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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 217 (part 9)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The settlement of the boundary by possession can never be effected, except by sending out working people and disbursing money necessary for such work; and in order to encourage those who are able to make disbursements, firm and permanent privileges should be granted, consistent with the right accruing from the charter granted to the West India Company. For the conveyance of farmers and their families, and of handicraftsmen, are required: — A large fly-boat of 200 lasts, which would be chartered for the voyage out, for fl. 6000.