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I, the undersigned, acknowledge to have received in the Company’s magazine from Jacob Jansen Huys, skipper of the galiot Nieuw Amstel, these following goods, which were sent here by the honorable lord director-general Petrus Stuyvesant; done in the presence of Jan Jacobsen Bruyn, ensign, and Johannes A. Wassenaer thereto commissioned.

Six barrels of bacon containing 1115 pounds net.
Six barrels of meat containing 1152 pounds net.
49 skipples of wheat.
49 skipples of white peas.
4¾ skipples of gray peas.
11 barrels of beer altogether.
Three anckers of brandy.
44 pine planks

We, the undersigned, have signed this with our own hands as testimony to the truth.

The 2nd of May 1659 on the island of Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam.

As witnesses:

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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.