How interesting! Augustine Herman was involved in so many activities. Wonder who was making bricks for whom, and where this operation was taking place. I remember seeing letters of one or the other Directors of the Delaware settlements, complaining of the lack of brick for building. Don't remember right offhand who that had been, maybe Alrichs in a letter to NY. Thank you very much for finding this, Regina! Best regards, Liz J On 3/8/07, Regina Haring <rmharing@att.net> wrote: > Liz and all - > > Found the reference to Harman Teunissen working for Augustine Hermann in > Fernow, Volume III, page 43: > > "Tuesday, the 9th Sept 1659. In the City Hall. Present the Heeren Olof > Stevenszen Cortlandt, Marten Kregier, Pieter Wolfersen van Couwenhoven, > Joannes Pieterzen van Brugh, Hendrick Janzen Vander Vin, Jacob Kip. > > On the petition of Augustyn Heermans, wherein he requests revision of the > judgment dated 19. August between him and the brick makers, and that adverse > party be ordered to use the wood for brickmaking on petitioner's land or by > removal of what is cut and no more, that his farmer HARMEN TEUNISSEN may > draw it and they enter security for the brick already agreed on and pay > immediately before carting the wood and in addition for the said wood, > because it then by removal comes within the nature of a sale and not a > leasing, and the petitioner is not disposed at present to sell to them, but > in time he intends to erect a brick kiln himself and to pay what arbitrators > shall value which he considers fair. Marginal order: - The Court persist by > their previous judgment." > > This was 1659 - Harmen Teunissen had died before the spring of 1662 when his > widow, Grietje Cosyns, married Jan Pieterse Haring. > > Regina Haring