Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 147
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] cuyte^r and Cornelia Mightinesses, in the name and on behalf of Jochum Pieters' Cuyter and Cornells Melyn is, after previous consideration, placed in the hands of the Mess" van der Capelle the Ryssel, and others their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs concerning the Redress of the Decline of the West India Company, to inspect, examine and to look into the past proceedings thereupon, and to report on the whole with power to their High Mightinesses' Deputies who may be present, to proceed to business in the absence of one or the other of the committee; to progress therein and to terminate the same. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IIL 249 Resolution of the States General permitting Messrs. Cuyter and Melyn to return to New Netherland. [From the Register of West India Affairs, 168S— 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague.] Tuesday, 2S* April, 1648.