1717 Oct. 2

My dear husband

We just now received your letters from up there where you write of the bundles of contracts and am sending it now with the son of Frans Winne you write that Robbert is going to Barbados it seems to me that he won’t gain a great deal if he has to furnish it himself the ship I hope that God will bless him and that he may be of benefit to x the people our yacht is here now I will smoke tomorrow and then we will load and will have your linen ready then and Robbert’s and will send 2 small barrels with hard cakes of for Robbert and a small barrel of apples and will send a fat pig with our yacht you write that Naetje should come up you do not know much about how I feel that small bottle that I had last year I......(spirit of wine?) and can not sleep from that not one hour in a whole night I cannot be left alone Pieter Vosb is still ill and has not yet arrived and what concerns Heener he is still ill you can do as you like and buy a pair of stones of Cologne (?) we have more than work enough to throw whatever we have got into the hole in the dam we could not strengthen it because of the rain and the high water our yacht will be ready on Thursday if it pleases God we will send the animals up when it is time I can’t take one from Klaverack will take them from here and Tagkanick 2 from And and Niekes because we deliver only 21 with this be commended to the Lord I will write you at greater length with our yacht
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the matches ought to be here and small barrels with black (lampblack)
I am glad that you got the security/bail back and hope that you will also get that back from Johannes and all that you are security for I hope that you will take care not to be security again
make sure that Robbert xxxx gets his shirt linen shirts and pants washed we could have washed here
in the manor of Livinghston
1717 October 2
Harme wants it