[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The universal recognition in those times of the propriety and expediency of employing negro slaves in new coun-tries found expression in Article XXX. of the instrument, as follows: "The company will use their endeavors to supply the colonists with as many blacks as they conveniently can, on the conditions hereafter to be made; in such manner, however, that they shall not be bound to do it for a longer time than they shall think proper." So far as this new system of " Freedoms and Exemptions " was in-tended to encourage proprietary enterprises in New Netherland, its purposes were at once realized. Indeed, even before the final ratifi-cation of the plan, several of the leading shareholders of the com-pany sent agents across the water to select the choicest domains, which were duly confirmed to them as patroons soon after the charter went into effect. Thus Samuel Godyn and Samuel Blommaert, through their representatives, made purchases of land from the Indians on Delaware Bay, one hundred and twenty-eight miles long and eight miles broad, and were created patroons in consequence. The first patroonship erected within the borders of the State of Xew York was that of Rensselaerswyck, comprising territory on both banks of the upper Hudson, of which Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, of Am-sterdam, was the founder. This great tract was subsequently changed