Document: BILL OF LADING for twenty-two horses loaded at Aruba for New Netherland

I, the undersigned Jacob Jansen Huys, skipper on the galiot Nieuwer Amstel, acknowledge to have received (pursuant to the order of the honorable lord vice-director Matthias Becx) from Mr. Hendrick Martensen, commander on the island of Aruba, twenty-two horses for the account of the honorable Company and two mares for the account of Mr. Cornelis van Ruyven, at his risk, which I promise to deliver, if God grants me a safe passage, to Amsterdam in N. Nederlandt to the honorable lord director-general Petrus Stuyvesant and the lords councilors. Three identical receipts have been made hereof, of which the others are invalid when one is satisfied. In testimony whereof, I have signed this with my own hand.

Done on the island of Aruba, 18 May 1660.

Jacob Jansen Huys

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