Document: Order to Lambert Huybertsen Mol and John Hudson to examine and report on the condition of the yacht William & George of Virginia

[several lines lost] by the director general two ship’s carpenters be authorized and appointed for the inspection of the yacht or barque named Willem en George, with which he came from Virginia, and during his voyage here, so he claims, suffered considerable damage to his tobacco through leakage, whether the aforesaid barque, according to the judgment of carpenters, to be commissioned thereto by the director general and councilors, had been fit to carry his merchandise and now bring it there again; for which Lambert Huyberts Mol and Jan Hudsen are hereby authorized and ordered, after an inspection upon presentation of this at the request of Mr. Weely, aforesaid, to make a written assessment and report of their findings to the director general and councilors. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 31st of October anno 1656.

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