Document: LETTER from Matthias Beck, vice-director of Curacao to Petrus Stuyvesant

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Noble [ ] Valiant, WisePrudent [ ] veryDiscreet Lord.

My Lord. Whereas the ship Speramundij could not or dared not put in here at the Bay of St. Jan in order to take on salt there, and as a result decided to go over to Bonairo to take on salt; therefore, it was reported to the commissary, and orders were issued to dispatch the aforesaid ship as quickly as possible after its arrival there. Although it is doubtful whether the Companys sloop will be able to meet the aforesaid ship there, [ ] I am sending along with some necessities these few lines to be directed to your honor as a cover to the letter to the honorable lords-superiors, being duplicates of those which departed with Den Coninck Salomen and St. Jan directly from here to the fatherland on the 3rd of September. I have left them open with the humble request that after your honor has made use of them, that they be sealed and sent over with your honors letters to the lords-superiors as soon as possible; and whereas nothing else has happened, since the other [ ] here, than was considered in the same letter, I shall refer to it for the sake of brevity.[1]

Hereby

Noble, Honorable, Valiant, Wise, Prudent and very Discreet Lord, I commend your honor, after our humble respects, together with Mrs. Stuyvesant and all those whom your honor holds dear, to the merciful protection of the Almighty and remain as long as I live,

Curacao, in Fort Amsterdam,the 10th of September 1659.

My Lord, your honors faithfuland devoted friend and servant.

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The 4th of March.

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