[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Also, that we have warned and shall notify all persons who have had themselves registered as free Colonists, handicraftsmen, &c., already amounting to a respectable number, that they must be prepared and ready, by the aforesaid time; and finally, That for divers reasons we have thought it fit and more profitable to hire or freight a ship of 160 (a, 170 lasts burthen here, to convey all the aforesaid people and their requisite necessaries, to New Netherland. Hesolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam on the preceding Report. [ From the Besohitim van dfi VroeSscliappen A., p. 151; In the Stad Iluya, Amsterdam. ] Extract of the Resolutions of the Common Council of the City of Amsterdam. • 4 November, 1656. n.flandDoenmenu, -pj^g Burgomasters have further informed the Council that their Worships had. Colonies in New ^"^ ^^^ promotion of the New Netherland business, considered among other Netherland.