Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1754 A
OBJECT NAME Articles of Agreement
DATE October 31, 1844
AUTHOR John [J.] Felter
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt III, John B. Holmes, Abraham Bell
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Isaac Sherwood, John Raymond
PLACES Rockland County, Nyack, Orange,
KEYWORDS agreement to build a schooner, specifications of build, pumps,
wood types, dimensions, carved figure head
Article of Agreement made between John [J.] Felter / of the County of Rockland of the first part and / Pierre Van Cortlandt Junior John B. Holmes + Abraham / Bell of the second part agrees to build a vessel of the description / of vessels, called a schooner, the same to be built at [^ Nyack in] the / town of Orange = in the County of Rockland. The said / schooner or vessel to be of the following size viz. To be / fifty [^ 62 ?] five feet keel; twenty four feet beam and six feet / hold; to do flush deck with a [trunk], to have locusts [lop?] / to come through the deck and locust transoms; to be / planked with white oak planks, her decks to be white / pine plank clear of sap. The planks above sight water / to be well seasoned; to have xx-??--xx two masts / to be of proper + suitable height + not less than / seventy three feet, two booms + two gafts a bow= / sprit + fly[-ing?] gib boom + martingale; The cabin / need not be of hard wood, but is to be a suitable / cabin for such a vessel, She is to be half trammelled / to her wales, to be full ceiled and have Eight pairs of / Daga knees, that is, such knees as are under the beams. /
The said part of the first part is to find + furnish / all the timber + materials of Every kind for the building / and completing said vessel and to do the labor in / and about the building of the said vessel, he is to / finish her off ready for the riggers; to give her two / coats of paint, and the spurs to be all fitted with heel bands and all one, + laid along side ready for / the riggers by the said party of the first part / all at his own expense. The said vessel is to be / built throughout of good timber + materials of / Every kind, and to be built and furnished off in a / good substantial + in all respects in a workman= / like manner, and to be built in the proper + / approved style of building such a like vessel.
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For doing all which the said party of the first / part is to have of and be paid by the said parties / of the second part at and after the rate of forty / dollars a ton for Every ton the said vessel shall / measure. The payment thereof to be made in / the following manner and times viz: in four / installments. The pay ment of five hundred dollars / when the Keel of said vessel shall be laid, / the further sum of one thousand dollars when / the top timbers shall be in, and five hundred / dollars more when the said vessel shall be / planked and ceilings in and the deck / laid; and the remainder when the whole of / the work shall be done and the vessel deliv= / ered or ready to be delivered finished as aforesaid / to the parties of the second part.
And it is declared to be the intention / of the said parties that the said vessel shall / be done finished and delivered by the first day / of March next, and the said party of the first / part agrees to commence the work of said vessel / without delay and to put on + keep Employed / in the said vessel a proper + sufficient number / of hands and to drive on the work so as to have / it done by the time aforesaid or within ten days / thereafter. And the said party of the first / part promises and undertakes to find all the / materials of the quality and kind aforesaid + to / construct and build the said vessel in all / respects the same + after the said manner / + style above mentioned + deliver the said / vessel finished as aforesaid to the said parties / of the second part by the time above [limitted?]
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For that purpose, And the said parties of / the second part agree and undertake to / pay for the same the sum above stipula= / ted and at the times and in the manner / above mentioned. And it is further agreed / that there said vessel shall be in the said / vessel two good + sufficient pumps with / iron frames to set on the deck to work them / The said pumps to have turned tops + to come / four inches above the deck, Also the said / vessel is to have one gammon Iron to go over / the bow sprit + fasten to the stern . Also a / carved figure head + trail boards; to have three / and a half inches clamps, that is the clamps / to be three inches and a half thick and / twelve inches wide . Also to have bilged / keelson . And it is agreed that all the / oak planking of the said vessel are to be / of Jersey plank , and the [Davies?] are to / have hinges there is also to be a patent wooden / windlafs in the said vessel in Witness / whereof the parties have here unto put / their hands + seals 31st day of October / 1844
Witness Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.
Iassac Sherwood John B. Holmes
John Raymond Abraham Bell
John [J.] Felter
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[LABEL]
John J. Felter
And
Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.
John B. Holmes and
Abraham Bell
Agreement
[SIDE - FADED]
Abraham G. [Polhamery?]
Abraham Bell
John B. Holmes
[CALCULATIONS - NOT TRANSCRIBED]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
