Translation
BILL OF LADING for forty slaves loaded at Curaçao for New Netherland
I, the undersigned Dirck Jansen van Oldenborgh, skipper, next to God, of my ship named Den Nieuw Nederlantsen Indiaan, presently lying within the harbor of the island of Curaçao ready to sail to Nieuw Neederlant, hereby acknowledge to have received from the honorable lord vice-director Matthias Beck, for the honorable Company’s account, forty healthy slaves or Negroes; consisting of fifteen men, fourteen women, six boys and five girls, whom I have agreed to deliver, after the safe arrival of my aforesaid ship in Nieuw Neederlant, to the honorable lords Petrus Stuyvesant, director-general, and councillors there. In testimony thereof three identical receipts were issued of which the others are invalid when one is satisfied. Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, the 21st of July 1661.