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Note of Job Aertsen in favor of Jan Claessen Damen
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I, Jop Aertsen, skipper,[1] acknowledge that I am indebted to Jan Klasen Damen in the sum of 24 guilders to purchase their clothes[2] with it, [ which sum I ] promise to pay, and to pay at the earliest on the 8th of Janusry 1642. Signed: Jop Arentsen.
Maurits Janse
Adriaen van Tienhoven
Job
Aertsen, or Arentsen, was the skipper of the ship Coninck David, which arrived at Manhattan on November 29,
1641. See Van Rensselaer Bowier MSS., pp. 555, 581-603.
Meaning,
probably, clothes for the sailors