They presented a memorial to this effect, accompanied by the first map ever made of the region of New Netherland -- a "Carte Figuratif," as they styled it -- to the States-General in the autumn of 1614. The application met their approval, and on the 11th of October, in the same year, that sovereign body made a grant to the petitioners of the privilege sought, to run for the term of three years, from the 1st of January, 1615. This grant is in the following words, and in it appears for the first time, as the name of the new region, the term " New Netherland."

" The States-General of the United Netherlands to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting.

1 1. Col. Hist. N. T., 12. I. O'Callaghan's Hist, of New Netherland, 47.

Whereas Gerrit Jacobz Witssen, antient Burgomaster of the City of Amsterdam, Jonas Witssen, Simon Morrissen, owners of the ship named the Little Fox, whereof Jan de Witt has been skipper; Hans Hongers, Paulus Pelgrom, Lambrecht van Tweenhuysen, owners of two ships named the Tiger and the Fortune, whereof Adriaen Block and Henrick Corstiaensen were skippers; Arnolt van Lybergen, Wessel Schenck, Hans Claessen and Barent Sweettsen, owners of the ship named the Nightingale, whereof Thys Volckertsen was skipper; Merchants of the aforesaid City of Amsterdam, and Pieter Clementzen Brouwer, Jan Clementzen Kies, and Cornelis Volckertssen. Merchants of the City of Hoorn, owners of the ship named the Fortuyn, wherof Cornelis Jacobssen May was skipper ; all now associated in one company, have respectfully represented to us, that they, the petitioners, after great expenses and damages by loss of ships and other dangers, had, during the present year discovered and found, with the above-named five ships, certain New Lauds situate in America, between New France and Virginia, the seaooasts whereof lie between forty and fortyfive degrees of Latitude, and now called New Netherland : And whereas We did, in the month of March last, for the promotion and increase of commerce, cause to be published a certain General Consent and Charter, setting forth, that whosoever should thereafter discover new havens, lands, places or passages, might frequent, or cause to be frequented, for four voyages, such newly discovered and found, places, passages, havens, or lands, to the exclusion of all others from visiting or frequenting the same from the United Netherlands, until the said first discoverers and finders shall, themselves, have completed the said four voyages, or caused the same to be done within the time prescribed for that purpose, under the penalties expressed in the said Octroy, &c., they request that we should accord to them due Act of the aforesaid Octroy in the usual form :