[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] States General to the Chamber of the West India Company at Amsterdam. [From the Register of Vitgegan-e Brieven of the States General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ] The States, etc. Folio 65. Honorable, &c. We have this day heard and considered the Report of Mess" van Aertsbergen and other our Deputies for West India affairs, and have accordingly, after previous deliberation, resolved to request and require you hereby, to direct Jan Claesz Damen Damen and Cornelis van Thienhoven, Secretary of New Netherland, to come Thienhoven. hither by the first opportunity to appear before the said Mess" van Aertsbergen and the other our Deputies, and not depart for New Netherland before and until they shall have been here, whereon relying. Done 1-4 March, 1651. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 435 Resolution of the States General nf erring a Letter of the Amsterdam Chamber. [ From (he Register of West India Affairs, 168S — 1651, in (he Royal Archives ot the Uaguo. ] Tuesday, 21 March 1651. Folio 660. Received a letter from the Directors of the Incorporated West India Company Chamber at Amster-^^ ^^^ Chamber at Amsterdam dated 2S"" instant, being an answer to their High Damenand Mightinesscs' letter of the ll"" of this month, to the effect that Jan Jans' Damen Tienhoven. °,,, r-, ^.-,r,.