Translation
RECEIPT of Jan Harmensen Prins for various goods
I, the undersigned, Jan Harmensz Prins, skipper of the yacht Diemen acknowledge to have received from the commissary Laurens van Ruyven the following goods from the Company’s magazine:
One small barrel and 36 kan of groats for ship’s provisions
Two skipples of the same for the parakeets
38 pine planks
One anker of vinegar
260 pounds of old rope
15 fathoms of hawsers of 48 strands
20 large and small blocks
One casting anchor
Curaçao in Fort
Amsterdam on the
10th of September 1658
Was signed:
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.
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