1744 Contract
October 20, 1744
Martin von Radom Radomski on this date granted his Gembitzer Holländer a new privilege. The estate now comprised 27 ¾ full size farms. The size of both the Schoolmaster and Innkeeper farms were reduced to a half size farm each which was free of rent. Each full-size farmer could keep 50 sheep, on which a tithe of lamb was payable. The yearly rent was increased to 65 Tympfen per full farm. Woyciech Kienic (Albert Kienitz), Jan Bech (Johann Bech), Frydrych Bremer, and Krystyan Bene (Christian Benz) were to pay 5 Tympfen less in rent because their land was sandy and remote. In addition, 12 days of manual labor had to be performed annually for each full-size farm, and 2 bushels of oats and 2 chickens provided to the landlord. Since the Holländer were of the Protestant faith, they were permitted to have a Kantor read the Gospel. When the farmers rejected his harsh measures, Radomski drove away their livestock eventually forcing them to accept his new charter.
After the second partition of Poland in 1793 the farmers sued to have their original charter reinstated. They were successful and a new new charter was agreed to.
Primary Source: Quellenband zur Geschichte der zweiten deutschen Ostsiedlung im westlichen Netzegau by Werner Schulz 1938