Document: BILL OF LADING for seven cases of goods loaded at Curacao for New Netherland

I, the undersigned Dirck Jansen van Oldenburgh, skipper, next to God, of my ship named Den Nieuw Neederlantsen Indiaen, [i] hereby acknowledge to have received under the deck of my aforesaid ship from the honorable lord vice-director Mathias Beck, for the account of the honorable Company, seven cases with this distinguishing mark and numbers [ GWC 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,40, 54 ],[ii] which I accept and promise to deliver, after the safe arrival of my aforesaid ship in Nieuw Neederlandt, to the honorable lords Petrus Stuyvesant, director-general, and councillors there. In acknowledgement hereof, three identical receipts have been executed, of which the others are invalid when one has been satisfied. Curacao in Fort Amsterdam, the 21st of July 1661.[iii]

Skipper Dierck Janse

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