Howard, Thanks, I'll read it this evening. It looks like it was the final payment because Adam filed suit against Hendrick just short of three months after they agreed to the sale. 1645-05-02 – Adam commenced suit against Hendrick Jansen for his refusal to deliver the deed to the property purchased on 1645-02-21 (CDM: 94). “May 2, 1645: Adam Brouwer, plaintiff, vs. Hendrick Jansen, locksmith, defendant, about the purchase of a house. Plaintiff demands delivery of the deed. Defendant is willing, provided the plaintiff binds himself for the payment of the account rendered to him. Ordered that in the deed the house be mortgaged until the defendant shall be paid.” Steve ---- Howard Swain <hswain@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > See: > http://www.nnp.org/nni/Publications/zwieten.pdf > > I'm not sure this answers Steve's original question, but it does > give a good background with many references. > > And it does mention paying in installments. I think Steve > is right that that 25 guilders mentioned is only the last payment > and Adam had paid more earlier. > > Regards, > Howard > hswain@ix.netcom.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi all, From: "Steve Brewer" <slbrewer@fuse.net> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] "Buying and Selling Real Porperty in New Amsterdam" Howard, >Thanks, I'll read it this evening. It looks like it was the final payment because Adam filed suit against Hendrick just short of three months after they agreed to the sale.< >1645-05-02 – Adam commenced suit against Hendrick Jansen for his refusal to deliver the deed to the property purchased on 1645-02-21 (CDM: 94). “May 2, 1645: Adam Brouwer, plaintiff, vs. Hendrick Jansen, locksmith, defendant, about the purchase of a house. Plaintiff demands delivery of the deed. Defendant is willing, provided the plaintiff binds himself for the payment of the account rendered to him. Ordered that in the deed the house be mortgaged until the defendant shall be paid.” < I'm getting the feeling the reason Adam got the patent may not be known. I've had a few additional thoughts, though. The dimensions of the lot were not delineated in the sale contract (which you sent earlier). Perhaps Adam wanted all that nailed down and surveyed, which happened with the patent. Perhaps Hendrick was dragging his feet on delivering the deed, or maybe Adam wanted a clean document to recognize that he had paid off the mortgage. Looking at the bigger historical picture, I was apparently wrong in thinking earlier that there may have been a change in the Freedoms and Exemptions. New ones were issued in 1640 and seem to have been the same in the period in question. Apparently Kieft (1638 - 1647) was the first to issue "ground briefs". [Gotham by Burrows and Wallace, p. 35] They go on to say: "Soon enought the inhabitants of New Amsterdam were buyin, selling, and leasing land among themselves, just like the inhabitants of settled European communities..." On 5 May 1645 Stuyvesant was appointed director. I assume that news reached NN a few months later. But Stuyvesant did not arrive until 11 May 1647. It is intersting to look at the number of patents issued by Kieft in half year intervals: 1644 H1 10 1644 H2 1 1645 H1 0 1645 H2 30 1646 H1 20 1646 H2 10 1647 H1 62 (I got these numbers by quickly counting in Book GG; neglecting the few shown out of date order.) So, I'm thinking that maybe Adam (and perhaps many others) wanted to nail down their rights under the known Kieft, not knowing what Stuyvesant would do. There certainly was a flurry of activity shortly before Stuyvesant arrived. Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com