Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 374 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We have resolved again to request and require your Honors, hereby, to transmit to us on the earliest day; yea, within eight days after the receipt hereof, your information and advice on the petition presented to us, some days ago, in the name and on the behalf of the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, on the popuiaii n of some subiectof a Certain contract concluded with the Burgomasters of that city, for Colonies in New •* t, J Naheriand. the populatiou of some Colonies in New Netherland, which we at the time resolved to transmit to you with the letter inclosed. Wherewith ending etc. Done lO"" August, 1656. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VIIL 629 Assembly of the XIX. of the West Indii Company to the States General. [ From the Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague; File, V/eit Indie. ] High and Mighty Lords.