Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 45 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ] High and Mighty Lords: Yesterday, arrived here the Ship the Arms of Amsterdam, which sailed from New Netherland, out of the River Mauritius, on the 23"* September. They report that our people are in good heart and live in peace there; the Women also have borne some children there. They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value, of 60 guilders; 'tis 11,000 morgens in size. They had all their grain sowed by the middle of May, and reaped by the middle of August. They send thence samples of summer grain; such as wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, canary seed, beans and flax. The cargo of the aforesaid ship is : — 7246 Beaver skins. 17Si Otter^^skins. 675 Otter'skins. 4S Minck skins. 36 Wild cat skins.