Appeared before me, Ludovicus Cobes, secretary of 
Albany, etc., in the presence of the honorable 
Heeren commissaries, Mons. Ryckart Van Rensselaer 
and Mr. Philip Pieterse Schuyler, Jan Janse 
Bleecker, burgher and inhabitant here, dwelling in 
Albany, who acknowledges that he is well, truly 
and honestly indebted and in arrears to Mr. Jan 
Clute, in the quantity of eighty-five whole and 
good merchantable beaver skins, reckoned at eight 
guilders a piece, growing out of the matter of two 
remaining installments on the purchase and payment 
of a certain house and lot, by the subscriber of 
him, bought according to contract thereof, dated 
5th of January, 1669, which aforesaid sum of 
eighty-five whole beavers, the subscriber promises 
to pay according to the tenor and contents of the 
same, in two installments of a half each, in the 
year 1670 and 1671, on the first of July; therefor 
pledging specially the aforesaid house and lot, 
and further, generally, his person and estate, 
personal and real, having and to have, nothing 
excepted, subject to all laws and judges, to 
recover the payment thereof, if need be, without 
loss or cost. 

Done in Albany, the 5th of January, 1669. 

              JAN JANSE BLEECKER. 
    
    
    R. V. Rensselaer. 
    Philip Pieterse Schuyler. 
  
    In my presence, 
                         
              LUDOVICUS COBES, Secretary.