[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ral, granting the privileges of trade and further discovery to companies of merchants, which led to the subsequent colonization by patroons or patentees of lands. One of these grants, bearing date October 11th, 1614, is accompanied by a descriptive map of the North river and the adjacent country, executed within five years after the discovery by Hudson. It only remains that the seal of a foreign language should be taken off from these valuable and curious records, to render them accessible to all; and to this end the committee would recommend that a suitable person be employed to translate them at the public expense. " Among these documents the committee would particularly notice one that possesses peculiar interest in its relation to the Dutch Colony on the Island of Manhattan. The precise year in which that Colony was planted is not known; the oldest records in possession of the State, before the receipt of these documents, commence with the administration of Governor Kieft, in the year 1G38, with the single exception of some grants of land which go back to 1630.