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This is the mark of Adriaen Dirrcksz de Vries, " On this 21st day of August, 1654, before me, Joannes Dijckman, in the service of the honorable Chartered West India Company, commissary and vice director of Fort Orange, there appeared the honorable Wijnant Gerritsz kistemaker, who declared that he has agreed with Adrian Dirricksz de Vries on a certain exchange of their lots, provided that Wijnant Gerritsz, at his own cost, shall take down the shed erected on the lot of the aforesaid Adriaen Dirricksz and move it to his lot, and providing moreover that Adriaen Dirricksz shall receive, and be paid him by Wijnant Gerritsz, four beavers, so that from that time on or at the first opportunity mutual possession shall be had of the aforesaid lots both parties renouncing completely claim to the others lot, under a pledge of their persons and estates, real and personal, present and future, and further in accordance with the law and as acknowledgment of the truth, without deceit or guile, the parties sign this with their own hands in Fort Orange, on the aforesaid date. Having built upon his lot and f6:- for having fought to be paid within Wijnant Gerritsen is ordered to pay a fine of f25:- to the officer for not Wynant Van der Poel Birth Wynant Van der Poel was born in 1617.įirst Mention of Wijnant Living in the New World 1.4 First Mention of Wijnant Living in the New World.