Document: Declaration of Jan Willemsen Bos and Abraham Martensen that they built a house for Dirck Holgersen on Long Island

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Document ID
NYSA_A0270-78_V2_154b
Description

Declaration. Jan Willemsen Bos and Abraham Martensen, carpenters, respecting a house they erected on Long island for Dirck Holgersen. [1646]

Document Date
1646-12-06
Document Date (Date Type)
1646-12-06
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Translation
Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jan Willemsz Bos, aged 25 years, and Abraham Martensen, aged about 25 years, carpenters, who at the request of Dirck Holgersen declare before the fiscal that they, the deponents, built for Dirck Holgersen a house on Long Island, to which house they made four projecting eaves.[1] This the deponents offer to confirm. Done the 6th of December 1646, in New Amsterdam.

Jan Wylmsen Bos
Abraham Martensen
Cornelis van Tienhoven

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Swepen. The meaning of this word is uncertain. The house may have been built in Norwegian style with wide projecting eaves, or with galleries.
References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York.  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A0270/NYSA_A0270-78_V2_154b.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the
New Netherland Institute website.

Property Type
Property Type
To Party 1
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Dirck Holgersen
From Party 1
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Jan Willemsen Bos
From Party 2
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Abraham Martensen
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