On Board The Unity
1761-1763

• Loans from Adriaan Hillebrandt to the crew
• Adriaan Hillebrandt dies
• Bill of reckoning

I declare to owe

Loans provided by cooper Adriaan Hillebrandt to the crew on board of The Unity

I, Adriaan de Visser, declare to owe Adriaan Hillebrandt the sum of 22 Dutch guilders. I promise to repay this sum upon arrival in my native country at the first summons, binding to this all my goods, monthly wages and other moneys earned on this ship or to be earned on other ships.

Say ƒ 22 Dutch guilders

Actum on board of The Unity on the 11th of May 1762

[signed] Adriaan de Visser

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I, Lieven Lambregts, declare to owe Adriaan Hillebrandt the sum of 7 guilders and 2 nickels which I promise to pay back faithfully and honestly.

I say ƒ 7:2

† This is the signature of Lieven Lambregts

On the 10th of September 1762

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I, Isaäk de Vos, declare to owe Adriaan Hillebrand, first cooper on this ship, the sum of 67 guilders and six nickels, which I promise to pay back faithfully and honestly on completion of the journey..

I say the sum of 67 guilders and 6 nickels

[signed] Izaäk de Vos

Actum on board of the noble Commercie ship The Unity on December 23rd 1762

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I, Isacq de Vos, cooper’s mate on the ship The Unity, declare to owe the sum of 33 Dutch guilders and 16 nickels to Adriaan Hillebrand. I promise to repay this sum upon arrival in my native country at the first summons, binding to this all my goods, monthly wages and other moneys earned on this ship or to be earned on other ships.

Say ƒ 33:36

Actum on board of the ship The Unity on May 9th, 1762

[signed] Izaäk de Vos

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I, Allonse Madros, sailor on the ship D’Eenigheijd, declare to owe the sum of 13 Dutch guilders to Adriaan Hillebrand. I promise to repay this sum upon arrival in my native country at the first summons, binding to this all my goods, monthly wages and other moneys earned on this ship or to be earned on other ships.

Say ƒ 13 Dutch guilders

Actum on board of the ship The Unity on the 11th of May 1762

+ This is the signature of Alons Madros

Nothing owed

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I, Coenraad Meijer, corporal on the ship The Unity, declare that I owe a sum of 22 Dutch guilders to Adriaan Hillebrand. I promise to repay this sum upon arrival in my native country at the first summons, binding to this all my goods, monthly wages and other moneys earned on this ship or to be earned on other ships.

Say ƒ 22 Dutch guilders

Actum on board of the ship The Unity on May 10th, 1762

[signed] Coonrad Meijer

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I, Otte Wesman, declare to owe a sum of 3 guilders and 12 nickels to Adriaan Hillebrand, first cooper on this ship, which I promise to pay back faithfully and honestly..

I say the sum of 3 guiders and 12 nickels.

Actum on board of the noble ship The Unity on December 23rd, 1762

[signed] Otte Wesman

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I, Jacobus Rankin, declare to owe the sum of 18 guilders to Adriaan Hillebrand, first cooper on this ship, which I promise to pay back faithfully and honestly on completion of the journey.

I say the sum of 18 guilders and 6 nickels

[signed] Jacobus Rankin

Actum on board of the noble Commercie ship The Unity on December 23rd, 1762

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I, Jacobus Rankin, declare to owe a sum of 13 guilders to Adriaan Hillebrand, first cooper on this ship, which I promise to pay back faithfully and honestly on completion of the journey.

I say the sum of 13 guilders.

[signed] Jacobus Rankin

Actum on board of the ship The Unity on May 10th, 1762

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I, Abraham Campus, sailor on the ship The Unity, declare to owe the sum of 30 Dutch guilders to Adriaan Hillebrand. I promise to repay this sum upon arrival in my native country at the first summons, binding to this all my goods, monthly wages and other moneys earned on this ship or to be earned on other ships.

Say ƒ 30 Dutch guilders

Actum on board of the ship The Unity on May the 12th, 1762

[signed] Abraham Campus

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I, Jacobus Duijnkerke, declare to owe a sum of 5 guilders and 2 nickels to Adriaan Hillebrand, first cooper on this ship, which I promise to pay back faithfully and honestly.

I say the sum of 5 guilders and 4 nickels

[signed] Jacobus Duijnkerke

Actum on the ship The Unity on the 9th of May 1762

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I, Carel Hutte, declare that I owe a sum of 7 guilders and 4 nickels to Adriaan Hillebrand, first cooper on this ship, which I promise to pay back faithfully and honestly on completion of the journey.

I say the sum of 7 guilders and 4 nickels

This is the + signature of Karel Hutte

Actum on board of the noble Commissie ship The Unity on the 29th of December 1762

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I, Arnoldus Magielsen, declare to owe the sum of 28 guilders to Adriaan Hillebrand, first cooper on this ship, which I promise to pay back faithfully and honestly.

I say the sum of 28 guilders

[signed] Arnoldus Machielse

Actum on board of the noble Commercie ship The Unity on December 23rd, 1762

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I, Anoldus Maghielsen, sailor on the ship The Unity, declare to owe a sum of 20 guilders and 16 nickels to Adriaan Hillebrand.. I promise to repay this sum upon arrival in my native country at the first summons, binding to this all my goods, monthly wages and other moneys earned on this ship or to be earned on other ships.

Say ƒ 20: 16

Actum on baord of the ship of The Unity on May 10th 1762

[signed] Arnoldus Machielse

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I, Pieter de Graff, declare to owe a sum of 31 Dutch guilders to Adriaan Hillebrandt, first cooper on the noble Commercie Compagnie ship The Unity. I promise to faithfully and honestly repay this sum upon arrival in my native country at the first summons, binding to this all my goods, monthly wages and other moneys earned on this ship or to be earned on other ships.
Say ƒ 31

Actum on board of the ship The Unity on April 15th, 1762

[signed] Pieter de Graaff

I, Pieter de Graaf, declare to owe a sum of 7 guilders to Adriaan de Visser. I promise to repay this sum upon arrival in my native country.

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Say 7 guilders

Actum on board of the Commercie ship The Unity on February 12th , 1763

[signed] Pieter de Graaf

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[in the margins} Adriaan Hillebrand, deceased as cooper on the ship The Unity, 1763

Middelburg, April 1763

For the inheritance of Adriaan Hillebrands, employed by the Commercie Compagnie as cooper and died on the ship The Unity: the following sums should be deducted from the monthly wages of the following people:

from Abraham Campus ƒ 30:–
from Carel Hutte ƒ 7:4
from Arnoldus Machielse ƒ 48:16
from Adriaan de Visser ƒ 22
from Otto Wesman ƒ 3:12
from Coenraad Meyer ƒ 22
from Lieven Lambregtse ƒ 7:2
from Isaäk de Vos ƒ 101:2
from Jacobus Rankin ƒ 31:6
from Pieter de Graaf ƒ 38
from Jacobus Duijnkerke ƒ 5:4
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ƒ 316:6
£ 52:14:4
Minus 5% 2:12:8
£ 50:1:8

Received on February 9th, 1786, by the mother of Adriaan Hillebrands, his only heir.
This is the + signature of Leuntje Jongezoon, widow Hermanus Illebrandt, in my presence.
[signed] W. Groeningen, city messenger

A deadly accident with the boat

[margin]
D. van der Horst
Timmerman

Eight shilling seal
March 5 1763
S.S.S. van Middelhoven

This eighteenth of april seventeenhundred-and-sixty-three the following appeared before me, Jan Bouman, public notary admitted to the honorable court of Holland, Zeeland and West-Friesland, resident of the city of Middelburg in Zeeland, in the presence of the witnessed mentioned below, Emanuel Hillebrand, clothes’ maker, Pieter Broekaart, cooper’s mate, and Johanna Kant, housewife of the aforementioned Pieter Broekaart, all residents of this city and of competent age, and who have been requested to witness on the truth of the requisition of Teuntje Jongezoon, widow Hermanus Hillebrand, also resident of this city, declare it to be true, that the appellant is the mother of Adriaan Hillebrand of Vere, who in the year seventeenhundred-sixty-one left in the service of the honorable directors of the Commercie Company for het coast of Guinea on the ship The Unity, captain Jan Menkenveld, as master cooper, and on his voyage home, as the appearing party has been informed, had, to all appearance, a deadly accident with the boat.  The deponents declare further that the aforementioned Adriaan Hillebrand at the time of his departure was a young man, unmarried as well as not having brothers or sisters or nephews or nieces or grandchildren or other descendants, of full or part descent, having also no ascendents except those who he left behind or had at the time of his departure, since his father had passed away long before his departure.  With which the deponent finishes her declaration, as reason for her knowledge stating that the inquiring party and her son, aforementioned Adriaan Hillebrand, have known each other for many years, and had conversations with him, further that the deponent has named, seen and respected the aforementioned Adriaan Hillebrand as her son, as well that the aforementioned Adriaan Hillebrand has named, seen and respected the deponent as his mother, and further as mentioned in the tekst, should it be necessary, the deponent will confirm this under oath.

Passed at Middelburg, with Jan Mulder and Lieven Menschaart as witnesses.
Accords with the Original, which has been drawn up properly and numbered on a seal of 8 pennies.
Quod Attestor Jan Bouman, notarius publicus

Bill of reckoning

[in the margin] Timmerman

Four shilling seal
April 5, 1763
S.S.S. van Middelhoven

Bill of reckoning of Teuntje Jongenson, widow of Arman Illebrand, mother of Adriaan Illebrand, master cooper on the ship The Unity commanded by captain Cornelis Minkevelt of the Commercie Company of Middelburg, who on the voyage home on March 22, 1763  drowned here before het coast to my grievious sorrow. For consumed board of my son, of five voyages, and otherwise helping to fit them out, the sum of five hundred guilders, f 500:0:0, which sum I kindly request the honorable directors of the Commercie Compagnie to pay to my poor and bereaved mother from his still-owed wages and inheritance.