch each year thereafter. Jan Wood is to “dig a ditch till the gates [hecken] for the purpose of getting rid of the water. Wood may clear as much as he likes.” (Are these sluice gates to let the water into the Kill?) Wood is responsible for half of costs of keeping fence in repair between him and Hendrick Jochemsen. He will chip in for bridge maintenance “at the rate of four morgens.” (Size of land being rented has not been discussed.) If Wood builds anything, Wittaker will pay for it at end of lease, if they can agree, or else Wood can take what he builds. Wittaker will plow for Wood three days per year. If Wood works for Wittaker, he gets paid “the same as any other good laborer.” He will plow this fall or spring.

III:114 [1682?] August 18 [Kingston?] (Attachments of Joseph Parrot’s financial assets)
[See further attachments August 1 and 5, same page: III:114]

August 18.
William Fisher, for Thoomas Mattias [Mattysen] vs. Joseph Parrat
[Fisher] attaches the remainder of [the value of] an ox, after Frederick Hussy’s claim shall have been satisfied.
[See III:156-157 1682 August 23, when the council validates the attachment.]
[See III:163 1682 November 17, when it is determined that the ox was not Parrot’s.]

 

II:636-637
1682 August 22, Kingston
Jan Jansen and Pieter Jansen have exchanged houses and lots. Jan Jansen shall receive [what? details below] for his house and lot with everything fastened in the ground and fixed by nail, and all the boards in the house. Jan “shall further make two mullions, a door-case at his own expense, but Pieter Jansen is to furnish the lumber.” Jan Jansen’s lot “must be decreased four feet in the width from Sleghtenhorst’s ‘drop’ in his behalf, or the length of the lot.”
For all of the above, Pieter will deliver to Jan his house and lot with everything fastened etc., “under the condition that Pieter Cool shall receive thirty feet of the lot in width [in the front], and [a strip] as long as the lot, [with the width in the rear 19 feet] more or less.” Jan is to receive 85 sch of wheat from Pieter Cool, in two installments. Delivery tomorrow, except Lodewyck Ackerman shall live in the rear part of the house till winter.
(See II:392 1676/7 Feb 5, when Pieter buys a house and lot “in this village” from Thomas Newton, “the remainder of the lot having prior to this belonged to Eduwart Wittaker.” Pieter also rents various land that sounds like fields outside of town. See II:410 1677 December 28, when Edwart Wittiker contracts to sell a lot to Pieter Jansen and Jan Focken, shoemaker, “being the lot of Jan Volckers,” does not specify whether in village or not. II:471 1679/80 March 1 is the formal conveyance; lot is bounded on east by Barent Van Borsum, on south by Master Roelof [Kierstede]. Probably this is a lot in village. II:471-472, 1680 March 1, Wittaker sells a portion of a lot to Pieter Jansen, bounded by a portion of a lot bought from Tjerck Claessen De Witt; probably this is the south portion of the complete [double] lot in the village that Wittaker bought from TCDW in 1670. Unclear which of Pieter Jansen’s lots he is trading to Jan.)

 

III:155
1682 August 23, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, August 23, 1682
Present:
William Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Tierck Claesen De Witt
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. De Mejer

III:156
1682 August 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher [as Constable] vs. Albert Jansen [van Steenwyck]
[Fisher] says that [Jansen] while being drunk fires several shots in close succession, and when [Fisher] forbade [Jansen] the same, said Albert answered him insultingly and [Fisher] fears that accidents will happen on account of the same
The hon. court decrees that nobody shall fire several shots within the village, upon penalty of twenty gldrs fine, unless there be very great provocation.
[Jansen] is ordered to pay the court expenses.

III:156
1682 August 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The same [William Fisher] vs. Jan Jansen
[Versteeg note: The nature of the complaint is not mentioned, only the decision of the court:]
The hon. court orders Barendt Van Borsum and Hendrick Claesen to examine the job in question and to appraise the same, [to notice] what there is not right in the work on William Fisher’s barn and also on the house which is to be deducted according to contract and to be paid for [or made good] by Jan Jansen (en door Jan Jansen goedt de doen).
[Fisher contracted with Isaack de Rochell to build a barn II:575 1681 June 7, then contracted with him to build a threshing floor next to the barn, II:588 1681 October 1.]
[No contract to build house or barn is found, but see II:594 1682 November 7, Fisher vs. Jan Jansen for slipshod construction work.]

III:156
1682 August 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendricus Beeckman and DIreck Jansen Schepmoes request that means shall be devised to properly fit out the church (om de Kerck behoorlyck te versien).
The hon. court authorizes the church masters to solicit voluntary contributions, and to collect all that shall be promised (en all wat belooft wordt haer te meynteneeren).
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

III:156
1682 August 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Fredrick Hussy, Edward Wittakar, Jan Waerd [John Ward], Michiel D’mont [sic] request permission to buy of the savages the land from the boundaries of Beekman’s [land] and so on along the river till the “Kleyne Esoopus.”
The hon. court grants their petition, subject to the hon. Heer governor’s approval.

III:156-157
1682 August 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
[For the following items, see III:114 1682 August 1- 18, when attachments wee originally recorded. See also next council session, 1682 October 3, when the attachments are brought before the council for consideration and adjudication, one by one.]

Edward Wittakar gives notice of the attachment levied against the money of Joseph Parrot, under the hands of [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes, for sixteen sch. of wheat. Requests that the same shall be declared valid.

Nicolaes Anthony gives notice of certain attachment, under the hands of [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes, against the money of Parrot, for the amount of three hundred eighty four gldrs. Requests that the same shall be declared valid.

Jan Hendrix Bruyn gives notice of a certain attachment, under the hands of [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes, against the money of Parrot, for the quantity of hundred twenty-nine sch. of wheat. Requests that the same shall be adjudged valid. [See next session, where he is represented by Severyn Ten Houdt.]

Fredrick Hussy gives notice of a certain attachment, levied against an ox belonging to Parrot, for the quantity of fourteen sch. of wheat. Requests that the same shall e adjudged valid.
[See III:163 1682 November 17, when it is determined that the ox was not Parrot’s.]

Thoomas Matthias gives notice of certain attachment, levied against the remainder of the [value of the] ox, for fourteen sch. of wheat. The hon. court orders that the attachment shall be valid till the next suit (tot naerder proces).
[See III:163 1682 November 17, when it is determined that the ox was not Parrot’s.]

III:157
1682 August 23, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
In reply to Domine Weeksteen’s petition concerning the fire-wood:
It was ordered that the fire wood shall be furnished by those who have called him, and those, being neglectful, shall be forced to attend to their turn.
[The congregation that invited him to come lead them should provide for him.]
[See III:236 1683 April 25, when Nicolas Anthony, on behalf of Cornelis Steenwyck, asks to be reimbursed 192 schepels of wheat for the Domine’s passage from Holland.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

III:231
1682 August 23, Kingston (Actions entered for coming court of sessions)
[See below for 1682 September 25 session minutes. Items marked (settled) here generally will not appear in the minutes of the court session.]

This August 23d, 1682
Edward Wittakar vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for balance of 300 sch. of wheat. (settled)

Edwardt Wittaker vs. [Roelof] Swartwoudt, for 200 sch. of wheat. (settled)

Humpre Davenport vs. Hillebrant Lootman (settled)

Mr. Asford [Asfordbie], Sheriff, vs.:

Matthias Mattysen
Anderies DeWitt [brother-in-law of Mattys Mattysen]
Jan Pietersen
Mr. Roelof [Kierstede, doctor]
Eghbert Jochemsen
Jan Tysen [Mattysen, brother of Mattys Mattysen above]

[Asfordbie] brings suit in his majesty’s name, because they have broken the King’s peace.

The hon. session court permits Edward Wittakar, Fredrick Hossy, Jan Waerdt [John Ward], Michiel Modt [Mott] to purchase the land “Sint Paquit,” till the “Klyne Esoopus” across the Ronduyt Kill, subject to the Heer Governor’s approval.

In this date the Constable was ordered [Versteeg note: here it ends].

 

II:637-638
1682 September 1, Kingston
Arendt Isaax has hired out “his daughter named Gerretie” for 2 years starting next April, to Theunes Elesen and his wife. Elesen will provide proper board and clothing and at the end of 2 years “furnish her with a presentable Sunday dress, four shirts, two blue aprons, two white aprons, one silver head ornament, and send her to evening-school during one winter.”
(Arent signs Isacks; Elesen signs with mark, a trident.)

II:638-639
1682 September 18, Kingston
(in English) Joost Adriaensen contracts to sell his house to William Hames and Humphrie Davenport on the “fouwlewingh tarms”: 1100 sch of wheat, half in wheat, half in merchantable flour, in three payments.
Joost will deliver the house, barn, pasture ground according to patent, and new house next to the dwelling house must be delivered complete “as far is agreaed,” with a loft and [covered in shingles?], doors and glass windows. Hames’s flour to be delivered at Green Kill, Davenport’s at New York. Deed (transport) provided after payment.
Joost is to have “six tries to his cois ouwt of the arthear or gardin [???] and to taeke ouwt all exept the lofts and deelboord of the flor.”
Buyers are to deliver to Joost “good stof for a garment to Joostis wyfve”

II:618-619
1682 September 21
(in English)
Long, complicated and needlessly tedious agreement between Joost Adriaenson and Dirck Jansen Schepmoes to sell Joost’s share of land jointly owned in the Wassemaker’s land, with exceedingly poor spelling.
“That is to say all the right and title of the said Joost Adriaenson hath or ever had upon the Wassemakers Land since the time that the for said Dirck Schepmoes and Joost Adriaenson bought the saeme Land of Henry Pauwlingh; Joost Adriaensen hath sould his wholl right and title unto the said Dirck Schepmoes for the just sum of twelve hundered skiple of good marchantable winter wheatte.” Payments in 1682/3 (27 Feb), 1683/4, 1684/5, 1685/6.
N.B. O.K. to pay 1/4 of each payment in summer corne (probably meaning regular wheat; corn is not just maize but any grain). “Free transport,” i.e. conveyance, deed, to be made after payment.
[See II:435-436 1678 August 4 for possibly related contract.]
[See II:383 (date cut off), when Henry Pawling provides conveyance (deed) to Joost for this land.]

III:231-232
1682 September 25, Kingston (Court of Sessions)
[See III:231 1682 August 23 above for a complete list of items submitted to the court for this session, many of which were settled before the court date came up.]
Session court held at Kingston, by the authority of his royal majesty Charles the second, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Protector of the faith, in the year of our Lord 1682, September 25th
[III:232]
Present:
Jan Joosten [van Meteren], Justice of the Peace
Jan Garton, Justice
Lowies DuBooys [Louis Dubois]
William Fisher, Constable
Anthony Crupel [Crispell]
Jan Haesbroeck

Jury:
Edward Wittakar
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Wm. DeMeyer
Lambert Hubertsen
Jan Cock
Mattias Blansjan
Gysbert Krom

The hon. court orders that the land which had been granted to Thoomas Quick and Francis Coin shall now be equally divided between Thoomas Quick, Jan Waerd [John Ward], Dirck Kyser, because Francis Coin has run away. Each of them shall receive twenty-five morgen or a just one-third portion. And in case there should be any more land thereabouts, they may annex it to their grant, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.
[See III:101 1682 [?] April 6. The land is “situated on the Ronduyt Kill on the Great Falls half way [between Mombaccus] [sic].”

The hon. court grants Pieter Hillebrantsen, subject to the Heer governor’s approval, twenty morgen of woodland, due West of his house.

The hon. court orders that the outer fence between Jeremia Kettel’s and the other lands shall be kept in repairs, as was done before.

The hon. court grants Thomas Caddock, subject to the Hon. Heer Governor’s approval, sixteen morgen of land near the “Fig mountain” (Vyge Bergh).

The hon. court, subject to the hon. Heer governor’s approval, permits Edward Wittaker, Fredrick Hussy, Jan Waerd [John Ward], Micgiel DeModt [Michiel Mott] to buy the land beyond the Ronduyt Kill (over de Ronduyt Kill) of the savages, but they must not prevent fishing (doch geen visseryen te verhinderen).

III:233
1682 September 25, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The hon. court orders that a prison shall be built twenty-four feet square, measured from the outside (buytens wercks), with a cellar eight feet deep, which is to be erected next to Benjamin Provoost’s. And the Heer governor shall be written to for the sake of learning from him whether the same shall be paid for by the respective villages.

The hon. court decrees that, on Sundays or other holy days, no more than two negroes shall congregate together, under penalty of twelve gldrs, or else to be whipped.
[See III:164 1682 December 19, when William Fisher finds three negroes drinking together at Matthew Blanchan’s tavern.]
[See III:119-121 1682 October 4-5-6 Court of Assizes in New York, detailed rules prohibiting “Negros and Indian Slaves” from leaving their houses on Sundays without a pass from their “Master,” and also prohibiting anyone from selling them liquor without permission.]

[ note no cases above with plaintiff and defendant, no charges from constables or sheriff, no civil complaints. Seems like only a partial session. Were there no other cases to be tried? See list of cases filed before the date of the court session. ]

Oct-Nov-Dec

 

III:157-158
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary court held at Kingston, October 3, 1682
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Edward Wittakar
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck DeWidt
Willem De Meyer

[The following attachments against the property of Joseph Parrot, much of it held by Dirck Jansen Schepmoes, were all brought in the previous session, III:156-157 1682 August 23.]

Edward Wittaker vs. [name left open in original] [Dirck Jansen Schepmoes]
[Wittakar] demands, as per the attachment, against the money of Parrot, sixteen sch. of wheat. The court orders that [Wittaker] shall receive the same,
[III:158]
but is to furnish security for the purpose of answering Parrot if required within the time stipulated by law, and is to furnish [Dirck Jansen Schepmoes] with a final receipt, after receiving the same and guaranteehim against all future troubles.

Sueryn Ten Houdt, attorney for Jan Bruyns, vs. Josep Parrot
[Ten Houdt] demands, as per attachment under the hands of Schepmoes, the quantity of hundred twenty-nine sch. of wheat.
The court orders that he shall receive the same [under same conditions] as above.

Nicolaes Anthony, per attachment under the hands of [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes, vs. Joseph Parrot
[Anthony] demands the amount of three hundred forty-eight gldrs.
The court orders as above.

Mr. [Humphrey] Davenport shows a letter dated July 19th last [1682], concerning the ox which Parrot had left behind and which had been attached by Frederick Hussy and Thoomas Mattias. Adjourned till the next session of the court.
[See III:114 [1682?] August 5, when the ox is attached by two creditors for non-payment.]
[See III:156-157 1682 August 23, second notice of attachment of ox.]
[See III:163 1682 November 17, when it is determined that the ox was not Parrot’s.]

III:158
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher, Constable, vs. Cornelis [Barentsen] Sleght
[Fisher] demands pound-money for cattle which [Slecht] made pass across the bridge. Abraham Lameter declares under oath that he was standing at the opposite end of the bridge [and] that he saw the negro [enslaved by Sleght] drive the four heads of cattle across the bridge, they being his master’s cows.
The hon. court orders Cornelis Sleght to agree [i.e. come to some mutually acceptable arrangement] with the constable, or else to pay six sch. of wheat, besides the court charges.

III:158
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Jan Jansen, 2d default

III:159
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William De Mejer vs. Claes Juriaensen
[De Mejer] demands ten sch. of wheat, because [Claes] has killed [De Mejer’s] pig.
[Claes] says that he did not do so without Weseel Ten Broeck’s orders.
Adjourned till the next court.

III:159
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Claes Jurriaensen vs. Mooses Du Pue
Adjourned till the next court.

III:159
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The constable [William Fisher] vs. Suveryn Ten Houdt
[Fisher] says that [Severyn] retailed liquors [getapt] on Sunday, contrary to the decree of the last court of session.
[Ten Houdt] says that he did not retail to them [or her] (aen haer niet getapt te hebben).
[I.e., yes he tapped (getapt), but he wasn’t selling what he was tapping, and the rule is against selling liquor, not pouring liquor.]
[See second item down, same session, where his three customers are named. Council’s judgment is recorded there.]

III:159
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher, constable, vs. Johannes Juriaensen
[Fisher] says that [Johannes] has drunk (gedroncken) on the Sabbath, at the house of Lodowyck Ackerman.
[Johannes] says that he took a small drink (kleyn soopje) there, and did not make trouble, but he went away when they commenced to quarrel.

III:159
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The Constable [William Fisher]
vs.:
Wallerand DuMont
Mattys Mattysen
Aerdt Dooren

[Fisher] demands the fines, as per the decree, because they had been drinking on the Sabbath.
The hon. court orders that Sueryn Ten Houdt shall pay for each man who had been drinking at his house last Sabbath, twenty-four gldrs, and each man, thus found, also to pay twenty-four gldrs, and costs, in behalf of the village.

III:160
1682 October 3, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Kip was granted, subject to the Hon. Heer governor’s approval, a parcel of land near the road to Ponckhacke, which is to be examined. But he shall leave two gates (maer sall twee hecken taeten).

 

III:119-121
1682 October 4-5-6 Court of Assizes in City of New York
[Probably filed in Kingston records in December, after letter was sent north, apparently with Governor Brockholst’s letter of October 29 [?] regarding prison, Dubois, Delavall; see III:119.]
The following is a copy of the English in the original.
[Standardized to 2025 spelling]
At a general court of assizes held in the City of New York the 4th, 5th and 6 day of October in the thirty-fourth year of the King of our sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., Anno Domini 1682.
Whereas many great evils and inconveniences have been represented to this court to be occasioned, committed, and done by Negros and Indian Slaves, their frequent meetings and gathering themselves to gather in great numbers on the Lord’s day and at
[III:120]
other unseasonable Times,
using and exercising several rude and unlawful sports and pastimes, to the dishonor of God, profanation of his holy day, breach and disturbance of the peace and quiet of his Majesty’s subjects,
many whereof are likewise drawn aside and misled from the more suitable and pious duty and service of the day for prevention whereof
for future and that good order and civil discipline may be from henceforth kept and maintained in all parts of this government,
It is resolved and ordered by this court and the authority thereof that from henceforth and after the publication of this order,
no negro or Indian slaves within this government do presume to go or absent themselves from their masters’ houses or plantations on the Lord’s day or any other unseasonable time or times without their said Master’s license or consent first had obtained and signified by a writing or ticket under their hands by the date thereof mentioned the time when such license was given
and if any Negro or Indian Slaves shall presume to absent themselves or depart from their said masters’ houses or plantations without such writing or ticket as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the sheriff, contable, or other officers in any city, corporation, town, liberty or precinct within this government, who are hereby likewise authorized and required, to apprehend seize and secure any such Negro or Indian Slaves and them to carry or bring before the next magistrates or Justice of the Peace who are to order all such Negro or Indian slaves to be fort [?] with, severely whipped and sent to their said masters, their said masters paying such fees and charges to the officers for his pains and trouble therein, as shall be judged reasonable by the said magistrates or justices of the peace,
and if any person or persons whatsoever shall presume to entertain, harbor, or conceal any Negro or Indian slaves or buy, sell, or trade with them any liquors or other goods whatsoever without the license and approbation of their said masters,
upon proof made thereof before any magistrate or justice of the peace they
[III:121]
shall incur the penalty and forfeiture of five pounds for each offense to be disposed of the one-half for the public use of such city, corporation, town, liberty, or precinct where the offense shall be committed and the other half to such officer or other persons or person as shall inform or discover the same to any magistrate or justice of th peace as aforesaid.
By order of the general court of assizes
(was signed) John West, Clerk Assizes

III:160
1682 October 17, Kingston (special council session)
Special court held at Kingston, October 17, 1682
Present:
Justice Jan Joosten
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Tierck De Witt
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. De Meyer

[Note that session is on a Tuesday, even though it’s designated as a special session.]

Mr. John D’lavall vs. Joost Adriaensen
[De Laval] demands two thousand three hundred eighty-two gldrs, ten st. book debt.
[Joost] says that on the contrary he demands eight hundred forty-five gldrs expenses in the sessions court, where his deceased father has ordered him [daer syn vader zal. hem heeft geordonneerdt) as he has done before, as is shown in the account.
[De Lavall] says that his father did so as Justice and not as a private individual.

Jury sworn:
Humphre Davenport, foreman
Jacob Rutgers
Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes
Jacobus Elmendorp [Elmendorff]
Teunes Eleson
Gerrit Aertson
Benjamin Provoost

The jury finds for [De Laval]
The hon. court orders Joost Adriaensen to pay [De Lavall] the amount of two hundred eighty-two gldrs, and costs.
[What happened to the other 2,100 guilders?]

II:639
1682 October 18, Kingston
Thoomas Garton of Marbletown contracts to sell to Charles Brodhed a house and lot at Marbletown, 100 sch of wheat, which will be given to Charles by his mother [?].
Contract includes deed [transpordt].

II:639-640
1682 October 18
Jan DLavall, “heir of his father Mr. Thoomas Dlavall, merchant at N. Yorcke,” has contracted to sell to “Mrs. Anna Gartons” the Marbletown farm of Robert Peacock, “which farm she is buying for her children by a former marriage.” 530 sch of wheat, in three installments. Deed (transfer) to be granted after payment.

II:640
1682 October 23
John DlaVall gives power of attorney “by virtue of letters of administration dated July 25 . . . of his deceased father Thoomas Delavall” to “his servant John Fortuene.”

III:114-115
1682 October 23 [Kingston?]
Johannes Beeckman master of the sloop “Hoop Well” to N. York with two hundred skepel of grain.
[See III:117 1682 November 24 for similar record, with note.]

III:119
1682 October 29th?
[Probably filed in Kingston records in December, after letter was sent north, apparently with minutes of New York Court of Assizes October 4-5-6 with new regulations on peaceable assembly of enslaved residents; see III:119-121.]
[See III:160 1682 November 2, and III:161 1682 November 28, when this letter is presented to the council and a replacement is chosen for Louis Dubois.]
[Louis Dubois’s big nuisance at the court of sessions was in September 1681, see III:222-223 1681 September 7-8. This is a full year later. See III:160-161 from November 1682 when Louis Dubois is replaced, shortly after this letter.]
[Delavall’s will is presented at probate 25 July 1682; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Delavall-5 . So this letter really can’t be from October 1681.]
[The order to build a new prison is also from 1682, III:233, although it is near the end of a collection of similar orders, and it is not clear whether they are really all from the same date as the court of sessions indicated at the top of the collection.]
Gov Brockholst appoints Thomas Chambers to fill position of Justice of the Peace made vacant by the death of Capt Delavall

The following was in English. A true copy
New Yorke October [date illegible]
[standardized to 2025 orthography]
Gentlemen:
I have by the advice of the council pursuant to his Royal highness’s order constituted the present magistrates and Justices in the exercise of their several functions till further order, and to supply the vacancy by the death of Capt Delavall have inclosed a commission to Capt. Thomas Chambers to act as a Justice of the Peace accordingly.
Your desiring of building a prison and a court house is well approved, and the charges must be borne and defrayed by all the inhabitants of the several towns proportionably to be collected in the best manner as usual.
I having lately had an account of some trouble occasioned by Louis Dubois at the last Court of Sessions and that the same was put off on his account, which and the former complaints of his ill carriage hath made me resolve to remove him.
Therefore by the first opportunity send me the names of two fit persons inhabiting near him to be put in commission of the peace which shall be sent before winter.
All well here and hope will continue so with you
I am
gentlemen
Your affectionate friend
(signed) Antho Brockholst
[See III:160 1682 November 2, and III:161 1682 November 28, when this letter is presented to the council and a replacement is chosen for Louis Dubois.]
[See III:222 1681 September 7, 8, where Louis Dubois, annoyed at having to pay excise tax for his distilling at New Paltz, throws up procedural objections, arguing about how juries are formed.]

 

Will
III:1
1682 November 1, Kingston
Dirck Jansen Schepmoes is sick in bed, in full possession of his mental faculties.
wife not named in text, but signs Marya Willems
Survivor remains in full possession of entire estate; if survivor remarries, survivor “shall deal [in case of remarriage] according to conscience, and appoint two guardians” to secure inheritance of children. Estate to be equally divided among children (not named), “surrendered to them when they are of age or get married.”
Witnesses William De Meyer and Hendrick Van de Waeter.

III:160
1682 November 2, Kingston
Kingston, November 2, 1682
Capt. Chambers has shown the order of the Heer Commander Brocholst, by which Capt. Chambers has been appointed Justice of the Peace in the place of the deceased Mr. Thoomas Delavall.
And nominated in the place of Lowies Du Booys [Louis Dubois], as justice of the Peace, Abraham Haes Broeck [Hasbroeck] and Simon Lefebre
[See III:119 1682 October 25, when Gov. Brockholst demotes Louis Dubois. See next entry, III:161 1682 November 28.]

III:161
(1682) November 28
Lowies DuBooys was dismissed. Abraham Haes Broeck [Hasbroeck, Hasbrouck] was appointed Justice of the peace, by order of the Heer Commander. He has been sworn and was given his commission. Present: Capt. Chambers, Justice [Kingston]; Jan Joosten [van Meteren, Hurley], Justice; Jan Garton [Marbletown].
[See III:119 1682 October 25, when Gov. Brockholst demotes Louis Dubois. See previous entry, III:160 1682 November 2.]
[See III:222 and III:223, Louis Dubois arguing in court about composition of juries.]

 

II:594
1682 November 7, Kingston (ordinary council session?)
Kingston Nov. 7, 1682
[no other header information like which officers are present, what type of session this is, etc.]
[Some items from this session appear to match, as duplicates (with somewhat different discussion) identical items from III:161 1682 November 17. Date of Nov. 7 may not be correct. Why there might be two sets of minutes remains undetermined.]

William Fisher vs. [Matthew] Blanchan
[Fisher] says that [Blanchan] has desecrated the Sabbath up to several times, and that he has shot (geschooten) in his house
[Unclear whether this means in Blanchan’s personal home or in his tavern, although they may be the same.]
[Blanchan] denies having descrated the Sabbath.
The hon. court orders Blanchan to pay 48 gldrs for desecrating the Sabbath, and he is warned not to shoot anymore in the house (niet meer in huys te schieten) under penalty of 25 gldrs fine.
[See III:162 1682 November 17, apparently a duplicate of this entry, with a slightly different date.]

II:594
1682 November 7, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The same [William Fisher] vs. Jan Jansen, 3rd default
[Fisher] demands on account of failing to work [Versteeg note: “manquement in ’t werk,” may also mean “poor or slipshod work.”], 16 sch of wheat
For expenses, 5 [schepels of wheat]
Still [in addition] for private account, 19 [schepels of wheat] and 1 gldr 5 st
[Total] 40 [schepels of wheat; Versteeg notes: “no mention of the money”]
Ordered [to pay]
[See III:156 1682 August 23 when two arbitrators are designated to examine the work of Jan Jansen on a house and barn for Fisher and determine what deficiencies need to be made good.]
[See III:162 1682 November 17, apparently identical case, but without the discussion.]

II:595
1682 November 7, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Focken vs. Elsje Hendrix
[Focken] demands 8 sch. of wheat which she has agreed to pay for another party, and which has been liquidated on account of her deceased servant girl.
Ordered [to pay]
[See III:162 1682 November 17, apparently the same case.]

II:595
1682 November 7, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Joh[n] Wardt [complainant], for an attachment against the money belonging to Parrot, under the hands of Garton, amounting to 92 gldrs 10 st.
Referred to the next court.
[See III:114 1682 June 18, when John Ward attaches “the money of Parrot, under the hand of Garton, for fifteen sch. of wheat [90 guilders].”
[See III:149 1684 April 1, when the council awards Ward 80 guilders.]
[See III:162 1682 November 17, apparently a duplicate?]

II:595
1682 November 7, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Wardt vs. Claes Slyter [Sluyter], default
[Ward] says that [Sluyter] ran away while under arrest.
[John Ward is apparently in charge of keeping people confined when they are under arrest.]
[See III:104 1682 April 4, when Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] complains that Ward let Isaack Rochel out of custody, and Ward complains that the village doesn’t have a proper jail.]
[See also III:217 1680 September 5, discussion of a prison to be built for drunks; see also III:233 1682 September 25, detailed instructions for a prison to be built, 20 feet square, with a cellar 8 feet deep, next to Benjamin Provoost’s.]
[See also III:119 1682 October 25, when Governor Brockholst agrees that a courthouse and prison should be built, financed by the inhabitants of Kingston and surrounding towns.]
[See also III:140 1684 August 1, when John Ward again complains that there is no fit jail to detain a prisoner. John Ward is not the constable (William Fisher) nor the sheriff (William Asfordbie), but he is described various places (see e.g. II:470 1679 September 30) as the court clerk, a position that sometimes also is assigned to Montagne. He also was appointed court messenger II:483 1676/7 January 23.]
[See also III:150 1684 May 6, when Ward says François Lafore “has been set free by order of the Justice because there was no proper prison.”]
[See III:196 1684 March 4, 5, 6, when the Court of Sessions instructs the clerk (by position, not including a name) to “execute the warrants for all arrests concerning debts.” Montagne frequently refers to himself also as clerk, often in the same period as Ward does. Is there more than one clerk at a time? Is only one responsible for arrests?]

II:595
1682 November 7, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The case of Claes Jurriaensen and Mooses Du Pue adjourned.
[The minutes go on with details about the case and a decision.]

Pieter Adriaensen declares that he saw the pigs pass through the opening in the fence of the decease Hend[rick] Jochemsen.
[Pieter Adriaensen is the son of Adriaen Pietersen van Alcmaer and Elsje Jans van Breestede; Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmaker was his mother’s second husband, so Pieter’s stepfather.]
Hillebrant Lootman [?] declares that he saw a pig jump between the “nyten” and the fence between the deceased Hend. Jochemsen’s and Mooses Du Pue’s.
Decided that Moses DuPue shall pay the expenses to Claes Jurriaensen—and the pig [sic].
[See III:162 1682 November 17, apparently identical case, probably same hearing, different minutes, slightly different description.]

II:595
1682 November 7, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
In regard to the petition by Thoomas Mattheus and Jan Woord [probably John Ward?], their request is granted if upon examination, it is found that the same is not detrimental to Wm. D’Meyer.
[See III:162 1682 November 17, apparently identical grant, except that instead of Thomas Mattysen and John Ward, it’s to Thomas Mattys and William Leege.]

III:115
1682 November 8 [Kingston?]
On November 8 the person of [illegible: Theunes Lucken?] was arrested by order of Huphre [Humphrey] Davenport, on account of certain purchase of maize.

III:116
1682 November 8, Kingston
Kingston November 8, 1682
The constable attaches eighty gldrs, in the hands of Jan Waerdt, for expenses of a special court [session] vs. paelden [Henry Pawling]—being the money of Jan Coly [Versteeg note: literal translation]

 

III:115
1682 November 9 [location not stated; warrant may be issued in New York, for execution in Kingston]
The following was in English:
Youw are in his majest[y’]s naeme orderd to sommon Hannach Spragg in an axsion of debt—due to Aerdt Marteson plaintif and to arrest her person utill shee answerd the plaint—the next Court—this will be your suffisant warrandt given onder my hand Tis 9th daj of Novemb.1682.

III:116-117
1682 November 15, Kingston
[Versteeg note: This entry was in English, a literal copy]
Kingston in Esopus
Michiel Garton. By this I doe demand my land that youw doe settel and inhabit. By vertue of my patent granted unto mee of govern’r Francis Lovelace in the year A 1671.
Youw are to remove your seffe from the saeme land. If you doe not [not is crossed out]
By this I doe protest upon youw for all damages that I may have my land according my patent in my possession. Given onder my hand this 15 day of Novemb, 1682
[no signature]
[Unclear whether this is from Michiel Garton or addressed to him. On 8 March of this year (III:97), Severyn Ten Houdt had some (undescribed) dispute with Garton, which could be related. Garton appears to be a respected member of the community (he serves on juries and the town council), and he has sold land to Hendrick Jochemsen (1679, II:262, II:393).]

III:161
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Kingston, November 17, 1682
Present:
Capt. Chambers, Justice
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claeson
Edward Wittakar
Wm. DeMeyer

Roelof Hendrix was sworn as constable for Hurly.

[Some items from this set of minutes appear to match (as duplicates, with somewhat different discussions) items from 1682 November 7, II:594-595.]

III:161
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
John Ward, attorney for Isaack DuChamp, vs. [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes
Daniel Hobbart shows an assignment of Joseph Parrot on Schepmoes in behalf of Isaack DuChamp, to receive the money belonging to Joseph Parrot which Schepmoes owes Joseph Parrot as per obligation.
[a couple of names entered wrong and crossed out]
Edward Wittaker, Suereyn Ten Houdt as attorneys for Jan Bruyns and Nicolaes Anthony give notice of an attachment levied against said money; whereas they prove that Joseph Parrot is indebted to them therefore the court has permitted them to receive the money, coming to them, of Schepmoes, provided they give security for the amount, because it is judged that the assignment has not been executed at the proper time.
Daniel Hobbart appeals to the court of sessions.
Which is permitted him.
[See III:157-158 1682 October 3 and previous for multiple attachments against Parrot’s financial assets.]
[See III:233-235 1683 April 14, Kingston (Declarations entered for coming court of sessions).]

III:161-162
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenport vs. Martin Hofman, 1st default

Wm. Fisher vs. Gerrit the bellringer (Clock lyer), 1st default
[See II:533, 1677/8 February 7, Marbletown.]
[III:162]

William Fisher vs. Claes Teuneson, 1st default

III:162
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Matthue Blansjan
[Fisher] says that [Blanchan] has several times desecrated the Sabbath.
And that he has discharged fire arms in his house.
The hon. court orders Mattue Blansjan to pay for desecrating the Sabbath forty-eight gldrs, and has warned him not to shoot any more in the house, upon penalty of twenty-five gldrs [fine].
[See II:594 1682 November 7, apparently a duplicate of this record, with a slightly different date.]

III:162
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The Same [William Fisher, Constable] vs. Jan Jansen, 3d default
[Jansen] is ordered to pay the quanitty of forty sch. of wheat, and one gldr five st.
[See II:594 1682 November 7, discussion in identical case of slipshod work done by Jansen. This may be a duplicate entry.]

III:162
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Focken vs. Elsje Hendrix
[Focken] demands eight sch. of wheat which she has accepted to pay and settled (afgerekendt) for her servant girl.
The hon. court orders [Hendrix] to pay..
[See II:595 1682 November 7, apparently same case, similar date—a duplication?]

III:162
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Waerdt gives notice of the attachment under the hands of Mr. John Garton leved against the money of Joseph Parrot, for the amount of ninety two gldrs ten st.
[See II:595 1682 November 7, apparently same attachment—a duplication?]

III:162
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The case between Claes Jurriaensen and Mooses Due Pue:
Two witnesses declare that they saw pigs jump across the fence, viz. the one between Hendrick Jochemsen’s fence [sic]. Pieter Adriaensen and Hillebrant Lootman declare the same.
The hon. court orders Mooses Du Pue to pay for the pig, and the costs.
[See II:595 1682 November 7, identical case, sounds like same hearing, slightly different details in transcript.]

III:162-163
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
In reply to Thoomas Mattias [Mattysen] and William Leege’s petition, [they are granted] a parcel of land, provided this be not detrimental to William DMejer’s [interests], which is to be looekd into. Which is granted subject to the Heer Governor’s approval.
[See probably the same item II:595 1682 November 7, except that instead of Thomas Mattys and William Leege, it’s for Thomas Mattys and John Ward.]
[See II:483 1676/7 January 27, when Susan Merrit, who was preparing to marry Thomas Mattys, changed her mind at the last minute and decided to marry William Leecq instead.]

III:163
1682 November 17, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court finds, through a declaration, that the ox does not belong to Parrot, but that it is Minville’s ox, the same having been exchanged for a negro.
[See III:114 [1682?] August 5, when the ox is attached by two creditors for non-payment.]
[See III:156-157 1682 August 23, second notice of attachment of ox.]
[See III:157-158 1682 October 3, when Humphrey Davenport brings in a letter clarifying status of the ox.]

 

Will
III:1-2
1682 November 19, Kingston
Barendt Van Borsum sick in bed, still in full possession of mental faculties.
Wife is Machtel Adriaensen (signs Machtel van Vlyet).
She will keep entire estate, “without being obliged to pay out any thing to their children.” But if she remarries, then half the estate “must be paid out when the children shall become of age or get married. But from the income of the same the children shall receive a christian education.”
But if she stays unmarried, they can’t claim anything until she dies.
Witnesses: Jacob Rutgersen, Jochem Enthelbert Van Namen
Signed: Barendt Van Borsums, Machtel Van Vlyet
Additional notes after signing: The tools, and the gun and also the male apparel he wills in advance to his little son, but they shall all be appraised and shall have their value deducted from his share in the estate.”
Final witness: C[ornelius] Hoogenboom

III:115
1682 November 22 [Kingston?]
Lambert Huybertsen attaches the maize and the oats of Jan Mewesen—this November 22, 1682.
[See II:562-563 1680 September 6, when Mewesen agrees to work for Huybertsen., who will pay some of Mewesen’s debts in exchange.]
[See II:544 1681 August 9, Marbletown, for older complaint.]
[See III:128-129 1683 April 24, when Huybertsen again attaches grain of Mewesen.]

 

III:117
1682 November 24 [Kingston?]
[Versteeg note: This entry was also in English]
This 24 of Nov 1682
Johannes Beeckman passe for N. Yorck havingh on bord 1500 scepel corne.
[This is at once common and unusual: Common in that every ship transporting passengers or cargo up and down the Hudson was supposed to have a pass stating its permission to travel—a port pass—but unusual in that very few of these are preserved in the record. Its inclusion here speaks to the haphazard collection of miscellany that makes up this section of the Dutch records. See III:114-115 1682 October 23 for similar record.]

 

 

III:117-118
1682 December 1, Kingston
Agreement entered into by Fredrick Hussy, Edward Wittakar, Jan Waerd, Michiel Modt, and the Esoopus savages for certain parcel of land situated across [or opposite: (over)] the Ronduyt Kill, good as well as bad, mountains, valleys, [illegible], etc. Said land commences at the Ronduyt Kill and Beecqman’s property, ascends the Kill to the River and further till the marked trees, shown to [the buyers] and marked for them, being at the entrance [begin] to the little Esopus Valley.
The savages declare that nobody has any claim to the said land but that they had permitted Christoffel Davits to temporarily occupy said land, though not as proprietor (maer niedt als ejgenaer).
For which there has been paid:
[long list]
[III:118]
We the undersigned savages declare to have received these goods in full, satisfaction for the said land so that nobody in the world has any more claim against the same, relinquishing our right and title. In testimony of the truth have subscribed to the present this December 1st, 1682, at Kingston.

Esopus signers (all with marks):
Arenekan
Apahareky
Wapajahan
Norida [?] Jackais
Kakanascho
Naerkockwa
Orandawack
Wawahamock
Naskatakaha

Esopus witnesses (all with marks):
Wachkanue
Kalbas
Willem Back [maybe a signature?]
Sawehaktauw
Onkatys
Kajowaes

In presence of the justice and the magistrates:
(signed)
Thomas Chambers
Wm. Fisher
Wessel Ten Broeck
W.D.Meyer

(extra mark) Kawano Wach’s mark who declares to have been satisfied for his share of the land, named Skonawonck, by Sewaukuch

III:2-3
1682 December 7, Kingston
(in English) Johan Garton contracts to sell to his cousin Thomas Garton all his land, on 4th piece in Marbletown, and also all his right and title at the Carle Berg (?). [The Kaele Berg is the Bald Mountain.] 1575 sch of wheat, 4 payments through 1685. Free transport (deed) provided with last payment (1685). “The delevery of the Land is to bee accordingh to the condition of Gorge Mils.” [?] Both Gartons sign.
[See also III:153-154, 1684 August 19, Anthony Addison “late of Marbleton,” selling half-share of Broockboone hooke to George Mealls of Marbletown.]
[See also III:7, 1682/3 January 19, Addison contracting to sell to Ann Garton a parcel called Breeckebeen Hoeck, half the parcel he has in partnership with George Mills.]
[See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]

III:117
[1682?] December 13 [Kingston?]
N. Anthoy attaches grain of Jan Mewesen
[See III:115 1682 November 22 when Huybertsen attaches maize and oats belonging to Mewesen.]
[See III:128-129 1683 April 24, when Huybertsen again attaches grain of Mewesen.]

III:117
[1682?] [December?] [Kingston?]
The following was in English, a true copy:
Granted unto Righard [Richard] Wilson upon aprobation of his honnor the governor ten ackers woodland reight over his onne land: after the land of Anderies Pieterson. In the Boddem [Bottom?] after the said land.
[See II:265 1679 November 15, Wilson buys land from Frederick Pietersen, probably the “own land” referred to above.]

III:163
1682 December 19, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court, held at Kingston, December 19, 1682
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Tierck Claeson
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. DeMeyer

William Fisher, Constable, vs. Hendricus Beeckman
[Fisher] says that [Beeckman’s] Negro last Sunday rode around the village with horses and sleighs, contrary to the decree of the court of sessions.
[Beeckman] says that the same happened after sun-set.
The Constable says that the Sabbath lasts till mid-night.
[Versteeg note: no verdict.]

The same [Constable Fisher] vs. Nicolaes Anthony, Mooses Du Pue, Jacob Aertsen, Thoomas Quick
[Fisher] says that on Sunday they rode with horses and sleighs. Requests that the case shall be brought before the [court of] sessions.
Which is permitted him.

The hon. court condemns Mooses Du Pue to pay a fine of twenty-five gldrs, because he spoke in the court, contrary to orders.

III:163
1682 December 19, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Claes Teunesen,for 171 sch. of wheat, per obligation.
Teunesen appeals to court of sessions.

III:164
1682 December 19, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The Constable William Fisher vs. Mattue Blansjan
[Fisher] says that he, last Sunday, found three negroes drinking at [Blanchan’s], viz. Mattis, his son’s negro; Beecqman’s negro; and Wessel’s negro—contrary to the decrees of the general court of assizes.
[Blanchan] says that when the crops were in, his son told him to give his negro a bottle of wine, which bottle was kept there till said time, and then the negro fetched the other two negroes and they did not yet empty the bottle—the same is yet at his house. Says it was not his but his son’s wine.
The hon. court orders [Blanchan] to pay one hundred gldrs—and costs.
[Blanchan] appeals to a jury.
Which is permitted him.
[Jury selection normally enumerated here; in this entry it is not.]
The jury finds that Mattue Blansjan owes the fines as per the decrees of the general court of assizes and also of the sessions.
The court orders Mattue Blansjan, as per the verdict of the jury, to pay the amount of two hundred ninety-two gldrs—and costs.
[See III:233 1682 September 25, when the Court of Sessions decrees that on Sundays no more than two negroes may congregate together.]
[See III:119-121 1682 October 4-5-6 Court of Assizes in New York, detailed rules prohibiting “Negros and Indian Slaves” from leaving their houses on Sundays without a pass from their “Master,” and also prohibiting anyone from selling them liquor without permission.]

III:164
1682 December 19, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court has appointed gagers Jan Willemsen and Hendrick Ten Eyck who have been sworn.
Instructions for the gagers:
1. They shall pertinently adjust all measures, ells, weights and pounds used in business or used in weighing and measuring in and out.
2. They shall receive, for salary, the value of two stivers in silver for every adjustment (voor elcke eyck).
3. They shall condemn all measures which are not up to the standard.
4. In case any one is found using improper measures (onbequaeme maedt), to announce them that they shall be fined, at the discretion of the hon. court.
5. They shall also gage the millers’ scoop measure (schepmaedt), which is not to be larger for the burghers than fro the flour to be bolted.
[See III:112 1682 June 14, when this first comes up, when Joost Adriaensen’s measures come into question.]

1683

Jan-Feb-Mar

III:3-4
1682/3 January 1, Kingston
Thoomas Harmonsen [Brouwer] contracts to sell to Arendt Teunesen (signs Tyesn) his house and lot in Kingston, next to house and lot of Jan Waerdt [John Ward]. Harmonsen bought land from Teunesen; he will pay 80 sch less from first payment, 50 sch less from second, then grant a transfer (deed), next May.
[see next entry]

III:4
1682/3 January 6, Kingston
Thoomas Harmonsen Brouwer will “cause to be built” for Dirck Jansen Schepmoes “a house of stone, of the same dimensions as the stone-house of Hendrick Ten Eyck, except the “uytlaedinge” and central wall (mall?).” 120 sch of wheat to be paid to Arendt Teunesen a year from next winter (for land Thoomas is buying from Arendt; see previous entry).
Schepmoes to furnish all materials and also board
Harmonsen to assist till May or as long as he can “break out”; when Harmonsen can’t get free, Schepmoes will furnish someone to help, deducting 5 gldrs per day.
In case Jan Trof (working for Harmonsen?) should run away or die or fall sick, the agreement is void, but whatever’s done will be paid for. Work will begin as soon as Jacob Rutgers’ “uytlaedinge” and Slechtenhorst’s gable are finished. After that he will “work on the said house” (?) “till Borhans’s is finished, and when he is through with Borhans he will finish Schepmoes’ job.” (Sounds quite busy.)
[I believe an “uytlaedinge” is an outside corridor, or a lean-to, extending the house but not part of the indoors.]

III:164-165
1682/3 January 9, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 256
[See a second set of minutes from the same session starting at III:201, including some of the same cases as below. Entries from second set of minutes are not identical to those below (even for the same cases). Minutes have been interleaved below for easier comparison. It is not clear why there were two sets of minutes: Was one a preliminary draft, and the other the official record? Which was the official record? Was one set prepared for the records of Kingston town council, and the other for the records of the Court of Sessions? Why would they not be identical?]
Ordinary session held at Kingston, January 9th, 1682/3
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Co[nstable]
Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff
Wessel Ten Broek
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Edward Wittakar
Wm. DMeyer

III:201
1682/3 January 9 [Kingston] (ordinary council session)
[See III:164-165 for separate minutes from the same session and many of the same items discussed.]
Ordinary Court held on January 9, 1682/3
Present:
Constable Wm. Fisher
W. Asfordbie, sheriff
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Edward Wittakar
Wm. DeMeyer

III:165
1682/3 January 9, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Martin Hofman vs. Roelof Jansen, for 13 1/2 sch. of wheat and 10 stivers
Adjourned till next session [no explanation]

Martin Hofman vs. Jacob Bastiaensen, for 140 guilders and 18 stivers
Court orders parties “to settle first.” [No further explanation.]

III:165
1682/3 January 9, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Willem Fisher [Constable] vs. Pieter Cornelissen
[Fisher] says that several complaints have been made that [Cornelissen] did not keep his water-course in fit condition to ride across (dat hy syn water loop niet bequaem heeft gehouden om over te ryden).
Also that, as per order, he was to remove the fence which he has not done. And he also unloaded manure on the place whence sand is taken, so that nobody can get near there.
The hon. court orders [Cornelissen] to pay a fine of twenty-five gldrs, and costs. And that he shall remove the fence and the manure at the proper time, as soon as he is able.
[See III:201 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session.]

III:201
1682/3 January 9 [Kingston] (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court condemns Pieter Cornelissen to pay a fine of twenty-five gldrs, because he damages the road and has erected (gesedt) his palisades on the Lord’s road (Here wegh).
[See III:165 1682/3 January 9, very similar note from separate set of minutes from a session with the same date.]
[Among other property, Pieter Cornelissen has land across the Great Kill (Esopus Creek); he is one of the co-signers on the 1683 updated contract to put in the Great Bridge (see III:19-20 1682/3 February 20). He is buying Lot 2 one share at a time from its former co-owners; see III:46-47 1683 April 20, II:285 1680 November 2, for some of the description of the process. For some description of the location, based on his neighbors, see III:33 1683 April 2. Pieter is married to Elizabeth Blanchan, daughter of Matthew Blanchan, the miller and tavernkeeper; see their joint will II:250 1676 November 1.]

III:165
1682/3 January 9, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Jacob Cool, for 375 guilders, 5 stivers
[See III:201-202 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session, but with a touch more detail.]

III:201-203
1682/3 January 9 [Kingston] (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Jacob [Barentsen] Cool, for 375 guilders 5 stivers
[Cool] says that he only owes 222 guilders. Court orders him to pay that, with costs.

III:165-166
1682/3 January 9, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Dirck Jansen Schepmoes gives notice of an attachment against twenty sch. of wheat, under the hand of Cornelis [Barentsen] Sleght, belonging to Hendrick Van Wye.
The attachment is declared valid.
[See III:79 1681 April 3?, Slecht vs. Schepmoes, who does not show up for the hearing. (Possibly unrelated.)]

III:166-167
1682/3 January 9, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 255
Frans Goderis vs. Hendrik Kip, for 83 guilders [record says default, but court orders payment]

Frans Goderis vs. Symon Cool, for 216 guilders [record says default, but court orders payment]

Frans Goderis vs. Gysbert Albertsen, for 8 sch. of wheat [record says default, but court orders payment]

Frans Goderis vs. Albert Jansen [Van Steenwyck], for 58 guilders.
Jansen admits 26 but no more; court orders him to pay that, and costs.

[III:166]
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Cornelis Fynhout, for 14 sch. of wheat.
[See III:202 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session.]
[III:202]
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Cornelis Fynhout, for 14 sch. of wheat

[III:166]
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Michiel DeMott, for 277 guilders.
[See III:202 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session, different amount (65 guilders).]
[III:202]
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Michiel De Modt [Michiel Mott], for 65 guilders, 15 stivers

[III:167]
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Johannes Jurriaensen, for 151 guilders
[See III:202 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session.]
[III:202]
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Johannes Juriaensen, for 151 guilders.

[III:167]
Court Records Volume 6 Page 254
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Jacob Cool, for 9 1/2 sch. of wheat
[See III:202 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session.]
[III:202]
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Jacob Barentsen Cool, for 9 1/2 sch. of wheat.

[III:167]
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Hendrick Kip, for 300 guidlers, 7 stivers
[See III:202 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session.]
[III:202]
Nikolaes Anthony vs. Hendrick Kip, for 300 guilders 7 stivers

[III:167]
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Jan Jansen, for 228 guilders
[See III:203 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session.]
[III:203]
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Jan Jansen, for 228 guilders

III:167
1682/3 January 9, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenport vs. Wessel Ten Broeck
[Davenport] demands seven hundred and eighty gldrs, whereof are to be deducted two hundred sixty-nine gldrs.
The hon. court orders [Ten Broeck] to pay the balance.
[See III:203 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session.]
[III:203]
Humphrie [Humphrey] Davenport vs. Wessel Ten Broeck, for 780 guilders, less 269

III:167
1682/3 January 9, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court orders Wessel Ten Broeck and William De Meyer to pay the hundred guilders Geertruy Govertsen [Bruyn, wife of Jacob Bruyn] had been condemned to pay.
[Unclear why. The 100 guilders probably stem from III:112 1682 June 14, when she was accused of letting four Esopus villagers stay in her house overnight.]
[See III:203 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session, adding the note “because they have become surety for the same,” which is a partial explanation.]

III:203
1682/3 January 9 [Kingston] (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court orders Wessel Ten Broeck and William DeMeyer to pay the hundred gldrs Geertruy Goverts had been condemned to pay, because they have become surety for the same.

III:203-204
1682/3 January 9 [Kingston] (Special Sessions, with the regular Council too)
Adriaen Fransen and his mare and Tjerck Claesen
Special Sessions held at Kingston, January 9, 1682/3
Present:
Justices:
Capt. Chambers
Jan Joosten
Abraham Haesbroeck
William Asfordbie, Sheriff
The Court at Kingston [see previous council session; this special court was held on the same day as a regular council meeting, so the council must have stuck around to participate]

Adriaen Fransen appropriates (eygent) a mare and says that the mare belongs to him, as he will prove with witnesses. Also says that the mare has TIerck Claesen [DeWitt’s] mark, which she did not have before (sy te vooren niet en hadde).
Tierck Claesen says that he delivered to Adriaen Fransen a white mare, as long as five years ago, next spring, and the same was already four years old—and this mare is a grey mare.
[Equestrian note: This editor has been told that in modern parlance, a horse that an uninitiated neophyte might unwittingly call “white” is actually called “gray” by those who know what they are doing. It is not clear when the shift in terminology arose.]

Sworn witnesses:
James Pinnick
Jacob Van Etten
Dirck Keyser
Leendert Cool
Jacob Bastiaensen

James Pinnick declares that the mare undoubtedly
[III:204]
resembles the mare which Tierck Claesen sold to Adriaen Fransen, but cannot assure her to be the same.

Jacob Van Etten declares that last year he came from the “Groene Kill” [Green Kill] with Cornelis Swits and Jacob Van Etten [sic]. Asked Cornelis Swits: “Whose horses are pasturing there?” Cornelis Swits answered: “I believe they are Adriaen Fransen’s”
[Tierck and his son-in-law both operate mills on the Green Kill.]

Dirck Keyser declares that this is the third winter that he has seen the horses pasturing with his own, but does not know whose horses they are.

Leendert Cool declares that she resembles the mare but cannot say whether or not it is the mare.

Jacob Bastiaensen declares that he saw the mare pasturing there for two winters, and has heard it said they were Adriaen Fransen’s horses, but does not know whose horses they are.

Abraham Hasbroeck, Justice, Wm. Asfordbie, sheriff, Wessel Ten Broeck, overseer (council member), who have knowledge of horses, judge the mare to be no more than six years old next spring, according to the change (wisselinge) of teeth. Which mare, if the same were Adriaen Fransen’s, ought to be at least eight years old.

Adriaen Fransen requests to be granted a new trial at the next court of sessions, which is allowed him, provided he furnishes bail to proceed at law, or else to be detained so long. Also [the court calls for] Tierck Claesen to answer (Als mede Tierck Claesen com te verantwoorden).

Whereas the mare in question has been referred to the next court of sessions, therefore it is ordered that the mare shall be secured till the suit has been decided. Therefore Constable Garton is to feed the mare on straw and chaff, and is to receive ten sch. of wheat for his trouble. And the young of said mare, one of which, the oldest, a fallow (vaele) mare, is at Mattys Mattysen’s, the other, a gray stallion-foal, shall be delivered into the sheriff’s keeping.

[See III:237-238 1683 April 25, same case.]
[See III:172 1683 September 5, Court of Sessions, same case.]
[See III:242 1683 September 5, Court of Sessions.]
[See also II:592 1681 December 16, Fransen and Claesen and farm at Mombaccus.]

III:204
1682/3 January 9 [Kingston] (Special Sessions, with the regular Council too, continued)
Regarding the petition of William DeMeyer, Wessel Ten Broeck, Hendricus Beecqman, Nicolaes De Meyer, [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes, Jacob Rutgers, Jan Joosten, Thoomas Garton, Jacob Aertsen, to purchase of the savages the land named Wawaresinck, [they] intending to found a village there: The hon. Court of Sessions permitted petitioners to buy said land for the purpose of founding a village there, subject to the Heer governor’s approval.

III:205
1682/3 January 9 [Kingston] (Special Sessions, with the regular Council too, continued)
The hon. Court orders that the promises made in regard to the voluntary subscription for the church shall be paid, and also the [increased] proportion, being one quarter more, without exceptions.

 

III:5
1682/3 January 12, Hurley
Jan Eltingen (Elton) contracts to sell to Jan Mewesen (Meuresen?) a house, barn, lot and garden in Hurley; Mewesen promises to pay within 2 years, 200 guilders Holland money, at 20 stivers per guilder, in Holland silver coin. When paid, Eltingen will provide deed. This is the house Mewesen has been renting for 30 sch of wheat and 6 days labor. (at 6 guilders per schepel, and maybe 5 guilders per day, that’s more than 200 guilders already) House was delivered at the time of the last Amsterdam fair.
Montagne writes note: Annulled and settled

III:5-6
1682/3 January 12, Kingston
Jacob Barentsen Cool, living in Kingston, owes Nicolaes Bayard 790 guilders, according to obligation dated 19 November 1676, will pay upon demand. Mortgages his house and lot in Kingston. He signs with a mark: I B K

III:6
1682/3 January 18, Kingston
John Ward provides conveyance (deed) to Matthias Slecht for “a certain lot, belonging prior to this (voor desen) to Petrus Stuyvesant,” 5 rods 9 feet wide on street, 7 rods wide in rear, “as long as is expressed in the deed as can be seen from the official ledger (protocol). And on the back of the deed (op de rugh van de grondt brief) transferred to John Waerd, dated April 12, 1679.” Satisfied from the first to the last penny. Waerdt bought the property from Aerdt Martensen Doorn.

III:7
1682/3 January 19, Kingston
Anthony Addeson contracts to sell to Mrs. Anna Garton (Ann Gartons) a parcel called “Breeckebeen Hoeck,” the half of the parcel that he has in partnership with Gorge Mils (George Mills), also all his land at Marbletown, both Breeckebeen Hoeck and the rest, everything that has been granted to him (described as “the Highland granted him outside his patent”). She will pay from the estate of her children 350 sch of wheat in 3 installments, and then he will provide unencumbered deed (transfer). She can take possession immediately.
Additional note March 14 1682/3, Kingston:
Of the above amount, Anthoony Adeson assigns to Nicolaes De Meyer 150 sch of wheat, from first two installments, which is the last payment Addison owes to Mr. De Meyer on a previous mortgage, all but 10 sch of wheat and (or as) wages for carting.
[See also III:153-154, 1684 August 19, Anthony Addison “late of Marbleton,” selling half-share of Broockboone hooke to George Mealls of Marbletown.]
[See also III:2-3, 1682 December 7, Johan Garton selling to his cousin Thomas Garton his right and title at the Carle Berg, “according to the condition of Gorge Mils.”]
[See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]

III:8
1682/3 February 2
Cornelis Hoogeboom provides transfer (deed) to William Fisher for parcel of land 2 morgens in extent that he bought from Jan Gerritsen 8 March 1675, originally from Jufr Johanna De Laet, by virtue of deed granted by Richard Nicolls 5 December 1666, Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See next entry.]
[See II:611-612 1682 February 6, when Hoogeboom and Rutgersen get deed to land from Gerritsen that Gerritsen bought from Ebbinck; the 1666 deed referenced above is the one where Nicolls confirmed De Laet’s ownership. De Laet is wife of Ebbingh/Ebbinck; she acquired the land under the Dutch, and subdivided it among many later buyers.]
[See II:254-255 1679 April 30, when Rutgersen, Cornelis Hoogeboom, and Roelof Kierstede buy this double lot from Jan Gerritsen. Rutgersen also sells his 1/3 share to Fisher; see II:266 1679/80 January 1.]
[See II:260-261 1679 October 20, when Hoogeboom contracts to sell his 1/3 share to William Fisher.]

III:8
1682/3 February 2, Kingston
Jacob Rutgers [signs Jacop Rutgersen] provides transfer (deed) to William Fisher for parcel of land bought from Jan Gerritsen, transferred by Jufr Johanna de Laet 8 March 1675, by virtue of deed from Richard Nicolls 5 December 1666. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See previous entry.]
[See II:611-612 1682 February 6, when Hoogeboom and Rutgersen get deed to land from Gerritsen that Gerritsen bought from Ebbinck; the 1666 deed referenced above is the one where Nicolls confirmed De Laet’s ownership. De Laet is wife of Ebbingh/Ebbinck; she acquired the land under the Dutch, and subdivided it among many later buyers.]
[See II:254-255 1679 April 30, when Rutgersen, Cornelis Hoogeboom, and Roelof Kierstede buy this double lot from Jan Gerritsen. Hoogeboom also sells his 1/3 share to Fisher; see II:260-261 1679 October 20.]
[See II:266 1679/80 January 1, when Rutgersen contracts to sell his share to Fisher.]

III:8-9
1682/3 February 2
Robbert Bickerstaf provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Hammel (John Hamble) for parcel of meadow land under [the jurisdiction of] Kingston. [size, location, previous owners not specified]

III:9
1682/3 February 5, Kingston
Johann Kehler (Kelar) has voluntarily bound himself to serve Gerridt Van Slechtenhorst for 1 year starting May 1. If the weather is unfavorable for threshing, he will start in mid-March. He will be paid 90 sch “after expiration of the time . . . one month before or after said time.” To be furnished with proper food and drink, and washing. If he’s sick or incapacitated, employer will care for him and board him, but he will have to make up for lost time.

III:10
1682/3 February 6, Kingston
John Garton owes Frederick Hossy 575 sch of wheat, mortgages “the payments of the land sold by him to Thoomas Garton.” Thomas will pay Hossy instead of John.

III:11-12
1682/3 February 6, Kingston
Wessel Ten Broeck and Willem De Meyer, guardians of minor children and administrators of estate left by Cornelis Wynkoop, have agreed in regard to purchase of house and lot, as follows:
They have sold to Mooses Duepue (signs Mosys Depue), who has married Maria, daughter of deceased, the old house, the cellar, the cistern, with lot apportioned with same, up to a tree marked W, which is outside the part being sold, with a foot of soil outside the trunk.
The cistern shall remain common property, maintained in common.
Cellar stairs must remain free (?)
Fence must stand until Quick’s lease has expired. Then a central fence will be built on Du Pue’s boundary.
For this lot, Du Pue will pay 358 sch of wheat, appraised by 4 impartial men (listed below), in 3 installments
He will keep the lot, “which has been transferred to him,” unless one of the siblings get married and would like to have it. Then he will have to give up lot, and be compensated for it just as he has bought it. But the two lots will be divided in length and width, front and rear, and paid for in proportion.
signed by appraisers:
Henry Beeckman
N. Anthony
Jan Heyndericksz
Jacobus Elmendorff
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]
[Moses is married to Maria Wynkoop, one of the heirs.]
[See II:603 1680/1 February 8, council instructs estate guardians to make an accounting and give Mooses Du Pue his share.]
[See III:221 1681 April 27, Moses requests that the guardians divide up the shares and give him and his wife Maria Wynkoop what is theirs.]
[See II:620-621 1682 March 31, Mooses gets deed to land and acknowledges this is his whole share.]

III:205
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, February 6, 1682/3
Present: Constable Fisher
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Wm. D.Mejer
Wessel Ten Broeck

William Fisher vs. Aerdt Martensen Dooren, for 238 guilders 17 stivers.

Wm. Fisher vs. Thoomas Quick, for 24 sch of wheat and 4 guilders.

Wm. Fisher vs. Simon Cool, for 81 guilders.

III:205
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Wm De Meyer and Wessel Ten Broeck
[Fisher] demands of [De Meyer and Ten Broeck], as sureties for Geertruy Goverts[en], the amount of one hundred gldrs.
The hon. court orders [De Meyer and Ten Broeck] to pay the hundred gldrs, and costs.
[Who other than Tierck Claesen is capable of sitting in judgment on this case? All the other officers present are involved, and thus supposed to recuse themselves.]
[See III:112 1682 June 14, original case where Geertruy houses four Esopus villagers overnight, against village rules.]
[See III:167 1682/3 January 9, when Wessel Ten Broeck and William De Meyer are ordered to pay this, for unclear reasons.]
[See III:203 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session, adding the note “because they have become surety for the same,” which is a partial explanation.]
[See III:210 1682/3 February 6, same session, later item, when De Meyer and Ten Broeck seek 100 guilders from Geertruy’s husband Jacob.]

III:205-206
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Ward [John Ward] vs. Johannes Juriaensen, for 7 sch. of wheat.

[II:206]
James Mils [Mills] vs. Johannis Juriaensen, for 7 sch. of wheat.

Humpre [Humphrey] Davenport vs. Symon Cool, for 13 1/2 sch. of wheat, per obligation.

III:206
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humpre [Humphrey] Davenport vs. Johannes Wesphael
[Davenport] demands of [Westphael] four sch. of wheat, as per obligation, and forthy-eight guilders, as per account.
The hon. court orders [Westphael] to pay, conform[ing] to the demand, and costs.

III:206-207
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humpre [Humphrey] Davenport vs. Bruyn Hendrix, for 55 guilders.

Humpre [Humphrey] Davenport vs. Pieter Winnen, for 21 sch. of wheat, “and still [in addition], as per account,” 12 guilders.

Bruyn Haegen vs. Wm. Trophaegen, for 77 guilders.
[III:207]

Bruyn Haegen vs. Lodowyck Ackerman, for 62 guilders.

Jacob Rutgers vs. Pieter Winnen, for 99 guilders.

Aerdt Dooren vs. Bruyn Hendrix, for 16 sch. of wheat.

III:207
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Hendrix vs. Mighiel DeModt [Michiel Mott]
[Hendrix] demands fifteen sch. of wheat.
[Mott] says that he paid three sch. of wheat in rum.
The hon. court orders [Mott] to pay the demanded quantity, with costs, provided he shall make a new tail (staert) for [Hendrix’s] plow.

III:207-208
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Suveren Ten Houdt vs. Aerdt Dooren, for 218 1/2 sch. of wheat.

Suereyn Ten Houdt vs. Hendrick Kip, for 248 guilders, 15 stivers.

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Jan Jansen, for 210 guilders, 50 of which “are to be paid by Domeni Weecksteen,” as per balance [of accounts].

Willem Jansen vs. Thoomas Hearmonsen, for 172 guilders, 10 stivers.

Wm. D.Meyer vs. Cornelis Fynhoudt, for 15 1/4 sch. of wheat.

III:208
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Louveridgie [Loveridge] vs. Pieter Winnen
[Loveridge] demands the quantity of thirty-three anckers of tar.
[Winnen] demands his obligation back. [The “obligation” is the signed note that agrees to an exchange.]
[Loveridge] demands execution as per judgment at Albany.
The hon. court orders [Winnen] to pay the tar, as per the judgment at Albany, providing he may deduct the 150 boards at one gldrs per piece, and four anckers of tar which have been paid on the same, and an ancker is disputed.

III:209
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Fortuene [John Fortune, as attorney for Capt. Delavall] vs. Thoomas Harmonsen
[Fortune], as attorney for Capt. D’lavall, demands the amount of two thousand one hundred seventy-four gldrs.
The hon. court orders [Harmonsen] to pay, with costs, and the mortgage held by Pieter Lassing.

III:209
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goederis vs. Bruyn Haegen, for 434 guilders, of which 36 have been paid.

III:209
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Thomas Harmonsen vs. Jan Lowis [or Louris]
[Thomas] demands two hundred sch. of wheat.
[Jan] admits the debt but says that he worked as a hodman for seventy-nine days at five gldrs per day, amounting to three hundred ninety-five gldrs.
[At standard exchange rate of 6 guilders per sch. of wheat, that would be nearly 66 schepels of wheat.]
The hon. court orders [Jan] to pay, provided he may deduct twenty-five sch. of wheat

III:209
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Thoomas Harmonsen vs. Hendrick Ten Eyck
[Thomas] demands ninety-six sch. of wheat, and three days’ carting, on which there have been paid twenty-one sch. of wheat.
[Hendrick] says [Thomas] did not properly do the work, and the money is ready.
The hon. court appoints Jan Willemsen and Cornelis Hoogeboom to examine the work [and see] whether it has not been finished per contract.

III:209-210
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Bennony Arentsen Van Hoeck vs. Roelof Jansen, for 30 sch. of wheat and 100 sch. of maize.

III:210
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. DeMeyer and Wessel Ten Broeck vs. Jacob Govertsen [Bruyn]
[De Meyer and Ten Broeck] demand hundred gldrs, for which amount they have become sureties for [Govertsen], and have attached eight sch. of wheat [=48 guilders at standard rate].
The hon. court orders [Govertsen] to pay as per demand, and the attachment has been declared valid.
[The 100 guilders probably stem from III:112 1682 June 14, when Jacob’s wife Geertruy was accused of letting four Esopus villagers stay in her house overnight. Jacob said he knew nothing of it.]
[See III:167 1682/3 January 9, when Wessel Ten Broeck and William De Meyer are ordered to pay this.]
[See III:203 1682/3 January 9, similar note from apparently the same session, adding the note “because they have become surety for the same,” which is a partial explanation.]
[See III:205 1682/3 February 6, same session as this entry, when William Fisher says that Ten Broeck and De Meyer have signed up as sureties for Govertsen.]

III:210
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Roelof Jansen vs. John Ward
[Jansen] demands the amount of three hundred and two gldrs.
[Ward] says not to owe anything.
The hon. court orders John Ward to pay everything which Roelof Jansen has earned, and paid, during the time that Wardt [Ward] was in Mr. D’lavall’s service, and was attending to his work, except that Waerdt may first deduct what Roelof Jansen then owed him.

III:210
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The arbitrators judge that Hendrick Ten Eyck’s chimney is not properly made.
[See II:496 1677 December 18 original instructions for (and appointment of) fire wardens.]
[See III:113 1682 June 14, appointment of Theunes Elesen, Jan Focken, Hendrick Ten Eyck as fire wardens, updated instructions.]

III:210
1682/3 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The following was in English:
Granted unto Rigard Heays [Richard Hays] a parcell of land laing upon the Flatt Kill beginning at the seccund fall and runneth up the North East side of the mentioned kill, in bignesse about twenty morgen, upon approbation of his honur the governor.

 

III:121
1682/3 February 7, Kingston
Sueryn Ten Houdt has sold a negro named Sam to Edward Wittaker
I, the undersigned Sueryn Ten houdt acknowledge honestly and in good condition, to have received of Edwart Wittaker [mistake, see below]

I the undersigned Sueryn Ten Houdt acknowledge to have received of Edward Wittaker honest and full satisfaction for a negro named Sam, so that I have no more claim against said Wittaker
This Febr. 7th 1682/3, Kingston
Say by me
(signed) Severyen Ten Hout
To which testifie
(signed) Wm. Montagne, Secretary

[See II:285 1680 November 3, when the debt is incurred.]

 

III:10
1682/3 February 7, Kingston
Aerdt Martensen Doorn assigns to Sueryn Ten Houdt 375 guilders that Doorn has coming to him from Jan Hendrixsen, who will pay it; Ten Houdt has the right to proceed against Hendrixsen if need be. Jan Hendrix agrees to pay Ten Houdt [signs Jan Hendericksz].
[See next entries.]
[Jan Hendericksz is the son of Geertruyd Andries van Doesburgh and Harry (Hendrick) Alberts, former ferryman at Albany. After Harry died, and Geertruyd’s second husband Jacob Jansen Slicoten Stoll (see KP 739, 704-705, 613-614 et al.), Geertruyd married Aerdt Martensen Doorn. Geertruyd died, and Aert settled up her estate with his stepson Jan Hendericksz; see II:577-578 1681 July 5. As part of that settlement, Jan agreed that he owed Aerdt 500 guilders.]

III:10-11
[undated, apparently 1682/3 February 7]
Jan Hendrix and Sueryn Ten Houdt declare to have settled this debt by transferring Hendrix’s lot, next to Sueryn’s house, wiping out all book debt to date. Hendrix will give Ten Houdt next year 20 sch of wheat. Hendrix is permitted to remove “the little barn” from the lot.
[See previous entry, next entries.]

III:11
1682/3 February 7
Sueryn Ten Houdt [signs Severyen Ten Hout] agrees to pay William Fisher, next Christmas, for the account of Aerdt Martensen Doorn, 160 guilders in wheat, freeing Doorn from further claims from Fisher.
Note says fully paid.
[See previous entries, next entry.]

III:11
1682/3 February 7, Kingston
Aerdt Martens Doorn [signs Aert Maartsen Doorn] declares to be fully satisfied by Jan Hendrix in regard to all claims, up to present date.
[See previous entries.]

 

III:210-211
1682/3 February 13, Kingston (Special Court)
Special Court, held at Kingston, February 13, 1682/3
Present (Justices of the Peace):
Capt. Chambers
Jan Joosten
Jan Garton
Abraham Hasbroeck

William De Meyer, attorney for his father Nicolaes De Meyer, vs. Roelof Swartwout
[III:211]

De Meyer demands, as per declaration, the amount of five hundred thirty-six gldrs in beavers, and four hundred fivety-eight in seewant, payable in beavers, or in good merchantable wheat, viz. winter wheat at six sch. for one beaver. Further [in addition] [he demands] thirteen sch. of wheat or as many [soo veel] loads to the bank [sic].
The justice [which?] asks Swartwout whether he does not acknowledge to owe as much, as per obligation.
[Swartwout] requests that the account shall be examined and will pay with the means he possesses whether cattle or negroes.
[Swartwout] is asked whether he wants a jury.
[Swartwout and De Meyer both] are satisfied with the ruling of the court.
[And yet a jury is sworn:]
Jury sworn:
Mr. Hendericus Beecqman, foreman
Jacob Rutgers
Thoomas Garton
D[irck Jansen] Schepmoes
Jan Willemsen
Wm. Loveridge
Nicolaes Anthony

Verdict of the Jury:
Swartwout shall pay as per obligation, provided he may deduct what has been paid since that time, viz.: twenty-four sch. of wheat, equal to four beavers.
The hon. court approves the verdict of the jury.
[Swartwout] requests to appeal to the general Court of Assizes.
Which is permitted him, provided he furnish security as per law.

III:211
1682/3 February 13, Kingston (Special Court, continued)
The residents of the Palts [New Paltz] are permitted to buy the land of Siwankonck, and further to the fort of the savages (het wilde fort), subject to the Heer governor’s approval.

III:211
1682/3 February 13, Kingston (Special Court, continued)
Lowies Bevie is appointed constable at the N. Palts, and is sworn.

III:211
1682/3 February 13, Kingston (Special Court, continued)
The hon. court orders Jan Pietersen to furnish bail for his good behavior till the next sessions, to the amount of thirty pounds.
[Jan Pietersen’s wife is Petronelle Benteyn or Bentlyn, whose first husband was Jacques Dubois; see II:411 1677 December 30, when Pietersen announces he has married her and will take on Dubois’s agreement to buy a house and lot in Kingston from Matthew Blanchan. See also III:42-43 1683 April 18, when Pietersen and Benteyn bind their estate as security for a commitment by Wessel Ten Broeck.]
[See II:464-465 1679 September 3, when Sheriff Asfordbie complained that “Jan Pieters has not lived well with his wife,” and she “declares that he beats her, and that it is hard for her to live with him, and requests to be released of him.” At that time too he was put under arrest and required to post bail for his good behavior.]
[See III:238 1683 April 25, when Jan has beaten his wife again and loses his bail money, which was posted by Tierck Claesen DeWitt (who is the one actually losing £30).]

III:121
1682/3 February 13, Kingston (special session)
The inhabitants of the N. Palts are permitted to purchase of the savages, subject to the Hr. governor’s approval, the unsold land vs. Sewawakanamy and Sawankock till the N. [Versteeg note: North? or New?] savage fort.
By order of the special session held at Kingston, February 13, 1682/3
[For further minutes of the Special Session, see III:210-211.]

III:12-13
1682/3 February 15, Kingston
Jan Louwers[en] owes Mattue Blansjan (Matthew Blanchan) 200 sch of wheat, 6% interest, to repay over 4 years. Wheat currently valued at 3 shillings (typically has been 6 guilders). If value goes down, Louwersen will pay more. If value goes up, benefit will be for Louwersen; he can deduct increased value from what he owes. Mortgages house and lot in this village. Debt originates from assignment in deduction of mortgage of Dirck Jansen [Schepmoes], who was in debt to Blansjan. Louwersen signs with a mark (nuclear symbol). (see next entry)

III:13-14
1682/3 February 15, Kingston
Dirck Jansen Schepmoes owes Mattue Blansjan (Matthew Blanchan) 354 1/2 sch of wheat, at 6% interest. If at time of payment the wheat should be worth less, Dirck has to make up the difference in pieces of eight in silver, 2 sch valued at 1 piece of eight. (Value of wheat not named here; see prev entry.) With this debt, “the old mortgage has been annulled, principal as well as interest, up to date”; reference made to assignment of Jan Louwersen (see prev entry). Dirck mortgages “his land situated at Horly, named Wassemakers Land.”
Note at bottom clarifies: Interest starts today, for 4 years. House and lot of Dirck, in village, also included in mortgage.

III:14
1682/3 February 15, Kingston
Michiel De Mott “specially” mortgages to Edward Wittakar and Fredrick Hussy “my land bought of the Savages across the Ronduyt, so that said land shall be in their possession until I shall have satisfied them.” Does not specify amount of money, but “Because Eduard Wattakar [Hussy’s name left out] have [sic] paid a portion of the purchase money on said land for me. De Mott signs with a mark.

Will
III:14-15
1682/3 February 16, Kingston
Gerridt Van Sleghtenhorst is sick but in full possession mentally; doesn’t mention wife
Survivor to possess everything till death or remarriage. Now he mentions his wife, Aeltie Lansinck. [On remarriage] survivor gives up half the estate [usually means to set aside for children]. Survivor obliged to bring up minor children, from proceeds of entire estate.
If unmarried survivor dies, children all equally divide [after they reach majority, per 22 Feb clarification], without exception. If survivor remains unmarried, he/she is entitled to full estate “without interference by the children, unless [said survivor] should be inclined to voluntarily share with them.” Children named: Hillegont (!), Gerrit, Ragel and Gouda. If second spouse dies while children are still not of age, each “shall receive in advance, above their share” 50 beavers or equivalent value.

III:15-16
1682/3 February 16, Kingston
Wessel Ten Broeck takes at interest from Mattue Blansjan (Matthew Blanchan) 336 sch of wheat and 4 gldrs, by which they void all previous obligations. Loan is for 4 years starting today, 6% per year. With this amount, “nothing more than what is expressed above can be claimed on either side. But Wessel Ten Broeck is obliged, over and above this quantity, to pay the fines to which Blansjan had been condemned on account of the Negroes—excepting that which Jan Waerd had earned, which he must claim of Blansjan.” [No further explanation of the above.] The amount on account of the judgment is 49 sch and 2 guilders, judgment of the magistrates. If the price of wheat when it’s time to pay is less than 6 gldrs [per schepel], Ten Broeck pays the difference. If the price is more, he may deduct for his benefit.
Attached note: Wessel Ten Broeck has, on April 2, 1683, fully paid the judgment, pronounced against Blansjan, to the constable.

III:121-122
1682/3 February 16 [Kingston?]
Court Records Volume 6 Page 295 (top)
Anthony Voisje, dit Rousolel, and Ruth Shally [wife?], bind themselves for 70 sch of wheat to Hendrick Pauwldingh (Henry pawling), to be paid next February, because Pawling paid for them, or shall pay, their debt to Wililam Wood.
[III:122]
[Additional note:] Thirty sch. of wheat of this obligation has been assigned to Wallerand DuMont, Mooses DuPue, Sueryn Ten Houdt, this Feb 20, 1683/4, so that Henry Paeldingh yet must pay 32 sch. of wheat from this date, and Anthooj Vosyin eight sch. of wheat.
[See next entries. A debt to Robert Story also seems to be involved.]

III:122
1683/4 February 20, Kingston
Court Records Volume 6 Page 295 (bottom)
[This appears to be out of chronological sequence, but only because it has been added to the bottom of the page with the related entry above, from February 1682/3.]
Anthoony Voseyn binds himself in case Wallerand Dumont, Moses Dupue, Suvereyn Ten houdt will pay 30 sch of wheat for him to the estate of Robbert Story. Voseyn mortgages the crops he will plant or grow this summer.

Court Records Volume 6 Page 294 (top)
The following fragment was in English:
Know all men by these presents that I, Anthony Vosyn, doe stand indebted to . . .
[See previous entry, next entry.]

III:122-123
1683/4 February 20, Kingston
Court Records Volume 6 Page 294 (bottom)
Wallerand DuMondt, Mooses DuPue, and Suereyn Ten Houdt take on a debt of 30 sch of wheat for Anthony Vosyn, for which Henry Pawling was originally pledged, “originating on account of William Wood,” They will pay the debt in December 1684.
[Additional note, in English:] The contents of the abou mentioned Bill is wholly satisfied this 19th day of Aprill Anno domini 1686. (signed) James Mills.
[See above entries.]

 

III:16
1682/3 February 18
Wallerand DuMont declares he has taken at interest of Mattiue Blansjan 162 sch of wheat, for 4 years starting today, 6% interest, paid each year. If wheat at the time of payment is less than 6 gldrs/sch, he can make up the difference in silver at 2 sch per piece of eight. If more, he can keep the difference. With this note, all old obligations have been annulled.

Attached note, April 10: Wallerand Du Mont takes another 30 1/2 sch of wheat, same terms as above.

Second attached note:
Kingstown, the 25 Apl 1687
(in English) Then [?] rec’d of Wallraven Demont the full Ball’ce of all accts from the begining of the world to this Day, of all what that m father Matthis Blanzan & the sd wallraven hath had to due with one Another. I say Rec’d by me.
(signed) Matthis Blanzan Jr., Administr.

III:17
[undated, 1682/3 February]
[Versteeg note: The following entry had been crossed out in the original:]
Severyn Ten Houdt provides conveyance (deed) to Gabriel Minville, merchant at New York, house and lot at Kingston, next to Harmon Hendrix’s [incomplete entry]
[See III:18 below, same basic document, 1682/3 February 17]

III:18
1682/3 February 17, Kingston
Jan Louwerse provides conveyance (deed) to Severyn Ten Houdt for house and lot next to Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], satisfied from first to last penny.
[Signs with nuclear symbol for a mark.]
[See next entry.]
[See 1680/1 February 18, when Louwersen and Ten Houdt sign the purchase contract.]

III:18
1682/3 February 17, Kingston
Severyn Ten Houdt provides conveyance (deed) to Mr. Minville, merchant at N. Yorcke, house and lot next to Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], satisfied from first to last penny.
[See previous entry, also incomplete original of this document, III:17.]

III:18
[undated]
Gerrit Aertsen owes Mattue Blansjan (Matthew Blanchan) [broken off, with the word “settled” below].
[See II:274-275 1679/80 March 20, Aertsen borrows 120 sch. of wheat from Blanchan for 4 years, 6% interest. See also III:58-59 1683 December 14, Gerrit borrows another 170 sch of wheat, 6%, for 4 years.]

III:19-20
1682/3 February 20, Kingston
15 farmers with lands across the Great Kill agree together:
1. They will build a high bridge “where the first bridge has been”
2. Work starts on 20 May, all partners pay for and finish it together, in proportion to the sizes of their holdings
3. If anyone has fnished their share, and the team is still short workers, they still have to finish the job, and not stop working till it’s done, but they get paid 6 guilders per day, or 4 if the partners are boarding them
4. Nobody is allowed to cart more wood or anything else across the bridge than they’re entitled to in proportion to how many morgens they have across the bridge. But a necessary errand or travel or visiting friends are free. [Versteeg note: The original is very obscure.]
5. Jan Willemsen is appointed “head-boss,” and he is exempt from the regular work but not from carting his share. Everyone promises to obey him, “having every confidence in his ability.”
6. After the bridge is finished, the partners will keep it in repair.

Henderick Albertsen is to furnish the boards, 12 feet long, 1 1/2 inch thick, delivered at the mill. But he will cart a load from the mill, as soon as needed, “for which he will be free six years.”

7. The ground from the bridge to the gate has been presented to the partners, and can be used for a road, for ever and ever.
8. The boss (Jan Willemsen) will decide where the gate will be. And every partner will have a key to the lock on the gate, and if anyone leaves it unlocked, they’re fined 25 guilders, except during harvest.

Signed:
Poulus Poulussen (mark)
Hendrick Alberts (mark)
Henderick Aertsen
Jochem Hendrixen
Harmen Hyndricksen
William Caegge [or Laegge? Cage?] (mark)
Jan Willemsen
Wessel Ten Broeck
Ed Whittaker
Theunes Elesen (mark, trident)
Wyllem Hoochteylinch
Jan Jansen
Cornelis Barents Slecht
Jan Burhans
Pieter Cornelisen (mark)

(See Kingston Papers p. 690, 13 December 1670, when original bridge was built.)

III:20
1682/3 February 21, Kingston
Nicolas Anthony is attorney for Maria Levy, widow of Asser Levy. Williiam Fisher shows that he [Fisher] has given satisfaction for the obligations of Anthoony Coeck, Fisher’s “predecessor,” and also for Coeck’s wife. Anthony, on behalf of Levy, confirms that the agreement of 23 March 1671 (before William Beecqman in the absence of Wm. Montagne) “has not only been complied with, but that everything which Asser Levy could claim up to date has been paid.” So the agreement is annulled, because everything has been paid.
[See KP 697-698 1670/1 March 23: Reynier Van der Coelen and Henry Pawling were attorneys then for Asser Levy. The transaction is a bit obscure, with many proxies. Antene Couck agreed to pay for Reynier Van Coelen (who ran up a lot of debts without ability to pay), “on account of the sale of a certain parcel of land,” 250 sch of wheat. Kouck mortgaged the parcel he had bought from van der Coelen. After payment, Levy would release mortgage. Raba Couty was also involved, and more debt.]
[Anthoony Coeck has died by KP 709 1671 December 4, when Jannetie Crafford (signing her name “Janken Kraffort”; some documents call her Jene or Gene or Jeny) is described as his widow; KP 489 1672 December 7 she and William Fisher register their banns before the town council, to be announced in church the next day.]

Will
III:21
1682/3 February 23
Cornelis Vernooy and his wife Annetie Cornelis are considering the certainty of death [but not ill yet, or at least it’s not mentioned.]
Survivor shall possess everything, without paying anything to children, unless survivor remarries. In that event the “just half” of estate shall be paid out to children.
But if no remarriage, survivor “shall not pay out more than [he or she] will or pleases.”
After survivor dies, children get everything, “but the minors shall be educated from the estate.”
Mother wills to “her eldest daughter, named Selie, whatever apparel she has, whether clothing or other things.”
Both sign with marks

III:21
1682/3 February 23
The following was in English. An exact copy.
Then Recieved [sic] This 23 Feb. 1682/3 of Matthis Blansjan the full Ballance of the obligation [that] he [paid?] for [the] Negro man Pieter Ji saj [?] recieved [sic] by ord of Capt Minville.
Hr. [Humphrey] Davenport, Attorny

III:21-22
1682/3 March 2, Kingston
Jan Mewersen owes Capt. Minville, merchant at New York, 162 guilders; he will pay it next December, without fail. Mortgages crops, grain of every kind which he shall raise this summer. Not permitted to dispose of same till Mr. Minville or his order is paid. Further binds person and estate.
Signs with mark
[See next entry, where he again mortgages all his crops.]

III:22
1682/3 March 5, Kingston
Jan Mewesen owes Mr. Nicolaes Anthoony, merchant, 347 guilders for merchandise received “to my entire satisfaction.” Will pay next October, without fail. Mortgages all his winter and summer crops of grain; won’t dispose of same “until the said Mr. Anthoony or his order shall have been fully satisfied, viz. when Mr. Minville’s mortgage shall have been fully satisfied.” [Versteeg adds “sic.”]
Signs with different mark
[See previous entry, where he first mortgaged all his crops.]

III:22-23
1682/3 March 5, Kingston
Gysbert Albertsen [Van Garden], residing at Kingston, owes Mr. Nicolaes Anthony, merchant, 180 sch of wheat, which he will pay “as soon as said Mr. Antho[n]y or his order shall demand the same.” Mortgages house and lot, located in this village, and further two cows, a heifer, two years old, and the unthreshed wheat he has in company with Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], plus all movable property he owns. Also three horses.
Signs Gysbert Albertsen Van Garden

III:23
1682/3 March 6, Kingston
Be it known by these presents that Pieter Cornelissen has satisifed an obligation in behalf of Isaack DuChamp, dated April 21, 1679, originating from the purchase of a negress, named Anna. Say, [?] paid a portion to Jan Waerdt, which has been accepted by DuChamp, and the balance through his attorney Daniel Hobbart, shown before the hon. court this March 6, 1682/3.
(signed) Wessel Ten Broeck, Tierck Claszen De Witt
[See II:589 1681 October 3, Cornelis Hoogeboom as attorney for Isaac DuChamp, sells Frederick Hussey “a Negro, named Pompkin.”]

III:212
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court, held at Kingston, March 6, 1682/3
Present:
Constable Fisher
Weseel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen
Edward Wittakar
Wm. D. Meyer

Severeyn Tenhoudt vs. Michiel Garton, for 74 guilders, 12 stivers.

Suereyn Tenhoudt vs. William DeMeyer, administrator of Wynkoop’s Estate, for 630 guidlers, 6 stivers in seewant.
Case postponed “till the same shall be required” (tot dat tselve wordt vereyst).
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]

Cornelis [Barentsen] Sleght vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for 240 guilders.

III:212
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Wm. Kelsoo vs. Joost Adriaensen
[Kelsoo] demands twenty sch. of wheat for setting Cornelis Wouters’s shoulder.
[Woutersen also goes by Cornelissen.]
The hon. court orders [Adriaensen] to pay fifteen sch. of wheat, and [court] costs.

III:212
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jemis Mils [James Mills], attorney for Robbert Story, vs. Jacob Aertsen
[Mills] demands seventeen sch. of wheat.
[Aertsen] says that he does not owe wheat.
The hon. court decides that [Aertsen] can pay in flour at thirty gldrs per hundred [pounds] (tegen dartich gulden het hondert).
[See next entry, also Robert Story, also a contract with payment in either flour or wheat.]

III:213
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jamis Mils [James Mills], attorney for Robert Story, vs. [Dirck Jansen] Schepmoes
[Mills] demands hundred sixty-five and a quarter sch. of wheat.
[Schepmoes] says that he had contracted to pay in lour, and he has paid forty-one sch. of wheat on the obligation.
The hon. court orders Dirck Jansen to deliver four barrels of flour, and [he] must pay the balance in wheat till the quantity of one hundred sch. as per agreement, on which sixteen sch. has been paid.
[See previous entry, also Robert Story, also a contract with payment in either flour or wheat.]

III:213
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jemes Mils [James Mills], attorney for Robbert Story, vs. Jan Jansen, for 35 guilders, 10 stivers

Aeltje Sleghtenhorst vs. Pieter Winnen, for 30 guilders.

[Aeltje] Sleghtenhorst vs. Willem Van Vreedenborg, for 15 guilders.

Frans Goderis vs. Dirck Keyser, for 140 guilders.

III:213-214
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mooses Du Pue vs. Pieter Cool
DuPue demands forty sch. of wheat, according to a contract for stone for a house of twenty-four feet, because [Cool] has not delivered the stone.
[Possibly some testimony left out. Apparently some stone has been delivered?]
[III:214]
The hon. court orders that the stone shall be examined, and Pieter Cool shall deduct the stones he delivered, and for the balance he must pay whatever is necessary for a similar house (en de rest betaelen wat tot soo een huys behoort). And Jacobus Elmendorp [Elmendorff] and Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes are appointed as examiners.

III:214
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Pieter Cool
[Anthony] dmeands the quantity of fifty-five sch. of wheat as the first installment for a lot, and further three sch. for book debt.
The hon. court orders [Cool] to pay, with costs.

III:214
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony [as attorney for Maria Levy, widow of Asser] vs. Tjerck Claesen [DeWitt]
[Anthony], as attorney for Maria Levy, demands the quantity of five thousand three hundred pounds of merchantable flour, as per obligation, on account of a negress.
[DeWitt] says that he paid eleven barrels of flour on the same.
[Anthony] further demands ninety-seven sch. of wheat, delivered by Harmon Hendrix, further [in addition] twenty sch. of wheat for sheep, further flour for eighty-eight sch. of wheat.
[DeWitt] is ordered to prove at the next [session of the] court that he delivered the flour.
[See III:167-168, undated, after 1683 April 18.]

III:214-215
1682/3 March 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mattue Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] vs. Jan Pietersen
[Blanchan] demands the amount of two hundred thirty-seven gldrs Holland money, as per a contract made with Jacob Du Booys, on which there have been paid forty and a quart[er] sch. of wheat.
The hon. court orders that Jan Pietersen shall be allowed half a year [in which to pay], because Anthony Cruspel [Crispell] has gone to Holland, and the wife has written him about the Holland money (en de vrouw met hem haeft geschreven voor ’t Hollandt geldt),
[III:215]
and Blansjan is to deliver a conveyance and deed, and Jan Pietersen is to furnish security for the Holland money.
[This is a land deal that got very complicated. Pietersen’s debt to Blanchan, for a house and lot in Kingston, was originally incurred by Jacques Dubois, who died before he could pay it. Pietersen married Jacques’s widow, Petronelle Benteyn. He eventually agreed to honor the contract Dubois had with Blanchan, but the case took many twists in court for a few years. See II:411 1677 December 30 for many notes.]

 

III:23-24
1682/3 March 10, Kingston
Hendrick Albertsen owes Mattue Blansjan 104 1/2 sch of wheat, at 6% interest for 4 years. He will pay wheat at 2 sch per 1 piece of eight, regardless of what the current wheat price is. Mortgages his farm. Signs with mark.

III:24
1682/3 March 15
(in English) Humphry Davenport and William Hains have a deal with Joost Adriaensen and Robert Story, merchant. Story will repay everything that is paid to Joost, plus 40 sch of wheat. [Language here is really unclear, even though it’s in English.] Mention is made of a piece of land that someone had a grant for from the court.
Addendum, same date: Joost assigned to John Bryn 250 sch of wheat that he is to receive from Robert Story.
[See III:25, same date, Joost pays Jan Bryn, Jan Joosten and Luycas Andriesen 600 sch wheat, to be paid by Robert Story, “for my sold house and lot.”]

III:24-25
1682/3 March 15, Kingston
Matthias Mattyson [Mattys Mattysen, stepson of Thomas Chambers] provides conveyance (deed) to Jan Mattyson [his brother] for a parcel “of a valley, in partnership with Dirck Schepmoes, viz. his just half,” “situated next to the ‘Ruyter’ Valley,” which Mattys owns “by virtue of deed granted by Sir Edmund Andros, dated September 29, 1676, and also all his right and title in the heights as per grant of the hon. court.” Satisfied from first to last penny.

III:25
1682/3 March 15, Kingston
Joost Adriansen transfers to Jan Bryn, Jan Joosten and Luycas Andriesen 600 sch of wheat, to be paid by Robert Story, “for my sold house and lot . . . viz. the contract with William Hays and Humphrie Davenport.”
[See III:28 1682/3 March 22, when Robbert Story confirms this debt.]
[See III:24 1682/3 March 15, for more on the transaction.]
[Lucas Andriesen is a skipper based in Manhattan; his sister Barbara Andriesen lives in the Esopus, married to Tjerck Claesen DeWitt. Lucas may eventually move to the Esopus also. There are two Jan Joostens: van Meteren, who lives in the Esopus, and van Rollegom, a skipper and ship owner, partner of Lucas Andriessen. It is not clear here which Jan Joosten is part of this deal. Jan Bruyn is a merchant at New York (see next item), which may suggest that this Jan Joosten is van Rollegom.]

III:25-26
1682/3 March 16, Kingston
Jacobus Elmendorp owes Jan Bruyn, merchant at New York, 245 sch of wheat, to pay in Feb 1683/4 and the following two Februaries, “originating from the purchase of a negro boy, received by him to his full satisfaction.”
Attached note (in English): This above sd. obligation of two hundered forty five skeples of wheat is to [the] full paid and Recd this 14 of March 1686/7. by Jno Brown of N. Yorke. (signed) Severyen Ten Hout, Atturny

III:26-27
1682/3 March 20, Kingston
Hendrick Ten Eyck has contracted to sell to Frans Goderis a house and lot next to Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], “being the house and lot which Nicolaes Antho[n]y had bought of Roelof Swartwout, with all such right and title as the same had been transferred by Willem Fredericksen Bondt to Swartwoudt.” 195 sch wheat, to be paid next Feb [1683/4], after which deed will be provided. House to be delivered May 1.
Signed Hendreyck Ten Eyck, Ffrans Goederis
Signed Henderick Van de Water, Bruyn Hagen
[Attached note:] On this abovenamed assignment [sic] or condition Hendrick Ten Eyck has received for Bryn Haegen through Frans Goderis (wegens Bruyn Haegen door Frans Goderis) assignee, the amount of sixty five sch. of wheat, which shall be deducted from the above named quantity. Dated as above.

III:27-28
1682/3 March 21, Kingston
Frans Goderis provides deed (transfer, conveyance) to Bryn (Bruyn) Haegen for lot “next to Cornelis Fynhout’s; wide on the North side, two rods and eight feet, and seven rods, three feet and four inches in length; further back to Hendrick Claesen’s fence, and from the aforesaid length of 7 R 3 f 4 i till the West street, the entire rear of the lot. [Deed does not mention a house on the lot; description makes it sound as if it’s within Kingston stockade, though it doesn’t say “in this Village” as is customary.] Satisfied from first to last penny.

III:28
undated but probably 1682/3 March 21-22
Robbert Bickerstaf, having married the widow of Mr. Gorge Hall [Versteeg note: here the document ends]
[See III:33 1683 April 2 for the completed document that was first attempted here.]

III:28
1682/3 March 22, Kingston
(in English) Robbert Story acknowledges (sic: “I . . . doe a knowledge”) debt to Jan Bruyns, Jan Joosten, Luyckas Andriesen of 600 sch of wheat, binds himself and his heirs (but no real estate). O.K. to pay half flour, half wheat, “accordinge to condition maede with Humphrie Davenpordt an William Haines by Joost Adriaensen taken over by mee.”
[See III:25 1682/3 March 15, III:24 1682/3 March 15, for more on the transaction.]
[See next entry, III:29-30, 1682/3 March 22, for Story’s purchase of real estate in jurisdiction of Kingston.]

III:29-30
168[2/]3 March 22, Kingston
The following was in English, a copy of the original.
These Indentuere maede the two and twentith day of March in the yaere of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighy three and in the four and thirtyeth yaere of our Soverange Lord King Charles the Second,
Between Joost Adriaenson Molenaer, of Kingston in Esoopus on the one part and Robert Story of Neuw Yorcke marchant on the other part
witnesseth that he the said Joost Adriaenson for and in consideration of the somme of Eleven hundred skippels of whaete to him in hand payd befoere the Ensealing and delivery of these presents by the said Robert Story,
whereof the said Joost Adriaenson doth aknowledge the recipt thereof and for every part and parcel thereof doth clearly acquit and discharge the said Robert Story, his hires [heirs] and assingnes and Every of them for Ever by these presents
doth fully, clearly, and absolutely give, grant, bargain, sell, allien in feoff an conforened unto the said Robert Story his hires and assings for ever
one Lott of Land lying beyond the Mill dam or Creek containing in Breadth on the East Side eighteen Rod an in Lenght on the South Side ninty six Rod: having to the North the Lott No. 2 granted formerly to Liuetenant Gorge Hall, and contains bout six acres
and alsoe two houses and one Barne and lot of ground lying and beingh at Kingston, bingh in Length at the Soud [south] Thirteen Rod, at the North Twelve Rod and four foot, in Breadth Nine Rod and seven foot, bounded on the Soud side wth the heuse and lott of Theunes Eleson and the North side wth the house and lot of Jan Cornelissen
with all the appertainance therunto Belonging in the Tenure or ocoupation of Joost Adriaenson, together with all and singular Eassments, proffits, commodetyes therento Belonging nouw or att any Time hereafter belonginge and appartaininge,
[III:30]
and the said Joost Adriaenson doth hereby acquit and discharge the said Robbert Story for all manner of former Bargins, sails, Joyntures, Rents, arrerages of Rents and all other Titeles, Troubles and Incumberances whatsoever in Wittenes whereof I have hereunto set my hand and offixced my seal in the presence of two overseers in Kingston the day and yaere above written whit this provisor Robert Story shall pay all Taxes Raets what is in the pattent mentioned and what shall bee imposed afterward by authority.
Was singned and sealed by
Joost Adriaenson (S)
signed, sealed, and delivered
in the presence of
Wm. Fisher
Wessel Ten Broeck

III:30-31
1683 March 26, Kingston
Hendrick Albertsen, residing under the jurisdiction of Kingston [i.e. not in village], owes Nicolaes DeMeyer, merchant at New Yorcke, 726 sch of wheat, to be delivered free on the bank, which “originates from an assignment by Edward Wittakar” of 683 1/2 sch of wheat, which Wittaker assigned to De Meyer, “and owing for himself, personally,” 549 1/2 sch, “and for Thoomas Mattias” 134 sch, which “together amount to” 683 1/2 sch of wheat.
[In other words, maybe: Hendrick Albertsen owes Edward Wittaker 549 1/2 sch, and Hendrick owes Mattias 134 sch; Mattias signs over the note to Wittaker, so now Albertsen owes Wittaker the full 683 1/2 sch. There may be other ways to read this, but transfer and combination of notes in this manner is not unusual in the colony as a way of transfering money without the use of currency or other physical modes of exchange.]
The remaining 42 1/2 sch of wheat “originate from a private debt, by obligation of Hendrick Albertsen to said Mr. DeMeyer.”
Total quantity to be delivered “free and without expense at New York” in two installments, Jan 1683/4 and Jan 1684/5.
For this he mortgages “his farm situated at Dedman’s Boos [Deadman’s Bones].” Wittaker and Mattias are absolved of their debts. If Albertsen can’t pay, 6% interest will be charged, until De Meyer loses patience.
Signed “In the presence of Tierck Claesen and William De Meyer, magistrates of the hon. court at Kingston.” [William is son of Nicolaes.]
(signed) Tierck Claszen De Witt, W D Meyer
(signed with mark) Hendrick Albertsen
[For more on Albertsen-Wittaker transaction see next entry, III:31-32 1683 March 26, where Albertsen receives deed for land from Wittaker.]
[Note that Albertson doesn’t seem to have title to Deadman’s Bones until III:31-32 1683 March 26, when he trades land with Jan Jansen Van Oosterhoudt.]

III:31-32
1683 March 26, Kingston
Edward Wittaker provides deed (transfer, conveyance) to Hendrick Albertsen for “the land named ‘de door gebroocken Hoeck’ which said Wittakar has bought of Capt. Thoomas Chambers.” Satisfied from first to last penny.
(signed) Tierck Claszen DeWitt, W D Meyer
(signed) Ed Whittaker
[See previous entry, III:30-31 1683 March 26, and next entry, III:32 same date, for more on financial transaction between Wittaker and Albertsen.]
[See III:34 1683 April 3, when Albertsen deeds this lot over to Jan Jansen Oosterhoudt.]
[See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]

III:32
1683 March 26, Kingston
Hendrick Albertsen owes Edward Wittaker (in addition to previous debt; see above, same date) 128 1/2 sch of wheat, to pay next January (1683/4) and 42 sch to pay Jan 1684/5, total 170 sch [sic], “being the balance of payment due for land bought [by Albertsen from] Edwartd Wittakar.” Mortgages farm named “Dedmans Boons.”
[See previous entry, III:31-32, same date, and related notes cited there, for a deed attached to this debt.]
[See III:31-32 1683 March 26, when Albertsen trades Deadman’s Bones from Jan Jansen Van Oosterhoudt.]

III:32-33
1683 March 30, Kingston
Bruyn Hagen, residing at Kingston [i.e. in the village, in the stockade] owes Nicolaes De Meyer, merchant at New Yorcke, 240 sch of wheat, one quarter to be paid on demand, 3/4 next Jan 1, all delivered free at New York. Late payment incurs 6% interest, “but he shall not have it at interest any longer than the said De Meyer shall permit.” Mortgages house and lot in village.

 

Apr-May-Jun

III:33
1683 April 2, Kingston
Robbert Bickkerstaf, having married the widow of Mr. Gorge Hall, deceased, provides deed (transfer) to William Fisher (Fisjer), Constable at Kingston, Lot 9, “extending north east ward to the Great Kill, lengthwise on the other end, being the great Kill, south west and in the width, on the West side Jan Willemsen and on the East side Pieter Cornelissen, which [lot] the said Fisher has bought at public auction.
[In other words: George Hall’s lot, after Hall died, was sold at auction; Fisher bought it; Bickerstaff is providing the deed to Fisher, on behalf of Bickerstaff’s wife, Elizabeth Hall, who was George Hall’s widow.]
Hall originally bought the lot from Juffr. Johanna De Laet, deed dated October 15, 1675; it was granted to her by Heer Sr. Edmond Anders (Edmund Andros), governor.
(signed) Wessel Ten Broeck, Tierck Claszen De Witt
(signed) Robt Bickerstaffe
[See also III:28, 1682/3 March 21-22, for incomplete first attempt at this document.]
[See also English-language records, Court Records 1693-1698, 6 March 1694/5, Elizabeth Bickerstaff administratrix of . . . George Hall (20250320_131136).]
[See II:431-432 1678 June 14, inventory of George Hall’s estate.]

III:34
1683 April 3, Kingston
Hendrick Albertsen provides deed (transfer) to Jan Jansen Oosterhoudt for a parcel “named ‘de doorgebroecken Hoeck,’ which Edward Wittakar had bought of Capt. Thoomas Chambers, and transferred by Edward Wittakar on March 26, 1683.”
[See III:31-32 1683 March 26, when Albertsen gets this land from Edward Wittaker.]
[See next item, same page, same date, when Oosterhoudt gives deed to Albertsen for his share in Deadman’s Bones, formerly a partnership between Tierck Claesen and William Montagne, but Montagne sold his share to Oosterhoudt. Now it’s TCDW and Hendrick Albertsen.]
[See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]

III:34
1683 April 3, Kingston
Jan Jansen Van Oosterhoudt provides deed (transfer) to Hendrick Albertsen for “half of a farm named ‘Dedmans Boons’ [Deadman’s Bones] which Tierck Claesen had in partnership with Wm. Montagne, and whereas, by virtue of a deed, Wm. Montagne transferred his just half” to Oosterhoudt, now JJVO is trading it to Albertsen. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See DRCHSNY XIII, p. 451-452, for April 1670 discussion of Governor’s grant “for the setting up of a Sawmill for the publique benefit . . . some five Miles North from the Towne of Kingston and . . . a certaine piece of Land scituate & lyeing a Mile further (called Dead Mens Bones) upon a North Line Easterly containing about seaventy Acres for the sustentation of themselves and their Cattle.”]
[See II:408-409 1677 December 26, Borhans and Oosterhout purchasing William Montagne’s share in Deadman’s Bones.]
[See II:275 1679/80 March 20, Oosterhout and Borhans dividing land.]

III:35
1683 April 3
Edward Wittaker, residing under the jurisdiction of Kingston, provides conveyance (deed) to John Hammel for “certain lot, as indicated, and fenced in, and shown, and limited by its fence, by virtue of transfer by Tierck Claesen to him on April 27, 1676, being a portion of the lot viz. the corner lot mentioned in the patent which Edward Wittaker had acquired by virtue of transfer on March 3, 1670, from the Heer Governor Lovelace. From which deed [sic] has been transferred the southern most portion of the lot; and the corner lot belongs to Hammel.”
[See II:263, 1679 October 29, contract of sale, description of neighbors, buildings; tenant is Gerret Aertsen.]
[See II:471-2, 1680 March 1, conveyance (deed) to Pieter Janssen for a portion of the lot “prior to this bought of Tierck Claesen”; Pieter and his brother (?) Jan later exchange houses, see II:636-637, 1682 August 22, Kingston.]
[See Ulster County Deeds Book AA:180, where John Hamble sells the lot to John and Stephen Gasherie, 3 May 1698, and specifies that it’s the lot he bought from Wittaker. (Original sale & mortgage are at AA:172-174, with power of attorney.)]
[See II:624, 1682 April 3, Kingston, Roelof Jansen sells Van Vreedenborgh the neighboring lot, mentions Hammel, who must have moved in after Aertsen vacated.]

III:35-36
1683 April 3, Kingston
William Asfordbie, residing at Marbleton, provides deed (transfer) to William Hains for a “certain portion of the lot which has been transferred to said Asfordbie by Frans Goderis with the house and the lot of the same extent and limits as is expressed in Frans Goderis’s deed, [and] transferred to him by Sueryn Tenhoudt.” Satisfied from first to last penny. This is a lot in the village. Lot is “bounded on the North side by the street, on the south side by the street, it being a corner-lot, on the other side by Bruyn Haegen’s.”

III:36
1683 April 3, Kingston
Jan Broersen [Decker] owes Jan Joosten of New York (JJ van Rollegom, partner of Skipper Lucas Andriessen, not JJ van Meteren, who lives down toward Hurley) 69 1/3 sch of wheat, to be paid “in January next of this current year” (1683/4). Mortgages house and lot.

III:36-37
1683 April 5, Kingston
Cornelis Woutersen [also goes by Cornelissen, Van Sterreveldt] provides deed (transfer) to Jan Meewesen for a “corner lot situated at Horly.” Satisfied from first to last penny.
By virtue of this deed, Jan Mewesen “cedes and transfers the said lot [and house?] to Mr. Jan Delavall, free and unencumbered,” satisfied from first to last penny, “so that the said Mr. John Delavall may act with the same [property] as with his other patrimonial estate for himself and his heirs.”
[(signed)] Wm. Fisher, Ed Whittaker [witnesses]
[(signed)] Coernelis Woutersen, this is the mark by Mewesen himself
[See II:413 1679 April 3, when Cornelis gets the deed for this house and lot from Simon Lefebre, on behalf of Christian Deyo.]

III:37-39
1683 April 6, Kingston
Articles of agreement passed and made between Mr. John Delavall, merchant at New York, of the first part, and Gerrit Cornelissen and Cornelis Cool, and Lambert Lambert [sic] Huybertsen as surety for Cornelis Cool:

Primo: It is agreed that Delavall sells to Cool and Cornelisssen “a parcel of land situated . . . on the Great Piece under the jurisdiction of Horly . . . excepting the house, the garden and the lots located in the village of Horly.”

Further, they will pay 6000 schepels of wheat, delivered at Kingston
[III:38]
in multiple installments:
May 1684, 400 sch
May 1685 400 sch
1686 400 sch
1687 1200 sch
1688 1200 sch
1689 1200 sch
1690 1200 sch
Land is leased till autumn 1685. so buyers won’t take possession till then; DlaVall gets to keep the rent income from the several lessees.

Further, the payments will stick to the schedule, unless buyers want to pay more, sooner. If payments are more than a month late, 25% premium is owed.
Lambert Huybertsen is surety for half of Cool’s obligation.
[III:39]

Further: Delavall will provide a deed when payments are complete.

Added note: The penalties won’t be enforced.
[Versteeg note: The above is as near as possible a literal translation of this very obscurely constructed contract.]
[See II:274 1679/80 March 13, Gerrit Cornelissen sells Thomas de Lavall his lot in Hurley, with portion in valley.]
[See II:459-460, 1677 April 24, Gerrit bought land from Jan Thomas (of Albany?) and sold it to Thomas de Lavall. Gerrit is still on the land; de Lavall wants rent.]
[See II:500 1676 December 22, ?? Teunisz bought lot and house in Hurley from Gerrit Cornelissen, wants deed, Cornelissen says he’s happy to provide it as soon as he gets it from the guy he bought from.]

III:39-40
1683 April 16 [6?], Kingston
Willem Van Vreden Borgh owes Skipper Jan Joosten [van Rollegom] 50 sch of wheat, to pay next November. Mortgages house and lot in this village.
Added note dated 1 April 1686 says it is wholly satisfied, signed Jan Joosten Van Rollegom

III:40
1683 April 10 (35th year of his majesty’s reign)
William Fisher, constable at Kingston, provides deed (transfer) to Jan Cock and William Wood for a parcel of 20 acres, 40 rods long, “near the upland North West, at the Kill” 80 rods, “bounding at the North East side on Lieutenant Gorge Hall’s, on the South West side the land of Mr. William Nottinham.” Originally “granted to Mr. Samuel Lid [Lied], as shown by the patent, dated on November 20, 1676, by governor Sir Edmond Andros.” In addition “house, loft, barn and lots in the ‘Ruyge Hoeck,’ being six lots.” Satisfied, but doesn’t mention pennies.
Added note: “The patent granted to Samuel Lied is to be looked after by William Fisher, so that the said William Wood and Cock shall not get into difficulties on account of the same.”
[For land of William Nottingham, see II:567-569 1680/1 March 19, distribution of estate of William Nottingham père.]

III:41
1683 April 14, Kingston
Seems complicated:
Elsje [Jans] Hendrix, widow of the deceased Hendrick Jochemsen [Schoonmaker], has contracted to sell to
Claes Rosenveldt, who has married [Hilletje Jans Kunst,] the daughter of the deceased Jan Barentsen [Kunst],
procreated between him and his deceased wife Jannetie Adriaensen
[this matters because why? wait for it]
a certain parcel . . . the corner lot at the beginning of the street
36 feet wide, further till the corner of the well (hoeck van de pudt), and thence till the corner of the barn where it is fifty-one feet wide, and thence further till certain post where till the West street it is 39 feet wide, and lengthwise along the street hundred ninety four feet.
The use of the well belongs to both lots, and both shall share the expenses of its maintenance.
[I think this is the first I have seen reference to a well in Kingston, which answers a question. Elsewhere we have seen cisterns.]
Now why does all that stuff about the buyer’s wife matter?
For which there has been stipulated (bedongen) eighty sch of wheat which shall be deducted from the money which is coming to Klaes Roosevelt’s wife as [her share in the] inheritance of her mother’s patrimonial estate [patrimonien goederen].
The little house belongs to Claes Rooseveldt, excepting the chimney
(signed) John Ward, Roelof Kierstede
(signed) Nicklaes Roosevelt, the mark (E) of Esje Hendrix
[note that the actual sale price has not been described in this sale contract]
[See Jan Barentsen Kunst, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kunst-1 , who was married first to Jannetje Ariens https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ariens-96 and next to Jaquemijntje Cornelis Slecht. When he remarried, half of the original estate he shared with Jannetje would have been set aside for their daughter (and only child?) Hilletje Jans Kunst, who married Nicholaes Rosenveldt in 1682, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jans-2148 . Of that estate, some of the money went to buying this house and lot. Yes, she is an ancestor of both Presidents Roosevelt.]
[Complicated enough? Not yet. Who is Elsje Hendrix, the one selling the house and lot? She should be Elsje Jans https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jans-1887 , wife of Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmaker who died in 1681. So far, so good. Step back. Elsje Jans is daughter of Jan Janszen Van Breestede, and her first husband (of three) was Adriaen Pieterszen van Alcmaer. (Her final marriage was to Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, father of Jacomyntie mentioned above; see II:595 1684 September 26.) So Elsje Jans is the mother of Jannetje Ariens, grandmother of Hilletje Jans Kunst. She’s selling house and lot to her granddaughter, and her granddaughter’s new husband. This may be why no price is mentioned, other than the inheritance from Hilletje’s mom.]
[To keep it interesting: When Jan Kunst’s first wife died, Elsje’s daughter, Jan went and married a daughter of Cornelis Barentsen Slecht. Slecht’s first wife (the girl’s mother) had died, and Slecht went on (in 1684) to marry Elsje Jans. So Jan married a different woman but ended up with the same mother-in-law. Small town. Can’t tell the players without a scorecard.]
[Elsje Jans’s brother, by the way, is Jan Janszen van Breestede (same name as their father), who is married to Marritje Andries, living in Manhattan. Marritje’s sister Barbara lives up here, married to Tjerck Claeszen DeWitt. Their brother Lucas Andriessen is a skipper who sails up and down the Hudson, business partner of Jan Joosten van Rollegom. They have another sister, Geertruyd Andriessen, who lives up at Papscanee, married to Jan Thomassen.]
[See Ulster County Deeds Book AA:132, when Nicolaes Rosevelt of the city of New York for £100 sells this lot to Jacomyntie Elting, widow of Jan Elting late of Hurley. Property is south of the north street of the town, east of another street, west of house & lot of Egbert Hendrix, also north of Egbert. Egbert Hendrix Schoonmaker is one of the sons of Elsje Jans van Breestede (with her second husband). The buyer, Jacomyntje Cornelis Slecht, is one of Elsje’s stepdaughters, but also the stepmother of Hilletje Kunst, since she married Jan Kunst after his first wife, Elsje's daughter, died. (Then Jan died, and Jacomyntje married Gerrit Foocken, and he died, and she married Jan Elting, who apparently also died. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Slecht-109 .)]
[Roosevelt also sells lot south of Roeloff Kiersted, east of Jan Willemse, west of street, north of Jacomyntie Elting, originally conveyed 29 Jan 1688 by Joghim Hendrix. Second lot is sold by heirs of Jacomyntie to Roeloff Elting in 1712, Deeds BB:169. Main lot sold to William Elting (son of Jacominte), corner of Bridge Street [now Washington Ave] and North [Front] Street, bounded N & W by streets, to S & E by Capt Egbert Schoonmaker, Deeds BB:171-172, 1 April 1712.]
[See also II:512 1680 Dec 16, when Claes Roosevelt is granted a house and lot in Hurley.]
[See also II:614-616 1681/2 March 4, will of Hendrick Jochemse and Elsje Jans Jochems, and her attachment immediately following.]
[See peripherally related II:245 1676 August 17, will of Cornelis Hoogeboom and Annetje Cornelisen Slecht.]
[The upshot of this remarkable—and remarkably complicated—set of property transfers is not just that at every turn the family found a way to keep the property within the egregiously extended, intertwined family, but also that from Elsje Jans van Breestede on down, for several generations it was passed around among only female family members, although numerous male candidates were available.]

III:233-235
1683 April 14, Kingston (Declarations entered for coming court of sessions)
[For disposition of items not marked (settled) in this list, see III:236 1683 April 25, minutes from the Court of Sessions itself.]

Declarations before the hon. court of Sessions
1683 April 14.

Jamis Mills, attorney for Robbert Stoory, vs. Burger Meynders, for 67 sch. of wheat and 10 stivers (settled)

Jamis Mils, attorney for Robbert Story in behalf of Phillip Richardson, vs. Jan Smeddes, for £27-15-9 (settled)
[This says settled, but see III:236 1683 April 25, when it comes up before Court of Sessions, with further detail, apparently not quite settled, yet.]

Mr. Paelding [Henry Pawling], attorney of Jan D’lavall, heir of Thoomas Delavall, vs. Capt. Thoomas Chambers, for £9-14. Still [in addition] in wheat 855 gldrs 6 st.

Capt. Chambers vs. Hendrie Paelding, attorney as above [attorney of Jan/John Delavall, heir of Thomas Delavall]
[Chambers] demands satisfaction of the conditions of the excise farmed out to Capt. Thomas Delavall.

Humphre Davenport, attorney for Minville, vs. Edward Wittaker, for 1521 guilders, per balance of accounts (settled)
[III:234]

Mooses Du Pue vs. Marten Hofman, for 16 beavers (settled)

Tierck Claesen [DeWitt], appealant [vs. complainant], vs. Adriaen Fransen, Leendert Cool.
[DeWitt] demands as per declaration.
[A detailed declaration would have been filed with each of these cases, describing what the conflict was. A copy of the declaration would have been provided to the defendant at the same time, so they could see what was claimed and prepare a defense—or, frequently, find a way to settle the case before the court date. We have the list of cases for the upcoming court session, but the record does not include the declaration documents. See III:237 1683 April 25 for minutes of discussion in open court, again referring to the declaration, but also discussing more of the particulars.]

Daniel Hobbart, attorney for Isaack Du Champe, appealant [vs. complainant], vs. Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes, for 220 sch. wheat
[See III:161 1682 November 17, more details.]

Gorge Mils vs. Anthony Addeson, Thoomas Garton, “as per declaration” (settled)

Nicolaes Antoy [Anthony] vs. Anthony Addeson
[Nicolaes] institutes against [Addison] an action for defamation, as per declaration. {settled)

Nicolaes Anthony, attorney for Mr. Cornelis Steenwyck, vs. Wessel Ten Broeck and Heyman Albertson (Roosa)
[Anthony], as per declaration, demands hundred ninety-two sch. of wheat, as per obligation dated September 7th, 1681, for passage-money for Domine Weecksteen from Holland.
[See court order III:236 1683 April 25, with further notes attached.]

Nicolas Anthony vs. Adriaen Gerritsen, for 425 guilders, 12 stivers, per declaration (settled)

[III:235]

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Pieter Hillebrantsen, for 1050 guilders book debt, per declaration (settled)

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Wessel Ten Broeck, for 535 guilders, as per a settlement of accounts (settled)

Nicolaes Anthony, attorney for the estate of the widow of Asser Levy, vs. Bruyn Hagen, for 871 guilders 4 stivers

Nicolaes Anthooy vs. Willem Van Vreedenburgh, for 375 guilders, as per declaration (settled)

The following entries were in English:
Axsions bound over to the [court of] sessions:

Thomas Garton, Constable at Marbleton, vs. Hendrie Paeld [Henry Pawling]

Axsion of Wm. Fisher vs. Edward Wittakar

Richard Haies [Hays] vs. John Hupher [Humphrey?]
[Hays] arrest[s] in the hands of Gorge Mils [George Mills] (twenty three) 23 skipel of wheat due to [Hays]

 

III:41-42
1683 April 18, Kingston
Kentkamin, “an Esopus savage,” and his brother Semay have contracted to sell to Nicolaes Anthony, subject to the approval of the Heer Governor [who has to review all property transactions with native Americans], a parcel “situated at Monbackus [Mombaccus], on the other side of the Kill. Limits: on one side of the same lies the land of Leendert Cool and Nicolas Anthony, in partnership, on the other side the land of Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], all bounded and pointed out (afgepaelt en aengewesen), for which land the said Kentkamin and Semay have bargained, as follows:
two guns
two kettles
two garments
two axes
four bars of lead
ten “yepsen” of powder
two shirts; ten fathoms of seewant
one ancker of Rum”

(signed with marks)
Kentkamin
Nahecktoan
Nahacahemmain, Semaey’s wife
Nachkoostouw
Harman Hekan

(signed)
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claszen DeWitt
W.DMeyer

On this there have been paid:
two duffel garments
two shirts
two axes
one ancker of Rum
on the above date

III:42-43
1683 April 18, Kingston
Wessel Ten Broeck will become surety for Jan Pietersen for 237 guilders of Holland money that Jan owes to Matthew Blanchan, on which Jan has paid 40 1/2 sch of wheat. [Exchange rate typically 6 guilders per sch of wheat, so that’s 243 guilders already paid? Perhaps original debt was 480 guilders.] If Jan doesn’t pay within 5 months, Wessel will.
Additional note: 48 guilders, 12 stivers should be deducted; balance is 188 guilders, 8 stivers Holland money.
[III:43]
Jan Pietersen and wife Petronelle Benteyn bind their entire estate as security for Wessel Ten Broeck: house, lot, garden, two cows, Holland money, whatsoever named, “yea, even that which we should expect and even do expect.” If it should happen, which they do not expect, that Wessel has to pay up for them, he can sell all their stuff, no court case required.
[See next entry, same date.]

III:43
1683 April 18, Kingston
Mattue Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] provides deed (transfer) to Jan Pietersen for house and lot “located next to the principal guard house,” which goes back to “the grant, made by the Heer governor Richard Nickols, dated June 18, 1667.” Says he is satisfied (doesn’t mention pennies) for “the said house and lot and mill,” to which Versteeg says [sic].
[See previous entry, same date.]
[This is a land deal that got very complicated. Pietersen’s debt to Blanchan was originally incurred by Jacques Dubois, who died before he could pay for the house and lot. Pietersen married Jacques’s widow, Petronelle Benteyn. He eventually agreed to honor the contract Dubois had with Blanchan, but the case took many twists in court for a few years. See II:411 1677 December 30 for many notes.]

III:43-44
1683 April 18, Kingston
Be it known by these presents that Kentkamin and Harmon Hekan have granted certain parcel of land, situated at Kahakasius, being the first land at said Kahankisius [sic], thirty morgens in extent, under
[III:44]
this condition that Jacob Rutgerson remit all the debt which Harmon Hekan owes Jacob Rutgersen. And further Jacob Rutgers gives as payment:
1 garment, “strouw” waters
1 garment, duffels
1 ancker of rum
1 shirt
But all subject to the hon. Heer governor’s approval.
In testimony of the truth have subscribed to the present this April 18, 1683, at Kingston.
Jacob Rutgersen is also granted the woodland to match (naar advenant) the thirty acres of arable land.

(signed with marks)
Kentkamin
Harmon Hekan
Sasakarop
Mamanochque
Katakis
Waphera
Heremaman [cf. below]

(signed)
Wm. Fisher
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claszen De Witt
W.D. Meyer

It is stipulated by the above partners that Jacob Rutgers when allowed the same, shall deduct from the payment for the common land (vant land int gemeen) the thirty morgen of land. But if the share of the partners should be more (doch wat de Cota van de participanten meerder is), Jacob Rutgers shall pay the same (sall Jacob Rutger byleggen). But this land shall be drawn for in general (int generaal worde geloodt), and the result of the drawing must be complied with, and the partners must immediately (met den eerste) attend to the same, otherwise Jacob Rutgers shall keep his right.

To which testifies (signed) Wm. DelaMontagne, Secretary

(witnesses)
N. Anthony
John Ward

The savages declare to have been satisfied in the presence of the magistrate
(signed) Wm. Fisher
(signed with marks)
Kentkaman
Harman Hekan
Sassakrop
Wekasawas
Herewawock [cf. above]
Manochkotomu

III:45
1683 April 20, Kingston
Mooses Du Pue, residing at Kingston, owes Skipper Jan Joosten [van Rollegom], residing at New Yorcke, 40 1/3 sch of wheat, to be delivered free at the bank next fall. Mortgages the double value of said quantity.

III:45-46
1683 April 20, Kingston
Hendrick Van Weyen provides deed (transfer) to Pieter Cornelissen [Louw] for “lot of land situated across the great Bridge,” Lot 2 as designated. “On the West side lies the land of said Pieter Cornelessen, on the South side the Kill.” Original deed was “made to Hendrick Van Wy by Mr. Jeronimus Ebbinck [Johanna De Laet’s husband], dated March 10, 1675.” Satisfied from first to last penny.
Additional note: This land had first been bought by Cornelis Hooge Boom and Hendrick Ten Eyck . . . who declare to have been satisfied by Pieter Cornelissen, so that the transfer has at first been made, being the first owner through transfer by Mr. Jeronimus Ebbinck.
[In other words, they want to establish clear and continuous chain of ownership, no gaps.]
[See next entry, same date. See also III:46-47, same date, deed of 1/3 of same lot to Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, then explanation of how Pieter gets it.]
[See II:241 1675/6 March 10, Ebbinck conveyance to Van Weyen for this lot.]

III:46
1683 April 20, Kingston
Hendrick Van Wey provides deed (transfer) to Cornelis Barentsen Slecht for “parcel of land named ‘de plantagie’ [[the plantation]] . . . [sold to him] by Mr. Jeronimus Ebbinck [husband of Johanna De Laet] on March 10, 1675.” Satisfied from first to last penny.
Also transfers the corner lot with the cellar belonging to the same, the house and lot next to Roelof Kierstede” also acquired from Ebbinck/De Laet same date.
[Kierstede lot and house are a corner lot on north side of John Street today. Is the lot in question the corner lot immediately to the east? (Are there just two lots in this block?)]
[See previous entry and next entry, same date.]
[See II:241 1675/6 March 10, Ebbinck conveyance to Van Weyen for these lots.]

III:46-47
1683 April 20, Kingston
Hendrick Van Wey provides deed (transfer) to Cornelis Barentsen Slecht for “a just one-third portion of the lot of land situated across the great bridge viz. the lot No. 2. He also transfers to Cornelis Hoogeboom the just [remaining] two portions of said lot of land.” Satisfied from first to last penny. He owns this lot “by virtue of a deed granted to Mr. Jeroonimus Ebbinck [husband of Johanna De Laet], dated December 5, 1666 by the hon. Heer Govr Nicolas [Richard Nicolls], and transferred by Ebbinck to said Hendrick Van Wey, on March 16, 1675.”
Hooge Boom transfers his 2/3 share to Hendrick Ten Eyck, satisfied from first to last penny. Whereas Pieter Cornelissen has bought of Cornelis Barentsen Slecht the one third of the lot, [therefore he] . . . also has bought the remaining two thirds of Hendrick Ten Eyck. Everyone very satisfied, many pennies. Entire lot now belongs to Cornelissen. Everyone signs this deed.
[See also III:45-46 above, same date, same lot, deeded to Pieter Cornelissen.]
[Pieter Cornelissen Louw is of the Blanchan-Dubois clan, married to Elizabeth Blanchan; see II:250 1676 November 1.]
[Cornelis Hoogeboom is Cornelis Barentsen Slecht’s son-in-law; see II:245 1676 August 17, will of Cornelis Hoogeboom and Annetje Cornelissen Slecht.]

III:127
1683 April 24, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 290
Ordinary Session held at Kingston, April 24, 1683
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Tierck Claesen
Wm. De Meyer

III:128
1683 April 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Fredrick Hussey vs. Wallerand DuMont, for 60 sch. of wheat.

Humphre Davenport vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for 159 guilders and five [empty?] sacks

Hendrikus Beecqman vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for 244 guilders

III:128
1683 April 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony, attorney for Sara Van Borsum, vs. Jan Mattysen [Tysen]
[Anthony] demands of [Jan] the amount of one hundred twenty-four gldrs, eighteen st. for expenses on account of Domine Gaesbeeck.
The hon. court decides that it has no jurisdiction in the matter because it concerns the congregation of the three villages and ought to be brought before the sessions by petition.
[The origin of the debt is not explained here. Domine Laurentius van Gaasbeeck died in February 1680. His widow, Laurentia [Kellenaer] went on to marry Thomas Chambers. Thomas Chambers’s first wife was Margriet Hendricks, who had died in 1675. Jan Mattysen is Margriet’s son (with her first husband, Mattys Jansen), stepson of Thomas Chambers. It is not clear why the plaintiff would come to Jan Mattysen for expenses on the Domine’s account, rather than going to either his widow, Laurentia, or Thomas Chambers, the new husband, both of whom are still alive. The local council, seeing the complicated web of relations, is wise to punt to a different court.]
[Also not clear: Who is Sara Van Borsum? Barent Van Borsum used to live here, and his wife, now widow, is Machtel. There was also a Cornelis Van Borsum, apparently related; see II:557-558, June and July 1680. Sara may be wife of Cornelis, or daughter of either, or a sister.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

III:128-129
1683 April 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony, attorney [for Sara Van Borsum], vs. Wessel Ten Broeck, administrator of Wynkoop’s estate, for 103 guilders.
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]

[Gerrit? Van] Sleghtenhorst vs. Gysbert Albertsen, for 90 guilders, 15 stivers.
[Gerrit wrote his will in February 1683; see III:14-15 1682/3 February 16. This may be him, or it may be his wife; see her appearances III:129-31 1683 June 5, by which time he is no longer above ground.]

Lambert Huybertsen attaches the grain of Jan Mewesen, in an [action] for debt.
[See II:562-563 1680 September 6, when Mewesen agrees to work for Huybertsen., who will pay some of Mewesen’s debts in exchange.]
[See II:544 1681 August 9, Marbletown, for older complaint.]
[See III:115 1682 November 22 when Huybertsen attaches maize and oats belonging to Mewesen.]
[See III:132 1683 November 2, more detailed attachment of grain: a restatement of this one, or a new attachment?]

III:236
1683 April 25, Kingston (Court of Sessions)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 181
[For a complete list of items submitted for hearing at this court session, see III:233-235 1683 April 14. Many of the items were settled before this court date.]
Court of Sessions held at Kingston by the authority of his Royal majesty Charles II, by the grace of God King of England, France, Scotland and Ireland, protector of the faith etc.
In the year of our Lord 1683, April 25
Present (Justices):
Capt. Chambers
John Joosten
John Garton [Constable at Marbletown]
Abraham Haes Broeck [Haesbroeck]

The following was in English:
Jamis Mils, atturny of Richard Phillips, vs. John Smeddes
[Mills] demaends accordinge to obligation Twenty seaven ponds 15 schillings 9 pens further twenty five yaerds osenbrds linnen [Osnaburgh linen, a coarse-weave fabric suitable for grain sacks and the like, akin to burlap] for sackes.
[Smeddes] replies and sait that he have send the sakes [sacks] agine to Ricard Phillips, and payed a great paerte of it to Phillip Ricards [sic].
The court doe order that John Smeddes shall proeve he have sendt the sackers to Richard Pillipes and to paeye to the plaintif accordinge to obligation; and what he can proeve by a recipt that is payed it shall be deducted and to paye all chiardsies [charges].
[Smeddes] doe appael to the generall court of aszzises. The saeme is granted to [Smeddes], he havinge put in suffisiant securyty for the summe and chiardsies that is and shall follouwe.
[See III:231-232 1682 September 25, Mills for Robert Story “in behalf of Phillip Richardson,” seeking £27-15-9 from Smeddes, marked “settled” before the court date, but evidently not.]

III:236
1683 April 25, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 181
The following were in Dutch:
[In a different ink, perhaps added later?]
The hon. court orders Wessel Tenbroeck [and] Heyman Roosa to pay to Nicolaes Anthony, attorney for Mr. Cornelis Steenwyck, for traveling expenses of Domine Weecksteen, as per obligation, the quantity of one hundred ninety-two schepel of wheat, with the costs, and to sue those having extended the call to the domine (haer garant te soecken op de gene die doomene hebben beroepen).
[See III:233-235 1683 April 14, III:234, for original filing: Anthony seeks 192 sch. of wheat for passage from Holland for the Domine.]
[See also III:206 1682/3 February 6, Anthony again seeking 210 guilders, from Jan Jansen, 50 guilders of which “are to be paid by Domeni Weecksteen,” as per balance of account.]
[See also III:157 1682 August 23, when the Domine has petitioned the Kingston council for assistance with firewood, and the council tells him that his firewood should be “furnished by those who have called him,” i.e. the chuch consistory.]
[See also III:219-220 1681 April 27, Capt. Delavall seeking 300 sch. wheat advanced for Domine Gaasbeek’s passage and expenses in Holland.]
[See II:461 1677 September 25, original agreement of three villages to pay preacher expenses for eight years, with further notes about scrounging for money once a preacher has been picked.]

III:237
1683 April 25, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 180
Tierck Claesen De Witt (Complainant and appealant) vs. Adriaen Fransen and Leendert Cool
[DeWitt] demands, as per declaration [filed before the court session], the quantity of twenty-seven sch. of wheat, for the breaking of some morgens of land, and says that at Horly he had been condemned to pay to each of them thirty sch. of wheat.
Yet [in addition] demands, by virtue of a sentence against Leendert Cool, dated Feb. 22 [minute does not specify what he demands]. Requests that the same be executed [that Cool’s property be sold to satisfy the debt]. Requests that they shall be made to prove wherein they have sustained damages.
Adriaen Fransen and Leendert Cool say that Tierck Claesen took the land away from them, before the expiration of the lease.
Leendert Cool also says that they [who?] had mowed reed without his [whose?] consent, and had forbidden his [whose?] son.
Say that [Cool and Fransen] did not receive the wagon in time, but that they received a milch-cow in time. Did not receive the mares in time, received two sch. of buckwheat and two sch. of wheat less than they were entitled to.
Say that the fence has not been made as per the contract, on account whereof they have suffered much damage.

The jury finds that Adriaen Fransen, for neglecting to plow six morgen of land, shall pay thirty-six sch. of wheat, and Leendert Cool, for not breaking two morgen, [shall pay] twelve sch. of wheat. And that they shall receive of Tierck Claesen sixty-seven sch. of wheat, because he did not comply with the contract.
The hon. court approves the verdict of the jury.
[See next entry, same session, unrelated legally but same parties.]
[The 30-sch judgment from Hurley has not been found in this set of records.]
[Feb. 22 sentence against Cool has not been found in this set of records, but see Marbletown minutes II:522 1680 [1680/1?] January 20, and II:540 1681 February 9, Tjerck vs. Leendert, regarding breaking some land.]
[It is possible that Tjerck’s complaint against Adriaen Fransen at Marbletown, II:547 1681 December 15, is related to this complaint.]
[Original lease detailing wagon, milch-cow, et al., not found in these records, but see similar lease II:571-572 1681 April 22, Tjerck renting out a farm at Mombaccus with a wagon, a plow, some seed already sown, and livestock.]

III:237-238
1683 April 25, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 179-178
Adriaen Fransen vs. Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Adriaen Fransen says that he owns a mare which has Tierck Claesen’s mark. [Said mare], some years ago, was lost in the woods, and now has been branded with Tierck Claesen’s mark.
[III:238]
Tierck Claesen says that as long as five years ago next spring he delivered [a mare] to Adriaen Fransen, and the same was four years old, and this is a grey (graeuwe) mare.
Jacob Aertsen declares and says that he asked Tierck Claesen’s boys, “Whence does that mare come?” The boys answered that they had it from an Englishman at Marbleton.
James Pinneck declares that he asked Tierck Claesen’s son Jan, “Whence did you get that mare?” Answered Jan: “My brother Anderies has bought the same at Marbleton.”
Maria Cools [likely Marritje Cornelissen, wife of Leendert Cool; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cornelis-36 ] declares and says that Tierck Claesen said: “If it be not my mare, then it is neither Adriaen Franse’s,” whereupon Garton answered, “Then it is the King’s.”
[Page 178]
Jan Bigs declares and says that Tierck Claesen came at Marbleton and said: “I don’t know whether or not it is my mare.” Said Bigs: “Why then does the mare have your mark?” Said Tierck Claesen: “My children have done it without my knowledge.”

The case is given to the jury.

The jury, judging from circumstantial evidence, finds that the mare belongs to Adriaen Fransen. Further finds that Tierck Claesen, for working the mare, shall pay six sch. of wheat, and for damages, because he [Fransen?] did not have the mare, eight sch. of wheat. and all further damages, and five pounds to the sheriff.
The hon. court approves the verdict of the jury.
The hon. court orders that the two colts which were with Adriaen Fransen’s mare shall be turned over, by Tierck Claesen, to the sheriff till the next [court of] sessions.

[See previous entry, same session, unrelated legally but same parties.]
[See also III:203-204 1682/3 January 9 [Kingston], Special Sessions, with the regular Council in attendance, probably the original case.]
[See III:172 1683 September 5, Court of Sessions, same case.]
[See III:242 1683 September 5, Court of Sessions.]
[See also II:592 1681 December 16, Fransen and Claesen and farm at Mombaccus.]

III:238-239
1683 April 25, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 178-177
Whereas Jan Pietersen had been bound over for his good behavior [i.e. had to post a bond to back up his promise that he would behave well], and his wife declares that he has beaten her, and the jury, from the marks, finds that Jan Pietersen has beaten his wife, therefore [the jury] judges that he shall give security [again!] that he shall live peaceably with her, and assurance that he shall neither harm her life nor limb (verseeckeringe geven dat hy aen haer leven en leden geen leedt sall doen).
The hon. court of sessions therefore orders that the [previous] bond for his good behavior has been forfeited. In the meantime Jan Pietersen is again bound for his good behavior, and he is to furnish bail, and if he cannot find bail he shall be arrested.

Court Records Volume 6 Page 177
The hon. court of sessions judges that Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] has forfeited the bond of thirty £ sterling because he was surety for Jan Pietersen’s good behavior till the [court of] sessions, and because Jan Pietersen did not behave well.
[Jan Pietersen’s wife is Petronelle Benteyn or Bentlyn, whose first husband was Jacques Dubois; see II:411 1677 December 30, when Pietersen announces he has married her and will take on Dubois’s agreement to buy a house and lot in Kingston from Matthew Blanchan. See also III:42-43 1683 April 18, when Pietersen and Benteyn bind their estate as security for a commitment by Wessel Ten Broeck.]
[See II:464-465 1679 September 3, when Sheriff Asfordbie complained that “Jan Pieters has not lived well with his wife,” and she “declares that he beats her, and that it is hard for her to live with him, and requests to be released of him.” At that time too he was put under arrest and required to post bail for his good behavior.]
[See III:211, 1682/3 February 13, when Jan was required to post bail for his good behavior.]

 

III:47-48
1683 May 7, Kingston
Roelof Swartwoudt provides deed (transfer) to Nicolaes Anthony for house and half lot next to house of Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz] as transferred to Roelof by Willem Fredricksen Boudt, bought at auction. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See II:271 1679/80 February 27, original contract of sale.]
[See III:61-62 1683/4 January 18, when Anthony trades this house and lot to Hendrick Ten Eyck, in exchange for the house and lot Ten Eyck contracts to buy from Thomas Delavall, next to the guardhouse, in the previous entry, 26 February.]

III:48
1683 June 4, Kingston
Jan Jansen Van Oosterhoudt has borrowed at interest from Willem Jacobsen Van Tongeren 124 sch of wheat, for two years, 15 Feb 1682/3 till 15 Feb 1684/5. Each year he will pay 8 sch of wheat, and at the end he will return the principal. Mortgages “all his lands, none excepted”; no house specified.
[Willem Jacobs Van Tongeren took over Severyn Ten Hout’s interest in Steen Rabie (Stone Arabia); see II:266 1679/80 Feb 9.]

III:129
1683 June 5, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Court Records Volume 6 page 289
Ordinary court held at Kingston, June 5, 1683
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Edward Wittakar
William De Meyer

Martin Hofman vs. Jan Hall, for 8 1/4 sch. of wheat, payable in September

III:129-130
1683 June 5, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Gerrit [Van] Sleghtenhorst [is deceased, so this means his wife?] vs. Jan Kellar
Sleghtenhorst’s wife [Aeltje?] appears and demands damages, because [Kellar] has left her service. Demands as per account the amount of two hundred seventy-six guilders—and does not want his services any longer.
[Kellar] says, per written declaration, that he cannot live there any longer, and cannot please her in anything, and that Sleghtenhorst’s wife says that he is not worth the bread he eats.
Meyer advises that Jan Kellar is discharged because Sleghtenhorst’s wife says that she does not want him any longer. Jan Kelar shall be discharged, and only pay the expenses, as has been ordered by the justice.
Edward Wittakar is of the opinion that if [Sleghttenhorst] can prove that servant left her house at an improper time, he ought to be punished on account of it, as a servant ought to be punished.
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt] opines whereas she does not want him anymore therefore he is discharged, and need not pay any expenses.
Wessel Ten Broeck is of opinion that he is discharged, because
[III:130]
she does not want him any longer, and is to pay the expenses incurred before the justice.
The constable: the same.
The hon. court decides that Jan Kellar is discharged from Sleghtenhorst’s service, and whereas Sleghtenhorst’s wife says that she does not want him any longer in her employ [therefore] the servant need not pay damages and be exempt from [paying] costs.
Sleghtenhorst’s wife appeals to the court of session.
Which is permitted her, provided she gives security for [the costs of] the suit.

[See III:133 1683 November 6, Kingston, ordinary council session, when he comes after her for pro-rated wages.]
[See also III:142 1683/4 January 24, Kingston, ordinary council session: Her husband is deceased.]
[His will is also in the record, mentioning her; see III:14-15 1682/3 February 16, Kingston.]

III:130
1683 June 5, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 288
[Gerrit Van] Sleghtenhorst vs. Marten Hofman
[Minutes say the plaintiff is “Sleghtenhorst.” In this council session that seems to mean Aeltje Lansinck (Lansing?), the widow of Gerrit Van Sleghtenhorst, who is lately deceased. See previous entry, next entry.]
[Sleghtenhorst] demands the amount of seven gldrs ten st[ivers]
[Hoffman] says that [he] has a counter-claim of three gldrs ten st., which [was] made known to [Slechtenhorst] before the court convened.
[The case] Is nonsuited [i.e., thrown out] because the action is not important enough.
Marten Hofman’s wife [Emmerentje Claesen DeWitt] says in Meyer’s presence, that Sleghtenhorst has cheated her (te Hordt gedaen) and more others at Albany, that he took the stuff out of the closet and had it sold for the minister.
[See also III:196-197 1684 March 4, 5, 6, Court of Sessions, continued, when Emmerentje testifies against Aeltie again.]

III:130-131
1683 June 5, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
[Aeltje, wife of Gerrit Van] Sleghtenhorst vs. Thoomas Harmonsen
[Sleghtenhorst’s] wife demands damage, because [Harmonsen] does not commence work for her.
[Harmonsen] says there were not enough materials to commence work, which he agrees to prove.
The hon. court orders Thoomas Harmonsen to go to work, unless he shall prove that there is lack of materials.
Willem Jansen declares that Sleghtenhorst’s wife said that she did not yet have materials to set Thoomas Harmonsen to work, and that Capt. Chambers said that Thomas Harmonsen should go to work [when] Thoomas Harmonsen said that he was obliged to beg for work, because Sleghtenhorst had no materials. Sworn.
Which is also declared by Capt. Chambers.
Whereas Thoomas Harmonsen proves that there were no materials at the works (by de wercken), therefore he is discharged from the contract.

Jul-Aug-Sep

III:48-49
1683 July 4, Kingston
Theunes Elesen owes Willem Jacobsen Van Tongeren 217 sch of wheat, which he will pay next Feb (1683/4) with 14 sch interest, “which originates from advanced money and wages.”

III:49-50
1683 July 20
Hendrick Albertsen, residing under the jurisdiction of Kingston at Dedmans Boons (Deadman’s Bones), leases to Arendt Teunesen and Willem Cornelis [sic] “certain small island (eylantie) back of his land and further all the land situated back of the same” extending to the falls. Lease runs for 10 years, starting 1 Oct 1683. Lessees shall have free use, “without paying anything for the same. But they are obliged to return said land clear (schoon).”
Teunesen shall have on the land, “being manured land, the sowing of two sch of hempseed, provided he pay for the land and the trouble.”
Lessees will work for Albertson during harvest time; he will pay them same wages he pays others.
They pay for half the fence between his land and the little island. On their land they have to put up a fence and leave it for him.
First year he will plow their lots and furnish horses to plow whatever they clear, plus he will grant a free road (presumably they have to build it) and a place at his farm to store their grain, and they can thresh in his barn.
Lessees will have free use of Great Bridge for seven years and no longer. And if he wants to fence in his pasture at the back of his land, they’ll work six days each to help.
Also they have to plow two days a year.

Signed Hendrick Albertsen (with a mark), Arent Teunessen, Willem Pietersen [sic] Beek

III:131
1683 August 7
Court Records Volume 6 Page 288
[This is at the bottom of the minutes from the Kingston council meeting of 1683 June 5, in the same handwriting, as if it had been written at the same time as the rest of the minutes.]
The hon. court grants to:
William Fisher
John Hendrie
William Haeyes [?]
Suevereyn Ten houdt
Thoomas Matthias, and
Will [name left out in orig.]
the land on the East bank of the river, next the Crom Elbow and Juffrous Hoeck in the Lange Rack, which land the sachems of the savages have mortgaged to William Fisher, for a quantity of beavers—owing to William Fisher—subject to the Heer governor’s approval.

III:239-240
1683 August 7, Kingston
Sale by Esopus of land in Lange Rack, Sepasgewack (August 7, 1683)

Appeared before the hon. court at Kingston the undersigned Esoopus or Wappinger savages who declare to have sold to William Fisher, Suvryn Ten Houdt, John Hendrie Freeman, Fredrick Hussy or [sic] William Haeyns [Hays?], Thomas Mattias certain parcel of land situated in the “Lange Rack” along the Kill named Missinck on the east bank along the river (aen de Oostwall langs de revier) good as well as bad land, woods, mountains and valleys, water etc. all pointed out.
Commencing from the land of the savages
[III:240]
named Mussany and Packhin [Versteeg MS hard to read]. The land is named Sepasgewack, for which there has been stipulated:

[long list of goods]

Wherewith the savage named Kakaroni, owner of the land, declares to be satisfied. But everything must be paid between now and next spring, as per list.
In testimony of the truth have subscribed to the present with our own hand this 3d of September [see date below]:

(signed:)
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Wm. Fisher
for the hon. Court

(signed)
Proprietors:
Sueryn Ten houdt
[zigzag mark of] Jan Hendrie Freeman
Frederick Hussy
Thoomas Matthias

(signed with marks:)
Kakeroni
his brothers, named Hans and Tapowars
Harrina Mock
Paprochqua

(witnessed with marks:)
Getuijgj [?, but believe this is meant to be the Dutch word “witnesses”]
Sakarowan Panerewach, Sachem of the Esopus
Tsia wasques
Paponinck

The hon. court at Kingston permits petitioners to purchase said land of the above savages, because the same is not detrimental, but subject to the Heer governor’s approval.
Kingston, August 7th 1683

[probably a separate deal, but Montagne as secretary signs at the bottom of the second, as if they were all on one document for the record:]

Kagakapou, alias Jochem, declares to owe William Wood about nine or ten beavers for which he is willing to deliver and sell to said Wood his land back of Siawaenkonck, the land named Getatauwhachky, but all subject to the Heer governor’s approval.
Kingston September 20, 1683
And also the land named Aquapachwach and Pakansinck.
(signed) Thiis is the mark of Kagakpon, alias Jochem
Witnesses (signed, with a mark): Tata Pagus

To which testifies
(signed) Wm. D’laMontagne, Secretary

 

III:50-51
1683 August 21, Kingston
Claes Teunesen [Van Clier] has contracted to sell to Hendrick Cornelissen Bogaerdt a tract of land under jurisdiction of Marbletown, land Teunesen bought from William Asforbie. Bogart will pay 1600 sch of wheat in 4 installments, starting Feb 168[3/]4. Half paid here (Kingston), half at house of Hendrick Cornelissen. After payment, Claes will furnish a deed. Land already delivered.
Witnesses Benjamin Provoost and Harmen Hendrix
Additional note: Claes Teunesen still keeps to himself three hundred sch of wheat from the last installment.
[III:51]
Additional note: 1100 sch, the first two installments and 300 sch of the third, are assigned to Mr. James Graham, and Hendrick Cornelissen will pay Graham at the time due. This releases Claes from Mr. Graham, and “he cannot be dunned any more,” because he’s fully settled with Frans Goderis, attorney for Mr. Graham. December 19, 1683.
[See also III:59 1683 December 19, when Bogart agrees to pay Frans Goderis also from final two installments.]

III:51
1683 August 28, Kingston
Abraham Frockfordt, merchant, has contracted to sell to Lambert Huybertsen “a Negress, delivered to him to his satisfaction.” Two installments: 80 sch of peas, next fall, deliverable “before the last yachts start for New York.” Second installment is 90 sch of wheat a year from next Jan (1684/5), delivered free at Kingston.
Signed Aberham Franckfort, Lambert Huybertsen

Added note: This obligation has been fully paid, this January 8, 1683 [sic]

 

III:172
1683 September 5 (Court of Sessions)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 247
[Additional notes from this session are at III:241-242, interleaved below.]
Court of Sessions held by the authority of his royal majesty Carolus the second, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Protector of the Faith, etc., in the year of our Lord 1683, September 5th
Present Justices of the Peace:
Capt. Chambers
Mr. John Garton
Mr. John Joosten
Mr. Abraham Haesbroeck

III:241-242
1683 September 5, Kingston (Court of Sessions)
[What appear to be a primary set of minutes from this session can be found at III:172. The notes that follow mostly seem to be a record of the verdicts and judgments determined by the court.]
Session Court held at Kingston by the authority of his Royal Majesty Charles II, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Protector of the faith etc.
In the year of our Lord 1683, September 5
Present (Justices of the Peace):
Capt. Chambers
Mr. John Garton
Mr. Jan Joosten
Mr. Abraham Haesbroeck

III:172
1683 September 5 (Court of Sessions, continued)
Adriaen Fransen vs. Tierck Claesen
[Fransen] demands, as per declaration [filed previous to hearing], the two young horses which have run with the mare in question, the young mare of which is marked.
Thoomas Quick declares and says not to know that said mare belongs to Adriaen Fransen or to Tierck Claesen. In case she belongs to Adriaen Fransen she ought to have a descending blaze. This mare is not thus (marked) and should be bristly haired.
The jury decides that, according to circumstantial evidence, the same is Adriaen Fransen’s mare.
The court approves the verdict of the jury.
In regard to the young horses Tierck Claesen is by the present ordered to deliver said young horses, to do the best he can in this matter. But in case he cannot find nor deliver the same, the sheriff is to pursue them wherever he can do so.
[See also III:203-204 1682/3 January 9 [Kingston], Special Sessions, with the regular Council in attendance, probably the original case.]
[See III:237-238 1683 April 25, same case.]
[See III:242 1683 September 5, Court of Sessions, instructions from above repeated.]
[See also II:592 1681 December 16, Fransen and Claesen and farm at Mombaccus.]

III:242
1683 September 5, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Mr. Asfordbie, Sheriff, vs. Tierck Claesen
The hon. court orders that the verdict of the Jury shall be complied with. And in regard to the young horses [see previous cases with Adriaen Fransen], Tierck Claesen is once more ordered to deliver the young horses and to do his duty. But in case he cannot find the same, the sheriff shall pursue the same wherever he can.
[See III:172 1683 September 5, apparently separate minutes from the same session, but same conclusion.]

III:173
1683 September 5 (Court of Sessions, continued)
Constable Garton vs. Anderies De Witt
The hon. court, for his conduct in regard to the constable, condemns Anderis DeWitt to pay a fine of thirty gldrs, and sixty gldrs to the sheriff.
Complt [sic] appeals to the court of assizes.
Which is permitted him—provided he give bail.
[See III:241 1683 September 5, apparently separate minutes from the same session.]

III:241-242
1683 September 5, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Constable Garton vs. Anderies De Witt
[Details of the complaint are not discussed in these minutes, nor above.]
The hon. court sentences Anderies De Witt, on account of his offence against Constable Garton (voor syn foudt gedaen aen Constabel Garton), to pay a fine of thirty gldrs and to the sheriff sixty gldrs, and costs.
[See III:173 1683 September 5, apparently separate minutes from the same session. DeWitt appeals to Court of Assizes.]

III:52-53
1683 September 17
We Esopus savages have been fully satisfied in regard to the sale of land to William Fisher and Jacob Rutgers on June 23, 1682.
Asnakai Rast
Nahamaes
Pawera Wach
Skarowach
Withserver Waeuw
Asseno Wechkat
Wappinseoch
Packhaen
Fankauetoe
Sackora Khe
Sa Sa Kerop panajrock
Alis Harmen Hekon
Wekejauris
Semay
[See II:629-630, 1682 June 23]
[See III:57-58 1683 December 4, division of tract]

 

Oct-Nov-Dec

III:131
1683 October 12, Kingston (special council session)
Special Court held at Kingston, October 12, 1683
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen
Edward Wittakar
Wm. De Meyer

III:131-132
1683 October 12, Kingston (special council session, continued)
Gulliam De Honeur vs. Marten Hofman
[De Honeur] demands, as per transfer, the just one half of certain two lots, bought by them in co-partnership on the South river, prior to this named N. Amstel and at present named N. Castle, the lots situated, as per deed, at N. Castle in the Hout Street.
[Hoffman] says that he [Hoffman] has paid for the lots, and that [De Honeur] does not own them (geen Eygenaer daer van is).
[De Honeur] replies and says that they had an open account with each other, and [Hoffman] never demanded money of [De Honeur], nor [was he] intending [not] to pay his share, for which the lots have been bought, being three hundred gldrs, of which [De Honeur’s] share amounts to one hundred fifty gldrs. [De Honeur] paid that same year for Marten Hofman in N. England to Mr. Bell forty-two shillings which amounts to forty-eight gldrs, and [Hoffman] was satisfied with an assignment to Moses DePue for hundred gldrs [i.e. DePue owed De Honeur that amount, and De Honeur transferred the obligation so DePue owed it to Hoffman instead], which amounts together to one hundred ninety-four [sic] gldrs, and he dropped several items in his account (in syn Reeckeninge [something illegible]). Was also at [Hoffman’s] when Secretary Montagne, by order of the Magistrates Wessel Ten Broeck and Wm. De Meyer, sent a proposition to [Hoffman], asking him whether he was willing to put the case into the hands of good men, for the sake of saving expenses. Marten Hofman gave answer that he would not go to good men, but wanted a special court.
The case has been referred to the Jury.
Sworn:
Benjamin Provoost, foreman
Jacob Rutgers
Hendrick Ten Eyck
Roelof Hendrix
Johannes De Hooges
Jan Focken
Jan Hamel [John Hamble]
Verdict of the Jury:
The jury finds that Guliam De Honeur, besides Marten Hofman, is owner of the two lots in litigation.
[De Honeur] attaches the papers in custody of the court.
The hon. court finds, as per the verdict of the jury, that Guliam De Honeur is joint owner, with Marten Hofman, of the two lots, provided he pay one half of the purchase money, being one hundred and fifty gldrs, and of the seventy-six gldrs interest, and [Hoffman is] to pay the costs of the suit.

[See also III:135 1683 December 4, Kingston, ordinary council session, with more conflict between the two.]

III:173-174
1683 October 17 (Will of Joost Adriaensen)
(in English) Governor Thomas Dongan verifies will of Joost Adriaenson. Jan Joosten executor, “tutor or overseer of the children.”
The following document was in English:
Thomas Dongan Leiveten’t [Lieutenant?] and gover’nr and vice admirall under his Royal high[ness] of Neuw Yorcke and dependences in America.
To all whom this shall come or may conserne, Greeting.
Know ye that the Day of this date hereof before the said governor the laest will and testam’t of Joost Adriaenson late deceased hereunto annexed was proved, approved and alowed,
who having while he lived and at the time of his death goods and chattles within this province an gover’m’t of Neuw Yorcke,
and [some odd characters, maybe crossed out] John Joosten being therein appointed as tutor or oversere,
the adminis[trat]ion of all and singular the said goods and chattles and the said will is hereby committed unto the said John Joosten well and truly to administer upon the saeme accordingly and to make a full and just inventory of all the goods and chattles of the said deceased and exhibite the same unto the next court of sessions.
3. [?] And to render a true
[III:174]
and perfect account of his sd. administraticon [sic] in the time by lauw required.
Given under my hand and seale at Fortt James, the 17th day of October in the 35th yaere of is ma’sties reigne Anno[que] Dom[ini] 1683.
Was signed: Tho. Dongan.
[Note underneath:]
The probate of the will of Joost Adriaenson late deceased, administrat[ion] granted therupon to John Joosten of Esopus as tutor or overseer of the children.
(signed)
Thos. Garton
Wm. Asfordbie, sheriff

Agrees with the original in the presence of Justice Garton, Mr. Asfordbie, Sheriff. To which testifies
(signed) W. Montagne, Clercq

[See III:148-149 1683/4 February 24, where Jan Joosten works at collecting some debts owed to the estate.]

 

III:54
1683 October 19, Kingston (Foxhall)
(in English)
To the Constable at Kingston
Youw are in his Maj[esty’s] Naeme ordered to bringe before me the person of Edward Wittakar in the after noene at four a clock to Foxhall to answer a complaint of John Wood. Youw are not to Faile. This will be your suffisant warrant. Given under my hand Kingston this 19th October 1683.

III:54
1683 October 17, Kingston
Kingston October 17, 1683
Capt Chambers has, according to the decree of the general court of assizes, sworn three magistrates at Kingston, for the purpose of appraising the improvement made by Hendrie Paeldingh to the valley at Horly. There were sworn:
(Magistrates)
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen [DeWitt]
Edward Wittakar

[report follows]
[See III:170 1683 December 20, Hurley, below, for additional inspection and updates.]
[See III:26 1680 July 9 for Edmund Andros original grant to Henry Pawling for land in this area.]

III:54-56
1683 October 19, Kingston
Complicated contract:
Edward Wittakar has contracted to sell to Hendrick Cornelis [sen Slecht] a tract of land across the Great Bridge, named Obton
With the land come 20 head of cattle, which Wittaker will feed, but at purchaser’s risk.
1. Wittakar can take all the movable stuff except (list of farm implements)
2. Grantor will furnish three horses, a mare and two geldings.
3. From the other animales Wittakar has the choice of two cows, two three-year heifers, two two-year heifers, next spring.
4. Grantor will deliver 12 hens and 1 rooster. [Note rare specific mention of chickens.]
5. Grantor will take 20 apple trees planted last year and the whole nursery.
6. All the sowing belongs to the purchaser
7. Grantor has made conditions to the lease which will remain in force. Purchaser to receive rent after delivery.
8. Till payment is complete, grantor every year gets 10 schepels of winter apples.
9. Delivery at beginning of next May, but buyer can have unused land immediately.
10. Grantor is to feed animals like his own. The negro shall belong to Edward Wittakar.
11. All of Wittakar’s horses, three in number, pasturing in woods, belong to purchaser, “if he can find the same,” and also their natural increase.
Buyer will pay, “once for ever,” 5000 sch of winter wheat in four installments, starting next May 1, every January thereafter. Deed to be delivered after payment is complete.
If Cornelissen’s wife is not satisfied, then sale is void.

III:56-57
1683 October 20, Kingston
Albert Govertsen provides deed (transfer) to Johannes and Claes Juriaensen “certain tracts of land . . . granted by Sir Edmond Andros, dated September 29, 1677.” Satisfied from first to last penny.

III:132
1683 November 2-3 (attachments)
November 2, 1683
Lambert Huybertsen attaches the grain of Jan Mewesen for rent of land, and further for private debt after the rent shall have been paid.
[See III:128-129 1683 April 24, similar attachment for grain, and other similar actions noted at that entry.]

Same date. [November 2, 1683.] Aeltie Sleghtenhorst attaches, under the hands of Lambert Huybertsen, forty seven gldrs, belonging to Teunes Carstense.

Nov. 3 [1683]. [Humphrey] Davenport attaches, under the hands of Lambert Huybertsen, the quantity of six sch. of wheat, belonging to Teunes Carstensen.

Same date [November 3, 1683]. [Humphrey] Davenport attaches the person of Claes Teunesen, for the amount of five hundred and three gldrs and seven stivers.

III:133
1683 November 6, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary court held at Kingston, November 6, 1683
Present:
Wm. Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Wm. De Meyer
Tierck Claesen
Edward Wittakar

Jan Kelar vs. Aeltje Sleghtenhorst
[Jan] demands earned wages, pro rata of the time, being ninety sch. of wheat per year, and he served seven weeks.
The hon. court orders that Jan Kellar shall be paid, in proportion to the time, as per the contract, for seven weeks, amounting to twelve sch. of wheat and six st.
[See III:129-130 1683 June 5, long council session about whether he should work for her anymore.]

III:133
1683 November 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre[y] Davenport, attorney for Mr. Minville, vs. Willem Trophaegen, for 8 sch. of wheat.

Humphre[y] Davenport vs. Marten Hofman, for 272 gldrs, as per obligation.

III:133
1683 November 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Geertruy Govertsen vs. Catharina Provoost
[Govertsen] demands five sch. of grey peas or a cheese weighing thirty pounds—or the peas to be delivered free at New York.
The hon. court orders [Provoost] to pay the five sch. of grey peas, free at New York, or a cheese of thirty pounds.

Jan Waerdt attaches the five sch. of grey peas, because Geertruy Govertsen is indebted to him.

III:133-134
1683 November 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mattue Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] vs. Wessel Ten Broeck
[Blanchan] demands hundred eighty-eight gldrs, as surety for Jan Pietersen.
[Ten Broeck] admits the debt, provided [Blanchan?] enter a claim against Jan Pietersen.
The court orders [Ten Broeck] to pay, with costs, and to sue Jan Pietersen.

Wessel Ten Broeck is also permitted to levy an attachment for the same amount against Jan Pietersen, which he has been ordered to pay for Jan Pietersen to Blansjan.

[This is residue from a land deal that got very complicated. Pietersen’s debt to Blanchan, for a house and lot in Kingston, was originally incurred by Jacques Dubois, who died before he could pay it. Pietersen married Jacques’s widow, Petronelle Benteyn. He eventually agreed to honor the contract Dubois had with Blanchan, but the case took many twists in court for a few years. See II:411 1677 December 30 for many notes.]

 

III:57
1683 November 8, Kingston
Thoomas Harmonsen [signs Tomys Hermans] and Jan Trof [signs Troof] have a contract. Jan will serve Thoomas for one year, starting today, for 100 sch of wheat and three shirts. “With this all accounts, having existed prior to this, are made absolutely void and null.”
Witnessed Tierck Claeszen DeWitt

III:134
[1683] November 9-14 (attachments)
On November 9th James Mils attorney for Robert Story attaches the person of Harmon Arents for the quantity of twenty six sch. of wheat.

[1683 November 9?] James Mils attaches the person of Symon Juriaens for the quantity of thirty-four sch. of wheat.

13th [of November, 1683] Willem Heyns attorney for Mr. Jan D’laVall attaches the grain in the stacks of Poulus Poulussen for the amount of hundred twenty-eight gldrs.

14th [of November, 1683] William Haeyns attaches the maize of Melger Claes for the amount of hundred forty-three gldrs.

III:168-169
1683 November 15
Court Records Volume 6 Page 252
Henderick Ten Eyck hires Willem Wallevis, master carpenter, “to build and to finish . . . a yacht, at present upon the stocks, on which he has worked already sixty-two days.” Not to stop until carpenter work is finished, “until fall or as long as the weather is favorable,” to pick up again in spring. Nine guilders per day in grain or flour, computed for the price it’s worth in silver money. Also to get proper food, drink, lodgings.
Ten Eyck will pay every thirty days and will furnish all materials, and can put as many people to work on it, besides the carpenter, as can properly work there. Carpenter will make mast, boom, and bowsprit “without receiving wages for same, only free board and drink . . . and for building the boat shall receive hundred gldrs in light money, to be paid in silver.”
Ten Eyck is obliged to have materials ready; if they’re not, he still owes daily wages. If carpenter neglects work, he’ll pay a day’s wages.
Attached note: April 20 Walvis has worked 36 days, so 96 [sic] so far. July 6 he has worked 39 days, bringing it up to 135 days.

 

III:134-135
1683 November 22, Kingston
(in English)
Wheras by generall vootes of all inhabitants of te Countey of Ulstars is nominated to be assessors Conserning the fre gift to his honnor according to the Act of Assebbly is nomminated

for Kingston:
William Fisher
Tierck Claeson
Jacob Rutgers
Jacobus Elmendorp

for Hurley:
Roelof Hendrix
Adriaen Roosa

for Marbleton:
Thomas Garton
John Bigs
Ro[bert] Pekock

for The Palts:
Lowies Bevier
Abraham Dubooj

The mentioned persons are by this ordered to bring in the Naemes and Sur Names of all persons and also by a certifficate where thy dwelleth and what valleuwe there estates is—whereby thy shall be rated as well lands, monies and all visible estates and other Thinges valuabel by thiere estates to gather by the respective rates there by imposed. . . .
Thy are to bringe in thiere lists uppon the 13th of Desemb. next insuwing.

III:169
1683 December 3 (arrest warrants)
Court Records Volume 6 Page 251
[[All entries under date of Dec. 3, 1683, were in English.]]

The 3rd of December, 1683
Humphre Davenport vs. Jan Meweson
By an arrest uppon his person to answer in Kingston’s court for the sum of 27 scheple whaet due by Mortgage

Davenport vs. Jacob [Broersen] Decker
By an arrest uppon his person to answer in Kingstons Court for the sum of 32 schipl whaet du by obligation.

Davenport vs. Gerrit Jansen Decker
By arrest uppon his person to answer in Kingstons Court for the sum of 24 shipel whaet.

Davenport vs. Thomas Lovelace
By an arrest uppon his Indian Corne at Marbleton in an axcicon [sic] of 36 [crossed out] skepel Indian corne 37 skip.

James Mills, Attney of Robert Story, vis Hendrick Cornelissen Bogaerdt
By arrest uppon the corne [means grain, not maize] of Hendrick Cornelissen Boogaerdt for 40 skipl. Whaete

 

III:135
1683 December 4, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary court held at Kingston, December 4, 1683
Present:
William Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen
Edward Wittakar
Wm. De Meyer

[long case here between Aeltje Van Sleghtenhorst and William Fisher about a gun he confiscated from her]

Aeltje Van Sleghtenhorst vs. William Fisher
[Aeltje] demands six sch. of wheat, as per promise regarding a gun of a savage.
[Constable Fisher] says he knows nothing about it, requests proof.
[Aeltje] says that Waerdt [John Ward, court clerk] came two or three times for the savage’s gun, and [she] refused it until he should present a warrant, but he did not produce a warrant. Sometime afterward she passed Fisher’s door. Fisher said: “Here is a warrant, surrender the gun,” and she surrendered the gun, under condition that she should be paid for damages.
Aeltje Sleghtenhorst further says that Fisher falsely accuses her that she has taken away the gun from the savage, and that [Fisher] is not worthy to sit on the Bench, and he has now twice accused her falsely.
Fisher says that Waerdt has been sent two or three times for the savage’s gun, and they refused it to him. The justice [then] sent a warrant to Fisher, for the purpose of getting the gun.
The hon. court finds that Aeltje Van Sleghtenhorst cannot prove that Fisher promised her six sch. of wheat for the savage’s gun. Therefore she must pay the [court] costs. Whereas she says that Fisher is not worthy to occupy the bench, [therefore] she shall give security to enter suit against the constable (sall sy borge stellen de constabel te procederen).
[See III:139-140 1683/4 January 8, when she goes off on a long ramble about Fisher, saying she would like to cut his heart in four pieces and scatter it to every corner of the world. This is the session where she is bonded over to the Court of Sessions.]
[See III:196-197 1684 March 4, 5, 6, Court of Sessions, continued, when this comes up again.]
[See also III:197-198 1684 March 4, 5, 6, a long account of how she came by the gun in the first place.]

III:135
1683 December 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Hendrick Albertsen vs. Johannes Juriaensen
[Albertsen] says that he wants his own land, and has burnt his fence, and has judicially informed [Juriaensen?] that he shall no more work on the land, and [Juriaensen] has for at least seven years known that it was Hendrick Albertsen’s land. But in case he can prove it to be his, he may have it.
The hon. court decides that according to deed, the little island (eylantie) belongs to Hendrick Albertsen.
[See III:49-50 1683 July 20 when Albertsen leases out the farm with the little island.]

III:135
1683 December 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre[y] Davenport vs. Jacob Bastiaensen, for 13 sch. of wheat.

The case between Jan Champiaen and Mooses Du Pue has been postponed till the arrival of Robbert Pekock, who is to testify.
[See III:140 1683/4 January 8, apparently same case.]

III:135
1683 December 4, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Suereyn Tenhout, attorney for Guliam De Honeur, vs. Marten Hofman
[Ten Hout] demands damages, because [Hoffman] has falsely arrested Guliam De Honeur. False arrest is false imprisonment according to the laws.
Parties have selected arbiters:

for Marten Hofman:
Pieter Lassinck
Mooses DuPue

for Severeyn Tenhoudt:
Mr. Beecqman
Nicolaes Anthony

[See III:131-132 1683 October 12 when they wrangled over ownership of two lots in New Sweden.]

 

III:57-58
1683 December 4, Kingston
William Fisher and Jacob Rutgers have bought some tracts from the Esopus across the Ronduyt Kill; they divide them equitably, north to Rutgers, south to Fisher.
Witnessed Ed. Whittaker, W.D. Meyer, Tierck Claszen De Witt
Signed Wm. Fisher, Jacop Rutgersen
[See II:629-630, 1682 June 23]
[See III:52-53 1683 September 17, confirmation that payment was made.]
[See next item, III:58 1683 December 8.]

III:58
1683 December 8, Kingston
The partners of the lands across the Ronduyt Kill have made an agreement with Evert Pels about a parcel allotted to him. Partners want right of first refusal if he or his heirs want to sell it, up to 500 gldrs. He is not permitted to pasture any cattle or horses besides his own. Description of parcel: Commencing from a small cataract in the little Kill near a marked tree, straight across a gap, again to the Ronduyt Kill, in a Westerly direction.
Signed Jacobus Elmendorff, Ed. Whittaker, Fred Hussey, John Ward, Evert Pels

III:58-59
1683 December 14, Kingston
Gerridt Aertsen has borrowed at interest from Matthew Blanchan 170 sch of wheat for 4 years, starting today, 6% per year. If price drops below 6 gldrs, Aertsen eats the loss; if price goes up, Aertsen can keep the difference. He can also pay in money.
[See II:274-275 1679/80 March 20 for similar earlier contract, which was settled III:18 1682/3 February 17-20.]

III:59
1683 December 19, Kingston
Hendrick Cornelissen Bogaerd agrees to pay to Frans Goderis 200 sch of wheat for the account of Claes Teunesen [Van Clier], as per contract in regard to land. Goederis receives his piece from last two installments; Graham [see previous assignment] gets paid first.
[See III:50-51 1683 August 21, when Bogart buys land from Claes, to pay for it in four installments; he will pay Graham from the first three installments he owes Claes (Claes owes Graham), and now he will pay Goderis after that (again to square up money Claes owes Goderis, who also works as a representative of Mr. Graham.]
[See next item as well, confirming same as above.]

III:59
1683 December 19, Kingston
Henderick Cornelissen Boogaerdt appears before council at Kingston to confirm the money he will pay as a result of buying land from Claes Teunessen: 1100 sch wheat to James Graham, mortgaging the land he bought.

III:60
1683 December 20
Jacob Broersen [signs Decker] owes Suereyn Ten Houdt 305 gldrs, to pay next winter, in wheat, delivered at Kingston. Mortgages house and lot and other buildings at Marbletown.

III:170-171
1683 December 20, Hurley
Court Records Volume 6 Page 250-249
Thomas Chambers on 17 October 1683 swore in 3 men to evaluate work of Henry Pawling on improving fences and other infrastructure in valley around Hurley. On 19 December at Pawling’s request they met again, so he could point out additional work they had missed the first time.
Additional charges etc. follow.
[See III:54 1683 October 17, Kingston and Foxhall, above.]
[See III:26 1680 July 9 for Edmund Andros original grant to Henry Pawling for land in this area.]

 

III:60
1683 December 24, Kingston
William Fisher provides deed (transfer) to Claes Teunesen Van Clier for two lots of land at Marbletown: Lot 11, 5 morgens across the Great Kill, and another No. 12, also 5 morgen, transferred to Fisher by Thoomas Elleger and Jeremia Kettel on 1 Feb 1674. Satisfied from first to last penny.

1684

Jan-Feb-Mar

III:60-61
1683/4 January 2, Kingston
Dirck Hendrix, residing here, owes Pieter Schuyler, merchant at Albany, 320 sch of wheat, to be paid in 3 installments, Jan 1684/5 through Jan 1686/7. “Originating from the purchase of a Negro which Dirck Hendrix has received to his satisfaction.” Negro is mortgaged.

III:51-52
1683[/4] January 3, Kingston
Anna Gartons has contracted to sell to Jan Gerritson Van Campen two lots that she herself bought from John Delavall; Gerritsen can take possession immediately. He will pay 800 sch of wheat in 3 installments, starting January 1684 [“old style”] He will deliver the third sheaf to the seller, for rent. [Presumably only while he’s still making payments?] After payment, she will provide deed (transfer).

III:52
1683[/4] January 3, Kingston
Anna Gartons has contracted to sell to John Champion her half share in Breeckebeen Hoeck, which Anthony Addeson had in partnership with George Mills. She bought from Addison. Champion can take low land immediately, the other when the grain is off the field. 425 sch of wheat in three years, starting Jan 1683/4.
[See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]

III:136-137
1683/4 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, January 8, 1683/4
Present:
William Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Edward Wittakar
Wm. De Meyer

Capt. Chambers vs. Rigard Haeys [Richard Hays]
[Chambers] demands of [Hays] the amount of six hundred thirty-nine gldrs book debt, and [says] that [Hays] has disposed of [Chambers’s] goods, as per list.
Righard Heays denies owing anything, because he has a counter-claim for work, and is not willing to answer before this court.
Capt. Chambers requests that he shall give security to answer before the sessions.
[Hays] refuses to give security, but offers his body as security.
[Chambers’s complaint against Hays is a private matter, not a public complaint, but with Chambers in a position of authority on the council and in the area, Hays understandably suspects he might not get an unbiased trial here.]
[See III:191-192 1684 March 4-5-6 for discussion at Court of Sessions.]
[See III:152 1684 May 27 when Hayes appeals to Court of Assizes.]
[See III:174-175 1683/4 March 19, bond for appeal to Assizes.]

III:137-138
1683/4 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
John Wood vs. Marten Hofman, for 38 guilders, 11 stivers

[Humphrey] Davenport, attorney for Gabriel Minville, vs. Johannes Juriaensen, for 126 guilders, 10 stivers, plus 10 sch. of wheat “for Kip.”
Humphre Davenport vs. Johannes Juriaensen
[Versteeg suggests second entry is an accidental duplicate.]

Humphre Davenport vs. Aerdt Dooren, for 44 gldrs, as per obligation

Humphe Davenport vs. Robert Chissiam, for 50 gldrs, as per obligation

Humphre Davenport vs. Symon Cool, for 72 guilders, 15 stivers
[III:138]
Court orders [Cool] to pay 60 guilders, 12 stivers

Humphre Davenport vs. Hendrick Albertson, for 8 sch. of wheat, “[which he] accepted [to pay] for his brother Harmon.”

William Wood vs. Cornelis Fynhout, for 4 sch. of wheat.

James Mills, attorney for Robert Stoory, vs. Burger Fredrix, for 86 sch. of wheat.

III:138
1683/4 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Johannes Juriaensen
[Anthony] demands the quantity of thirty-five and a half sch. of wheat, as per obligation, to be delivered free on the bank. Further, as per obligation, a new wagon and ten sch. of wheat, and says that he wanted the wagon when due (de waegen most op syn tydt hebben).
The hon. court orders [Juriaensen] to pay [Anthony] as per demand, besides costs.

III:138-139
1683/4 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Nicolaes Anthony vs. Willem Van Vredenborg, for 63 sch. of wheat

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Dirck Keyser, for 283 guilders.

III:139-140
1683/4 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Aeltgie Sleghtenhorst vs. Willem De Meyer
[Aeltie] says that [De Meyer] has treated her unjustly in the case against Fisher.
Firstly: Fisher, who was her party [i.e. the one she was suing], was going to stand up [to testify], when Meyer said: “Sit down, Fisher.” [Since Fisher was] Not paying attention to this, Meyer said: “I say, sit down.” For the third time he said: “I tell you to sit down.” So that Fisher, who was her party, sat down as if her party could at the same time be her judge. He who sat as judge then stood up [and] said: “I have myself said that you have taken the savage’s gun,” so that to her sorrow she was obliged to say [to] her judge: “You lie.”
Thirdly [sic]: Meyer said: “The bed of carrots is not biger than this bedstead” (deze Kribbe) and [said bed] [in reality] is at least thirty feet big, and Meyer has falsely lied about her, and [she] shall prove the same.
And says that Meyer here falsely accuses her, and says further in this case (en seydt vorder in die saeck), and says that Meyer treats her wickedly, and says upon leaving that she does not esteem any one of them [the council members?], for they are her parties, and further says that in the sentence there is written that they cannot see that Fisher had promised her six Sch. of wheat for the gun, whereupon Wessel asked: “Are you willing to swear to that?” She said “No,” she would not swear to that, but siad that Fisher promised that the damage would be paid to her, before the gun was to leave her, and says that neither one rendered her justice in the case against the servant.
Aeltie Sleghtenhorst says that if she had the power she would tear the heart out of Meyer’s body, and cut it in four pieces, and throw in every corner of the world one [piece] as an example for other judges, so that they shall pay more regard to their oath,
[III:140]
than does this Meyer. Further says that Meyer has said that she has falsely accused the court before the governor.
The Justice of the Peace orders that Aeltie Sleghtenhorst shall give bail to the amount of twenty pounds sterling, in behalf of our sovereign, for the purpose of answering at the next sessions, for what she has accused the constable and Meyer.
[See III:135 1683 December 4, Kingston, ordinary council session, for case against Fisher.]
[Under the old rules, at least, when council members were involved in a case, they were not supposed to vote on the outcome. There were various rules for what to do to make sure a majority would be able to determine a verdict, bringing in the Schout to vote, or other officers. Not 100% sure how the English handled it.]
[See III:196-197 1684 March 4, 5, 6, Court of Sessions, continued, when this comes up again.]

III:140
1683/4 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
John Hamel [Hamble] vs. John Ward
[Hamble] demands eighteen sch. of wheat, because [Ward] did not, according to warrant, keep Broer Decker under arrest, but suffered him to go.
John Waerd says there was no fit jail to detain him.
Constable Fisher says that Waerd should take him to jail, and in case he should then escape, Waerdt would be free [of responsibility]. The which he has not done. [Apparently Ward didn’t even try to put Decker into the makeshift jail?]
The court orders John Waerd to pay.
[For original complaint Hamble had against Decker, over payment for a horse, see III:91 1681/2 February 22. No record found that involves imprisoning Decker.]
[See III:104 1682 April 4, Tierck Claesen suing John Ward because he did not keep Isaac Rochel in prison.]
[See III:217 1680 September 5, discussion of a prison to be built for drunks; see also III:233 1682 September 25, detailed instructions for a prison to be built, 20 feet square, with a cellar 8 feet deep, next to Benjamin Provoost’s.]
[See also III:119 1682 October 25, when Governor Brockholst mentions that a courthouse and prison should be built, financed by the inhabitants of Kingston and surrounding towns.]
[See also II:595 1682 November 7, when John Ward sues Claes Sluyter for running away while under arrest. If Ward puts someone in jail and tells them to stay, and they leave, apparently they are held responsible. If he does not put them in jail when he is supposed to, it’s regarded as his failing.]
[See also III:142-143 1683/4 January 24, when Fisher sues Ward for letting Broer Decker escape, and Ward again grumbles that there’s no fit place here to keep a prisoner.]

III:140
1683/4 January 8, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
In the case between Mooses Du Pue and John Champion there have been selected as arbiters Jacob Rutgers and Robbert Pekock. The court has selected as a third arbiter Jan Focken. Jan Focken and Jacob Rutgers have agreed, and in their opinion twelve sch. of wheat should be deducted for the sow.
[The original dispute has not been found in the records.]
[See III:135 1683 December 4, apparently same case.]

III:140
1683/4 January 18, Kingston (attachment)
18th inst. [i.e. the instant, or current month, in this case January 1683/4] Edward Wittakar attaches the grain of Evert Prys for rent of land and other debts.
[See III:141 1683/4 January 24, when Wittaker sues Prys before town council, presumably for the same debt.]

 

III:61
1683/4 January 18, Kingston
Nicolaes Anthony provides deed (transfer) to Hendrick Ten Eyck for house and lot next to Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], which Anthony owns by virtue of a transfer made by [Roelof] Swartwout on May 7, 1683. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See next two entries.]
[See II:271 1679/80 February 27, original contract of sale from Swartwout to Anthony, and further notes there.]
[See III:47-48 1683 May 7, when Swartwout provides deed (transfer) to Antony.]

III:61-62
1683/4 January 18, Kingston
Hendrick Ten Eyck provides deed (transfer) to Mr. Nikolaes Anthony for house and lot “next to the head-watch [principal guard house],” which Ten Eyck got from Capt. Thoomas Delavall on June 24, 1680.
And also a portion of another lot, transferred to Ten Eyck by Jan Pietersen on November 7, 1681.
Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See previous entry, next entry.]
[See II:270-271 1679/80 February 26, original contract of sale from Delaval to Ten Eyck.]
[See II:283-284 when De Laval provides conveyance (deed) to Ten Eyck.]

[The portion of a lot from Pietersen is from a land deal that got very complicated. Pietersen owes Matthew Blanchan for a house and lot in Kingston, a debt originally incurred by Jacques Dubois, who died before he could pay it. Pietersen married Jacques’s widow, Petronelle Benteyn. He eventually agreed to honor the contract Dubois had with Blanchan, but the case took many twists in court for a few years. See II:411 1677 December 30 for many notes.]

III:62
1683/4 January 18
Hendrick Ten Eyck provides deed (transfer) to Frans Goederis for house and lot next to Harmon Hendrix’s, which he just got today from Nicolaes Anthony. Satisfied from first to last penny.
[See previous two entries.]

III:140
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, January 24, 1683/4
Present:
William Fisher, Constable
Overseers:
Wessel Ten Broeck
Tierck Claesen
Edward Wittakar
William De Meyer

John Waerd [John Ward] agrees, as a voluntary judgment, to pay William Fisher whatever, at a settlement of accounts, it shall be found he owes, so that the same shall stand in full force (dat het sall staen in volle Kraght) as a final sentence, without any more going to law (sonder meer voor reght te Koomen).
[This appears to be “pick on John Ward” week. By the end of this session he has been given several additional amounts to pay, either to Fisher (the town constable) or to various creditors.]

III:141
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Edward Wittakar vs. Evert Pareys, for 26 sch. of wheat
[See attachment above, III:140 1683/4 January 18, presumably the same issue.]

William Fisher vs. Everdt Prys, for 43 guilders.

III:141
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
John Wood vs. Everdt Prys
[Wood] demands seventy seven gldrs as per account.
[Prys] produces a counter bill amounting to twenty one gldrs.
The hon. court orders Evert Prys to pay John Wood the amount of fifty six gldrs, and costs.

III:141
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenport, attorney of Gabriel Minville, vs. Matthias Smidt, for 142 guilders, per obligation

Humphre Davenport vs. Arendt Teunesen, for 16 sch. of wheat, as surety for Hendrick Albertsen

III:141-142
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenport vs. Jan Stoll
[Davenport] demands the quantity of eleven sch. of wheat [66 guilders at typical exchange rate], as per obligation. Further [in addition] for book debt [amount omitted]. Amounting together to hundred eighty two gldrs.
[III:142]
[Stoll] shows a sample of the grain which the court judges to be deliverable (leverbaer).
The court orders [Stoll] to pay, with costs.
[This entry is a bit disjoint, as if something were missing. Did Davenpoort question whether the wheat was merchantable?]

III:142
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenport vs. Jan [Adriaensen] Van Vliedt, for 39 guilders, as per obligation

Suereyn Ten Houdt vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for 312 guilders, 15 stivers

Frans Goderis vs. Gerrit Aertsen, for 26 sch. of wheat, as surety for Symon Cool.

III:142
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Aeltje Sleghtenhorst vs. Moses Du Pue
[Aeltje] demands the amount of forty seven gldrs [for goods] which Maria Wynkoops had ordered [Maria is the wife of Moses Du Pue], by order of Meyer (dat Maria Wynkoops door last van Meyer heeft laeten haelen).
Meyer says that, according to law, [Aeltje] must first have letters of administration [before she can collect debts on behalf of her deceased husband’s estate], that without them she cannot receive money [on the estate’s behalf], because her husband is deceased.
The hon. court decides that [Aeltje] must first procure letters of administration.
[See III:139-140 1683/4 January 8, when Aeltje went on a long rant before the council about how she’d like to tear out Meyer’s heart and cut it in four pieces to scatter to the four corners of the earth.]

III:142-143
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Fisher vs. Jan Waerd [John Ward]
[Fisher] demands the amount of fifty seven gldrs, on account of Broer Jansen Decker, because [Ward] had arrested the same, and Broer Decker has run away.
The hon. court orders [Ward] to pay, and to sue Broer Decker [for escaping custody].
Jan Waerdt says there is no fit place to keep him a prisoner.
[See III:104 1682 April 4, Tierck Claesen suing John Ward because he did not keep Isaac Rochel in prison. John Ward is apparently the town clerk and in charge of keeping miscreants under arrest.]
[See III:217 1680 September 5, discussion of a prison to be built for drunks; see also III:233 1682 September 25, detailed instructions for a prison to be built, 20 feet square, with a cellar 8 feet deep, next to Benjamin Provoost’s.]
[See also III:119 1682 October 25, when Governor Brockholst mentions that a courthouse and prison should be built, financed by the inhabitants of Kingston and surrounding towns.]
[See also II:595 1682 November 7, when John Ward sues Claes Sluyter for running away while under arrest. If Ward puts someone in jail and tells them to stay, and they leave, apparently they are held responsible. If he does not put them in jail when he is supposed to, it’s regarded as his failing.]
[See III:140 1683/4 January 8, when John Hamble also complains that Broer Decker wasn’t kept in custody. Apparently the difference this time is that when Hamble complained, Ward hadn’t even tried, so it was Ward’s fault. This time, Ward has to make good on the debt owed, but because he tried to put Decker behind bars, Decker has to make it up to him for escaping.]

III:143
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Waerdt [John Ward] is ordered to pay the constable [William Fisher] twenty-four sch. of wheat, on account of Lowies DuBooys
[no further explanation]

III:143
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court orders Waerdt [John Ward] to pay on account of Coly eighty gldrs, on account of a special court for Jan Coly, which Waerdt is to deduct—because said John Waerdt is in debt to J. Coly.
[When someone requests that a complaint be heard at a special council session, or special court, there’s an extra fee, for bringing all the council members and officers to meet on a day outside their ordinary calendar. It is not clear what special session was held for Jan Coly (John Coolly?), or why John Ward is indebted.]

III:143
1683/4 January 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Marten Hofman vs. Jan Mewesen
[Hoffman] demands, per attachment, the amount of hundred fifty-eight gldrs.
[For history of Mewesen and Hoffman, see II:519 168[0/]1 February 23, Hurley, without a lot of explanation.]

III:143-144
1683/4 January 25, Kingston
Kingston, January 25, 1683/4
Present Justices:
Capt. Chambers [Kingston]
Jan Joosten [Van Meteren, Hurley]
Abraham Haesbroeck [Marbletown]

Thomas Garton and Mr. Beecqman have shown their commission as justices of the peace for the county of Ulster.
Were also read [the orders of] the general court of assembly [in Manhattan?].
Was also published the commission of Wm. Asfordbie, Sheriff for the county of Ulster.

It was resolved that there shall be a joint court. But every village has two magistrates who shall, by turns, go from one village to the other when the court sits: one of the two magistrates. But the constable is not to sit in the court, but shall only pay attention to village and other affairs, as per the order of the general court. And there was appointed

Constable for Kingston: Jacob Rutgers.
For Magistrates:
MIchiel Garton
Jan Willemsen
Jan Focken
(Sworn)

For Marbleton:
Constable: Jan Cock
Magistrates:
Jacob Van Etten
Robbert Bickerstaff
(Sworn)

For Horly:
Constable: Johannes De Hoges
Magistrates:
Jan Elton
Cornelis Cool
(Sworn)

For the Palts:
Constable: Symon Lefebre
Magistrates:
Jan Haes Broeck
Abraham Du Booys
(Sworn)

Were appointed collectors for the free gifts (vrye giften) to the Heer Govr. Dongan:
at Kingston: Wm. Fisher, Nicolaes Anthony
at Horly: Johannes De Hooges, Matthys Ten Eyck
at Marbleton: John Cock, George Mells
at the Palts: Symon Lefebre, Pieter Doyou

The collectors are ordered to receive the authorized money, and to demand it for the voluntary contribution to the Heer governor, as per list, as the inhabitants have been assessed, as per the Act of the Assembly, and to deliver the same at the house of Frederick Hussies, within ten days from the present date, under penalty of judicial enforcement.

 

III:62
1683/4 January 31, Kingston
Christiaen Doyou annulls his will which he had made at Horly, so that the same be void.
[See II:243 1676 August 10, Hurley, when Christian Deyo, at the time sick in bed, wrote his will. He survived and went on to become one of the original patentees of New Paltz; see DRCHSNY XIII 506-507 1677 May 26.]

III:63
1683/4 February 3, Kingston
Jan Broersen [Decker] had contracted to sell to Johannes Smeddes a house and lot “in this village next to the lot of Robbert Stoory, being the house and lot which has belonged to Albert Gerritsen. And whereas Jan Broersen has married his widow, therefore this sale has taken place with her consent and permission.”
Jan Smeddes will pay 350 sch of wheat, in three years, each year 1/3, starting next winter in Jan-Feb, deliverable at Kingston. With last installment Jan Broersen will provide a transfer (deed).
House is currently mortgaged to Matthias Blansjan (Matthew Blanchan), and first payment will go to him.
Lot has fence. Lot to be delivered on May 1.
Signed with mark of Jan Broersen [Decker] (like a stylized X), and by Yan Smeddes [not by Decker’s wife]

III:64 Two notes that are supposed to be on II:604 and II:605, from 1679/80
[these have been entered at that point]

III:65 (blank)

III:66
1683/4 February 2, Kingston
Arendt Teunesen, residing here at Kingston, owes estate of widow of Robbert Stoory 88 sch of wheat. He will pay next January, delivered at Kingston.
He mortgages his house and lot.
Signed Arent Tunessen

III:144-146
1683/4 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, February 6, 1684
Present Magistrates:
Mighiel Garton
Jan Williamsen
Jan Focken

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Roelof Jansen, for 104 guilders.

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Jan [Adriaensen] Van Vliedt, for 404 gldrs, as per obligation, as surety for his father [Adrian Gerritsen Van Vliedt].

NIcolaes Anthony vs. Harmon Hendrix, for 62 sch of wheat.

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Hendrick Kip, for 25 sch. of wheat, plus 2 more.

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Jacob Bastiaensen, for 16 sch. of wheat.

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Gysbert Albertsen, for 179 sch. of wheat.

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Symon Cool, for 14 sch. of wheat, “whereof there are to be deducted two [sch] of wheat, balance eleven [sic] sch. of wheat and three “spint.”

Nicolaes Anthony vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for 199 guilders.

III:146
1683/4 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Suereyn Ten Houdt vs. Dirck [Jansen] Schepmoes
[Dirck] appeals to the [Court of] Sessions

Dirck Hendrix vs. Hendrick Albertsen, for 32 guilders.

Hendrick Ten Eyck vs. Roelof Jansen, for 63 guilders, as per obligation.

III:146
1683/4 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Were appointed fire wardens besides Jan Hendrix, Mathys Sleght and Cornelis Fynhout (Sworn)

III:146
1683/4 February 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
On this date Constable Fisher has rendered an account for the village of Kingston in the presence of the Justice of the Peace Beecqman, the old and the new court. And at the balancing of accounts it is found that Fisher owes to the tax one hundred seventy nine gldrs.

Constable Garton also delivered to constable John Cock the account for Marbleton.

 

III:66-67
1683/4 February 8, Kingston
Jan Joosten, residing at Marbletown, provides deed (transfer) to Jeremia Kettell, also residing at Marbletown, for a plot of land “across the Kill at Marbleton, being the lot Nmber 24, fifteen morgen in extent,” which was deeded by Governor Lovelace on October 7, 1671. Satisfied from first to last penny.
Gysbert Crom also provides deed (transfer) to Jeremia Kettell, for Lot 24, also 15 morgen, per deed granted by Lovelace October 11, 1671, satisfied from first to last penny.
Signed Jan Joosten and Gysbert Krom

III:146-147
1683/4 February 13, Kingston (special court, rather than a council session)
Kingston, February 13, 1683/4
Present Justices of the Peace:
Capt. Chambers
Tho. Garton
Hend. Beecqman

Nicolaes Anthony admits that he wounded William Louverage [Loveridge] in the face with a knife. Throws himself (werpt hemselven) upon the mercy of the justices present.
Wm. Loveridge also leaves it to the justices present what they shall be pleased to award him for the loss of his time, and pain, and physician’s charges, and requests that they shall not act, or proceed, against Nicolaes Anthony with the utmost rigor of the law.
Firstly: It is ordered that Nicolaes Anthony shall send a fit man to Katskill [where Loveridge lives] to do the work till said Loveridge is cured—at Nicolaes Anthony’s expense.
Secondly: to pay the surgeon’s bill.
William Loveridge demands sixty sch. of wheat for pain.
Whereas William Louveridge has put the case in the hands of the justices, and has demanded for his pain sixty sch. of wheat, [therefore] the justices, at his request, have allowed him the same over and above surgeon’s fee and [wages for] the man who shall do the work, besides [court] costs.
But the action of the shiriff has not been touched (aengewerdt) and has not yet been decided.
[In other words, that covers what in a U.S court in 2025 would be called the civil damages, but the criminal complaint has not been processed yet.]
Whereas Nicolaes Anthoony has wounded William Loveridge, therefore he is bound over for his good behavior till the next sessions, to the amount of twenty pounds sterling in behalf of his Royal Highness.
[In other words, he must post a bond, which he will forfeit if he stabs someone else in the face.]
[Standard responses when accused are to admit the charges and throw oneself on the mercy of the court (in this case the justices) or to deny the charges and throw oneself on one’s country (in other words, ask for your defense to be heard by a jury).]
[See also III:198 1684 March 4, 5, 6, Court of Sessions, continued, and note that William may not have survived; see II:627-628 1684 August 17. See also II:622 1682 March 30.]

 

III:67
1683/4 February 21, Kingston
Wilhelmus [William] DeMeyer and Wessel Ten Broeck, administrators of estate of Cornelis Wynkoop, provide deed (transfer) to Capt. Thoomas Chambers of Foxhall a parcel of land, as per bill of sale made with Wynkoop May 31 1675, “a corner of land which has been dug through (dat door is gesteken) from one bend (bocht) of the Great Kill to the other: the easternmost portion which at present is situated on the east side of the Kill, as the same has been separated with (met) the current of the Kill.” Wynkoop had the land “by virtue of the deed transferred to Jacob Hop, and thereafter bought by Cornelis Wynkoop.” Chambers has paid from first to last penny.
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]

III:147
1683/4 February 24, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, February 24, 1683/4
Present Magistrates:
Mr. Garton
Jan Willemsen
Jan Focken

Evert Prys vs. Dirck Schepmoes
[Prys] says that he rented [from Schepmoes, farmland, and the deal also said Schepmoes would be responsible for] the sowing of five sch. of wheat, for the third sheaf [Prys would give Schepmoes 1/3 of the yield as payment], and [Schepmoes] again took it to himself [took the farm back], and [Prys] plowed ten days for [Schepmoes] [but didn’t get the farm and didn’t get paid].
[Prys] demands his grain, and [payment for] time for repairing the fence.
[Schepmoes] says that he will prove that he did not rent [Prys] the grain, and in regard to plowing [Schepmoes] plowed once as much more for [Prys]. And further agrees to prove that Evert Prys did not want the grain on the field.
The hon. court orders both parties to produce their proof at the next session of the court.
[Contract between Prys and Schepmoes has not been located in the record, but for comparison see II:435-436 1678 August 4 between Schepmoes, as tenant, and Joost Adriaensen, where Schepmoes “will plant Joost’s portion properly, and Joost will get the third sheaf for the use of his land.” This sort of arrangement is not unusual.]

III:148
1683/4 February 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenport vs. Poulus Poulussen, for 6 guilders.

Humphre Davenport vs. Eghbert Meyndertsen, for 27 guilders, as per obligation.

Hillebrant Lootman vs. Matthys Matthysen, for 10 sch. of wheat.

Hillebrant Lootman vs. Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkrantz], for 59 guilders, 10 stivers.

Mr. Beecqman vs. M’thue Smith [Matthew Smith], for 66 guilders.

III:148
1683/4 February 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Matthys Blansjan [Matthew Blanchan] vs. Cornelis Fynhout
[Blanchan] demands the amount of sixty-eight gldrs.
[Fynhout] says having paid eighteen gldrs through Pieter Cornelissen.
The hon. court orders [Fynhout] to pay fifty gldrs, with costs.

III:148-149
1683/4 February 24, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Joosten, administrator of the estate of Joost Adriaensen, vs. Dirck Hendrix, for 29 guilders.
[Joost Adriaensen goes by Molenaer (Miller, an occupation) and van Pijnacker. He is a contemporary of Jan Joosten, not Jan’s father, patronymic notwithstanding. Adriaensen wrote his will in 1665 in Wildwyck (see Anjou pp. 29-30), but died in Bushwick, Long Island (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Molenaer-2 ), after also owning land on the Delaware River. He has for many years held respectable offices in the Esopus area (constable, council member), and appears frequently in these local records. The Jan Joosten administering his estate is Jan Joosten van Meteren, who lives near Hurley and probably knew him well, not Jan Joosten van Rollegom, a skipper who lives in Manhattan, business partner of Lucas Andriessen. Ulster County Deeds Book AA, Pages 13-14, suggests that “John Joosten of Marbletown” is “administrator to the estate of Joost Adriaensen of Boswick upon Long Island.” See also III:173-174 1683 October 17, when Governor Dongan appoints “John Joosten of Esopus” as administrator.]

[III:149]
Jan Joosten, administrator [of the estate of Joost Adriaensen], vs. Claes Juriaensen, for 78 guilders, as per obligation.

Jan Joosten, administrator [of the estate of Joost Adriaensen], vs. Jan Pietersen, for 21 guilders
[Versteeg note: This is all in the original.]

 

III:68
1683/4 February 27, Kingston
Jan Lourentsen, residing here [at Kingston], owes Capt. Gabriel Minville, merchant at New York, 410 guilders, which he will pay “next January of this current year Anno 1684/5” [sic]. Mortgages his house and lot within this village.
To be paid free at Kingston, at the house of Capt. Minville.

III:68-69
1683/4 February 29 (!), Kingston
Pieter Hillebrantsen, residing at Mombaccus, owes Capt. Gabriel Minville, merchant at New York, 440 guilders in wheat. Will pay next January 1684/5, delivered free at Kingston. Mortgages his land and crops at Mombaccus.

III:69-70
1683/4 February 29 (!), Kingston
John Wood, residing here, owes Patience Story, widow of deceased Robbert Story, late merchant of New York, 23 sch of wheat, to be delivered free at Kingston this December (1684). Mortgages his crop of grain, winter as well as s summer, currently growing here.
Attached note, in English:
The contents, or full sattisfaction, of the above said mortgage Recieved by me James Mills Atturney of Thomas Lloid & Patience his wife Relict & Executrix of Robt Story Late of New Yorck, deceased, as witness my hand this Eighteenth day of March Anno Domini 1684, Annoque R.R. Carl tie, Angl. XXXIII.
(signed) James Mills
testis (signed) Wm. Asfordbie, John Ward

III:70
1683/4 March 1, Kingston
Hendrick Jansen of Mombaccus owes Patience Story, widow of Robert Story, “during his life-time merchant at New York,” 49 3/4 sch of wheat, to be delivered free at Kingston; he will pay January 1 1684/5. Mortgages land and crops. Signs with mark.

III:71
1683/4 March 3, Kingston
Jacob Broersen Decker of Marbletown owes Capt. Minville, merchant at New York, 302 guilders. Will pay this December 1684, delivered free at Kingston. Mortgages crop.

III:71-72
1683/4 March 4, Kingston
Johannis Juriaensen owes Patience Story, widow of Robert Story, 24 sch of wheat, delivered free at Kingston, to pay in December. Mortgages his share in his land, bought from Albert Govertsen.

III:72-73
1683/4 March 4, Kingston
Jan Jacobsen Stoll, residing at Kingston, owes Patience Story, widow of Robert Story, 50 1/2 sch of wheat, to be delivered free at Kingston, in Feb (or Jan) 1684/5. Mortgages his house and lot in this village.

III:175
1683/4 March 4, 5, 6 (Court of Sessions)
[See III:191-192, additional minutes from this session.]
Session court held at Kingston, by authorization of his Royal Highness James, Duke of York, in the year of our Lord 1683/4, on the 4th, 5th, 6th day of March
Present Justices of the Peace:
Capt. Thoomas Chambers
Thoomas Garton
Hendricus Beecman
Abraham Haes Broeck
The Justices were sworn.

Jury men (Sworn):
Mighiel Garton, foreman
Teunes Eleson
William Leegh
Roelof Hendrix
Lambert Huybertsen
Gerrit Cornelissen
Thoomas Swartwout
John Garton
Jo Bigs
Joh. Joosten
Robt. Pekock
Righard Wilson

III:175-176
1683/4 March 4, 5, 6 (Court of Sessions, continued)
Jamis Mills, attorney for Patience Story, widow and administratrix of Robert Story, late merchant at New York, vs. Dirck Jansen Schepmoes
[Mills] demands 243 guilders, 10 stivers, or 40 sch. of wheat
[Schepmoes] says he paid more on that transaction. Still [in addition] demands, as per agreement, 40 lbs. of feathers. Says he paid 7 1/2 beavers, with which he was not credited. Also says he delivered 6 tons (tonnen) [could mean tuns] of lime, valued at 96 guilders, together with 2 sch. of lime. And there should be a deficit [?] of 10 stivers on the schepel. and he should have received feathers for the 50 tons of lime.
[Jury evidently confers, not noted in record.]
Court orders that, conforming to the verdict of the jury, [Schepmoes] shall pay, per balance, 243 gldrs, 10 stivers, but is to deduct the 7 1/2 sch. of wheat (45 guilders). Mills is to deliver the feathers, good merchantable feathers, viz. 40 lbs., or for every ton of lime, 2 guilders 10 stivers. Each is to pay half the [court] costs.
[Further note:]
Whereas according to the opinion of the good men who have viewed and examined the feathers, the feathers are not merchantable and unfit to be put into a bed, therefore [the math should be adjusted to] deduct 2 gldrs 10 st for every ton of lime.
[See III:127, undated entry, revision of this sentence for James Mills, as attorney for Story.]

III:176-178
1683/4 March 4, 5, 6 (Court of Sessions, continued)
Roelof Swartwout vs. Wilhelmus De Meyer, attorney for his father Nicolaes De Meyer
[Swartwout] says that last year, at an extraordinary session, he has been ordered to immediately pay an obligation of about five hundred sch of wheat, or immediate execution [forfeiture of property for sale to pay the debt].
Swartwout says that he has been obliged to his damage and ruin and sorrow to surrender two negroes for the sake of satisfying the sentence and paying the obligation for the purpose of preventing execution, amounting to four thousand eight hundred gldrs. [500 sch of wheat, at 6 guilders per sch standard rate, is 3,000 gldrs owed; so he sold the enslaved workers for more than he needed to cover the debt.]
Swartwout demands his money, being his obligation belonging to him, and a plan accounting (deuchdelycke reckeninge) of the said obligation, for the purpose of showing whether the same originates from the principal or from interest or from usury, that it may be seen what I have received for the four thousand eight hundred gldrs of the Negroes, and to prove by a plain accounting to [have] paid in divers instalments an amount of two thousand four hundred fourteen gldrs. Have, as far as I know, never more received of De Meyer [than] two thousand four hundred thirty-five gldrs,
[III:177]
excepting interest, as shown by the mortgages.
Swartwout demands, without delay, the same judgment as De Meyer has obtained in regard to said obligation, saying that now it is his money as well, at the time, his party pretending to be his [???], and in case of refusal, demands to judicially attach his negroes until he shall have received satisfaction either from the attorney or from the principal.
Swartwout says, because at the time the hon. court of Sessions refused him an accounting, but [called for] immediate execution, [he therefore] demands the same judgment in regard to the same obligation.
Honorable sirs, whereas you are maintainers and Keepers of his Ma[jesty’s] laws, [and] it will be shown from the mortgages that they had been drawn at ten per cent interest, and therefore the benefit of the laws belongs to me, [therefore] I appeal to the law. The last obligation reads “six sch of wheat per beaver” [i.e. 36 gldrs], and I have to pay such an unreasonable interest. If De Meyer will not give me an account, I shall show by the mortgages that I have never received more than two thousand four hundred thirty-five gldrs (2435), excepting interest, and shall move that I paid more than seven thousand (7000) gldrs.
And when I shall have received an account I shall then prove that I have been the victim of excessive usury (dat groote woecker aen myn is gedaen).
[De Meyer], attorney of his father Nicolaes De Meyer, replies to [Swartwout’s] demand.
First: [Swartwout] says that he has been obliged, to his damage and ruin, to surrender his two negroes to [De Meyer] for the quantity of five hundred (500) sch of wheat which [Swartwout] had been ordered to pay [De Meyer] on February 13th 1682/3; but [De Meyer] denies that [Swartwout] should have been forced to surrender said negroes in payment of the aforesaid quantity; but after [De Meyer], at the time, had obtained judgment against [Swartwout], Roelof Swartwout appealed to the general Court of Assizes, which was permitted him. And the following day
[III:178]
[Swartwout] sold the aforesaid two negroes to [De Meyer] for the amount mentioned in the judgment, and delivered and transferred them to [De Meyer], so that [Swartwout] has not been forced, but could avail himself of his appeal.
And after the delivery of the aforesaid Negroes, [De Meyer] passed to [Swartwout] a receipt for them. [De Meyer] further is surprised at [Swartwout’s] insolence in again troubling the hon. court and demanding to attach the negroes, because [Swartwout] has acknowledged to have received full satisfaction for the above negroes, and is obliged to free [De Meyer] from all ulterior claims, which might or should be made by anybody against the aforesaid negroes or negro.
Therefore requests the hon. court that [Swartwout] shall be sentenced to pay such damages as are required by law, and says that he offered [Swartwout] to cancel his obligation, which [Swartwout] admits, but he wanted the entire obligation.
The case is put to the jury.
Verdict of the jury:
Whereas, by a general receipt, under [De Meyer’s] signature and seal, dated February 14, 1682/3, it is shown that [De Meyer] has been fully satisfied for all debts and damages, whatever they may be,
therefore we find for [Swartwout], and that [De Meyer] shall surrender to [Swartwout] his obligation and a correct account.
The court approves the findings of the jury for [Swartwout] and that [De Meyer] shall surrender to [Swartwout] his obligation, but refers [Swartwout] to the Court of Chancery for the purpose of obtaining an account. And [De Meyer] to pay the costs and expenses of the courts.
Meyer [sic] requests a revision.
March 7th In regard to Majer’s petition for a revision: The session (tydt) of the court and the jury has expired, and the jury has been dismissed, [therefore] the same cannot take place. Says he had a few witnesses present to be sworn.
Is answered that he can have the same if he wants to.
[See III:185 1684 March 28, Kingston, and following entries.]

[Court of Sessions minutes continue at III:191.]

III:191-199
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions)
[See III:175 1683/4 March 4, 5, 6 Court of Sessions for start of this session and first cases before the court.]
[Was the first book nearly full, and the minutes spilled over into a second notebook? Or were the earlier minutes from the first day of court, and the following minutes are from the second and third days?]
[Header info and first case are in English. No new list of officers present.]
At a session Court Houlden at Kingston in the Countey of Ulstar by the authoryteye of his Royal hignesse James Ducke of Yorcke etc., in the yaere of ours Lord 1684, the 4, 5 and 6 day of March.

III:191-192
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Capt. Chambers vs. Righard [Richard] Heays [Hays, Hayes]
Chambers demands 770 guilders and some other goods.
Hayes says account doesn’t match summons. Also summons wasn’t legally delivered. Also there was no declaration filed with the summons. [In this era, a plaintiff would make a written “declaration” of the complaint, which was supposed to be delivered to the defendant with the summons, so the defendant would know what issue was being discussed before the day of court. Possibly some of these “declarations” still exist on paper, and no doubt they were used as well by the secretary in taking notes after the court had closed for the day. I have not seen an actual copy of one of these declarations, though.]
Therefore by the strength of these three objections he craveth a nonsuit [that the court should throw out the case]. It not being granted, he declareth he would not plead [guilty or not guilty].
Court tells him an answer is required.
Verdict of the jury:
Find for the plaintiff. [This is mostly required when no plea is entered. It’s famously how Charles II lost his head, by refusing to enter a plea, mostly because he was refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the court.]
The Court doe aproeve of the vaerdict of the Yury.
Hayes seeks to appeal; the same is granted, as long as he puts up the security according to law.
[See III:174-175 1683/4 March 19, bond for appeal to Assizes.]
[See III:152 1684 May 27, when Hayes formally appeals to Court of Assizes.]
[See III:136-137 1683/4 January 8 for original complaint by Chambers against Hays.]

III:192
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Wm. Hayes, attorney for John Delavall, vs. Roelof Jansen, for 149 guilders
Wm. Hayes, attorney for John Delavall, vs. Claes Sluyter, for 139 guilders

III:192-193
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Marten Hofman vs. Jacob Colver, for 28 1/2 sch of wheat and 26 guilders in sewant

Marten Hofman vs. Jan [Adriaensen] Van Vliedt for 98 guilders, including 16 in seewant. Swears to his account [book].
Arbitrators have found that Jan Van Vliedt owes 40 guilders being the balance of all accounts.

III:193
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
John Ward vs. Hendrick Albertson, for 117 guilders, for some serge, to be paid for next fall (or winter), and other goods

III:193-194
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
John Hamel [Hammell, Hamble] vs. Edward Wittaker [and his wife Hanna Hackleton, previously of Hartford; see Kingston Papers pp.445-446, 4 June 1670]
John Hamel says that [Wittakar] has defamed and slandered him—as per declaration. [We don’t get to see the declaration, unfortunately.]
[Wittakar] says that his wife has told him so.
(Following testimony in English, paraphrased somewhat from original.)
Susanna Clason, sworn, declares that she asked Hanna, Wittaker’s wife, why she laid such a charge upon these two men [which two men?]. Hanna answered [that] she did not care what she said, but was weary of her life—and knew nothing of these two men.
Hanna Wood [daughter Anna of Hanna and her first husband, Hackleton; see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Whittaker-234 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Heckleton-2 ], sworn, declares that her mother [Wittakar’s wife] Hanna was at her house [the daughter’s house] and [the daughter] asked [the mother] why she had dont so. Her mother answered that she was weary of her life.
Mr. William Kelsoo declares [that one day when he was] at Mr. Wittaker’s house, his wife [Hanna] called him [Kelsoo?] out to speak to him concerning her son. Perceiving her trouble, he asked her what ailed her, and with tears she told him she was a great sinner.
[III:194]
He answered that there was mercy to the aruelic [?] penitent soul. Afterward she came to Marbletown and discussed [in] the same manner, [and] added that she was a castaway, and the Lord would have no mercy upon her. One morning she told him the cause of her trouble was longd [?] of John Hamel, for he had lain carnally with her, and said that was the cause that the Lord will damn her soul and would not have mercy upon her, and asked [Kelsoo] if he should tell her husband, to which he answered no. Several times after [she repeated the same story and] told him that John Hamel tempted her from time to time, she still denying [his advances], saying “Will you have me damn my soul?” Says he [Hamel]: “That sin is no sin.” And from time to time [Hamel] tempted [her], still he perceived [persisted?]. Before which time [she told Kelsoo] I had made a solemn covenant with God that if he would pardon me I should never fall into this or the like sin [again], if he would now pardon me, which I thought he had done. And breaking this covenant has made such a break as can never be made up again. John Hamel is the cause of this. [And she told similar stories again later.]
Verdict of the jury:
We do find for the plaintiff [Hamel], and the defendant [presents] no competent evidence.
The defendant shall pay to the plaintiff twenty shillings for the defamation and all court charges.
The court orders that the defendant shall pay the plaintiff ten shillings.
[Sounds as if the court found her more credible than the jury did. Notably the case is not between Hanna and Hamel; Hamel sues Edward Wittaker, the husband. Hanna’s own testimony is not heard; she is not given an opportunity to tell her story, other than through the testimony of Kelsoo. Hanna’s lot has been a difficult one by any measure; when Wittaker married her she had already been accused of adultery and maybe murder and had to leave Hartford; court cases in Kingston record that he was a violent man and mistreated her and her daughter, at one point causing George Hall to ask him out loud why he treated his wife so poorly.]

III:194-195
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Jan Van Campen owes Nicolas Anthony 416 guilders
Pieter Hillebrants owes Nicolas Anthony 116 1/2 sch of wheat
Pieter Hillebrants owes Wm. De Meyer 130 guilders

III:195
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Hendrick Ten Eyck vs. Frans Goderis for 29 sch of wheat
[No discussion of the case in the minutes, but it sounds as if there’s some story here beyond a basic complaint.]
Court orders Goderis to pay 29 1/2 sch. of wheat, and court costs to be split between the two.

III:195
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Jan Pietersen vs. Anthony Crespel
[Pieterson] demands the Holland money which [Crespel] has, by power of attorney, received on his behalf in Europe, and that he shall render a proper accounting.
[Crespell] says that he left the power of attorney in Holland. [which doesn’t say anything about where the money is, or the accounting, although the accounting may have been written on the power of attorney.]
The hon. court orders Anthony Crespel to pay Blansjan [Matthew Blansjan] what Jan Pietersen owes Blansjan, and releases Wessel Ten Broeck as a surety, and [Crespel] is to furnish security that he shall render an accounting of his receipts within two years from this date.
[This is residue from a land deal that got very complicated. Pietersen owes money to Matthew Blanchan, for a house and lot in Kingston, a debt originally incurred by Jacques Dubois, who died before he could pay it. Pietersen married Jacques’s widow, Petronelle Benteyn. He eventually agreed to honor the contract Dubois had with Blanchan, but the case took many twists in court for a few years. See II:411 1677 December 30 for many notes.]

III:195
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Mattue Blansjan vs. Tierck Claeson [De Witt]
[Blanchan] demands five sheep.
[Claesen] says that he will deliver the same as soon [as] they shall be fattened.
The hon. court orders Tierck Claesen to deliver to Mattue Blansjan four ewes and two lambs, with their fleeces, in the latter part of May, and [court] costs.
[Technically that’s six sheep.]

III:195
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Nicolaes Anthoony vs. Jamis Pennick, for 33 1/2 sch of wheat, per an obligation dated April 27, 1683.
[This obligation does not appear in this set of records.]

III:196
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
In answer to Pieter the Miller’s petition, he and every body else, is permitted to dig as much earth or clay across the dam as is necessary for the dam, under condition not to damage roads or take away any body’s ground, and to level the holes. He who shall be found to damage the roads shall pay for every time ten gldrs fine. This shall remain in force for one year or till further orders.

The hon. court orders the clerk of the court to execute the warrants for all arrests concerning debts, because very often the justices are out on business.
[Executing the warrant is different from delivering a summons. The court messenger is paid to deliver summonses. John Ward appears to be in charge of arrests, as clerk, and is on numerous occasions sued for not arresting someone properly, to which he frequently responds that the village has no jail fit to hold an arrested prisoner. See II:595 1682 November 7, related notes.]

III:196-197
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Aeltie Sleghtenhorst vs. William Fisher
[Sleghtenhorst] says that she will not plead [normally the defendant is the one who would enter a plea], but that she signed the bond against her will [this probably refers to a previous case; see above], but requests that some witnesses shall be examined.
Hendrick Ten Eyck declares and says that he had some words (eenige woorden) with Fisher, but does not know whether it was court-day, and to the best of his knowledge he was drunk. (Sworn.)
Harmon Hendrix [Roosenkranz] declares and says that Fisher and Hendrick Ten Eyck had words, and the court was in session that day. Said Hendrick Ten Eyck to Fisher: “You drunken fool, you always come when you are full.” Sworn.
[The following was in English:]
Robbert Pekock declares that he was in court that time that Fisher did say to Aeltje Sleghtenhorst, Bring a sack and he would pay the monies for Martin Hofman where the question was over. Sworn in court.
[Dutch:]
Amarens [Emmerentje Claesen De Witt] the wife of Marten Hoffman declares that Aeltie Van Sleghtenhorst dunned her for five sch. of wheat, and [Amarens] offered the grain before the court was in session, and Sleghtenhorst said he [she?] would not accept the grain, but it was afterward paid, and after they had settled, Sleghtenhorst has still received [grain] for [or to] the amount of three gldrs and eight st., of which she informed [Amarens] that she yet owed her, and Luykas Andersen [brother of Barbara Andriessen, wife of Emmerentje’s brother Tjerck Claesen] has received some of the grain.
Verdict of the Jury [in English]:
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Whereas the plaintiff have defamed the defendant as a person not fit to sit in Court, which words she cannot prove, and had pretended damages done in her garden but cannot make any just provement with further pretences concerning an Indian gun where the constable had duly executed his warrant according to his office,
Therefore we find for the defendant that the plaintiff shall pay for her defamation and scandal the sum of forty guilders and court charges.
The court do order that Aeltie Sleghtenhorst shall pay twenty guilders with court charges.
[See also III:135 1683 December 4, Kingston, ordinary council session, when she complains about Fisher and a confiscated gun.]
[See III:139-140 1683/4 January 8, when she goes off on a long ramble about Fisher, saying she would like to cut his heart into four pieces and scatter it to every corner of the world. This is the session where she is bonded over to the Court of Sessions.]
[See also next entry, III:197-198, same session.]

III:197-198
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Court Records Book 6 p. 219
Aeltje Sleghtenhorst vs. Constable and Overseers [Council Members] at Kingston
More complaints and testimony about how Aeltje’s garden was ruined by someone, but she doesn’t know who; there’s a drunken savage sitting in a tub with clothes, throwing the linen about. He apparently speaks Dutch. (Maddalena Dirx may be acting as interpreter.) He left a gun as security that he would pay her for the damages.
[Aeltje] says that she will not [enter a plea of guilty or not guilty], because she has been forced to sign the bond, or else had to go to prison, but requests that her witnesses shall be examined.
Madalena Dirx declares that Aeltje Sleghtenhorst met her on the road and complained that [Aeltje’s] garden had been so badly ruined by somebody, but knew not by whom. Thereupon [Madalena] entered [Aeltje’s] garden and found a drunken savage sitting in a tub with clothes, and busy throwing the linen about.
[Reading between the lines: It appears that Aeltje is not able to speak with the “savage,” but Madalena speaks his language. This may be why Aeltje went out and buttonholed Madalena to come help. The damage to the garden appears to be mostly to the wall or fence (or hedge?) between Aeltje’s garden and the garden next door, belonging to William Beeckman.]
Madalena asked him what he was doing there. He said he was looking for a shirt which he had lost. She asked the savage by which way he had entered. He said through Beeckman’s garden.
She fetched the savage (broght sy de wilt) [I.e., brought him to Aeltje]. Aeltje Sleghtenhorst said, “Could this savage have opened the garden?” They entered the garden [Aeltje’s?] with the savage. The savage admitted that he had opened the garden [i.e. broken into it], on account whereof the damage had been done (waer de schaede door was gekoomen).
Said Aeltje Sleghtenhorst she wanted to be indemnified [paid] for the damage, which was interpreted [to the “savage”] by Madalena Dirx. The savage asked how much [payment for] damage she wanted? She answered six sch. of wheat. Then the savage said: “It is too much.”
And the savage said “Keep my gun till I have finished my work, and when I
[III:198]
shall have finished my work, I shall pay you damages.” And she was not to give the gun to anybody.
[In English:]
Vaerdict of the Jury
Whereas the plantif hathe charged the constable and oversears of the court of Kingston [council members] that the would not doe her wright [they would not do her right] in an axsion of seaven gilderes and by ballance of the account the defend[an]t debt apear to be nomore but 3 gilderes 4 stuyvers indebted wich debte the constable promised to be paeyd immediatley as by evidences dothe apaere,
Therefore wee finde for the defendante and that the plantife shall pey to the defendante the summe of 30 gilderes for wrongfully accusing the court.
The court aproeves the vaerdict of the yury, the plantif to pey all chiardsies.
[See previous item, III:196-197, same session.]
[See also III:135 1683 December 4, Kingston, ordinary council session, when she originally complains about Fisher and a confiscated gun.]
[See III:139-140 1683/4 January 8, when she goes off on a long ramble about Fisher, saying she would like to cut his heart into four pieces and scatter it to every corner of the world. This is the session where she is bonded over to the Court of Sessions (and had to sign the bond or be imprisoned in John Ward’s airtight jail).]

III:198
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Gerrit Cornelissen permitted to build barn on road near his house, as long as he lays a serviceable road.

III:198
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Nicolas Anthony wounded William Loveridge with a knife in his face and was bound over to answer; things get settled. William Loveridge appears in court.
[See III:146 1683/4 February 13, and note that William may not have survived; see II:622, 1682 March 30, II:627-628, 1684 August 17.]

III:198
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Upon request of John Ward, it is ordered that the execution against John Ward concerning Louis Du Bois is stopped for the time of one month, and concerning Broer Decker [who escaped from custody] two months.
[See III:142-143 1683/4 January 24, when Ward was fined for letting Broer Decker escape from custody, and was also told to give the constable 24 sch. of wheat “on account of Lowies Du Booys.”]

III:198
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
The hon. court orders that the hole in the street near Beeckman’s shall be repaired by the village, but the curtain (stockade wall around town) [is to be repaired] by Robbert Bickerstaffe—and that the constable shall keep a list of residents, for the purpose of repairing all communal works if necessary.

III:199
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
It is resolved that all public charges shall be paid at the respective places (whichever village levied the charge), each according to its ability. Further all petitions of the constables are referred to the court of Assizes.

III:199
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
An action of a breaking of the peace done by Dirck Adriaensen Van Vliedt, having wounded Hendrick Hendricksen; he posted bond of £50 but has satisfied requirements; court orders bond to be executed [not released?].
[See II:251 1677/8 January 1, when Dirck’s friend Gysbert Crom accidentally shoots off Dirck’s leg in a New Year’s celebration. Dirck seems to have recovered.]

III:199
1684 March 4, 5, 6, Kingston (Court of Sessions, continued)
Leendert Cool declares, as a voluntary judgment, to owe Nicolaes Anthony, as a final execution, the quantity of [203] two hundred and three sch. of wheat, and for expenses [26] twenty-six gldrs, in as full force as the same can be obtained before the court of sessions.
[See III:173 1683/4 March 5, a very similar obligation for a somewhat different amount.]

III:173
1683/4 March 5
Court Records Volume 6
[This is framed as a council case or attachment, with plaintiff (Nicolaes Anthony) and defendant (Leendert Cool), but the text is in the style of a debt acknowledgement from Secretary’s Papers, with a date (March 1684) after the most recent council minutes (5 September 1683). The debt acknowledgement does not name Anthony as the creditor, so it’s a bit of an odd duck.]
Leendert Cool acknowledges [to owe] [to Nicolaes Anthony, though he is not named here] as a voluntary judgment, without any more going to law, as a perfect execution, the amount of one hundred seventy-five sch. of good, clean winter wheat. In testimony of the truth have subscribed to the present with my own hand, this March 4 1683/4
(signed with a mark)
[For the formula on this type of I.O.U., see Wittakar & Chambers II:625 1682 April 26, Ward & Fisher III:140 1683/4 January 24, and Swartwout & Minville III:190 1684 April 5.]
[See III:199 1684 March 4-5-6, the Court of Sessions when this document was probably generated. Why it is framed as a trial, and why it is filed here, are TBD.]

 

III:73
1683/4 March 7, Kingston
Tierck Claesen De Witt provided deed (transfer) to Leendert Cool for Lot 19:20 on the second piece at Marbletown, 20 acres per deed granted by Governor Lovelace 18 April 1670, originally to Richard Cage, when then sold to Tierck Claesen (date not given). Satisfied from first to last penny.
Signed Tierck Claszen DeWitt

III:73-74
1683/4 March 10, Kingston
Jan Hendrix, residing at Kingston, owes Patience Story, widow of Robert Story, 93 1/4 sch of wheat, to pay next January 1684/5, delivered free at Kingston at the house of the before-mentioned Storys. Mortgages house and lot at Kingston.
signed Jan Heyndericksz

III:74
1683/4 March 13, Kingston
John Cock, living at Marbletown, owes Patience Story, widow of Robert Story, 418 sch of wheat, to be delivered free at Kingston, next January 1684/5. Mortgages his land and crops at Marbletown.

 

III:53
1683/4 March 14, Kingston
Robbert Bickerstaffe owes Gabriel Minville 74 1/2 sch of wheat, “originating from delivered grain.” he will pay latter part of Feb 1684/5, delivered free at Kingston. Mortgages his crop on his land, which he shall now grow.

III:178-180
1683/4 March 18, Kingston
Thoomas Harmonsen owes Nicolaes De Meyer 230 sch of wheat, originating from transfer of Arent Teunesen (Harmonsen bought land from Teunesen, who owed money to De Meyer). Payable in November 1684, delivered free on the yacht before the Ronduyt. Mortgages the land he bought from Teunesen, and also everything he will earn with Jan Mattysen. If he doesn’t pay, 6% interest starts to accrue.
Attached note: Arent Teunesen transfers the obligation to Mr. De Meyer that Teunesen is owed from Harmonsen.

III:180-181
1683/4 March 19, Kingston
(in English [paraphrased here into modern English]) Mighell [Michiel] Garton upon request of William DeMeyer appeared upon warrant from Justice Beecqman to give evidence on De Meyer’s behalf.
Garton declares that in the winter Capt. Chambers, Mr. De Meyer and some others were going to Mayer Abraham’s on the ice. Chambers came into the house of Garton and asked him if he would drink a dram with him. Chambers told him he could not stay not with him, because the sled stood by the door, but said he must have an hour’s discourse with [Garton] some other time concerning the good of the place. That was the first time Garton heard anything about a petition.
Not many days later, Garton had occasion to go to Capt. Chambers’s mill. Chambers told him that it was convenient that Garton and two, three, four other might have a meeting, that something might be drawn up that might be good for the place. Garton told Chambers that they had already elected [Chambers] for a Magistrate and he was sworn to act under the law. It would be an act of great impudence to petition against the laws he was sworn under.
Declares further that not many days later, Garton came to Chambers’s mill and after some discourse Chambers asked Garton if there was not a note sent to him to be at the meeting. Garton told Chambers [that when Garton] was not in, there was a note left in the case-hole of his door, but he did not know from whom nor what it concerned. Chambers told [Garton] that Mr. De Meyer and Mr. Pawling had met together, and Capt. Chambers told Garton that he had given them a copy of his old remonstration to see if they could pick anything out of that.
Further says that Garton asked Chambers, Is that a copy of the same that you sent to Governor Andros? Chambers answered yes and said It cost me one commission and did not care for the good of the place to venture two more.
Sworn before me, Hendricus Beecqman, Justice of the Peace

 

III:174-175
1683/4 March 19 (Annulled document)
[The document digested below was entered twice in the Secretary’s records, once in a flubbed version that wasn’t executed, and once in an executed revision. It’s a bond posted on the occasion of an appeal of a case from the court of common pleas (the town council, more or less) to the Court of Sessions (the first level of appeal, after which a case may be appealed to the Court of Assizes in Manhattan).
[Normally when the loser in a complaint asks to appeal to the next court, the originating court instructs them to post a bond showing that they have enough to cover the damages if the appeal goes against them. To post a bond, they have several options: They can mortgage property or goods that they own, or they can ask friends to vouch for them (and become financially responsible if the bond has to be used.
[The bond is marked “annulled,” which may simply mean that the case was heard, judgment was passed, and payment was settled, so the bond was no longer required.
[For the case itself, see III:136-137 1683/4 January 8 (original case), III:191-192 1684 March 4-5-6 (Court of Sessions), III:152 1684 May 27, paperwork from Hayes’s formal appeal to Court of Assizes.
[Spelling has been updated to 2025 orthography.]
[Versteeg note: The following was also in English, but had not been executed, and in the margin there had been written “fout” meaning “mistake.”]
Know all men by these presents that I, James Mills, bind myself, heirs, executors and administrators or assigns in the behalf of Richard Hays concerning an appeal granted to the said Richard Hays in the session court at Kingston [against] Capt. Chambers, that Richard Hays is to follow his appeal, and if it may be that he should lose his appeal or process, I the mentioned James Mills, [am] bond to pay the full content of the judgment that the assizes will grant against Richard Hays, appellant, and also all cost[s] and charges of the suit.

III:181-183
1683/4 March 21, Kingston
(in English, summarized)
Articles of agreement between John (Jhon) De Lavall of the City of New York and William Fisher, husbandman of the Esopus
De Lavall sells to Fisher a farm in the town of Hurley commonly known and distinguished by the name of Wassemaker’s Land, with all houses, barns, and other buildings, and town lots and garden plots belonging to it, for £495 at three shillings per sch of wheat, to be delivered at Kingston 1686-87-88-89. Possession of town lots immediate; farm delivered September 1; deed after payment.
[See p. 427 in DRCHSNY XIII for some descriptions from 1670 of what the British called Washmakers Land; Delavall is given 40 acres in the tract. The land is referred to at least as far back as 1666 in Kingston records, as a common holding; it may have been taken over by the Dutch at the end of the so-called Second Esopus War in 1664, but documentation is sparse. By 1666 everyone in town seems to know what it is, and roads and fences on the tract are to be maintained by all, rather than by any individual, since it is held in common by the village.]

III:183
1683/4 March 21, Kingston
Suereyn Ten Houdt, residing at Kingston, binds himself to pay to William Fisher half of what Fisher will pay to Delavall for the tracts of Wassemaker’s Land in Hurley. Ten Houdt to receive half the land. Annulled.

III:184
1683/4 March 25, Hurley
Jacob Jansen Van Etten contracts to buy from William Fisher Lots 1 & 2 at Wassemaker’s Land in Hurley. Will pay Fisher and Suereyn Ten Houdt 925 sch of wheat, two installments, deed provided after payment. Mortgage is on land, crops, and cattle.

Will
III:184-185
1684 March 28, Kingston
Willem Beeck, sick in bed but in full enjoyment of his mental faculties
In the name of the Lord, Amen
After demise wife with children will share house and lot, each the just one half. And whereas a “female savage” (wildin, instead of wild) has, subject to the Heer governor’s approval, granted him a plot of land at Waerwaersinck (Wawarsing), under condition that she shall have a plantation there, therefore his wife and children will split that too. Appoints as guardian for children: Pieter Jacobsen Mouris [Morris, of New York?], Jacob Abrahamsen, and Isaack Van Vlerck [?] and Jan Willemsen Hooghtyling.

III:185
1684 March 28, Kingston
Present:
Capt. Chambers, Justice of the Peace
Mr. Hendricus Beecqman, Justice
Henry Pawling is sworn. He says that on 30 March 1681 [!], he entered William De Meyer’s house, where he found Nicolaes De Meyer, Roelof Swartwout and his wife, Willem Van Vreedenborgh, who was working, and Willem De Meyer, who was writing. Nicholas De Meyer said he was busy writing an obligation for Swartwout, and fetched his [account] book, and threw it on the table, and, in the presence of Roelof Swartwout and his wife, intended to show how he had settled with Swartwout. Swartwout asked De Meyer not to trouble him anymore [(dat hy hem niet vorder soude troubelen) [may also mean: not to give himself [DeMeyer] any more trouble]], and said he was ashamed that he had already caused him so much trouble, and embraced him. De Meyer said that [De Meyer] had had much trouble with [Swartwout], and that he would be glad to receive his money, and if he could pay him now he would deduct 50 sch of wheat.
[See above III:176-178 1683/4 March 4, 5, 6, Court of Sessions, continued.]
[See next entry, apparently attached.]

III:185-186
1680/1 January 8
[See previous entry, which apparently had this attached.]
[Versteeg note:] The following entry was in English:
To the Schirriffe you are in his Royall hignesse naem ordered to arrest the person of Roelof Swartwout in an action or execution dated the 8th day of Jannuary 1681/0 for the sume of fourty five scheple peasse and sixty-eight skiple of whaete belonging to Wm. De Meyer atturny to Tho Suosell you are not to faill.
The date above.
[See II:601 1680/1 January 8, council awards Wm. De Mejer, attorney for [Suowsel], 45 sch peas, 68 sch wheat.]

III:186-188
1684 March 28, Kingston
[See above III:176-178 1683/4 March 4, 5, 6, Court of Sessions, continued.]
Kingston March 28, 1684
Present Justices:
Capt. Chambers
Mr. Beecqman
Whereas the judgment mentioned between De Meyer and Swartwout dated March 4, 5, 6 last where De Meyer requested to have yet some witnesses sworn who were not present, which was permitted him to take place if he wanted it, [[therefore]] he took on this date some before us, as follows:
[[The following depositions were in English]]
Nicolaes Antony aged 26 years or thereabouts. Says on 30 March 1681 he was at house of William De Meyer with Nicholas De Meyer, Swartwout and wife, and others, where De Meyer at Swartwout’s request put together the accounting, after which it appeared that Swartwout was more indebted than De Meyer had charged him for. [Swartwout] acknowledged full satisfaction with the accounting and signed an obligation to pay, then thanked Nicolas for the civility shown to him, said he had done as a father [would] to him. All this was after William as attorney for his father had brought Swartwout to a town court where Swartwout was cast [?] and appealed to court of sessions, upon a pretense that there should have been a mistake in the account.
[III:187]
Says again in March 1682/3 he was at house of Wm. De Meyer with Nicolas, Swartwout and several others where Swartwout demanded an obligation [the I.O.U. he ha signed?[ of Nicolas and with all threatened to call him to further account, at which both De Meyers offered to cancel the obligations and give him his hands (the two enslaved workers?), which Swartwout refused but “would have them in the whole or else nott.”

Wm. Van Vredenborgh aged 46 years or thereabouts says on 30 March 1681 he was at the house of Wm. De Meyer with Nicolas, the Swartwouts, Wm. De La Montagne, and others, where De Meyer, Montagne, and Swartwout made up the account between Swartwout and De Meyer, after which it appeared that Swartwout was more indebted than De Meyer had charged him for, and Swartwout acknowledged full satisfaction and subscribed to (signed) an obligation for the balance. Van Vredenburgh was a witness to the obligation (the I.O.U.). Swartwout thanked Nicolas for the civility shown to him and took him in his arms and said I may call you father for you have done as a father by me.

Wm. Fisher aged 42 or thereabouts says Wm. De Meyer as attorney to his father Nicolas has brought Swartwout to a town court here in Kingston where Swartwout was “cast,” from which judgment he appealed to court of sessions, upon a pretence that there must be some mistake in the accounting. In the spring following, Fisher was at house of Wm. De Meyer with Nicolas,
[III:188]
the Swartwouts, and several others, where De Meyer on Swartwout’s request made out the accounting, after which it appeared Swartwout was more indebted, etc.

In answer to the petition of Nicolaes De Meyer containing a request to appeal from the judgment pronounced in the court of sessions on March 4, 5, 6 at Kingston where Roelof Swartwout is complainant, and the attorney Wilhelmus De Meyer defendant, We, Justices of the peace Thomas Chambers and Hendricus Beecqman grant the said De Meyer an appeal to the next Court of Assizes, provided he furnishes sufficient security for all damages and the amount in which he has already been condemned as [?] might be condemned by the Assizes.

John Ward and Henry Pawling sign on as security for De Meyer.

 

Apr-May-Jun

III:149
1684 April 1, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, April 1, 1684
Present Magistrates:
M. Garton
Jan Willemsen
Jan Focken

Jacob Rutgers, attorney for Pieter Schuyler, vs. Gysbert Albertsen, for 60 guilders.

III:149
1684 April 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Humphre Davenport vs. Mattys Ten Eyck
[Davenport] demands six gldrs.
[Ten Eyck] says that [Versteeg note: It is all mixed up in the original.]
[Ten Eyck] says that he bartered with [Davenport] twelve sch. of wheat for which he was to receive thirteen sch. of peas, and only received twelve sch. of peas.
[Davenport] says having bartered schepel for schepel. Which has been affirmed under oath by [Davenport].
The hon. court orders [Ten Eyck] to pay, with costs, the six gldrs in litigation.

III:149
1684 April 1, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
The hon. court orders that John Ward shall receive of [John?] Garton the amount of eighty gldrs, and costs, on account of Joseph Paret [Parrot].
[Versteeg handwriting unclear on Garton’s first name, but in other records he is variously Johannes or Jan or John, not Joshua. He is cousin to Thomas Garton; see III:2-3, 1682 December 7. His relation to Michiel Garton, sitting on the Kingston council in this session, is not clear.]
[See III:114 1682 June 18, when John Ward attaches “the money of Parrot, under the hand of Garton, for fifteen sch. of wheat [90 guilders].”
[See II:595 1682 November 7, when Ward tries to attach 92 guilders in what sounds like the same case.]

III:199-200
1684 April 4, Kingston (Special Court of Sessions)
Special Court of sessions held at Kingston, April 4, 1684
Present (Justices of the peace):
Capt. Chambers
Mr. Thom Garton
Mr. Hendr. Beeckman

William Wood vs. Hendrie Pauwlding [Henry Pawling]
[See III:121 1682/3 February 7, and III:122-123 1683/4 February 20, both times when multiple other parties take on debt that Pawling owes Wood. Original debt not located, possibly because notes from that case were pulled for review in preparation for Court of Sessions—or because, as Pawling suggests, Wood never went to regular court of common pleas, but leapfrogged straight into Court of Sessions.]
[Wood] demands, as per obligation, thirty-two sch. of good merchantable winter wheat, and expenses.
[Pawling] says that he is a resident, and no special courts may be permitted, and that [Wood] has had opportunity enough in an ordinary court, and that he has neglected [said opportunity].
William Wood says that Paelding said that he could not thresh, and that he would not appear before the town court [regular council meeting, or court of common pleas], and said let the law take its course.
Paeldingh says that he offered [Wood] a cow from his stable.

Jan Pietersen, sworn, says that he was busy threshing in the barn.
[III:200]
William Wood took his sacks away from there, and they had a wordy war (raeck ten saemen in woorden). Said Pawlding “there stand cows, take one from among them, and have her appraised by two men.”
Said Wood [he] was satisfied and would do so. Afterward he returned and was not satisfied with it.

William Wood says it had been offered, but Paelding did not do it.

[In English:]
Jury swoorne:
Wee do find for the plantiffe and that the defendt shall pay unto the sd plantiffe thirty and two schepell of good winter wheat, the remainder of the sd bill, with courts chiardsies.
The court doe aproeve of the vaerdict of the jury, the defendt to pay the chiardsies.

III:199
1684 April 4, Kingston (Special Court of Sessions, continued)
[English] Whereas Humphrie Davenport had summoned twoo axsions for a triall in this speciall coort he is to paey halfe of the chiardsies of this spetiall court.

 

III:188-189
1684 April 4, Kingston
N.B. Montagne signs his title as “Clerk” instead of “Secretary.” Is this just a Versteeg translation change, or did his title change in Dutch? In subsequent records he’s “Secretary” again.
Capt. Thoomas Chambers of Foxhall provides transfer (deed) to Edward Wittakar of “certain parcel of land situated at Wisquemesick being a parcel of land which has been [dug] through (door is gesteecken) from the one bend of the Great Kill to the other, being now at present [an] island.” Paid from the first to the last penny. Original deed dated May 21, 1667, granted by Governor Richard Nicolls.

III:189
1684 April 4, Kingston
Leendert Cool, residing at Marbletown, owes Capt. Gabriel Minville 1652 guilders, two stivers, in wheat. To pay Feb 1 1684/5, delivered free at Kingston. Mortgages 10 morgen of land at Marbletown, next to Hendrick Van Wey’s, with the crops growing on it. Also the crops growing on the other 10 morgen.
Undated note attached: On this contract Leendert Cool still has to pay fifteen gldrs—expenses.

III:190
1684 April 5, Kingston
Roelof Swardt [Swartwout], residing at Hurley, owes Capt. Gabriel Minville, merchant at New York, 156 sch. of wheat, delivered free on the bank, and 1 gldr, “originating from the purchase of negresses, bought of Edward Wittakar and assigned to Mr. Gabriel Minville.” Agrees to “a voluntary judgment without any more going to law, with a perfect execution in all such power and force as if the same had been pronounced by the court, so that, by failure of payment, Mr. [sic] Minville, his order or administrators can have the same executed without any equivocation or contradiction.”
[See II:253 [no year, incomplete], when Whittaker buys these enslaved women from Gabrielle Minville of New York, with record of how they arrived in Manhattan.]
[See II:560 1680 August 25, when Swartwout buys them from Wittaker, agrees to pay Minvielle what Whittaker owed.]

Will
III:190
1684 April 9, Kingston
Eghbert Meyndersen is “at present not feeling very well,” but in the full enjoyment of his mental faculties. His wife, Femmetie Alberts, shall inherit everything. After his wife’s death everything shall be inherited by Eghbert’s children, who shall share equally, except the little closet [Kasje], which the oldest daughter shall receive in advance.

 

II:627
1684 April 10
The following entry was in English:
Copia—Know all men by these presents that I Isaack Meleyn of Neuw Yorcke mariner have bargained and sould and delivered on Negero Woman by name Parthenia or Tenua unto Mrs. Temperance Loveridge for a valluable concideration by mee all ready receved. Now know yee that I doe make over my Right title or interest of the said Negro Woman unto the said Mrs. Temperance Loveridge and doe warrant the saele there of to the performance of wch. I doe bind my hires, executoris and administrators or assignes for Ever. In Wittnesse here off I sett my hand and Seale this tenth day of Aprill 1684.
(was signed) Isaack Melyen
Signed sealed and delivered
in the presence of
Thomas Noell
Isaac De Foreest
[See II:627-628 1684 August 17 (next entry in original Dutch). Note that Temperance Loveridge has a granddaughter with surname Melyens, same as Isaac above.]

[Versteeg note: The following is only a fragment]
Be it Known by these presents that there has appeared before us Wessel Ten Broeck who declares to transfer [Versteeg note: this is all]

III:200-201
1684 April 24, Kingston (Special Court of Sessions)
[Versteeg note: The following was in English in the record:]
At a speciall sessions houlden at Kingston the 24th day of Aprill 1684
Present (Justices of the Peace):
Capt. Chambers
To. Garton
Hendricus Beecqman
Abraham Haesbroeck

Roelof Swartwout attury of Severeyn Ten Hout atturny to Mr. John Bruyns, vs.
William De Meyer and Wessel Ten Broeck administrators of the estate of Maria Wynkoops defendt
[Edited spelling below to conform better to 2025 orthography.]
Wm. DeMeyer alledgeth that he hath no legal summons by reason that the summons was signed by Wm. Montagne as clerk, the which in his apprehension is contrary to the Act of Assembly.
The court judgeth the summons to be lawful.
The plaintiff demands 105 schepels of wheat as attorney to Severeyn Ten Hout, attorney to John Bruyns, due to him (the said John Bruyns) from the defendants, Wm. DeMeyer and Wessel Ten Broeck, as trustees of the estate of Mary Wynkoop.
The defendants plead that Severyn Ten Hout hath no
[III:201]
power to constitute another attorney, whereupon the court, finding the same, granteth non-suit against the plaintiff, with costs of court.
[See II:468-469 1679 May 16, will of Maria van Langedyck, widow of Cornelis Wynkoop.]

Roelof Swartwout vs. Wm. De Meyer
[Swartwout] demands of [De Meyer] the sum of 66 schepels of wheat as by assignment from Severyn Ten Houdt, also 18 schepels of wheat by assignment from Edward Wittakar, which stands not upon his declaration [i.e. wasn’t included in the original pleading papers filed before the court session], and likewise the plaintiff assigns over to the defendant 25 schepels of wheat due to the plaintiff from Wm. Hooghteling so that the plaintiff desired that these bills abovementioned and left in the sheriff’s hands may be security for his person to bail him.
The defendant sayeth that he hath proffered to accept all what was due upon the bill from Severeyn Ten Hout for seven and thirty schepels of wheat, but De Meyer denies the other as not payable till next winter.

Verdict of the Jury:
We find for the defendant by reason that the plaintiff hath produced bills not approved of, but we do find the bill of Severeyn Tenhout of seven and thirty schepels of wheat for the plaintiff.
The Court approves of the verdict of the Jury, and that the plaintiff shall pay the charges of the Court.

 

III:155
1684 May 3, Kingston [filed in records between 1684 August 19 and 23]
Prenuptial agreement between Hendrick Hendricksen and Annetie Dirxsen Hoogelandt.
1. All property to belong to both.
1a. If the groom dies before there are children, the bride is sole heir. But if there are children, children get half the estate.
2. If the bride dies first, groom pays 1/3 of estate to her next of kin, plus 1/4 of remaining part “as a dower.”

 

III:149-150
1684 May 6, Kingston (ordinary council session)
Ordinary Court held at Kingston, May 6, 1684
[III:150]
Present Magistrates:
M. Garton
Jan Willemsen
Jan Focken

Humphre Davenport, attorney for his father, vs. Pieter Lassinck
[Davenport] says that on November the 8th he furnished [Lassinck] with sixteen sch. of wheat, for which he was to brew beer, which [Lassinck] was to deliver to [Davenport’s] father, and that he did brew beer of the same [i.e. from that wheat?]—and that they agreed about sixty gldrs per ton, and he was to deliver two tons. [Versteeg writes “ton,” but probably this is “tun,” a very large drum holding over 200 gallons.]
[Lassinck] says that he has delivered beer to [Davenport’s] father, for which [Lassinck] received at N. York fifty-seven gldrs and of Davenport sixteen sch. of wheat [96 guilders at standard exchange rate of 6 guilders per sch.], but says he did not make another agreement with [Davenport’s] father.
Adjourned till Davenport [the father] again returns from N. York.

III:150
1684 May 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
William Kelsooy vs. Everdt Pels
[Kelsooy] demands ten and a half sch. of wheat, as per agreement, of which he has received four sch. and a half. William Kelsooy, [plaintiff], says he did not receive the oysters.
[Pels] says they had agreed for seven sch. of wheat, against which he has a counter-bill for thirty-three gldrs [5 1/2 sch, at standard exchange rate of 6 guilders per sch.], and [he] bought at [Kelsooy’s] order a sch. of wheat in oysters (en op syn ordre gekockt een schepel tarwe aen osters) and further, as per assignment, [Kelsooy owes him] three gldrs.
The hon. court orders [Pels] to pay three gldrs.

III:150
1684 May 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Mr. Kelooy [William Kelsooy?] vs. John Ward
[Kelsooy] demands [amount not mentioned in original] as per assignment by Jeremia Kettel to John Ward for Lafore.
John Ward says that [he] only owes one part (dat maer een pardt schuldich is), because there were eight sureties, and Fransois Lafore has been set free by order of the Justice because there was no proper prison—which he proves.
The hon. court orders that John Ward shall pay two eighths, because he agreed [in addition] to pay one [eighth] portion for Nicolaes DuPue.
[See II:595 1682 November 7, other notes, regarding the lack of a proper prison in which to keep debtors and others in custody. John Ward, as clerk, is apparently in charge of imprisonment.]
[Record of Lafore’s imprisonment, or his sureties, has not been located.]

III:150
1684 May 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Frans Goderis vs. Teunes Eleson, for 53 guilders.

III:151
1684 May 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Roelof Kierstede vs. Tierck Claesen
[Kierstede] demands the quantity of nine sch. of wheat, for annual salary (wegens jaer-gelt).
The hon. court orders deft. to pay—with costs.
[Kierstede] still demands one hundred gldrs, for curing a negro.
Adjourned.

III:151
1684 May 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Geertruy Govertsen [Bruyn] vs. John Waerd [Ward]
The case referred to impartial men: Nicolaes Anthony and Humphre Davenport.
[Not clear what this case is about.]

III:151
1684 May 6, Kingston (ordinary council session, continued)
Jan Bruyns requests that Jan Willemsen shall show what he [Willemsen] has to demand of him [Bruyn], because [Willemsen] said he had objection against [Bruyn’s] account.
Jan Willemsen answers and says he had delivered a mast worth hundred and eighty gldrs.
Jan Bruyns says that the mast was not as per contract, and [Willemsen] asks more than the same is worth. But he is willing to pay one hundred gldrs, the same as for the other one.
Parties have selected good men: Tierck Claesen [DeWitt], and Nicolaes Anthony.

III:151
1684 May 20, Kingston (special court session, not a regular council meeting)
Kingston, May 20, 1684
Present Justices of the peace:
Capt. Chambers
Tho. Garton
Hd. Beecqman

The constable Jacob Rutgers complains that Poulus Berry, Aron Jacobsen, Jacob Jacobsen, Symon Westphael, have desecrated the Sabbath.
The hon. Justices of the Peace order them to each pay twelve gldrs ten st. or to sit for half a day in the stocks. And all those who received summonses and did not appear shall pay the full fine, and expenses.

 

II:635-636
1684 May 23, Kingston
Jan Mewesen has given into the care of Arent Teunesen a “certain young girl named Stinaet [?], 4 years old, “Being the girl which the court had ordered him to provide for.” The “daughter or young girl” will serve Arent Teunesen until she shall get married. If Arent and [or] his wife should happen to die, Arent or his wife shall have liberty to indent the daughter to others, until she marries or becomes of age. Arent will provide clothing, food and drink, and “bring her up in the fear of the Lord” and teach her, to the best of his ability.
Jan signs with a mark. Arent signs Tyenessen.
[See II:562-563 1680 September 6, when Mewesen agrees to work for Huybertsen., who will pay some of Mewesen’s debts in exchange.]
[See II:544 1681 August 9, Marbletown, for older complaint.]
[See III:115 1682 November 22 when Huybertsen attaches maize and oats belonging to Mewesen.]
[See III:128-129 1683 April 24, when Huybertsen again attaches grain of Mewesen.]

III:152
1684 May 26, Kingston
Wessel Ten Broeck and Jan Hendrix (signs Heyndericksz) declare themselves to be surety for Jacobus Elmendorp [Elmendorff], for 870 sch. of wheat, “owing to the purchase of a portion of Wassemaker’s land” from William Fisher and Severeyn Ten Houdt. Document refers to an existing contract of sale.
[Versteeg note: Through the body of the above document there had been written: “‘Annulled this November 20.”]
Jacobus mortgages his estate to guarantee their surety, also annulled.
[See also III:241 1684 August 7, agreement between Jan Joosten [Van Meteren] and Jacobus Elmendorff on farm boundaries adjacent to Wassemaker’s Land.]

III:152
1684 May 27, Kingston
The following was in English:
Kingston this 27th day of May, 1684
Richard Hayes enterd his axsion against Capt. Thoomas Chambers defendant according to declaration desiring of the honorable Court of Assices a hering.
(Richard Hayes asks for a hearing before court of assizes against Thomas Chambers.)
[See III:136-137 1683/4 January 8 for Chambers’s original complaint against Hays.]
[See III:191-192 1684 March 4-5-6 for more discussion of case, at Court of Sessions.]
[See III:174-175 1683/4 March 19, bond for appeal to Assizes.]
[Most Court of Assizes records would be kept in Manhattan, though occasionally copies of outcomes were recorded in Kingston as well.]

III:152-153
1684 June 13
Mattue Blansjan relases Jan Pietersen from all claims; Wessel Ten Broeck released from his bond. Jan Pietersen will pay expenses to secretary and messenger. Blansjan will “prosecute his further claim concerning the Holland money against Anthoony Crespel, but he is to pay the further expenses incurred through the failure of Anthony Crespel.”
Signed Matheu Blanchan, Anthony Crespel
[This is residue from a land deal that got very complicated. Pietersen’s debt to Blanchan, for a house and lot in Kingston, was originally incurred by Jacques Dubois, who died before he could pay it. Pietersen married Jacques’s widow, Petronelle Benteyn. He eventually agreed to honor the contract Dubois had with Blanchan, but the case took many twists in court for a few years. See II:411 1677 December 30 for many notes.]

Will
III:191
1684 June 27, Kingston
Grietie Jans, widow of Jan Lambersen, is in enjoyment of mental faculties. Her daughter Annetie shall receive in advance the bed-pillow and two small cushions, and Geesje is to receive the two large cushions. Geesje receives the silver head-iron. Everything else to be split equally.
Grietje Jans signs with a mark.

 

III:171-172
1684 June 28
Court Records Volume 6 Page 248
Jan Hendrix, “residing here” (Kingston?), provides conveyance (deed) to Severeyn Ten Houdt for house and lot. At back 100 1/2 feet wide, butting up to property of “Heregangh” (Broadway?), and in front on street it’s 108 feet from the Heregangh (108 feet long), in the same direction as the street, back to the village curtains (stockade walls). Jacobus Elmendorp is on the East, to the West is the stockade wall, to the south is the “Herestraedt.” This was granted by Richard Nichols 16 July 1668. Satisfied from first to last penny.
(signed) Jan Heyndericksz
[This is Severyn’s tavern?]

Jul-Aug-Sep

III:216
1684 July 16, Kingston
(in English)
The following was also in English:
[Spelling adjusted to 2025 orthography]
Know all men by these presents that I, Harmon Hendrix Rosecrans, husbandman of Kingston in the county of Ulster, do owe and stand indebted to Mr. John Delavall, merchant of New York, the full and just sum o one hundred schepel of good merchantable winter wheat and a half-schepel . . . the which sum of hundred schepels and a half-schepel of winter wheat I bind myself and goods movable and immovable, that is to say my house and home lot in Kingston.
Which sum of hundred schepel of winter wheat I promise to pay at or before the last day of January next ensuing, the date here, of the one half, which is fifty schepels of wheat, and the other half to pay in Indian corn at three guilders per schepel, which hundred and one schepel of Indian corn for the true performance of the foresaid payment I bind over to Mr. John Delavall my foresaid house and lot and island abovementioned [sic], and may not dispose of it to any other use until such time as Mr. John Delavall is fully paid and satisfied.
This above written I promise to pay at the time prefixed and have hereunto set my hand and seal in presence of two magistrates [sic], Mr. John Focken, without any equivocation or pretenses whatsoever might or could be pretended to the contrary.
Kingston the 16 day of July 1684.
(was signed) Harmon Hendrix Rosecrans
Witnesses Jan Willemsen and the mark X of Jan Focken, “in absence of the Clercq”
[Versteeg note: The above was a copy of the original, in Wm. DelaMontagne’s handwriting.]
[This is the island that Hendrix bought from Severyn Ten Hout; see II:243 1676 July 21.]

 

III:17
1684 July 20, Kingston
Harmon Hekan contracts to sell to Thoomas Quick his land at Monbackus [Mombaccus]. 800 sch wheat [4800 guilders], to be paid in 4 years. This winter Quick will pay to Claes Teunesen [Van Clier] 1500 guilders [250 sch, leaving 3300 guilders balance], and the year following, in Feb 1686, the second installment, 1100 guilders [183 1/3 sch], and likewise each of the next two Februaries. With the land Harmon will provide a house of 4 fathoms (een huis van vier vaedem, 24 feet), surrounded by flat palisades. Delivery of land to take place in stubble time, or when the maize shall be off the land.
Over and above, Thomas Quick must deliver a cow and a horse, and if no cow, then 50 sch of wheat in same proportions.
Harmon Hekam to live there till spring. With last payment he will furnish a free transfer (deed).

III:153
1684 July 30
The following was in English:
The 30 day of July 1684
William Fisher, Plantif
Arrest upon Lenord Cool by warrand conserningh sum land bought of the plantif.
(Warrant for arrest of Lenord Cool, because of complaint by William Fisher, who had sold Cool some land.)

III:241
1684 August 7, Kingston [appears to have been signed at Wassemaker’s Land, rather than in town]
Jan Joosten and Jacobus Elmendorp (signs Elmendorff), whose lands are conterminous on the Wassemaker’s Land, agree on boundaries; Thomas Chambers, Edward Wittakar, Toomas Delavall, Hendrie Paeldingh (Henry Pawling involved)
Appeared before me Wm. Dela Montagne, clerk at Kingston, Jan Joosten and Jacobus Elmendorp whose lands are conterminous on the Wassemaker’s land, and who have had the boundaries fixed by Capt. Thoomas Chambers and Eduard Wittakar who prior to this (van te voren) fixed the boundaries as the same have again been fixed at present: the same boundaries, as between the Heer Toomas Delavall’s and Hendrie Paeldingh’s. So that with the full consent of Jan Joosten and Jacobus Elmendorp, the present proprietors, the stones and signs have been set up in all love and friendship. Promise never more to repeal the same. In testimony of the truth have subscribed to the present this August 1st, 1684 on the Wassemaker’s land.
Jacobus Elmendorp being proprietor by virtue of purchase of William Fisher who has acquired the right of Mr. John Dlavall.

Present:
Capt. Chamb[ers]
Edward Wittak[er]

(signed)
Jan Joosten
Jacobus Elmendorff

witnesses (signed)
Roelof Henderycks
John Hammell [Hamble in some documents]
Aert Maertsen Doorn

To which testifies
(signed) Wm. DlaMontagne, Clerk

[For Jan Joosten Van Meteren’s land at Wassemaker’s Land, see II:406 1677 December 17, contract to buy it from Michiel DeModt; and II:268-269 1679/80 January 31, and related notes.]

III:215
1684 August 8 {Kingston?]
William Fisher has contracted to sell to Pieter Pietersen a parcel “on the Wassemaker’s land, along the outer fence of Poulus De Boer’s plantation. The separation is a “doue” [?] Kill just in the center between Leender Cool’s and tall (lange) Jacob’s. Which center of the Kill constitutes the exact boundary, up to a Northern Nut tree (Noorts Neute Boom), which tree stands in the center of the boundary and next to the outer fence near a palisade next to the brushfence toward Horly (en by de Ringheyninge by een palisaet naest by de Rysheynenge naert Horly).” Pietersen also buying “the right of all the gardens which Fisher possesses by virtue of purchase of Delavall.”
Pietersen will pay 750 sch. of wheat, half wheat, half maize, delivered free at Kingston, three equal installments starting February 1685/6. Deed (transfer) to be granted after final payment. Pietersen to immediately receive all untilled land (alle bloote land).
Pietersen signs with a + mark

III:215-216
1684 August 8 (attachment of property of William Wallevis)
[This is another attachment framed with a plaintiff and defendant, as if it were a court case. Spelling has been modernized.]
(in English)
Ulster the 9 day of Augusto [1684]
Hendrick Ten Eyck vs. William Wallevis
[III:216]
[Ten Eyck] demands £60.
[Ten Eyck] by attachment upon all monies due, by the plaintiff earned, by work done by the plaintiff, and also that bedding remaining in the hands of the plaintiff [sic].

II:627-628
1684 August 17, Kingston
[Versteeg note: The following was in English in the record:]
Copia Vestar. Know all men by these presents that I Temporance Loveridge of Katskill widouw of the deceased Wm. Lovridge have frely given and delivered one Negro women by Name Parthenia or Tenna unto my grand child by name Jannetie Melyens.
Nouw know yee that I doe make over my right and title or interest of the said Negero Women unto the said Child Jennetie Melyens and doe warrant the giffe [gifte?] hereof to the performance of wch. I bind my selffe, my heires, Executores Administrators to maintaine warrant and make good the above said Negero Women by name Parthenia to the aforesaid Jannetie Melyens her hires execcutoris administrator or assignes for ever in witnesse here of I set my hand and seall this seavententh day of Augusto 1684 at Kingston
(was signed) Temperance Loveridge
Signed seled and deliverd
in the presence of
John Ward
Wm. DlaMontagne, Clercq
[See II:627 1684 April 10 (previous entry in original Dutch).]
[See III:146-147 1683/4 February 13, when Nicolaes Anthony admits he wounded William Loveridge in the face with a knife. William apparently does not survive.]
[See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-330555 ]
[John Ward, who signs as witness, is married to Sarah Loveridge, marriage record not found. They baptize several children in Kingston, starting as early as Sara Waard, 19 Feb 1684. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ward-27174 ]
[Temperance Loveridge has several children (Hannah, William, Sarah, Samuel, Margaret), and her daughter Temperance marries Isaac Melyn; Joanna is their daughter. See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Loveridge-166 ]

III:153-154
1684 August 19, Kingston
(in English) Long and dense document by Anthony Addison, “late of Marbleton.” Edmund Andros granted a parcel above Marbletown “lying overe aginst the Kealle Bargh [Bald Mountain, Kaele Berg] called by the name of the Broockboone hooke, having to the south the Kille, to the Noorth the common woods,” 20 acres, quitrent 1 bushel of wheat per year; Addison says he has made great improvements to the land, fencing, clearing, plowing, sowing. Now for 140 sch of wheat (already paid) he sells a half-share to George Mealls [George Mills] of Marbletown.
[See also III:7, 1682/3 January 19, Addison contracting to sell to Ann Garton a parcel called Breeckebeen Hoeck, half the parcel he has in partnership with George Mills.]
[See also III:2-3, 1682 December 7, Johan Garton selling to his cousin Thomas Garton his right and title at the Carle Berg, “according to the condition of Gorge Mils.”]
[See also II:591 1681 December 16, Anthony Addison contracting to sell to George Mills his half of Breekebeen Hoeck.]

 

Oct-Nov-Dec

II:595-599
1684 September 26 to October 15, Kingston
Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, widower of Tryntie Tyson Bos, is getting ready to marry Elsje Jans [van Breestede], widow of Hendrick Jochemsen. Everyone needs to get their accounts squared away with regard to descendants. This takes a few pages, including some inventories, and the multiple entries go as far as October 15, with some additional notes as late as December 1685.
[See II:614-616 1681/2 March 4, other related records.]
[See III:41 1683 April 14, when she gives her house in Kingston to her granddaughter.]
[See II:244-245 1676 August 4, will of Cornelis’s first wife, Tryntye Tysen Bosch. ]
[See II:614-616 1681/2 March 4, will of Elsje Jans’s first husband, Hendrick Jochemse, naming their children, and the attachment bound with it, which was composed and executed contemporaneous with the documents below. Elsje Jans’s first husband was Adriaen Pieterszen van Alcmaer; she is daughter of Jan Janszen Van Breestede. Her brother Jan Janszen van Breestede lives in Manhattan, married to Marritje Andriessen, making Elsje a sister-in-law of Barbara Andriessen of Kingston, and her husband Tjerck Claesen DeWitt.]

II:595-596
1684 September 26, Kingston
The worthy Cornelis Barentsen Sleght, widower of the deceased Trynntie Tysen Bos, bridegroom, and Elsje Jan, widow of Hendrick Jochemsen, bride, have agreed to conditions in the following manner:
1. They will observe the lawful marriage.
2. The estate, possessed by each, each party, on either side, shall retain, unmixed, for the heirs of either party.
3. The married couple will live on what they gain during their married life. Whatever increase they have, when one of them dies, will be equally divided, half to the heirs of each. Except: Bridegroom gives to bride, as dowry, 200 sch. of wheat or the value of the same.
Survivor (after death of first spouse) is entitled to keep the gains (winste) until death or remarriage, viz. that which is gained during the married life, provided a reliable inventory shall be taken, [so that] the same [can]not be diminished. If the survivor needs the increase, no inventory need be taken, but after the demise of both, the heirs shall divide it equally.
Signed Cornelis Barents Slecht and the mark (backwards E) of Elsje Jan
Witnesses Jan Eltinge and someone with a really wacky signature, maybe Joost something?
[Jan Elting is married to Jacomyntie Cornelissen Slecht, daughter of Cornelis Barentsen Slecht; see Jan’s will, II:470 1679 September 30.]

II:596-597
1684 October 8, Kingston
Else Jans [Hendrix], betrothed to Cornelis Barentse[n Slecht], declares that the conditions entered into [see previous entry] are firm and valid. Therefore she leaves everything to her children: Jochem, Eghbert, Hendrick, Engeltie Hendrix and Pieter Adriaens, to be equally divided, nothing excepted concerning her dowry or estate.
Signed with mark (forwards E) of Elsje Jans
Witnesses Yan Stol, the mark of Jan [Adriaensen] Van Vliedt (X shape)
Additional note: Engeltie Hendrix, wife of Nicolaes Anthony, is to inherit, besides her share, her grandmother’s small closet (casje), 2 pewter saucers, and a cow.

II:597-598
(undated, but part of same set of documents, likely 1684 October 8)
Inventory of the Estate of Cornelis Barentsen Sleght, as well real as personal estate, debts and assets, as the same is found to be existing at present.

A house and brewery, with boiler, vats, and everything belonging to the same
An orchard, hopgarden, as the same is surrounded by a fence
Three morgens of land across the great bridge

[Many household goods, enumerated individually.]

Two cows

The estate owes:
Brant Schuyler
Fitie, the wife of Michiel Jansen
Pieter Jacobsen
Judith [?]
[?] Duchamp
Willem [hard to read]
Mr. [Hard to read]
Mr. [Roelof?]
Benjamin Provoost
Sueryen Ten Hout
Mathys Sleght [Versteeg note: Name and quantity have been crossed out in original.]
Poulus the wheelwright
Spits Bergen
Johannes Witthart [?]

Total [of debts]: 284
Coming to the estate: 468
By balance in liquidating the present: 184 sch. of wht.

Settled at hundred sch. of wheat. And in case Cornelis Barentsen’s [debts?] should be shown to be higher, the same shall be allowed and paid by both parties. The money in Holland shall be inherited by the children.

II:598-599
1684 October 8, Kingston
“Be it known by the present that we the heirs of the deceased Tryntie Tysen Bos have agreed in love and friendship with our father Cornelis Barentsen Sleght concerning our mother’s estate, so that the estate has been appraised at fifteen hundred sch. of wheat”; they get half, or 750 sch; he will pay interest at 5% per year, to be paid every year. To secure it he mortgages his real estate; see inventory above. He may keep it under his control until death, but it must not be diminished. At his death the entire estate (1500 sch?) will be divided, among Hendrick, Jacomeyntie, Annetie, Mattys, Pieternelle Slecht, except the 200-sch dowry.
Signed Mattys Slecht, Jochem Hendricksen, Cornelis Slecht, Jan Elting, Cornelis Hoogenboom
[Versteeg note: The entry below was in the margin of the above, and written in English in the original.]
Acknowledge before me by the within menconed [mentioned] Cornelis Slecht, Jan Elting, Cornelus Hoogboom, Mathys Slecht
The nineteenth day of December, Anno Domini 1685
(signed) Tho Garton, Justice Peace

II:599
1684 October 15, Kingston
Cornelis Barentsen Sleght appears before the court at Kingston to confirm “in accordance with an agreement entered into with his children” he owes them 750 sch of wheat “as their maternal inheritance which shall not be paid from the estate until after his death.” From the other half of his estate he’s giving Elsje Jans 200 sch “specified in the marriage contract.” Balance will be inherited by his children.
[Versteeg note: The entry below was in English in the original.]
This above written instrument was acknowledge before me by the within named Corneles Slecht this nineteenth day of December, 1685.
(signed) Tho. Garton, Justice a peace.

 

 

1688

II:533
1688 July 22, Hurley
[Versteeg note: The following was in English. A true copy:]
Whereas you are Chosen and Apoynted as a veiwer off the fences Belonging to the Town of Hurly, youe doe swear By the truoo Living god that youe will truly and justly veiw all fences as youe shall be their unto Required and give your Judgment their in to the Best off your Knowledge and give a Report their of to ye Courtt as their may bee Occation. Soe help youe God.
Hurly Jul. [the] 22th 1688 [1644?]
[Versteeg note: Bound upside down in the original.]
[See II:535 1680/1 March 17 Marbletown.]

II:552-553 (mostly undated miscellany, probably not from this set of papers)
[The following entries were all in English, and they seem to be from a generation after the 1680s council minutes and secretarial papers that make up this collection. They may have been bound into the volume by mistake. They look more like unofficial notes taken in preparation for writing up formal minutes or notices, rather than part of an official record. They also could be notes taken by a lawyer reviewing old minutes from another record book. How they got into this volume remains a mystery.]

The [several words are here destroyed] Alexander Greg, Yeoman, & Roger Breth, Gent[leman], they pay unto him the sume of twenty pounds six shilling, [which] to him they owe as is said. Directed to [the] Cronner? [Coroner?]

Hillegonda Van Slocthenhorst [Slechtenhorst] and Lenert Cole otherwise called Lenert Cole [sic] of Mombackus in [the] county of Ulster. Action on bond 135:6 currant money of New York.

Rimerig Quick, Widdow, ?? Lendert Cole & Mary his wife action of trespass upon [the] Case Tamage 300. [See repeat of this a few entries down.]

Mr. Noe [?] will gie you directions about an Action for Sachariah Hoffman [Zacharias] against Aerent Teunissen.

The declaration ag[ain]st Alexander Grieck is at [the] suite of Mrs. Geertruy Van Cortlant administratrix of [the] goods & chattles, rights & credits of Johannis Cortlant of [the] Citty of New Yorke, deceased.
The debt is for 61 gallons of Madera Wine, the 24 November 1698, for £12:4.

28 March 1709 John Wood [plaintiff] Thomas Peers [defendant]
in an action of defamation Damage £100.

30 Mrt Rymeugh Quick, widdow, [plaintiff]. Leendert Cool & Mary his wife [defendants], in an action of trespasse upon the case to [the] damage of £300.

30 Mrt Hillegonda Van Slegtenhorst [plaintiff] Leendert Cool [defendant] in action of debt for £136:6

Sep 6, 1709. Broer Decker of [the] County of Albany husbandman [plaintiff] Hillegonda Van Sligtenhorst of New Yorke, spinster [defendant], in an
[II:553]
action of trespasse upon [the] Case £35 damage.

[Versteeg note: All the above nine entries were in English in the original.]

9 Mrt 1709/10 Nicolaes Hofman Huybert Sylandt & Elyas Aerd [plaintiffs] Mattys Louw [defendant] in an action of debt for £735. (English—original.)

[ At this point, the record returns to the sequence, more or less, from the 1680s. ]