A. 1654, N. Amst., the 8th of June
Before me, Cornelis van Ruyven, appointed secretary in New Netherland in the service of the Chartered West India Company, and before the below mentioned witnesses, appeared the worthy Tomas Adams, as principal, and Mr. Isaacq Allerton, as surety and co-principal, being indebted, jointly and severally, under renunciation of the beneficium ordinis, excussionis et divisionis,being duly informed of the contents thereof, who acknowledged that they are truly and duly indebted to the Hon. Petro Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland, or the bearer hereof, duly authorized thereto, [ in the sum of ] once three thousand pounds, Holland weight, of good, deliverable and merchantable tobacco or, instead thereof, one thousand Carolus guilders at 20 stivers each; which 3000 lbs, of tobacco or 1000 Carolus guilders they, the appearers, hereby promise to pay before the expiration of the next ensuing month of August, or before the ships return to Patria, to be delivered free of costs and loss here at the Manhatans . For which they, the appearers, each of them separately, bind their persons and property, present and future, rights, credits, nothing excepted, subject to all courts and judges, with costs. Therefore, he, the principal debtor, under the same bond and submission promises to hold his aforesaid surety, Mr. Allerton, free from all loss and damage. Thus done in New Amsterdam in New Netherland, this day, the 8th of June A° 1654.
Tho. Adams
Isaac Allerton
Edward Bushell
Laurens van Ruyven
Cornelis van Ruyven
