Document: Order of the fiscal to inspect certain vessels in port and provide a passage for the Swedes and their baggage

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Whereas the skipper and supracargo of the ship Beer, namely, Cornelis Willemsen Beer and Jan Jansen Bestevaer, have shown us that their aforesaid ship is so full that the Swedish goods [ ]

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[ ] the service of the country and [ ] requiring that according to the capitulation the Swedish soldiers be provided for, accommodated, and furnished passage, the fiscal is hereby ordered to board the return ship, which is lying ready, with one or two capable men to find out where there is sufficient space for the soldiers’ baggage; if no room is found, then as much private goods and merchandise is to be removed from the aforesaid ship and transferred to the Waterhont until proper space has been made for the Swedish baggage, to the skippers’ satisfaction, especially because it is required by service of the country according to the capitulation. Done at New Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra. (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant; (below was written:) By order of the honorable director general of New Netherland. (Was signed: Cornelis van Ruyven, secretary.

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