RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 251
1641 by the honorable director Jan Claessen van Campen and the council at Curaçao,
acknowledge that I have received from Mr. Willem de Key diversee goods amounting to the sum
of two hundred and eighteen Carolus guilders, sixteen stivers, which I request the honorable
directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, to be pleased to pay to
the worthy Willem de Key, or his order, in deduction of my earned monthly wages; which shall
avail them as good payment. In acknowledgment of the truth this is signed by my own hand. Done
at Curaçao in Fort Amsterdam, this 29th of September 1646. Was signed: Willem Hays, Jacob Loper
and Carel van Bruggen, witnesses.
[155i] Copy
After collation in the presence of L. van Heusden
and Gysbert Opdyc, witnesses hereto invited, this
is found to agree with the original, signed and
dated as above. This 28th of December anno 1646,
in Fort Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Laurens van Heusden
Gysbert op Dyck
[Note of Albrecht Hendricksen in favor of Willem de Key]
I, the undersigned, Jacob 308 Hendricksen from Haerlem, horseman, who sailed as a soldier in the
year 1638 in the yacht Sparamundj, 309 acknowledge that I have received from Mr. Willem de Key
diversee goods which I needed, amounting to the sum of one hundred and fourteen Carolus guilders,
two stivers, which sum of one hundred and fourteen guilders, two stivers, I request the honorable
directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam to be pleased to pay to the
worthy Willem de Key above mentioned, or his order, in deduction of the monthly wages due me;
which shall avail their honors as good payment. 310
In acknowledgment of the truth I have signed this with my usual mark. Done in Fort Amsterdam
on the island of Curaçao, this 29th of September anno 1646. Was signed with this mark,
308 This should be “Albrecht”: see below.
309 Sphaera-Mundi.
310 Here some words were written above the line, at the top of the page, which are no longer legible.
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