The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 88 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Notwithstanding [allowing] the said Lion Gardiner to trade with the Indyans for Corneorany Kinde of victuals for the use of the Plantation and no farther : and if the said Lion Gardiner shall trade in Wampum from the Indyans hee shall pay for every fadome twenty shillings and also the said Lion Gardiner and his successors shall pay to the said Earle or his deputyes a yearly acknowledgment being the sum of Five Pounds, (being lawfully demanded) of lawfull money of England, or such commoditys as at that time shall pass for money in the country; and the first payment to begin on the last of Oct. 1643, the three former yeares being advanced for the use of the said James Farrett. In witness whereof the party has put his hands and seal the tenth day of March 1639. [o. s.] (Signed) James Farrett (seal.) Sealed and delivered in the presence of ffulk Davis