Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 9 (part 3)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Schagen, the Deputy of the States-General at the meeting of the West India Company, to the Dutch Government at the Hague, announcing the arrival at Amsterdam of a ship from New Netherland, with advices from the Dutch colonists on the Island of Manhattan; bearing date November 5th, 1626. The followinc; is a translation of this document : « ' TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY LORDS OF THE STATES-GENERAL AT THE HAGUE : " ' Mt Lords, — There arrived here yesterday the ship called the "Arms of Amsterdam," which sailed from the river Mauritius [the Hudson], in New-Netherland, on the 23d of September. Eeport is brought that our people there are diligent, and live peaceably; their wives have also borne them children. They have purchased the Island of Manhattes from the Indians for the sum of sixty guilders; it contains 11,000 morgens of land. They have sown all kinds of grain in the middle of May, and reaped in the middle of August. I send you