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RECEIPT of provisions and materials from Jacob Jansz Huys, skipper of the Nieuw Amstel

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I, the undersigned Laurens van Ruyven, commissary, hereby acknowledge to have received from Jacob Jansz Huys, skipper on the galiot Nieuwer Amstel, for the account of the Company, the following items:

71  beams 
156  timbers 
27  hogheads  } wheat, altogether 250 skipples 
1  pipe 
1000  hoopsticks 
8  pieces of crooked timber 
14  tuns of bacon as well as meat 
2  wagons 
2  pipes  } peas, altogether 175 skipples 
2  chests 
12  hogsheads 
2  tuns of meat delivered to De Eyckenboom by skipper Jacob[i]  

The following is for the private account of the honorable lord director-general:

Two barrels of mackerel 
One hogshead of meat  net 420 lb. 
Two tuns of the same, both  net 520 lb 
940 lb. 

In acknowledgment of the truth thereof I have signed this with my own hand on the island of Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, 8 May 1660.

L. van Ruyven

Notes

i.e., Jacob Jansz Huys. It was common for the Dutch to use only the Christian name after a title denoting occupation.

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.