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Manifest of the merchandise shipped by order of the honorable director Matthias Beck aboard the yacht Den Nieuw Neederlandtsen Indiaen, with skipper Direck Jansen, consigned to the honorable lord director-general and council in Nieuw Neederlandt, 20 July 1661 on the island of Curaçao.

35	One chest containing	40 pieces of coarse cloth
36	One ditto	20 ditto
37	One ditto	36 ditto
38	One ditto	18 ditto
39	One ditto	21 ditto
		135 pieces, 2066 ells at 4 st. per ell	ƒ 413, 4,-
40	One chest containing:
	1 piece of gray cloth, 16 ells at 3½ gl. per ell	f56
	1 piece of brown ditto, 20¼ ells at 42 st. per ell	f42,10
	4 pieces of blue ditto, together 83¼ ells at 42 st. per ell	f174,16
			f273, 6,–
54	One case containing:
	1 piece of gray cloth, 15 ells at 63 st.	f47,5
	1 piece of black ditto, 19 ells at 5 gl. per ell	f 95,–
	1 piece of gray ditto, 30 ells at 63 st	f94,10
	1 piece of brown ditto, 40 ells at 42 st	f84,–
	2 pieces of baize, together 60¼ ells at 3¼ gl.	f 195,16
	317 ells of cassiovados [1] at 13 st.	f206,1
			f722,12
		Total	f1409,2

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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.