Another of the directors who took time by the forelock in the matter of the Patroonships was Kiliaen van Rensselaer of Amsterdam, who de Vries tells us " wns accustomed to polish pearls and diamonds." At his request Sebastian Jansen Kraol, who had resided as commissary at Fort Orange for three or four years, bought for him early in 1630, of the Mohican Indians, a tract on t"he west side of the Hudson, and shortly after another agent, Gillis Hosset, bought for him another tract on the east side of that river, of the same Indians. These purchases were on the 13th of August duly " transported " or granted to van Rensselaer by Director Minuit and his Council, and were the first lands in the State of New York granted under the charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, and consequently the following "transport" of these lands, is the first deed of conveyance for any lands in this State to a private person under the charter of 1629. The original in Dutch is in Holland, the translation was made by

1 1. Col. HiRt. X. v., 43. ^Ee Viite, p. 1C2.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.

the late Dr. Edmund B. O'Callaghan, from the copy iu Dutch in the Brodhead Papers, and is as follows :

TRANSPORT.

The Director and Council of New Netherland to Kiliaen van Rensselaer. Anno 1630, adi' 13th August. We the Director and Council of New Netherlands residing on the Island of Manahatas and iu Fort Amsterdam, under the authority of their High Mightinesses the Lords States-General of the United Netherlands and the Incorporated West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, do hereby acknowledge and declare, that on this day, the date underwritten, before us appeared and presented themselves in their proper persons: Kottomack, Nawanemit, Albantzeene, Sagiskwa, and Kanaoraack, owners and proprietors of their respective parcels of land, extending up the River, South and North, from said Fort'^ unto a little south of Moeneminnes Castle, to the aforesaid proprietors, belonging jointly and in common, and the aforesaid Nawanemit's particular land called Semesseerse lying on the East Bank opposite Castle Island off" unto the above mentioned Fort; Item from Petanock, the Millstream, away North to Negagonse, in extent about three miles, and declared Irecly and advisedly for and on account of certain parcels of cargoes, which they acknowledge to have received in their hands and power before the execution hereof, and. by virtue and bill of sale, to hereby transport, convey, and make over to the Mr.