Document: Bill of sale of the ship Amandare from Directors Stuyvesant and Kieft to Thomas Broughton

[1]. . . and shall work on said ship four or five days and help to fit out the ship again from the effects mentioned in the inventory above mentioned. And whereas the purchaser is in want of seafaring persons, the honorable general will place a mate and six seamen on board the Amandare who, with the help of God, shall assist in conveying the ship, which must depart in eight days from date, to Boston, provided that the purchaser shall provide a pilot to pilot the ship in port. The wages of the said mate and sailors shall be paid by the honorable West India Company, but their board shall be provided by the purchaser, who must feed the said mate and six sailors until they shall embark at Boston in the ship De Groote Gerrit. The honorable vendors and Mr. Tomas Bratton, as purchaser, promise that each of them shall pay to the poor of this place twenty- five guilders. For greater security and the performance of this contract Mr. Isaack Allerton, inhabitant here, and Mr. Tomas Willit, residing at New Plymouth in New England, each for the whole, offer themselves as sureties and co-principals with the purchaser for the payment of the above mentioned ten thousand guilders within the time aforesaid, to which end they, Isaac Allerton and Tomas Willit, bind their persons and properties, movable and immovable, submitting the same to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges. In testimony whereof this is signed in the presence of the honorable generals above mentioned, by Mr. Bratton, as principal, and by Mr. Isaac Allerton and Mr. Tomas Willit, as sureties and co-principals, before the subscribing witnesses, the last of May anno 1647, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Thomas Broughton
P. Stuyvesant
Isaac Allerton
Willem Kieft
Tho. Willett
Brian Newton
Augustin Herrman
Cornelis van Tienhoven