Then having remarked by the aforesaid letter that your High Mightinesses had provisionally staid the aforesaid sale, we have deemed it expedient, in addition to the present information and in consideration thereof, humbly to solicit your High Mightinesses, that we be at liberty to proceed, on the day appointed by the notices and of which the merchants are now advised, with the aforesaid sale, and to benefit the most advantageously by the goods; the rather, inasmuch as the said Tafyn or any one else who might pretend a claim thereupon, which however cannot be, can and shall retain as much right to the moneys proceeding from the aforesaid sale, as he hath had to the aforesaid property. Which doing, etc.

Presented in the name of the Directors of the West India Company at Amsterdam, the 6"> November, 1648. ( Signed ) Gvsbert Rudolpht.

Resolution of the States General on the petition of Mr. Blommaert and others. [ From the Eegtster of West India affairs, 1G38--1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hagae.]

Friday, 20"" November, 1648. Folio 4«. The petition of Samuel Blommaert, Johannes de Laet, Margriete Reinst, Samuel Blommart j- r widow of Adam Bessels and Toussaint Muyssart, on and against the guardians ot i cum sociia. Colonie in New « _^ ^_ c Netherland. .

the miuor son of Kiliaen van , ,

Renselaer, relative to , . • r^ certain Colonie oi \ •

New i^-r

Netherland [being read] ; copy thereof is, after previous deliberation, placed in the hands of said guardians, for the purpose of commenting thereupon in writing.