Today, the 22nd day of the month of February 1656, there appeared before me, Nicolaes Antonides, admitted at the court of Holland as public notary residing in Amsterdam and the witnesses named below, Jan Reyersz vander Beets, former pilot on the ship named the Groote Christoffel and presently skipper on the ship named the Bever, about twenty-nine years old, and, at the request of Cornelis Martensz, factor, with true Christian words and in his conscience, in place and with the offer of a solemn oath for the whole truth attested, affirmed, and declared to be truthful,
How it is that the petitioner on the eleventh of October 1654, and the following days, loaded in the ship the Groote Christoffel the goods, as here follows, namely:
12 hog's heads French wine
Two hog's heads vinegar
Also on the 21 ditto six half aemen
Twenty-two anckers
Also on the 6th of November eleven half aemen and four aemen, all marked as in the margin.
Also received on the 27th of November for the aforesaid account in the aforesaid ship fourteen anckers and two half anckers marked as in the margin.
[ NB marks in margin above ]
All of the aforesaid goods was loaded in the aforesaid ship the Groote Christoffel by the petitioner, and brought forth again in New Netherland, according to the deposant's manifest, marked in the same manner as noted before; he, deposant, declaring further to have neither loaded more wine in the ship than was previously marked nor brought more forth at the time of the account or before, as stated above than previously specified; whereby he, as witness, maintains his enclosed declaration to be truthful according to predilection, assenting the hereby document thus done and approved in the ship the Bever, aforesaid, riding before the piles of this city of Amsterdam, aforesaid. In the presence of Pieter Dircksz Timmerman and Claes Marines, as witnesses.
Nicolaes Antonides
