On the day of departure captain Menkenveld was given a large number of travel documents. These travel documents were also preserved in the archives of the MCC. The documents included a numbered overview:
- Mandate of the West-Indische Compagnie Zeeland
- Proof of payment of toll of dito
- Authorization granted to dito Compagnie by Her Mightiness
- Permission for exporting ammunition
- Turkish pass nr. 1359
- Peace treaty with the Moroccan emperor 21 November 1752
- Peace treaty with the government of Algiers, 1757
- Copies of the law of the king of Portugal against the carrying of pointed knifes, 29 March 1719 and 25 June 1947
- Publication of the Commissioned Councils for the Admirality in Zeeland, 30 March 1759
- Extract from the minutes of the Council for the Admirality in Zeeland, 3 July 1758 and from the register of the decisions of the Mighty Sirs of the Provinces of the United Netherlands, 26 June 1758
- Sea letters: one in Dutch and one in French
- Health letter
- Passport of the nation
- Conditions on which the crew was hired (contract)
- Muster-roll
- Note for the boatswain
- Invoice of the loaded cargo
- Instruction
- Particular instruction
- Further particular instruction
- List of correspondents in the English seaports
- Copy of the contract with the pilots of Dover
- Ordinance against taking along cargos
- Ship’s inventory
- Treaty of Marine between the crown of England and the Republic of the United Netherlands, 1674
- Mandate of the Surinam Society
- Copy of the bond paid to the same Society passed by Dibbetz & Schozer
- Order of Governors and Councils of Surinam due to received sugar, 5 August 1690
- Declaration of the Chief carpenter that this ship was built here