On 14 February 1777, a letter was sent from Samarang to Jeremias van Riemsdijk, Governor General, and the Council of the Dutch East Indies. The letter was signed by R. van der Burgh, J. van Panhuijs, J. van Ardenne, J. van Santen, N. M. Lelivelt, H. Ludewig, M. L. Gaaswijk, A. P. Tulleken van Hogenhouk, and A. Barkeij.
The writers requested that two bills of exchange be paid in Batavia:
The letter reported that heavy rains along the coast had allowed farmers to work their fields and prepare them for rice cultivation. However, the continuing bad and rough weather and excessive water prevented them in many places from sowing grain and in other places from transplanting young crops. Despite this, there was still good hope that when the weather calmed down, these activities could be completed successfully with prospects for a good harvest.
The writers noted they had no bar iron left in stock. They needed this and also nails that had been requested in their letter of 15 December 1776 for the shipbuilding yard at Rembang for a ship under construction.


National Archives / Archives South Holland, archive number 1.04.02, Inventaris van het archief van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), 1602-1795 (1811), inventory number 3497, Heren Zeventien en kamer Amsterdam, INGEKOMEN STUKKEN UIT INDIË, Overgekomen brieven en papieren, Overgekomen brieven en papieren uit Indië aan de Heren XVII en de kamer Amsterdam, Overgekomen brieven en papieren uit Indië aan de Heren XVII en de kamer Amsterdam, 1778. Zevenentwintigste boek: Batavia's ingekomen brievenboek, deel VII: Java's Oostkust
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