Document: Judgment in the case of David Ferrera vs. Peter Dircksen Waterhond

David Frera, plaintiff, against Pieter Dircksz Waterhont, skipper on the ship N. Amsterdam, defendant. The plaintiff appearing at the session with a complaint about the attachment that he had made on the defendant, requested that it be declared valid until the time that the aforesaid skipper has made good to him on his signed bill of lading for 40 anckers of spirits. The defendant answers that he has delivered them to the honorable Company’s warehouse, but under a mark other than that of the Jew’s mark as it appears on the bill of lading and the general manifest.

The director general and councilors having heard the parties, refer the plaintiff, David Ferera, to the definitive judgment pronounced on the 14th of this month concerning this dispute,[1] and release the skipper from attachment. Ady ut supra. Was signed: P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, Cor. van Tienhoven.