in those days was also the seal of "New Amsterdam," Burmounted by a mantle having in its centre the letters G. W. C, the initials of " Geoctroyeedo AVest Indische Comp\gnie," the Dutch appellation of the West India Company. --III. Doc. Hist, 396.

6 Wassenaer, III. Doc. Hist., 4.3.

6 I. Brod., 156.

" Cabot, whose voyage along the coast of North America was the basis of the English claim to New Netherland, never landed upon nor took possession of any part of it for the King of England.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

aiul wagons, and one hundred and tliree head of uaimals, consisting of" stallions, mares, bulls, cows, swine and sheep ; " each beast," says Wassenaer, in his account of the voyage, " had its own separate stall," arranged on a flooring of sand three feet deep, which was laid upon a deck specially constructed in the vessel, beneath which were stowed 300 tuns (casks) of water. Only two beasts died at sea. The rest on arriving were landed on "Noten," now Governor's, Island, then covered by a dense forest of nut trees, so thick that the pasturage was insufficient, and two days later all the animals were transferred to Manhattan Island where they throve well. These ships also brought six more families of Walloons, and a few single people, forty-five persons in all.'

To Verhiilst succeeded, as third Director-General, Peter Minuit, of Wesel, in Westphalia, who was of French Huguenot origin. He sailed from the Texel on the ninth of January, 1626, in the ship Sea-Mew, and reached " the Mauhadoes " on the fourth of the succeeding May.