Document: BOND of Captain John Allen securing his debt to Matthias Beck

I, the undersigned Johan Alin, captain on the ketch named Rebecca, presently lying here within the harbor of Curacao, hereby acknowledge to be honestly indebted to the honorable lord Matthias Beck, vice-director over the Curacao 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 honors 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. Curacao 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.

Was signed: John Allen
Nicolaes Hack
L. van Ruyven

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