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I, the undersigned Dirck Jansen van Oldenburch, skipper, next to God, of my ship named Den Nieuw Nederlantschen Indiaen, presently lying within the harbor of the island of Curaçao, ready to sail to N. Nederlandt, hereby acknowledge to have received from the honorable lord vice-director Matthias Beck for the account of the honorable Company, ten healthy slaves or male Negroes, which I accept and promise to deliver, after the safe arrival of my aforesaid ship in N. Nederlandt, to the honorable lord director-general and councilors there. In testimony hereof, three identical bonds have been executed, of which the others are invalid when one is satisfied.

Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, 31 August 1660.

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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.