Source: Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638- 1674, compiled by E. B. O'Callaghan, 1868
"The Schout and Commissaries of the Village of Wiltwyck, in the Esopus, having exhibited to me, the undersigned, in my quality of Director General of the Province of New Netherland, the account, both of the materials and wages for labor already due and earned on the new house for the Minister, and requesting at the same time, advice and consent how, and in what wise, the same is to be procured from the Commonality, to the end that the Creditors of the delivered materials for wages and labor may obtain what is due them, it is hereby consented and Ordained, that the said Schout and Commissaries shall have power to levy and collect from every Morgen [1 morgen = about 2 acres] of land, whether of pasture or tillage land, which any one about the aforesaid Village occupies or claims as his own, one Rix dollar per Morgen, Beaver value, in good Wheat, payable one-half down, and the other half, without fail, next summer; and, further, from the other Inhabitants, who possess only Lots and no Lands, according to their means. And the one and the other being heard in our presense thereupon are assessed in manner as follows:
Jurriaen Westvael, tenant of Balthasaer Lasar Stuyvesants bouwery, containing 25 morgens.......... 62 florins
The Honorable Director General [Pieter Stuyvesant?] for a point, 12 morgens.......... 30 florins
Jurriaen Westvael, for his own lands, 28 morgens..........70 florins
Thomas Chambers, 2 bouweries, each 40 morgens.......... 200 florins
Evert Pels, his bouwery, 36 morgens.......... 90 florins
Albert Heymans [Roosa], on the bouwery of Jacob Janse Stol's widow, 30 morgens.......... 90 florins
Roellof Swartwout, tenant on the bouwery of Jacob Janse Stol's widow, containing 43 morgens.......... 90 florins
Cornelis Barentsen Slecht, tenant on the bouery of Mme. d'Hulter, 64 morgens.......... 160 florins
Cornelis Barentsen Slecht's own claimed land for which he has neither survey nor patent, estimated at 25 morgens.......... 62 florins
Mme. de Hulter's unsurveyed pasture land, estimated at 25 morgens.......... 62 florins
Albert Gysbert's land, 20 morgens.......... 50 florins
Aert Jacob's land, 47 morgens.......... 117 florins
Tjerck Claesen's [De Witt] land, 50 morgens........... 125 florins
Aert Pietersen Tack, 20 morgens.......... 40 florins
Michiel Foure, 4 morgens.......... 10 florins
The following house lots of those who have no farmlands
Andries van der Sluys, lot.......... 10 florins
Jan Aerts, smith, voluntarily offers.......... 20 florins
Michiel Foure.......... 12 florins
Jan Broerse [Decker?].......... 10 florins
Jan the Brabander.......... 10 florins
Andries Baerents.......... 12 florins
Hendrick Cornelisse, assessed.......... 20 florins
Hendrick Jochemse [Schoonmaker], offers.......... 20 florins
Harmen Hendricx.......... 12 florins
Jan Jansen, carpenter, assessed.......... 10 florins
Jacob Barents, offers............ 12 florins
Jacob Joosten, offers.......... 12 florins
Pieter van aelen, assessed.......... 10 florins
Mattys Roelofse, offers........... 15 florins
Jacob Burhamse, offers.......... 20 florins
Gerrit van Campen.......... 10 florins
Anthony Creupel [Crispell].......... 10 florins
Albert Gerrits.......... 10 florins
Baerent Gerrits..........10 florins
Jacob Blancon [might this actually be Matthew Blanchon? He was known to be in Kingston at the time and I have never seen a record of a Jacob Blancon before].......... 10 florins
Jan de Backer offers 1 thousand bricks
William Janse.......... 12 florins
It is stipulated, in regard to the Lands, that if hereafter by survey, there be found a greater or fewer number of acres [sic, probably for morgens], the owners shall pay the surplus on the returned contents and receive back what it falls short, according to the showing of their returns of survey and Patents. The tax on the Lots shall be discharged and paid immediately in light money.
Thus done in the Village of Wiltwyck, present the inhabitants aforesaid, this 12 November, 1661."