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Expenses at Essequibo

Ship’s trade

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Paid expenses at in Guyana Rio Essequibo

1762, according to the account & receipts

  • To captain Jan Baack for delivering three half animals of meat & a roll of sailcloth ƒ 121:0:0
  • To I. B. Struijs for delivering paint & painting oil ƒ 50:0:0
  • To M. H. Lesten for delivering fresh meat, flower, salt and nails ƒ 142:1
  • To idem for a barrel of salted meat ƒ 40:0
  • To idem for board and lodging from 11 August till 30 November à ƒ 2:10:0 per day = ƒ 264:0
  • To idem for fresh broad for the ship ƒ 20:0
  • To idem for four cheeses ƒ 6:0
  • To idem for a barrel of butter ƒ 20:0
  • To idem for chickens and pigs for the return voyage ƒ 26:0

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ƒ 518:1:0

  • To Machiel de Looff for a certificate ƒ 10:0:0
  • To various persons for 160 bunches of bananas for the slaves ƒ 48:0:0
  • To the auctioneer etc. Adriaan Spoors for a hogshead of beer, 42 steckans of rum & 37 times daily wages of carpenter niggers ƒ 114:10
  • To idem for the placing of common advertising posters ƒ 13:4
  • To idem for the wages of the lord commissioners ƒ 12:0
  • To idem for the wages of the secretary ƒ 6:0
  • To idem for the auction account & copies ƒ 10:-
  • To idem for expenses of meals during the auction ƒ 160:-
  • To idem for the surgeon of the castle Zeelandia for visiting the slaves ƒ 84:12:0

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ƒ 400:6:0

  • To idem for auction pennings of ƒ 54.270 5% = ƒ 2.713:10:0
  • To Jan Willemsen for pilot wages in both rivers ƒ 66:0:0

Sum ƒ 3.926:17:0