Also, that we have warned and shall notify all persons who have had themselves registered as free Colonists, handicraftsmen, &c., already amounting to a respectable number, that they must be prepared and ready, by the aforesaid time and finally, ;

That for divers reasons we have thought it fit and more profitable to hire or freight a ship of 160 (a, 170 lasts burthen here, to convey all the aforesaid people and their requisite necessaries, to New Netherland.

Hesolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam on the preceding Report. [ From the Besohitim van dfi VroeSscliappen A., p. 151 ; In the Stad Iluya, Amsterdam. ]

Extract of the Resolutions of the Common Council of the City of Amsterdam.

• 4 November, 1656. n.flandDoenmenu, -pj^g Burgomasters have further informed the Council that their Worships had. Colonies in New ^"^ ^^^ promotion of the New Netherland business, considered among other Netherland. things: \w what manner Fort Casimir, which is situate on the South river and is conveyed to this City by the West India Company and destined to be the first abiding place of the new Colonists, should in future be guarded and defended against foreign attack, as the present Garrison is to be removed thence by said Company, and quartered in other of their forts lying higher up on said river, and that their Worships had principally taken into consideration these means, to wit: To send over 60 to 70 Boors from the Gulick country and

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HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VIIL 643 surrounding neighborhood, who, by the daily quartering of soldiers are not much less qualified for war than they, in order to mount guard on certain conditions and penalties, and to attend to agriculture the remainder of the time ; or, else, a certain number of soldiers to garrison specially said Fort.