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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 119

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: HI. 175 West India Company to the States General. [ From the Original in the Royal Archiyea at the Hague; File, West Indie. ] To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands. High and Mighty Lords. The Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, supplicate, with all reverence, that your High Mightinesses he pleased to cause to be issued the commission of Petrus Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland, a form whereof is hereunto annexed. Which doing, &c. (Endorsed) Memorial on behalf the West India Company, in favor of the Director to New Netherland. 13 July, 1646, Resolution of the States General on the preceding Letter. [From the Register of West India affairs, 1638—1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ] Friday, 13"" of July, 1646. Folio S07. Read in the Assembly a certain memorial presented to their High Mightinesses in the name and on behalf of the Directors of the Incorporated West India Company of this country, requesting that their High Mightinesses would he pleased to cause to be dispatched BtuyvesanL » commission for Petrus Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland, according to New Netherland. ^j^g formula exhibited and submitted to the Assembly with the aforesaid memorial.