Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 375
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Agreement between the West India Company and the City of Amsterdam respectimj a Colonie on the Delaware Miver. Conditions to be agreed upon with the West India Company. Received 12 August, 1656. 1. The West India Company shall approve, and as far as lies in its power, give effect to, the accompanying Agreement, basis and regulation on which the City of Amsterdam is to plant Colonies in New Netherland. C30 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. 2. Their High Mightinesses and the Company are to cede and grant to the City of Amsterdam, as founder and planters of the place, high, middle and low jurisdiction, in order the better to maintain the requisite authority there. 3. The City shall possess the jurisdiction aforesaid, in form of a fief, successively appointing to that end a person on whom it shall be conferred, on payment of certain seignorial