Document: BILL OF LADING for salt loaded at Curacao for New Netherland

I, the undersigned, skipper on the galiot Nieuw Amstel hereby acknowledge to have received at the island of Curacao in my aforesaid galiot on behalf of the lords-directors of the West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, 31 lasten of salt, on the condition that a true fourth part of the aforesaid salt or the true value thereof shall be delivered freight-free to the lord director-general on behalf of the same Company, at the aforesaid chamber, on the terms of the same lord director, if the Lord God grants me a safe journey; pledging hereto my aforesaid galiot with all its appurtenances and also my person and goods, subject to all laws and judges. In acknowledgment of the truth three identical bonds were signed on the island of Curacao, the 16th of May 1659, of which the others are invalid when one has been satisfied.

Augustine Herrman
Jacob Jansz Huys

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