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I, the undersigned Johan Alin, captain on the ketch named Rebecca, presently lying here within the harbor of Curaçao, hereby acknowledge to be honestly indebted to the honorable lord Matthias Beck, vice-director over the Curaçao islands, for the sum of nine hundred and twelve Carolus guilders and seventeen stivers, for the balance on twenty horses and five Negroes purchased from his honor and received to my satisfaction; which 912 guilders 17 stivers I hereby promise to pay to the honorable lord director-general Petrus Stuyvesant in Nieuw Neederlandt or on his honor’s order upon request. In acknowledgment hereof three identical bonds have been written and signed in the presence of two credible witnesses, of which the others are invalid when one is satisfied. Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, the 7th of March 1661.

The aforesaid nine hundred and twelve guilders seventeen stivers amounts to three hundred and eighty Spanish pieces of eight, two and five sixth parts reales.

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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.