[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ] To Petriis Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherland and Curasao, at the Manhattans, in Fort New Amsterdam. 9 July, 1654. Honorable, wise, prudent, right, discreet Sir Holland Documents, Being informed by the governors of the aims-house of the vast number of poor ^^■'^^' people wherewith they are burdened and charged, we have concluded to relieve them and so do the Company a service, by sending some of them to New Netherland. We have, therefore, sent over in the ship belonging to the bearer hereof, 7 @^ 28 boys and girls, requesting you, in a friendly manner, to extend to them your kind advice and assistance, and to advance them if possible; so that they, according to their fitness, may earn their board. If you consider that the population of that country could be advanced by sending over such persons, we shall, on being informed, lose no time to have some more forwarded. Meanwhile, we shall he much obliged by the aid and assistance you will extend in this instance. Hesolution of the States General calling for information respecting the Boundary of New Netherland. [ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1662 — 1663, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ] Thursday, 17 September, 1654. Folio 116.