Document: BILL OF LADING for ten slaves loaded at Curacao for New Netherland

I, the undersigned Dirck Jansen van Oldenburch, skipper, next to God, of my ship named Den Nieuw Nederlantschen Indiaen, presently lying within the harbor of the island of Curacao, ready to sail to N. Nederlandt, hereby acknowledge to have received from the honorable lord vice-director Matthias Beck for the account of the honorable Company, ten healthy slaves or male Negroes, which I accept and promise to deliver, after the safe arrival of my aforesaid ship in N. Nederlandt, to the honorable lord director-general and councilors there. In testimony hereof, three identical bonds have been executed, of which the others are invalid when one is satisfied.

Curacao in Fort Amsterdam, 31 August 1660.

Dierck Jansen

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