Report on the Condition of the Colony of New Netherland, in 1638. [ From the Original in the Koj-al A rchives at the Hague Loketkas of the Stales General : ; Division, Vest Indische Oompagnie, No. 8. ]

leV^he^Aw^mbiy Whcreas the Lords States General obtain unreliable information on the h^beenVevS? affairs of New Netherland; that it is retrograding more and more, to the injury afore Jfd'to'ihe DiS of thls State and its inhabitants, it is demanded: paties Noortwvfe Uuyst van Voor hout, Tienhovei and &warzenberg.

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Their High Mightinesses granted, Anno 1614, to Jonas Witzen and Tweenhuyzen, by special charter, and on the expiration tliereof to the West India Company from Virginia to wit, from Ci9apoa,' along the sea coast to Newfoundland.

2. Are these limits still in the possession, at the present time, of the West India Company, and the inliabitants of this country? We occupy Mauritius or the North River; where there are two forts, Orange and Amsterdam and there is, moreover, one House ^ built by the Company, and that is the most of the population.

3. If not, what nations have seized them; and by what right and under what pretext? The right, is that of the strongest. The English extend from the northeast of New England unto the Fresh River.

4. Can the Company retain the remaining territory; and by what means? If there be people, the remainder can be maintained; from the North river, men can go into the interior as far as they please.