Document: MEMORANDUM of necessaries for Curacao

Memorandum of necessities which are required for the island of Curacao etc. for the service of the Company.[1]

2 sturdy four-wheeled farm wagons.

Horse harness and equipment for the aforesaid wagons for eight draft horses.

1 plow with the appropriate equipment thereto; some new sturdy wheelbarrows for moving salt.

1 new grain or meal mill, or the wood and materials thereto in order to be able to make a new one here.

Beams, boards and braces for a warehouse. Planks IVi inches thick for batteries.

Planks 2 inches thick to put new bottoms[2] in the Companys trading boat[3] and bark; supports for cannon platforms.

Clapboards and a good quantity of wooden hoops for the cooper here. Blacksmiths coal

Fresh provisions from the crops produced in N. Nederlandt, which on occassion can be spared there, so that when ships put in here with Negroes we do not find ourselves at a loss.

All sorts of fresh garden seeds.

Curacao in Fort Amsterdam, the 1 lth of September 1658.

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