640 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. to hold, honor and respect as their Commander on the Island of Tobago, and moreover to obey whatever he, in the quality aforesaid, shall command them for the service of the State of this country in general and of the West India Company in particular. Given at the Hague under our counter-seal paraph and the signature of our Greffier, the

second of September, 1655.

Resolation of the States General on Mr. van der CapelUs Petition.

[ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1652 -- 1653, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Wednesday, the 4'*' October, 1656. Folio 223. Read at the meeting a certain Remonstrance of J"' Hendrick van der Capelle to Ryssel, Lord of Essel and Hasselt, Burgomaster of the City of Zutphen, Ordinary Deputy ''^^''' High Mightiuesses' Asscmbly, requesting that a Commission be issued Commander at New ^"^ ^''"'"'^'"'' for a proper person of the Reformed Religion, which he would send as Commander to his people of Staten Island in New Netherland, as was granted last year, 1655, to Mess" Adriaen and Cornells Lampsins for the Island of Tobago and St. Martin. Which being considered, it is resolved and concluded to refer the petition aforesaid to the Directors of the West India Company here, for advice.

Resolution of the Assembly of the XIX. on Mr. van der CapelWs Petition.

[ From the MS. tu the Eoyat Archives at the Hague ; Loketkas of the Slates General ; Ruble, West India Compagnie^ No. 42. ]