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Before me, Cornelis van Ruyven, appointed secretary in New Netherland in the service of the Chartered West India Company, appeared Jacob Cohen, as principal, together with Salvador d'Andrade, who offers himself as surety and co-principal, under renunciation of the benificium ordinis excussionis, which said appearers, one for all and each as principal, promise to tender and pay to the honorable fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven, or to those who may be entitled thereto, those certain 11 casks of tobacco, the weight whereof shall be specified below, which have been seized by the said honorable fiscal on board the ship New Amsterdam. on pretense, as he says, that they were smuggled by the appearer, Jacob Cohen, or in place thereof the sum of twelve hundred guilders, if it shall be proved and be found to be proper. For all that is hereinbefore written the appearers respectively bind their persons and properties, present and future, without exception, submitting the same to the control of all courts and judges. In testimony whereof this is signed by the appearers with their own hands Actum, Fort Amsterdam in New Nether land, the 23d of December anno 1655.

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Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.