Document: ACCOUNT (debit-credit) of Dirck Jansen van Oldenborgh, skipper of De Nieuw Nederlantse Indiaen, with a draft on Petrus Stuyvesant for payment of balance to the aforesaid skipper

Praise God in the year of our Lord 1661 at Curacao in Fort Amsterdam.

Dirck Janseji van Oldenborgh, skipper on the ship Den N. Neederlandtsen Indiaen, debit:

Praise God in the year of our Lord 1661 at Curacao in Fort Amsterdam. Against credit

The honorable lords Petrus Stuyvesant director-general, and councillors in Nieuw Neederlandt be pleased to pay to Dirck Jansen van Oldenborgh, skipper on the ship Den Nieuw Neederlandtsen Indiaen, the sum of two hundred Carolus guilders which is due to him by balance of the above account, which is also cleared hereby on the Companys books.

Curacao in Fort Amsterdam, 21 July 1661.

After closing the above account, the aforesaid Dirck Jansen van Oldenborgh is still owed the following, which must be balanced against what is owed him in the aforesaid account:

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