" So that on the 28th November, 1630, were read at the Assembly of the Directors, the deeds of conveyance of the lands and jurisdictions purchased from the Saccimaes, the Lords of the Country, executed for the behoof of the Patroons, their successors; and the new proprietors were accordingly thereupon congratulated.

"On the 2d December, in the year aforesaid, the patents sent to the Patroons from New Netherland were in like manner also again read, recorded in the Company's Register, ordered by the Assembly to be ensealed with the seal of New Netherland ; the Patroons were again congratulated and handed their patents.

" 16th ditto. The Patroons on resolution of the Assembly, delivered to the Company's Counsel a perfect list of their undertaken patroonships.

" 8th January, 1631. The Patroons Colonies were ex supra abundanti confirmed, on submitting the question to the Assembly of the XIX., holden in Zealand."

Such was the manner and the method in which began the colonization, settlement, and population, of New Netherland in general, and the territories of the States of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in particular. Space will not permit mention of other and later Patroonships in different parts of the Dutch territory in America, except that of Colen- Donck, the only one which was created in the County of Westchester which will be treated of hereafter.

Very soon difficulties arose between the West India Company and the Patroons in relation chiefly to the trade in furs and the claims of the Patroons to embark in the same under the articles of the charter of Freedoms and Exemptions. The latter were more inclined to push the trade in peltries than the agricultural settlement of their lands, for the reason that the former was highly profitable, whereas the latter required a constant outgo of money with a prospect (»f only distant and much smaller returns.