Document: Order fixing the pay of two sailors for a voyage to Curaçao

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0878

Description

Order. Fixing the pay of two sailors for a voyage to Curaçao.

Document Date

1658-05-20

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-05-20

Document Type

Order

Minutes

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Translation

[several lines lost] on the yacht [ ] served [ ] at the request of lord Becx came to make a journey to Aruba, and then, coming back to Curaçao, to leave from there to Holland; requesting that for that time they might be granted 12 guilders per month, but if they would go again to Curaçao with the yacht that they would be granted 13 guilders per month from now on.

After deliberation it is agreed that during their absence from Curaçao they will be granted 12 guilders per month to date, and on this date they are hired again for the journey to Curaçao at 13 guilders per month. Dated 20 May 1658.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0878.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.