Document: Assignment by Gillis Janen Pompoen to the curators of the estate of the late Claes Cater of his claims against the West India Company

This day, date underwritten, before me, Jacob Hendricksen Kip, in the absence of the secretary appointed by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland, appeared Gillis Jansen Pompoen, late farm foreman[1] at the House De Hoop in New Netherland and at present a freeman here, who acknowledged and declared that he had sold and assigned, as he hereby does sell and assign, to the curators of the estate of the late Claes Cater his accounts of wages earned by him in the service of the honorable West India Company in the capacity aforesaid, to wit: one account of the time of the honorable Director Kieft, deceased, amounting to one hundred and ninety guilders, two sttivers and twelve pence; the other of the time of the honorable Director Stuyvesant, amounting to seventy-three guilders, ten stivers, with power and express authority to ask, demand, collect and receive the said amounts from the honorable West India Company, at the Chamber of Amsterdam, or here in New Netherland where the same were earned, and to execute a receipt therefor, which shall avail their honors as proof of due payment. He acknowledges that before the execution hereof he has been fully paid and satisfied the money stipulated for said accounts, renouncing therefore all right of claim to ownership thereof or to further payment and promising that he will hold and cause to be held firm, binding and irrevocable this his sale and assignment and whatever shall be done and performed by the curators of the aforesaid estate or their attorneys or their substitutes He requests that one or more copies hereof may be made by me, the clerk above named, and be delivered to the curators aforesaid. Thus done and signed by the assignor and the witnesses, this 12th of April A°. 1651, in New Amsterdam.

Gillis Jansen Pompoen
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Jacob Kip