Translation
MANIFEST of goods loaded aboard the Nieuw Amstel bound for New Netherland
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Inventory of the Caribbean Moscovy sugar sent aboard the galiot Nieuw Amstel to the honorable lord director-general Petrus Stuyvesant in Nieuw Nederlandt for the account of the honorable lords directors at the chamber of Amsterdam, with the distinguishing marks and following numbers:
No. 1 | 1 barrel weighing | gross | 935 | lb., tare | 100 | lb. |
No. 2 | 2 One barrel | gross | 308 | lb., tare | 80 | lb. |
No. 3 | 3 One barrel | gross | 446 | lb., tare | 80 | lb. |
No. 4 | 4 One barrel | gross | 430 | lb., tare | 80 | lb. |
No. 5 | 5 One barrel | gross | 799 | lb., tare | 44 | lb. |
No. 6 | 6 One barrel | gross | 1106 | lb., tare | 80 | lb. |
No. 7 | 7 One barrel | gross | 255 | lb., tare | 26 | lb. |
Gross | 4279 | lb., tare | 490 | lb. | ||
Tare | 490 | lb. | ||||
Net | 3789 | lb. |
Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam,
the 16th of May 1659
M. Beck