Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1718 E - note 2nd page duplicate image
OBJECT NAME Agreement / “Note of Hand”
DATE April 30, 1782 and May ??, 1792 and June 14, 1792
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt
RECIPIENT
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Silvanus [Silvenus] Tomkins [Tomkings, Tompkins], Andrew Barton
(“son of Andrew”), John [Levninus],
PLACES Peeksill, “Cortlandt Town”, John Levinus,
KEYWORDS agreement to trade use of pair of oxen for working timber to
planks, payment in planks or money, sale of milk cow (“Blossom”),
This day the 30th of April 1792 I Pierre Van / Cortland have Let Silvenas Tomkins have / a Large Pr: of Oxen to Keep for me Untill the / first day of August next and work them to git out / [Saw] Loggs, to be sawed In ship planck and when / the plank is sawed he is to Let me have them / if he does not git out the Loggs, by the Time / above & the Plank sawed if there is water to / saw, That Then he the said Tomkings is to / [DD] me the Oxen again and to pay me the damage / for Working of S’d Oxen The price of the Oxen is / Twenty pounds to be paid by the first of Aug’st= / next In planck or money – In Testimony / whereof we Both parties have here until Set our / hands & seal the day above written
Sealed & Delivered }
In the Presents of }
William [Tremier?] } Pierre Van Cortlandt
Sam Jones Silvanus Tomk[ins]
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Cortlandt Town May [illegible, blot] 1792
Pierre Van Cortlandt
This day I Let Andrew Barton son of Andrew [?] [^ have] / a milk Cow called blofsem for six hundred / and fifty foot of Inch & half White oak plank / to be good & [merchantable?] the plank are / to be delivered at John Levinus’s Landing by / the Last of August next and if not Delivered / then to pay the damages _ In Witnefs whereof / & the said Andrew Barton have hereunto / set my hand & seal date above _
Sealed & delivered }
In the Presents of }
Jarvis Dusenberg } Andrew Barton
[J’ar?] Dusenberg
June 14 1792. Then /
Let Andrew Barton have fourty One shillings for / Plank he is to Diliver me at John Levinus’s Landing
P.V.C.
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[LABEL]
Silvanus Tomkins
Note of hand
For ap’r of Oxen
£ 20 in shipplank
To be paid by 1st August
1792Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
