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MANIFEST of goods loaded aboard the Nieuw Amstel bound for New Netherland
In the Galiot Nieuwer Amstel, 1659.
Manifest of the goods loaded aboard the galiot N. Amstel, upon which Jacob Jansen Huys is skipper, destined to go to Amsterdam in Nieuw Nederlandt.
At the island of St. Cristoffel
Augustinis Hermans to N. Varlet and Company
10 barrels containing | 3668 lb. sugar |
1 chest containing | 550 lb. sugar |
1 barrel containing | 68 lb. cotton |
Item to himself
1 barrel containing | 166 lb. sugar |
2 barrels of molasses |
Pieter van Loo to Tieleman van Vleck
1 cask of sugar | } provisions |
1 cask of lemon juice |
At the island of Curaçao Lord Vice Director Beck to the Lord D.-General Stuyvesant
7 barrels containing 3789 lb. sugar
24000 lb. dyewood
7¾ last salt
Item to the aforesaid Lord General
1 small chest of sugar | } provisions |
1 chest of salt |
Item to the lords N. de Sille and P Tonneman
1 small chest of sugar
Item to Do. Driesius
1 chest of sugar
The Lord Director Beck to Johannes Verbrugge
1 small chest of sugar | } provisions |
1 small barrel of salt |
Item to A. Hermans and N. Varlet
1 barrel of sugar, provisions
Item to Cornelis van Ruyven
1 small barrel of sugar, provisions
Lourens van Ruyven to C. van Ruyven
1 barrel of conch
Do. Siperius to H. Jansen van der Vin
1 small barrel of sugar, provisions
Mr. Vaendr.[i] to Daniel Litsco
1 barrel of conch
Franck Bruyn to Dr. Hans Kiersteede
1 barrel of conch
Item to Johannes Verbrugge
1 barrel of conch
Augustinis Hermans to N. Varlet and company
23¼ last salt
The following is what was loaded at the South River of Nieu Nederlant before Fort Nieuwer Amstel, namely:
Augustinis Hermans
14 bear skins | 2 half beavers |
10 tanned deer hides | 12 untanned deer skins |
2 fox, 1 lion skin | 4 elk skins |
Salemon Hansen
3 bundles of deer skins, 66 pieces | 1 pack of bear skins, 14 pieces |
18 elk skins, 6 pieces | 1 chest, 1 sack of bedding |
Mr. van Gasel
3 bundles of deer skins, 76 pieces | 1 small pack in mats[ii] |
12 elk skins | 1 small pack of beavers |
Mr. Beeckman[iii]
1 small pack of beavers, unmarked | |
1 trunk 1 tun | 1 small pack of deer skins |
1 small pack of deer skins | 1 ditto deer skins |
Jacob the Company’s sergeant to Pieter Rudolphus
2 packs of deer skins
1 small pack of beavers
In the galiot Nieuwer
Amstel, the 16th of
June 1659