Document: Contract with Hendrick Willemsen to bake for the government

Hendrick Willemsen Backer appeared in the meeting, with whom, for reasons to be expressed in more detail below, the director general and councilors arranged and agreed in ways as follows: Hendrick Willemsz accepts and promises to bake in his oven and with his fire as much bread as the honorable Company shall need here with either the increase or decrease of the garrison, for which future labor and expenses the director general and councilors of N: Netherland promise him a salary of thirty-eight guilders per month, for which salary Hendrick Willemsen promises to perform the aforesaid in all faithfulness and diligence. Dated as above.