Document: Bond of Pieter Taelman not to trade any goods except at the South River

I, the undersigned, Pieter Taelman, supercargo of the bark called The Do[ l ]phyn, do hereby obligate myself, after I shall have sailed from this port for the South River of New Netherland, not to touch at any other place or to take in any more goods than are entered on the fiscal's list; also, not to unload, or permit to be discharged, or trade them or any others after my safe arrival at the South River, before and until I shall have exhibited my commission, clearance and manifest of the goods I have taken on board to Andries Hudde, the commissary there. Also, after having finished my trading at the South River, not to depart before I have entered my full return cargo and bartered peltries with the aforesaid commissary and not to alienate, land or send away any of them before and until I have exhibited a list and Invoice thereof to the director general or his agent here at the Manhatans All without fraud or deceit, on pain of forfeiting my bark and lading, or the true value thereof In testimony of the truth, I have signed this in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, this 27th of June A° 1651.

Peter Taelman
Mattheus Capito
Jacob Kip