Translation
RECEIPT of provisions and materials received from New Netherland
I the undersigned Laurens van Ruyven, commissary, acknowledge to have duly received aboard the yacht De Musch, by Jan Pietersen Groot van Dockum, from the honorable director-general and council of Nieuw Neederlandt, for the account of the honorable lords-directors of the Chartered West India Company, the following goods, to wit:
Two hundred and seven skipples of wheat.
One hundred and eighty-nine skipples of peas.
Fourteen barrels containing 2974 pounds of oxmeat.
Six barrels containing 1182 pounds of bacon.
150 pine planks. 20 pine beams. 8 small ditto.
- horse mill with two stones for it.
- wheels for a cart.
All of which has been so scrupulously found here, according to the above-stated specifications; therefore, in acknowledgement of the truth thereof, I have signed this with my own hand on the island of Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, the 15th of November 1664.
[ Endorsed: ] Receipt for provisions and items received from Nieu Nederlant on the Company’s yacht De Musch.
[ Addressed in English: ] To the Heere P Stuyvesant & A. Hinyosa from the company.
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.
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