TITLE: Articles of Agreement - Executors for William Richardson with Evert Byvanck and Johannes Hoagland
DOCUMENT ID: BFP 2018.1.01-18
DATE: 15 July 1695 (Old Style) / 25 July 1675 (New Style)
John Bowne, John Rodman, Samuel Palmer, and Samuel Haight, executors for the estate of William Richardson, sell Evert Byvanck and Johannes Hoagland some property of the deceased, which is currently leased by Joseph Haviland for 500 pounds New York money. The property consists of two mills on the Bronx River with the land belonging to them, including a half share of fresh meadow and two parcels of salt meadow; two enslaved "negromen" named Jack and Dick; and six oxen with equipment.