They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value, of 60 guilders; 'tis 11,000 morgens in size. They had all their grain sowed by the middle of May, and reaped by the middle of August. They send thence samples of summer grain such as wheat, rye, barley, ;

oats, buckwheat, canary seed, beans and flax.

The cargo of the aforesaid ship is : -- 7246 Beaver skins. 17Si Otter^^skins. 675 Otter'skins. 4S Minck skins. 36 Wild cat skins. 33 Mincks. 34 Rat skins.

88 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Considerable Oak timber and Hickory. Herewith, Higli and Mighty Lords, be commended to the mercy of the Almighty.

In Amsterdam, the 5"" November, A'' 162G. Your High Mightinesses' obedient, Received 7"" November, 1626. (Signed) P. Schagen.

The address was as follows :

High and Mighty Lords, My Lords the States General at the Hague.

Resolution of the States General.

[ From the Register of Resolutions of tlie Stales General, in the Royal Archives at the Hagne. ]

Saturday, the 7"" November, 1626. Folio ',77. Received a letter from Mr. Schagen, o written at Amsterdam, the 5"" inst., Mr. Schagen. '

Arrival of a Ship Containing advice of the arrival of a Ship from New Netherland, which requires

The Assembly of the XIX. to the States General. [From the Original in the Eoyal Archives, at the Hague ; File West Indie. ]

Extract. Exhibited the IG"- November, 1627.

To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands. High and Mighty Lords. 1. We have heretofore communicated to your High Mightinesses the exploits, &c. 4. The last letters from New Netherland bring word, that the English of New Plymouth threaten to drive away those there, or to disturb them in their settlement and little colony, notwithstanding our's heretofore had tendered to them every good correspondence and friendship.