the last of Oct. 1643, the three former yeares being advanced for the use of the said James Farrett.

In witness whereof the party has put his hands and seal the tenth day of March 1639. (Signed) Sealed and delivered in the presence of ffulk

Davis

Benj" Price.

[o. s.]

James Farrett

(seal.)

XXIII.

STATISTICS OF THE

Population

of

tl)e

fJromnce

16^7--177^

[Vol. I.]

of

Ncto~|lorIi\

POPULATE-- 1647. GOV. STUYVESANT TO THE STATES GENERAL. [

Hoi. Doc. XI. ]

your Illustrious High Mightinesses with a long narrative as to the low condition in which I found New Netherland on my arrival the Flattland so stripped of inhabitants that I need not intrude on

--

with the excepti m of the three English Villages of Hemstede, New Flushing & Gravesend, 50 Bouweries and Plantations could not

be enumerated ; and there coidd not be made out in the whole Province, 250, or at farthest 300 men capable of bearing arms.

1673. [

Vanderkemp Transl. of Dutch Rec. Vol. XXII. ]

" They and as many of the Dutch nation as are yet residing under this Government is calculated to amount,

Women and children included, to about Six thousand."

(6.000).

Address of the Burgomasters cj*c to Bencks and Evertsen.

AN ACCOUNT of the Number of Inhabitants in ye Severall Counties of ye Province of New Yorke taken by the High Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace in each respective County; as p order of His Excell. the Earl of

Bellomont

Governr &c. anno 1698 [