[16] Superintendent.
[17] Two reals, or a quarter of a dollar.
129. Sea-letter of the Amsterdam Post. September 22, 1739 (N.S.).
To all Potent Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Dukes, Lords, etc., who may see this open Letter or may hear it Read, We Magistrates and Rulers of the City of Amsterdam Declare that Æneas Mackay of Amsterdam appeared before us and on Oath Solemnly Declares, That the Vessell named the Amsterdam Post, burthen about Twenty Lasts,[1] of which he is Master, belongs to a House in this Province, and that no Foreign Enemy has any part in her Directly or Indirectly, as he hopes to answer it to Almighty God, and as We are Desirous that the aforementioned Master should follow his Lawfull Calling, it is our Desire of all whom it may concern that the aforementioned Capt'n with his Sloop and Lading may be well received and treated handsomely, and have Liberty to proceed to and from any Port he may chuse, in a Lawful Trade, Which We desire and are willing he should do, and have caused this City Seal to be hereunto affixt. this Done the 22d of Sept'r, Ao. 1739.
P. De la Court.
By the Lords of the Admiralty No. 5649.
Hartunck.[2]
The required Oath is taken in the Passport Sept. 23d 1739.
[1] A last was two tons.
[2] Copyist's or translator's error for Hartsinck. Jan Jacob Hartsinck, afterward president of the Dutch West India Company, was from 1724 to 1762 clerk of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. Elias, De Vroedschap van Amsterdam, II. 910. The Dutch Republic had five navy boards, of which the Admiralty of Amsterdam was the most important.