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Horses belonging to the Chartered West India Company and the general owners of the ship De Vergulde Vos, of which Jacob Jansen Huys is skipper, coming from Curaçao:^[1]

Debit

Feb 12	For the specified horses received from the ship De Vos under Jacob Jansen Huys, one tun of goat's meat traded for grass for the horses at	lb.[2]	100
	For our profit and loss for the sale and receipt of 23 600 lb. at 10 per 100 wt.		2 360
	For the net income beyond our losses		21 140
		Total lb.	23 600

The Chartered West India Company Debit

March 4	To five half hogsheads, five hogsheads, one pipe, one aem and one chest with muscavados sugar freighted in the aforesaid ship weighing together net	lb.	541
	To balance in order to close this the Company still owes	lb.	515
		Total lb.	1057

Credit

Feb. 12	By the sale to various people as follows:
	By the honorable General de Sale	3 at lb.	3300
	By Mr. Girauld	2 at lb.	3000
	By Colonel Jean Watkins	2 at "	3900
	By Jean Watkins	1 at "	2000
	By Piere Michel	1 at "	1800
	By Jacob Trom	1 at "	1400
	By Reinier de Vries	1 at "	1000
	By Gillis Clein	1 at "	800
	By Jan Doncker	3 at "	3000
	By Guilliame de Baye	2 at "	1400
	By Johannes de Rasiere	2 at "	2000
	Horses	19 sugar lb.	23 600

Contra Credit

Feb. 12

By half of the net income of 19 horses, which amounts to 21140 lb.,

totaling

lb.

10 570

Greetings from your honors’

Notes

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.