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January 13, 1629

Extract from the register of resolutions of the West India Company, Chamber of Amsterdam.

The 13th of January 1629

President Godyn and Mr Rensselaer notify the Chamber that their honors together with Mr Blommaert by the ships now going to New Netherland send two persons, one named Gillis Houset, sailor, the other Jacob Jansz Cuyper, with the intention, in case they make favorable report to their honors, of planting a colony there in accordance with the conditions drawn up by the Assembly of the XIX.

Registration by Michiel Pauw of a colony on the river Sickenames

June 7, 1629

Extract from the register of resolutions of the West India Company, Chamber of Amsterdam

The 7th of June 1629

Confrater Michiel Pauw notifies this Chamber that his honor declares himself as patroon of a colony which he agrees to plant, on the conditions ratified today in the Assembly of the XIX, in New Netherland, on the river of