GENETALOGV COLLECTION

DOCUMENTS I,ATIVE TO THE

COLONIAL HISTORY STATE OF NEW-YORK PROCURED IN

HOLLAND, ENGLAND AND FRANCE

JOHN ROMEYN BRODHEAD, ESQ.,

AND BY VIETUE OF AN ACT OF THE LEGISLATUKE, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO APPOINT AN AGEKT TO PEOCUP.E AND TEANSCP.IBE DOCUMENTS IN EUROPE RELATIVE TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE," PASSED MAY 2, 1889.

PUBLISHED UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN ACT OP THE LEGISLATURE, ENTITLED " AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLISHING CERTAIN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE," PASSED MARCH 30, 1849, AND AN ACT ENTI- TLED "an ACT IN RELATION TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE, AND THE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION THEREOF," PASSED APRIL 12, 1856.

EDITED BY

E. B. O'CALLAGHAN, M. D., LL. D.

WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY THE AGENT.

VOL. I.

ALBANY: WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1856.

Volumes III., IV., V., VI., VII. and IX. of this work were published under the direction of the Governor, Secretary of State and Comptroller of the State of New- York ; and the publication has been completed under the authority of the Regents of the University, in virtue of the Act of the Legislature to that effect,

passed April 12, 1856.

The Documents in Dutch and French were translated by E. B. O'Callaohan, M. D., LL. D., who was employed for that purpose, and to superintend the publication generally.

CORKESPONDENCE.

The Legisktnre having recently placed the publication of the Documents collected by you in Europe, relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, under the direction of the Regents of the University, I have been instructed by the Committee of the Regents charged with the subject, to request you to prepare a General Introduction to that work, to be prefixed to the first volume, which is now nearly ready.