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Note of the director and council of Curaçao in favor of Willem de Key
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I, the undersigned, Luycas Rodenborch, provisional director of the Curaçao islands, and the council, on the part of the West India Company, acknowledge that we are indebted to Mr. Willem de Key in the sum of five thousand two hundred and fifty Carolus guilders for goods, provisions and merchandise delivered by him, which sum of 5,250 guilders we, the director and council, promise to pay in horses or salt, the horses at one hundred and fifty guilders apiece and the salt at thirty guilders a last,[1] to be delivered on board. It is also stipulated, if the island should be captured by any enemy, that the aforesaid de Key or his agent is to demand payment from the directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam. For the performance of what is above written we, the director and council, bind the property of the Company here. In witness of the truth we have signed three notes of the same tenor, one being paid the others to be of no value. Done on the island of Curaçao, in Fort Amsterdam, the 1st of October anno 1646. Signed: L: Rodenborch, Jacob Loper, Jan Clasen Bel, Laurens Cristiaensen, with this X mark, Carel Verbrugge, Piter Hendricksz.