Document: Minute of the discovery of unmarked cases of gun barrels and of linen

15 June anno 1657, at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Present at the session: the honorable lord director general Stuyvesant and the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille and Pieter Tonneman.

Anno 1657 the 15th of June, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland in the council chamber, was opened, in the presence of the lords director general Petrus Stuyvesant and the honorable lords councilors Nicasius de Sille and Pieter Tonneman, an oblong chest taken out of the ship the Draatvat without mark or number; in it was found [several lines lost].[i]

On this date, at this place, and in the presence as before, a small package was opened as well in which were found four small pieces of Osenbrugs linen.[ii] Because they were not identified on the manifest, it was resolved to keep them until the arrival of the last ships in order to learn who might be receiving the same. It is marked in the margin as above.[iii]