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BILL OF LADING for seven cases of goods loaded at Curaçao for New Netherland

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I, the undersigned Dirck Jansen van Oldenburgh, skipper, next to God, of my ship named Den Nieuw Neederlantsen Indiaen, [i] hereby acknowledge to have received under the deck of my aforesaid ship from the honorable lord vice-director Mathias Beck, for the account of the honorable Company, seven cases with this distinguishing mark and numbers [ GWC 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,40, 54 ],[ii] which I accept and promise to deliver, after the safe arrival of my aforesaid ship in Nieuw Neederlandt, to the honorable lords Petrus Stuyvesant, director-general, and councillors there. In acknowledgement hereof, three identical receipts have been executed, of which the others are invalid when one has been satisfied. Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, the 21st of July 1661.[iii]

Skipper Dierck Janse

Notes

This is De Nieuw Nederlantse Indiaen.
These markings appeared in the margin of the original. GWC abbreviates Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie, i.e., "Chartered West India Company."
Documents 72 & 78 are identical as are the following 73 & 80.

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.