130. Let-pass of the Amsterdam Post. September 23, 1739 (N.S.).
Lett Pass the Sloop Amsterdam Post, Æneas Mackay Master, with his Passengers, Goods and Merchandizes, without Lett, Hindrance, Searching or Molestation, it appearing to us by good Witnesses that the said Sloop belongs to One under the State of the Netherlands. Given under our Hand and Seal at the Admiralty in Amsterdam this Twenty third Day of Septemb'r In the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty nine.
P. Fecleloot.[?]
To all Persons whom this may Concern.
Per order of the Lords of the Admiralty.
A. Backer Jan'ry.
131. Tonnage Certificate of the Amsterdam Post. September 24, 1739 (N.S.).
We, underwritten, ordered by the Lords of the Admiralty of Amsterdam to Tax and Visit the Vessells that go to Sea from Texell,[1] Declare by this That Æneas Mackay of Amsterdam, Master of the Sloop Amsterdam Post, has given us the length of his Sloop, being within Board 50½ feet, Breadth 15¾, feet in the Hold 8 feet, and twelve years old, and We Tax her to be Twenty Lasts. Visited her in Amsterdam, Septemb'r the 24th, 1739.
Pieter Kanseboom.
The Last Money[2] paid April 13th 1739.
P. Henkes.Wm. Camper.
[1] The island and passage where Amsterdam vessels made their final exit from the Zuyder Zee into the North Sea.