12 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. We therefore expressly command all Governors, Justices, Officers, Magistrates and inhabitants of the aforesaid United Countries, that they allow the said Company peaceably and quietly to enjoy the whole benefit of this Our grant and consent, ceasing all contradictions and obstacles to the contrary. For such we have found to appertain to the public service. Given under Our Seal, paraph and signature of our Secretary at the Hague the xi*'' of October 1614.

Charter for divers Traders who have discovered certain Nexo Countries, nth October, 1614. [ From the Act Book of the States Geaeral, id the Eoyal Archires at the Hague.]

[ This being a Duplicate of the Document immediately preceding, is omitted. -- Ed. ]

Resolution of the States General on a Report of fiirtJier Discoveries i7i New NetTierland,

[ From the Register of Resolutions of the State* General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Thursday, the IS"" August 1616. Foiio2oi. Cornells Henricxs% Skipper, appears before the Assembly, assisted by Notary Carel van Geldre, on the behalf of Gerrit Jacob Witssen, Burgomaster at Amsterdam, Jonas Witssen, Lambrecht van Tweenhuyzen, Paulus Pelgrom cum suis, Directors of New Nctherlaud, extending from forty to five and forty degrees, situate in America New Neiheriand. between New France and Virginia, rendering a Report of the second Voyage, of the manner in which the aforesaid Skipper hath found and discovered a certain country, bay and three rivers, lying between the thirty eighth and the fortieth degree of Latitude (as is more fully to be seen by the Figurative Map;) in a small Yacht of about eight Lasts, named the Onrust (Restless.) Which little yacht they caused to be built in the aforesaid Country, where they employed the said Skipper in looking for new countries, havens, bays, rivers, &c.