Friday, the 10'" of April, 1620. Folio iia Read the petition of the Directors of the Nevr Netherland Company, that their que opinion thereupon.

Resolution of the States General on the Petition of the Neio Netherland Company.

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

Saturday, the 11 April, 1620. Foiioiis. The petition of tiie Directors of the New Netherland Company, that they. New Company. Netherland . tor the ,

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said Island, may be assisted with two ships war, , . , , . ,.

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again rejected.

Resolution of the States General on further Petitions to trade to New Netherland. [ From the Register of Resolutions of the States General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Saturday, 29"" August, 1620. Folio 263. Rgad the petition of the Joint Owners of the Ship^ named the Glad Tidings '^ ° (de The owners of the '

^" ^h^^ bootsckapj whereof Cornells Jacobsen Mey of Hoorn is commander, who """ *''"'' di"n'''s

New found Country, having discovered some new Countries populous and fertile, abounding in all sorts of Timber and never discovered before, pray that their High Mightinesses maj' be pleased to hear

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: I. 25 the Report of the Skipper who made the voyage, and allow the petitioners the benefit of their High Mightinesses' Charter, dated 27thMarch XVI"" xiv, and to declare, moreover, within what time they shall have to perform the four voyages therein mentioned. Item, another petition of Henrick Eeikens, Adriaen Janssen cum suis, Merchants at Chartered to New Amsterdam, having had a charter to trade exclusively to New Netherland, Netheriand. discovered by them, situate from the thirty-fourth to about the fiftieth degrees, requesting that their High Mightinesses would be pleased to reject and refuse all grants that may have been demanded, or still will be demanded of them, regarding the Trade on the Coasts, or any of the Rivers of New Netiieriand, and to allow the petitioners and other merchants of this Country to continue in the free trade they are pursuing there, and further to equip some ships which they have in a sufficient state of forwardness.