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REGISTER of goods loaded at Curaçao for New Netherland

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1665 Register of the goods loaded at Curaçao:

Gul.  St. 
For Peterus Stuyvesand 4 barrels 
2 pots  14 
1 pack 
Sauwel Rissert, predikant[1] 1 pot  
1 barrel  3 
Mr. Verbruggen [2]  
2 barrels 
1 small pot  6 
Nicolaes Valet  
1 pot  1  10 
Gerrit van Tricht  
1 pot  1  10 
Jacobus Backer  
1 barrel of conch  4 
For Peterus Stuyvesandt  
2 barrels of conch for freight, 
9 guilders a piece  18 
Commissary Van Ruyven [3]  
1 barrel of conch  9 
Some conch distributed among the crew. 
Skipper's goods 
2 barrels of syrup 
1 hog's head about half full of sugar 
1 barrel of plums 
350 conch 
1 small piece of cloth[4]  
13 last of salt; however, considerably dissolved by some severe weather; shall show it etc. 
A hammock for Juffrow Stuyvesant  
Jan Poppen

Notes

Probably Saul Richard(s). No information is available on him.
i.e. Johannes Pietersen Verbrugge.
Nicolaes van Ruyven, the commissary on Curaçao, placed his signature above this column of goods as authorization to dispense them from the stores.
i.e., baai, a cloth similar to flannel.
i.e. Jan Pietersen Poppen, skipper of the galiot De Hoop.

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.