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From Coylang, a boat departed carrying 22 pieces of cloth, 19 boxes of rye skins, and 60 pieces of caliatour wood weighing 31,790 pounds, 500 wooden sticks, and their largest metal bell. The departure was delayed because merchants did not deliver the caliatour wood as quickly as promised. The boat from Porwechery, which arrived on the 13th, should depart by the 20th with additional cloths that they receive daily and more caliatour wood. They will send invoices for the goods shipped with both boats by land route. The first boat also carries schoolmaster Gijsbert De Gooijer and his family.

The document was signed by:

• B. van Slingelant
• J. Seloover
• H. van Alewijnsz
• Hans Wolf
• P. Elsevier
• D. Hackaers
• J. Dubbeldaart

• 15,000 gold pagodas
• 3,750 pounds of Japanese copper bars
• 2,000 units of sandalwood
• Various supplies, gift items, and writing materials

A report dated October 6, 1736 from Coromandel deals with requests about repairs at the Cherombe trading post. The chief official at Cherombe submitted a request for regular repairs done to the Company's buildings, residence and warehouse during one year, costing 196 guilders and 19 stuivers. On September 17, local officials requested permission to write off these costs.

The matter also involves merchants from Bheemunipatnam who sought help recovering 250 rupees. This money was allegedly extorted from their representative in Ganjam by local rulers, following a dispute with a prominent private merchant named Narkepillisembeloe. The regent of Ganjam, Daanchanderi, along with other Moorish and local traders, had provided a statement supporting Sembeloe.

The issue was referred to the governor and council of Nagapatnam for further consideration, as the local officials did not have the authority to make these decisions.

• 10 pieces of red scarlet cloth
• 15 pieces of crimson cloth
• 10 pieces of green velvet
• 10 pieces of red velvet
• 1,500 pieces of raw Guinea cloth for making tents

On October 6, 1716 in Coromandel, a Brahmin was sent to deliver a gift to a local official. This gift included 6 yards of green Dutch velvet, 1 Japanese writing box, 1 Japanese shield, and 40 pieces of rough Guinea cloth at cost price. The official, showing generosity, only accepted the Japanese writing box, for which he paid the Brahmin 5 rupees. Previously, he had advanced 200 rupees. The Brahmin also received payment for the remaining value of the 40 pieces of Guinea cloth beyond the 200 rupees. A letter dated September 2 from the Brahmin to Westrenen, the chief official, mentioned further requests.

• 10-12 ells of red scarlet cloth
• 10-12 ells of Dutch velvet

• A Japanese lacquered shield
• 6 ells of green Dutch velvet at 2 per ell

On October 6, 1716, in Coromandel, merchant leaders presented documents to the senior officials. The leaders of the bankers had settled accounts with each other, but were questioned why they hadn't followed the same procedure as the other two merchant groups. They explained that their subordinates weren't actual merchants and had no share in the textile trade. These workers only helped distribute money in the countryside for cloth trading, collected fabrics, and transported them. They weren't real partners in the business. The senior officials responded that since these people weren't official Company merchants, they could no longer be exempt from paying head tax like other residents.

On October 6, 1756, senior officials from Coromandel reported about Johan Berg, who was chosen as deputy cashier to replace someone. The officials asked for guidance on how to handle tax payments from residents of the East India Company villages of Palicol and surrounding areas. For many years, only the head merchants and minor shareholders were exempt from paying these head taxes to the Company. Under supervision of the governor and Nagapatnam council, officials were instructed to treat these people as paid servants of the head merchants and collect head taxes from them like all other residents. Johan Ostome Junior was appointed as deputy merchant, substitute fiscal officer and cashier. Following orders, the bookkeeper Pieter van den Berg was chosen as substitute fiscal officer and cashier at this office.

• Multiple transactions with varying amounts in guilders
• Sales of items measured in pounds and ells (a unit of length)
• Various profit calculations showing percentage gains on sales
• Total profits for the month amounted to 954 guilders, 17 stuivers, and 4 penningen

According to records from the trading post in Sadraspatnam and Castle Geldria in Palleacatta on the Coromandel coast, the following goods were traded:

• 567 pounds of mace
• 903 pounds of cloves
• 771 pounds of nutmeg
• 6 pounds of cinnamon
• 481 pounds of black pepper
• 120 pounds of alum
• 10 pounds of saltpeter
• 24 pounds of Japanese copper bars
• 4 bundles of Javanese rattan
• 1 piece of double armoisin (silk fabric)
• 1.5 pieces of scarlet cloth

The document includes inventory checks and calculations of trading costs for these items.

On April 30, 1716, a financial document was created in Sadraspatnam. The document lists various transactions and sales figures. It was signed by P. van Burg. The records show calculations of costs, profits, and quantities sold. A second set of entries from February 1716 follows, signed by D. van Cloon and M. van Heuven. A third entry from March 1716 shows the total profits amounted to 10,980 guilders and 13 stuivers.

• The transactions were recorded at the comptoir (trading office) of Sadraspatnam
• The document shows advance payments, profits per pound, and quantities sold
• Multiple officials verified and signed the documents
• All amounts are listed in Dutch guilders, stuivers, and penningen

This trade document shows shipments of spices and other goods through several Dutch East Indies trading posts in February and March 1716. The records mention deliveries of:

• Mace (foelij or macis)
• Cloves (garioffel nagelen)
• Nutmeg (noten)
• Cinnamon (canneel)
• Camphor (camphur)
• Rose water in large bottles
• Wooden planks (kiate)
• Japanese copper bars
• Pepper from Coromandel
• Vermillion powder

The document records transactions at the trading post in Sadraspatnam and Porto Novo, with verification signatures by officials including I. van Baden. The records include detailed weights in pounds and specific quantities for each commodity.

These are records from the Dutch trading post (comptoir) in Masulipatnam on the Coromandel coast, documenting various trade goods and their quantities during January and February. The items traded included:

• Cloves (garioffel nagelen): 3058 and 852.75 pounds
• Mace (foelie): 288 and 54.75 pounds
• Nutmeg: 460 and 27.5 pounds
• Cinnamon: 1.5 pounds
• Round pepper: 6240 and 1464 pounds
• Vermillion: 842.75 and 42 pounds
• Tin: 6766 and 1737.5 pounds
• Japanese copper bars: 1440 pounds
• French brandy: 1 bottle

The Japanese copper bars were given to the cashier to make copper coins (peijsas) for paying the wages of the Dutch East India Company's Dutch servants.

On April 30, 1716, at the trading office in Masulipatnam, P. van Burg and G. Westrenen recorded sales and profits from various goods in the East India Company's warehouses. The records show detailed financial transactions, listing various amounts in guilders (ƒ), including:

• Total sales revenue: ƒ 20,002.7.12
• Various individual transactions ranging from small amounts of a few guilders to larger sums of over 1,000 guilders
• Profits earned on goods (advance) amounting to ƒ 5,381.2.2

The document includes calculations of profits per hundred units (shown as percentages) for different goods traded through the warehouse. The transactions were verified and signed by both officials, with specific attention paid to matching the recorded amounts with the actual goods sold.

In a letter dated August 14, 1716, officials from Cormandel wrote about ships named "Den Berg" and "King Carel". Several documents were sent to Governor General Christoffel van Swoll and the Council of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia by Governor Adriaan de Visser and his council in Nagapatnam.

The package included:

• Original letters from that date
• Copy of letters sent on April 30 via ship "Ellemeet" with attachments
• Copy of resolutions from the Chormandel council in Nagapatnam from late April to July 7
• Copy of letters from Masulipatnam leaders from April 9 to July 3
• Copy of resolutions made in Masulipatnam from March 15 to May 26
• Copy of letters sent to Masulipatnam from May 5 to July 2
• Copy of letters from Palliacatta leaders from April 16 to July 29
• Copy of letters sent to Palliacatta from April 22

The document details letters and communications between various Dutch colonial officials and trading posts in Coromandel and surrounding regions from March 31 to July 27, 1716. It includes correspondence with and from:

• The chiefs of Sadraspatnam from April 15 to July 22
• The chiefs of Porto Novo from April 14 to July 22
• Letters to Tegenepatnam from March 31 to July 2
• Communications with southern trading posts and Masulipatnam from June 6 to July 27
• Letters to Ceylon, Bengal, and Jaffnapatnam from April 27 to July 4

Of particular note is a copy of a letter from July 16 by Henrik Becker, Council Member of India and Governor of Ceylon, along with the council in Colombo, addressing the Governor of Coromandel. This letter included information from Jaffnapatnam ministers dated June 18 regarding elephants intended for the ruler of Tanjore. The document also mentions two council resolutions from the ship Oosterstein dated May 29 and June 2.

In Coromandel on August 14, 1716, various financial and trade documents were processed:

• 3 currency inspection reports from Nagapatnam dated March 18, May 28, and June 29 showing gold trading profits
• 13 merchant revenue reports from different locations:
  • 3 from the main office for April, May, and June
  • 2 from Masulipatnam for April and May
  • 3 from Palliacatta for April, May, and June
  • 2 from Sadraspatnam for May and June
  • 3 from Portanovo for April, May, and June
• 3 inspection reports of gold, gold coins, and silver trade goods brought by the ships Den Berg, King Karel III, and Roosenburg, dated July 29 and July 30
• 1 inspection report of three textile packages from Daatcheram, dated March 23
• 1 comparison report of 4 half-pieces of brown-blue Guinea cloth received from Batavia via the Roosenburg
• 1 report on the weighing and drying of 8 boxes of cloves brought by the ships Den Berg, Roosenburg, and King Karel
• 2 gift memoranda

On August 14, 1716, a document (number 293) from Coromandel discussed gifts given to the great governor Assan Kolijchan at Masulipatnam and his main officials. It also mentioned items delivered to great governor Taijerchan and city administrator Permarassoe at Palliacatta during May 2 and June 15.

The document lists several records:

• Number 25: Construction and repairs done to the Company's buildings in Daatcherom and Golepalem
• Number 26: Collection of extraordinary expenses for fixing damage caused by severe storms on November 27-28, 1715
• Number 27: Copy of a permit given by Palliacatta administrator Permarasoe to local merchants
• Number 28: List of retired and paid servants showing their monthly benefits
• Number 29: Note showing which people from shore were exchanged with others on the ships Berg and Koning Carel, who completed their service time, and who were sent back as unfit
• Number 30: Bundle of papers containing documents from the court case between former Nagapatnam tax collector Hendrik Wijnhout and bookkeeper Willem van Zijll

On August 14, 1716 in Coromandel, several documents were registered, including:

• Salary papers (No. 31)
• A copy of verdicts by the Council of Justice concerning a fled village headman from Weijtenade villages (No. 32)
• A sealed letter from governor Adriaan de Visser to governor-general Christoffel van Swoll and the Council of the Indies in Batavia (No. 33)
• A sealed letter from French general Hebert to His Excellency (No. 34)
• A sealed package from the orphanmasters to the orphanmasters in Batavia (No. 35)
• A sealed letter from the church council to the church council in Batavia (No. 36)
• An invoice and bill of lading for the cargo (No. 37)
• An expense account for supplies provided to the ship (No. 38)

The ship King Carel also carried duplicate copies of this register and earlier mentioned documents, including another sealed letter from governor Adriaan de Visser to governor-general Christoffel van Swoll and the Council.

This document describes shipping and correspondence activities between Coromandel and Batavia in 1716. On August 14, 1716, ships named Den Berg and King Karel III arrived. A clerk named I. Steenhuijsen documented this at Nagapatnam. The letter was addressed to Governor-General Christoffel van Swoll and the Council of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia.

The correspondence mentions that on July 1, the ship Den Berg arrived from Batavia. They received letters dated May 22. Additional ships named Roosenburg and King Karel III arrived on the 8th and 16th. The document confirms receipt of all letters sent between April 23 of the previous year and February 12 of the current year.

• Pulicat
• Sadraspatnam
• Porto Novo

• Half of the compensation for 236 pieces of goods given to the Wenketarail (a local official) in Porto Novo had been repaid to the Company
• Orders were sent to Masulipatnam to instruct Bimilipatnam to make additional compensation payments
• This included payment for packaging materials from September 23, 1713 that had been thrown overboard during an emergency on the way to Masulipatnam

On August 14, 1716, in Cormandel, instructions were given regarding money that had been extorted. This concerned a barrel of French wine brought to Masulipatnam in 1714. Repairs were made to company buildings in Daatcherom and Goeconda. Saidhisa, a military commander, had extorted 289 rupees from the company's Brahmin in Siccacol, which was later repaid from the company's funds. Officials would try to recover 250 rupees that were extorted from the company's merchants in Bimilipatnam through their representative in Gensjana, though success was doubtful since these people rarely return what they have taken. The Masulipatnam traders' request to be relieved of payment for an almost empty barrel of French wine, delivered on September 6, 1714 with the ship "Huijs ter Leede," was rejected. The administration promised to ensure that outside trading post employees would no longer be as lax in completing necessary repairs to company buildings as those in Daatcherom had been with their repairs to the trading post, and in Golepalem, for which accounts were approved by council decision on February 14 of that year.

On August 14, 1716, in Coromandel, 50 pieces were mostly received. A contract in Golconda had not yet been returned regarding the merchant Naroba's case. Permission was granted to spend necessary funds to resolve this quickly. The amounts were 2,506.15 florins and 1,359.7 florins, totaling 3,866.2 florins.

A severe storm between November 27 and 28 of the previous year caused damage to Company buildings, requiring unavoidable repairs costing 2,487.12.8 florins. The 50 pieces provided to the patnams or chalengiers for repairing their vessels and oars damaged in the storm had mostly been returned, with the remaining small portion expected to be settled soon.

According to recent reports from Masulipatnam, the contract issued by the deceased Golconda Brahmin to the Baxie had not yet been returned, though prospects looked good. There were also positive signs for quickly resolving the dispute over Naroba's claim of 750 roas against the Company. On June 24, officials were authorized to give small necessary gifts while maintaining strict economy.