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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 386 (part 3)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] things: \w what manner Fort Casimir, which is situate on the South river and is conveyed to this City by the West India Company and destined to be the first abiding place of the new Colonists, should in future be guarded and defended against foreign attack, as the present Garrison is to be removed thence by said Company, and quartered in other of their forts lying higher up on said river, and that their Worships had principally taken into consideration these means, to wit: To send over 60 to 70 Boors from the Gulick country and HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VIIL 643 surrounding neighborhood, who, by the daily quartering of soldiers are not much less qualified