To the Noble and Right Honorable Lord Director General and Council of New Netherland Whereas no lands here can be laid out and settled except with your Honors' approbation and consent, therefore the petitioner addresses himself to your Honors for consent to found a Town on LongIsland on the Bay of the North River. was signed Ja. Cortelliau. the deceased Werckhoven. the heirs of Cornelis Van for Agent In the margin stood " let the petition be granted, provided that they deliver by the first opporDated fortress Amterdam in New tunity, a map thereof, to the Director General and Council. Netherland, this 16th January A. D. 1657. Underneath which was written, By Order of the Right Honorable Director General and Council of Subscribed by C. V. Ruyven, Secretary. New Netherland. Liberty being thus given to commence the settlement, Jacques Cortelliau laid out and surveyed the place, and divided it into 20 lots containing 25 morgen (50 acres) each, which lots were granted to the following patentees who were desirous of making a settlement :

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Jacques Cortelliau

Albert Albertsen

The Lord Councillor & Fiscal Nicasius de Sille Pieter Buys

William Willemsen

Huybert Hoock

Jacob Hellickers alias Swart

Pieter Jansen

Joncker Jacobus Corlaer

Jan Jacobson

Johan Tomasse

Jacobus Backer

Rutgert Joosten

Jacob Pietersen,

Pieter Roeloffse

Claes Claessen,

Cornelis Beeckman

Teunis Joosten.

Johan Zeelen

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PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND.

The above named individuals having received their lots, came together so as speedily to advance "Whereof the first was Jacob Hellekeers house made clapboards small square of a standing in Gravesend which he tore having Swart, he tins because they could not begin altogether and alike and for down and removed to the town. On the place by sowing, planting and building on their lots.