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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 224 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] All this being arranged it must be noted what description of people are best adapted for agriculture in New Netherland, and to perform the most service and return the most profit in the beginning. First, a person is necessary to superintend the working men; he ought to be acquainted with farming. Vol. I. 47 370 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Industrious country people, conversant with the working and cultivation of land, and possessing a knowledge of cattle.