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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 230 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Herewith is sent an extract from written information which the Directors of the West India Company, at Amsterdam, transmitted on the IJ"" instant to New Netheriand, our Committee in the matter of the West India Company of these parts. As mention is made in the aforesaid information of the resort to New Netherland and its trade, we, therefore, hereby request and require you to depute one or two of your Board hither by the 25"" instant, fully empowered and instructed on the whole New Netherland business, to confer thereupon with our Committee. Wherein fail not. Done 12'" March, 1650. Draft of a Contract to convey Emigrants to New Netherland.