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Memorandum of what is required here for the island of Curaçao from Nieuw Neederlandt and what is to be expected from there aboard the Company’s yacht De Musch:

Wheat, rye, peas, bacon and meat.

Pine planks and beams for the fort and soldiers’ quarters.

Beams and timbers for new houses etc.

Clapboards suitable for large and small barrels.

Thick planks for the batteries.

Gun platform timbers of 2^l/₂, 3 and 3½ inches thick.

Oak planks suitable for re-bottoming the Company’s large and small barks of 1 ¼, 1½ and 1^¾ inches thick; and also, large and small knee-braces for the same barks and whatever other woodwork, both large and small, needed for a vessel.

Wainscotting for the rowing vessels of one inch thick.

One new horse mill and woodwork to repair the old one.

Gunstocks for muskets to be of service to the garrison here.

Six oxcarts.

Two plows.

By order of the honorable lord director,

Done on Curaçao, 26 April 1664. L. van Ruyven, commissary

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.