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Resolution allowing Adriaen Blommaert to undertake a voyage to France

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No. 33  Extract taken from the register of resolutions by the lords directors of the West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam. 

Monday the 10th of May 1655.

Adriaen Blommaert, skipper on the ship Nieu Amsterdam, departing from here to New Netherland, requests, if he is unable to obtain a cargo in New Netherland for his return voyage, that he then be allowed to pick up a cargo in France so as not to diminish his agreed upon freight earnings. Done under surety before the Company's authorities.

C. van Seventer

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A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.