Translation
Letter from the Directors in Amsterdam to the Director General and Council
The 28th of December 1657.
Honorable, Prudent, Beloved, Faithful.
Whereas we have sent off our general letters and attachments with the ships St. Jan and Gulden Otter, this shall only serve to cover the accompanying manifests and lists of private goods and persons[1] loaded on board and going over in the ship the Vergulde Beer, upon whose unloading it is recommended that your honors keep close watch so that the Company is not diminished in its recognition fees or that the Indians, their enemies, do not come to be armed, to their detriment. Whereupon we rely,
Honorable, Prudent, Beloved, Faithful, and commending your honors to God's protection, we remain
Your good friends.
By order of the lords directors of the West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, the
28th of December 1657.
[ ADDRESSED: ]
To the director general and councilors in New Netherland
[ REVERSE: ]
By the ship the Beer.
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