On this second day of November 1682 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public residing in New Albany, and before the hereinafter named witnesses, Symon Volckersz1 of the one, part and Jacob Caspersz2 of the other part, who acknowledge hereby that in love and friendship they have agreed and contracted in manner following, to wit: Symon Volckersz acknowledges that he has exchanged with Jacob Caspersz the first lot (called De Hoeck),3 with the just half of the lot on which Symon Volckersz now dwells at Schanechtade, with all that stands thereon on the west side next to Labatie; for which said Jacob Caspersz has given in exchange to Symon Volckersz all his rights as well in land as buildings on the Noormans Kill, and they promise to make conveyance and delivery to each other in the middle of next April 1683.
Hereto the aforesaid contracting parties bind their persons and estates, real and personal, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges, and have subscribed this with their, own hands (in presence of Willem' Gysbersz and Claes Graeff, called as witnesses hereto), in New Albany, dated as above.
This is the mark X of SYMON VOLCKERSZ, made with his own hand
JACOB KASPERSE
Willem Ghysberise
Claes Andriesz Grdef
Quod attestor
ADRIAEN VAN ILPENDAM, Not. Pub.
1 Symon Volckertsen, Veeder, alias de Bakkef, see History of the Schenectady
Patent, p. 202-3.
2 Jacob Casparsen Halenbeck.
3 Also called " De bakker's hoeck," being the foremost farm numbered 9,
on the south side of the Mohawk river; see History of the Schenectady
Patent, p. 80, and map opposite p. 59.
Early Records of the City and County of Albany Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Volume 3 (Notarial Papers 1 and 2, 1660-1696) translated from the original Dutch by Jonathan Pearson. page 545.