Document: Agreement of Messrs. Van der Grist, Schutt, Anthony Loockermans and Steenwyck, partners, with the director and council, for the charter of the ship Golden Shark for a voyage to the West Indies

to have had bacon in no other houses [ ] does not know who had the bacon brought to him here; his [ ] and another young man, who lives at Jan de Kuyper's fetched the bacon from Cornelis de Timmerman and brought it to his place. He says that he sometimes had his wife's brother fetch a ham. Done at New Amsterdam in New Netherland, 25 November 1654.

My lord.

1.

The associates have considered the favorable terms which the honorable director-general offers for the ship named de gulden Hay to be chartered for four to six months for employment in the West India trade, whether it be Barbados, Curacao or some Caribbean islands. We also thank your honor for promoting commerce by providing the ship with rigging and tackling, as well as having it caulked and made ready to sail.[221]

Concerning the first proposition: the director-general and council grant the petitioners the ship, de Hay, with its anchors, rope, sails, cordage, and all the rigging and tackling required for a seaworthy ship for the period of four months, beginning from the day on which the aforesaid ship weighs anchor at the usual watering place[222] and sets sail, in order, according to the request, to make a voyage to the Caribbean and the Curacao islands. If the voyage should take longer, they are to give a compensation for the excess time, which will be determined by impartial persons knowledgeable of such things.