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Letter from Jacob Alrichs to director Stuyvesant

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Noble, Honorable, Esteemed, Wise and very Prudent Lord:

My Lord, our latest letter was sent overland on the 3rd of this month,[1] by which your letter of the 18th of last month was in part answered. I have received the duffels, blankets and linen which together with the provisions are to be deducted against the freight charges for the galliot. The linen, however, was not at all desired. The galliot shall be leased as it is presently manned, fitted and provisioned for the period of three months, beginning two or three days after its arrival at Manhattan, to sail to and from the island of Curacao without stopping anywhere it returns again to New Amsterdam and is unloaded, at the most eight or ten days after arrival. For this the lessee shall pay 500 guilders in beavers or in goods at beaver-valuation; against which the duffels, blankets, linen and peas already received and those still to be sent, according to your letter, are to be deducted. The lessee shall also defray the expenses [      ], the food for [      ] crew and the skipper [      ]. We understand [      ] two fugitives [      ] Jacobs and Jan [      ] period of six...

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...to earn more for what he is indebted than is due to him, who was taken against orders to Manhattan by Karreman instead of to the Hoerekil. The other one intended to escape quietly in Karreman's yacht but after being discovered and put in prison, he broke out and ran away. Therefore, we respectfully request that these two persons be returned to us at our expense. We also inform you that Domine Welius passed away on the 9th of this month, to all our grief and regret, after being sick a few days.

Herewith is sent de Hinnioyos[      ] declaration on the query by Reindert Jansen Hoorn about the bill of exchange, in order to inform you of the basis for the case.[2] Whereby, after greetings to you and your loved ones, I commend you to God's protection; remaining

J. Alrichs

[ Addressed: ] Noble, Honorable, highly Esteemed, Wise, Prudent and very Discrete Lord. My Lord Petrus Stuyvesant, Director-General of New Netherland, Curacao etc. Residing in Amsterdam in New Netherland

By an Indian

Notes

See 18:76 for this letter.

For a notorial record of this case, see RSL, 35.

References

Translation: Gehring, C. trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. 18-19, Delaware Papers: Dutch Period, 1648-1664 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1981).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.