Document: RECEIPT of provisions and materials received from New Netherland

I the undersigned Laurens van Ruyven, commissary, acknowledge to have duly received aboard the yacht De Musch, by Jan Pietersen Groot van Dockum, from the honorable director-general and council of Nieuw Neederlandt, for the account of the honorable lords-directors of the Chartered West India Company, the following goods, to wit:

Two hundred and seven skipples of wheat.

One hundred and eighty-nine skipples of peas.

Fourteen barrels containing 2974 pounds of oxmeat.

Six barrels containing 1182 pounds of bacon.

150 pine planks. 20 pine beams. 8 small ditto.

All of which has been so scrupulously found here, according to the above-stated specifications; therefore, in acknowledgement of the truth thereof, I have signed this with my own hand on the island of Curacao in Fort Amsterdam, the 15th of November 1664.

[ Endorsed: ] Receipt for provisions and items received from Nieu Nederlant on the Companys yacht De Musch.

[ Addressed in English: ] To the Heere P Stuyvesant & A. Hinyosa from the company.

L. van Ruyven, commissary

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