Document: BILL OF LADING for 224 pieces of eight sent to Petrus Stuyvesant

I, the undersigned Jacob Jansen Huys, skipper on the galiot Nieuw Amstel, hereby acknowledge to have received from the hands of the honorable vice- director Matthias Beck for the account and risk of the honorable lord director-general Petrus Stuyvesant, two hundred and twenty-four good pieces of eight and sixteen stivers,[1] which I, the undersigned, promise to deliver into the hands of the aforesaid honorable lord director-general as soon as I am able to arrive at the Manhatans in N. Nederlandt. In testimony thereof I have signed three identical receipts with my own hand, of which the others shall be invalid when the first is satisfied

Curacao in Fort Amsterdam, the 8th of May 1660.

Jacob Jansen Huys

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