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MANIFEST of goods loaded at Curaçao for New Netherland

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Manifest of the merchandise loaded aboard the yacht De Musch, whose skipper is Jan Pietersen Groot from Doccum, bound for the Mannhatans in Nieuw Neederlandt.[1]

The lord vice-director Matthias Beck consigns to the honorable lord director-general and councillors there:

Two cases with merchandise, freight  f [      ]  

Item, to Hendrick van der Wall:

Two cases with merchandise, freight  f 20,—,— 

Willem Juyst to Jeronimo Ebbingh:

Seven cases of merchandise, for freight..............  f 12— 

Laurens van Ruyven to Jan de Decker:

Two small cases, for freight  f 1, 4 

Done on Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, 28 April 1664.

L. van Ruyven, commissary

Notes

Verso of the second page is marked MM which designates the record book for Curaçao, 1643-1664.

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.