Document: Appointment of Foppe Jansen to be commissary to the expedition against the Swedes

At the session it was deemed necessary to appoint a capable person as provisional commissary to take care and supervise that all munitions and foodstuffs necessary for the planned expedition (which the director general and councilors shall provide him in a list) be ordered, transported, and properly maintained; for which Foppe Jansen was judged capable, who, appearing at the session, accepted the same and promised by oath administered by the lord director general to aquit himself with industry and loyalty in the aforesaid office. Ady ut supra, 19 August 1655.

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