Resolved Since Johannes Cuyler Refuses y* Reynier Barents with all Convenient Speed goe to Sopus & there in our name Request Capt Garten or one of y^ gent" y* were Last here to goe to Boston along with Rob* Livingston & Capt gerrit Teunise agents to Procure y® assistance of 50 men and Provisions, and if no men can be Procured, to Procure some money, and use all Pressures Imaginable y* Shipping may be Equipd to goe to uivade Canida, & y* y^ s*! Person may be at Catskill on Munday night in order to proceed on y^ journey, y* s<^ jM"" Barents is to use all Endeavors w*^ y^ g^nt of Sopus to Procure 50 men with Provisions for our assistance as also 500 skepels of Indian Corn for there Maj^s acct. for ye Indians y* goe out to warr ag^t y* french, & Comeing to N: Yorke y^ s^ Barents is to inform them of afFares there & Insist with y^ authority there for y^ assistance of men provisions & money, according to instructions which shall be given him.

Resolved that for v*^ easier managem* of y® Present afFares in this juncture y* 6 persones out of y*' Convention be appointi'd to order matters who are

Dirk Wessells Record^" \

L: van Shaik / W^ s^ Persones are for yo

Capt Jan Bleeker I future ,to take y^ Charge

Capt Marte gerritse / of doeing all Publike Reynier Barents V Bissinesse in this County

Evert Banker J

Orderd y* y*^ following Instructions be given to Mr. Reynier Barents bounde to N: Yorke who not understanding English desyre y* they might be in Dutch.