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INVENTORY of goods brought to Curaçao from Guinea, 1655, destined for New Netherland

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List of the goods or merchandise, among other things, which came to the island of Curaçao aboard the ship De Pietas from Guinea and are now to be sent from there to Nieuw Nederlandt.

16  pieces of brown cloth  at 63 st.  ƒ50:8 
15  pieces of gray cloth  at 63 st.  ƒ47:5 
19  pieces of black ditto  at 5 guilders  ƒ95 
30  pieces of gray ditto  at 63 st.  ƒ94:10 
40  pieces of brown ditto  at 42 st.  ƒ84 
83 ¼  pieces of blue cloth  at 42 st.  ƒ174:16 
20 ¼  pieces of brown ditto   at 42 st.  ƒ42:10 
13  bundles of fine serve in various colors  at 37 ƒ per el  ƒ481:00 
13  bundles of prince serge  at 27 st.  ƒ351:00 
bundles of colored serge  355 pieces at 25 st.  ƒ443:15 
bundles of ditto black 
60  pair of colored stockings  at 44 st.  ƒ122: 
47  pair of gray ditto  at 54 st.  ƒ128:2 
48  pair of women's ditto, incarnadine  at 25 st.  ƒ60 
238  pieces of yarn, watered camlet  at 16 st.  ƒ190:12 
ƒ2364:18 
Plus a 50 percent mark–up  ƒ1182:00 
ƒ3546:18 

References

Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., Curaçao Papers, 1640-1665 (New Netherland Research Center and the New Netherland Institute: 2011).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.