Resolution of the States General on a Petitiori of the Guardians of Johannes van Renselaer. [From the Register of West India Affairs, 1638 -- 1651, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Saturday, 13 November, 1649. Folio 606. p^ certain further petition of thg Guardians of Johan van Renselaer, minor son va°n"Kenseia"°''*° of KiHacn Van Renselaer, regarding a certain Colonic on the North River of New certamcoiome. Ngtherland, being read in the Assembly, it is, upon consideration, resolved and

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IV. 321 concluded that the aforesaid petition be sent to the Assembly of the Nineteen of the West India Company at Amsterdam, with request and order that they shall, pursuant to their High Mightinesses' letters of the 22 Octo'' 1648 and 26 April last, again answer whether they have any valid reasons against the request contained in the petitioners' two distinct petitions and communicated to them, and if so, to send the same hither, and give information in the premises without being any longer in default, on pain of judgment.

Director Stuyvesant to the States General.

[ From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague ; Loketka^ of the States General ; Eabric West Indiache Compagnie, No. BO 6th division :

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Right Honorable, High and Mighty Lords.

My Lords. I duly received your High Mightinesses' letter dated 2S"' April, by Cornells Melyn, who has been, on his humble petition, graciously relieved by your High Mightinesses of the sentence pronounced against him by us and our council on the Fiscal's complaint, prosecution and proof. But the appellant to your High Mightinesses, meeting no party nor defence, the papers and documents in support of the sentence having been lost with the ship the Princess, we, therefore, thankfully acknowledge the prudence of your High Mightinesses, who have, with the one ear received the appellant in the case of appeal with inhibitory clause, and kept the other ear open for us.