Document: RECEIPT for provisions and materials sent from New Netherland to Curacao aboard the Nieuw Amstel

I, the undersigned, acknowledge to have received in the Companys magazine from Jacob Jansen Huys, skipper of the galiot Nieuw Amstel, these following goods, which were sent here by the honorable lord director-general Petrus Stuyvesant; done in the presence of Jan Jacobsen Bruyn, ensign, and Johannes A. Wassenaer thereto commissioned.

Six barrels of bacon containing 1115 pounds net. Six barrels of meat containing 1152 pounds net. 49 skipples of wheat. 49 skipples of white peas. 4 skipples of gray peas. 11 barrels of beer altogether. Three anckers of brandy. 44 pine planks

We, the undersigned, have signed this with our own hands as testimony to the truth.

The 2nd of May 1659 on the island of Curacao in Fort Amsterdam.

As witnesses:

L. van Ruyven
J. Jacobsen Bruyn
Johannes A. Wassenaer

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