[ According to the resolution of yesterday he shall go overland with Capt. Marten Crieger and other troops ] of the city of Amsterdam as guide to the South River of New Netherland and having arrived there, sail down to Fort Casimier, now called New Amstel.[i]
2.
Pursuant to the orders and directions given, he shall diligently and truly inform himself from the commandant Jacquet regarding the effects of the honorable Company once he is in the said fort, especially the ammunition, materials, and animals, how many are to be found there yet, how and where the rest may be.
3.
After a proper inventory of the abovementioned effects has been taken in his and Mr. Hendrick Huygen’s presence, he shall see that as much ammunition, provisions, and materials of war be as speedily as possible transferred and brought to Fort Christina, now called Altena, as, to the best of their knowledge, they deem at the present time necessary and expedient for the service of the honorable Company, among others, double the number of hand and side arms for 20 men and suitable materials in proportion.
4.
[ The aforesaid property in provisions, ammunition, and war materials, which shall have been brought over into Fort Altena, shall provisionally be left, ] against proper receipt, in the hands of Sr. Andries Hudde, sergeant Poulus Jansz and Jan Juriaensz. The balance of the effects shall be loaded in the ship the Bever or otherwise be left in charge of Mr. Jacob Alrichs or his commissary until further orders.
5.
The animals of the Company shall be brought over the Christina Kil and left in charge as before, until further orders.
6.
After having accomplished the foregoing, he shall return here as speedily as possible with the remainder of the soldiers either in the ship the Bever or overland, only 16 soldiers shall be left in Fort Altena with our aforesaid replacements.
7.
He shall treat commandant Jacquet with all courtesy and give him no cause whatsoever for complaints, but inquire kindly of him as well as of others about the goods, which are missing from the supplied inventory, also about the animals; and upon his return make for us a good, faithful, and true report thereof. Dated the 25th of April 1657.
