Translation
Inventory of the [ goods and ] effects found [ at the house ] of Teuntjen Jeuriaens,[1] widow of the late Jonas Bronc, residing at Emaus.[2]
Books
1 Bible, folioCalvinus, Institutie, folio[3] Bullingeris[4]Schultetus, Dominicalia [5]Moleneri, Praxis, quarto1 German Bible, quartoSeespigel, folio [6]1 Psalter, Luther’s translation Sledanus, folio[7]Danish chronicle, quarto Danish law book, quartoLuther’s whole catechism ’t Lof Christi, quarto[8] De vier uyterste vande doot [9]Two Schatcamers (Treasures), small folioPetrus Apianus[10]Danish children’s book1 book called Veertich taffereelen des doots by Symon Golaert[11]Biblical storiesDanish calendar ’t Gesicht des grooten Seevaerts [12]A collection of 18 old printed booklets by diversee authors, both Dutch and Danish17 manuscript books, which are old
[ 11 ] pictures, large and small3 guns1 musket1 rapier[13] with silver mounting1 Japanese cutlas1 dagger with silver mounting1 suit of black cloth1 pair of black gloves1 black satin suit1 old slashed satin doublet2 old suits of Leyden grosgrain1 blue damask woolen shirt2 hats1 black cloth mantle1 gold signet ring1 old mantle of colored cloth6 old shirts19 pewter plates12 ditto, large and small7 silver spoons1 silver cup1 silver salt cellar1 ditto little tray4 tankards with silver chains[ 14] 2 mirrors, one with an ebony frame and the other with a gilt frame6 little alabaster saucers3 iron pots3 brass kettles1 ditto skimmer1 extension table1 chest containing various pieces of porcelaina few panes of window glassa lot of old iron
1 stone house[15] covered with tiles1 barn1 tobacco house2 hay barracks2 five-year old mares1 six-year old stallion1 two-year old ditto1 yearling stallion2 mares of one year5 milch cows1 yoke of oxen1 bull3 yearling heifers4 bull calves of this yearhogs, number unknown, running in the woods
1 iron harrow1 dray (blockwagen)2 new scythes1 old ditto23 new axes4 old ditto2 hoes3 ditto adzes and some other carpenter’s tools3 beds and 6 pairs of sheets4 pairs of pillows4 tablecloths16 or 17 napkins1 small brewing kettle3 half-leggers [16]1 half-vat3 tubs1 hogshead1 churn3 milk tubs, old and new4 malt vats5 old empty grain tubs
All of which is thus found and inventoried at the house aforesald by Teuntjen Jeuriaens above mentioned and Pieter Bronck, in the presence of Everardus Bogardus, minister, and Mr. Jochim Pietersen Kuyter, both chosen and invited hereto as guardians of the aforesaid Teuntjen Jeuriaens, the 6th of May anno 1643, in New Netherland, at the house above mentioned.
Tevntien Jevriaens
Peter Bronk
E. Boghardus
J. P. Kuyter
Cornelis van Tienhoven
Translation Superscripts
[1]: Anthonia Slachboom, or Slaghboom. She married in l643 Arent van Curler and died in December 1676. See Minutes of the Court of Albany, Rensselaerswijck and Schenectady., 1675-80, 2:185, 188, 195, and Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook, 1927-28, 3:12-15, 29; 1932-34, 8-9:10.
[2]: Emmaus, Bronck’s farm, between the Harlem and the Bronx Rivers, in what is now Morrisania.
[3]: Apparently the Dutch edition of Calvin’s Institutes, entitled: Institutie, ofte onderwijsinghe in de Christelijcke Religie, Dordrecht, 1578.
[4]: Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss reformer, 1504-75; author of First Helvetian Confession of faith, 1536; Second Helvetian Confession, 1566; Perfecto Christianorum, and other religious books. A popular Dutch work was: Huysboeck, vijf decades, dat is, vijftich sermoonen van de voorneemste hooftstucken der Christelijcke Religie, w. pl., 1568, which may be the work referred to in the inventory.
[5]: A book of Homilies by Abraham Schultens, or Scultetus.
[6]: Willem Jansz Blaeu, Zeespiegel, Amsterdam, 1623, 3 vols. folio. A famous sea atlas, reprinted in 1626 and 1638.
[7]: Johannes Sleidanus, 1506 (15O8?) -56; author of De statu religionis et reipublicae Carolo V. Caesare commentarii. Strassburg, 1555. Until the end of the 18th century this was the chief source for the history of the Reformation.
[8]: The Praise of Christ.
[9]: The four last things, being a Dutch translation of Gerardus de Vliederhoven, Quatuor novissimorum liber, de morte videlicet penis inferni, iudicio et celesti gloria quem plerique cordiale compellant, a 15th century work of which there are many Latin editions. The first Dutch edition was printed at Gouda in 1477.
[10]: Probably the famous Cosmographia of Petrus Apianus, printed at Landshut, 1524, and at Antwerp in 1529, 1539, 1545. He also wrote: Astronomicum Caesareum, Ingolstadt, 1540/41, and Inscriptiones sacrosanctea vetustatis, Ingolstadt, 1534.
[11]: Probably Simon Goulart, the younger, a Walloon minister, born at Geneva, October 2, 1575 (?), died at Frederikstad, March 19, 1628 (?).
[12]: J. H. J. van der Ley, ’t Gesicht des grooten Zeevaerts, Franiker, 1619, obl. quarto. A sea atlas and work on navigation in which the author made use of a newly invented and ingenious way of finding the exact longitude and latitude, which attracted much attention at the time.
[13]: pederm, intended for pidarm, a short, stiff rapier. See De Oude Tijd, 1869, 1:124.
[ 14]: keden; an old form for keten, chain
[15]: 1 steenen huys; which may mean a brick house.
[16]: 1 legger arrack = 153.75 gallons.
