[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ' The Duchy of Berg is about four or five miles southeast of Arnhem. — Ed. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 371 The following is the mode pursued by the West India Company in the first planting of Bouweries. The Company, at their own cost and in their own ships conveyed several boors to New Netherland, and gave these the following terms: — The farmer, being conveyed with his family over sea to New Netherland, was granted by the Company for the term of six years a Bouwerie, which was partly cleared, and a good part of which was fit for the plough. The Company furnished Ihe farmer a house, barn, farming implements and tools, together with four horses, four cows, sheep and pigs in proportion, the usufruct and enjoyment of which the husbandman should have during the six years, and on the expiration thereof, return the number of cattle he received. The entire increase remained with the farmer. The farmer was bound to pay yearly one hundred guilders and eighty pounds of butter rent for the cleared land and bouwerie. The country people who obtained the above mentioned conditions all prospered during their residence on the Company's lands. Afterwards the cattle belonging to the Company in New Netherland were distributed for Some years among those who had no means to purchase stock.