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Source	Passages	Words	Link
E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)	1005	189,431	Original →
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)	325	61,761	Original →
Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)	236	43,115	Original →
E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)	153	26,639	Original →

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 225

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] One or more surgeons, according to the number of the people, with a chest well supplied with all sorts of drugs. One or more coopers. A clergyman, comforter of the sick, or precentor who could also act as schoolmaster.…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 225 (part 2)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] By the population and cultivation of the aforesaid lands those who will have disbursed funds for the removal of the laboring classes, the purchase of cattle and all other expenses, would, in process jof some years, aft…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 226

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ' The Duchy of Berg is about four or five miles southeast of Arnhem. — Ed. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 371 The following is the mode pursued by the West India Company in the first planting of Bouweries. The Company, at thei…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 226 (part 2)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The risk of the cattle dying is shared in common, and after the expiration of the contract the Company receives, if the cattle live, the number the husbandman first received, and the increase which is over, is divided …

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 227

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] the advantage of the Country and its Inhabitants. 372 NEW-YORK COLONIAL RL^NUSCRIPTS. Observations on the Duties levied on Goods sent to New JSfetherland. [ From the OrigiDal in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague; Loketka…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 227 (part 2)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] This is a sum One hundred guu-Certain, which must be paid to the Company before a hundred guilders, c-mfany ^" before transmltt-cd from Netherland, can be reimbursed exclusive of the convoy, which received?"™ " the Hon…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 227 (part 3)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Salvage and duty, the merchants include in the capital; were percent. j[^gy rgijeved thereof, they would be able to sell their goods fifty per cent cheaper. 4. This duty is paid, partly, in Fatherland; partly in New Ne…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 228

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] business; they must also gain, or they cannot continue merchants. They, therefore, charge their goods not only according to the prime cost thereof, but according to the cost, disbursements and charges which accrue ther…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 228 (part 2)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Ni-lh-oo i././ eriaod pays dmy. the cargo is for Indians, or dry goods or liquors. If the cargoes for the Indians only paid, there would be no reason for complaint; if liquors even were somewhat taxed, it were allowabl…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 228 (part 3)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] As the greatest profit arises from powder, lead, guns and similar articles, the sale of which to the Indians being contraband, is prohibited on pain of corporal punishment, yet as Profit derived from the gain derived t…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 228 (part 4)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] as if all the duties were levied; for what the traders gain by their business they reserve entirely to themselves, offsetting the profit against the trouble and risk, which they run. Whether the removal or continuance …

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 228 (part 5)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] But on the contrary, this State will inevitably be subject to contempt and derision on tlie part of the English, (who in course of time will absorb the country) for suffering so very advantageous a position and so prof…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 229

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : V. 375 It would be better would be best for the Company in general to remove at once the New Netherlands tbatiiK-re w.'.ui.rbu dutv. But US this simple position may not, perhaps, be admitted bv tlie…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 229 (part 2)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] New Netherland is every year a burthen, not a benefit to the Company, which no advantage lo the j i i " Company, aith-uirh cxpends more on, than is received from it, without, however, at all benefiting itrxp.-n.l3cunsi…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 229 (part 3)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] duty remain, your High Mightinesses, however willing you may be, cannot secure nor populate New Netherland; and if this do not happen, it will bring you into great disrepute with the English and Swedes. Again, your Hig…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 229 (part 4)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] to year, get into more intricate labyrinths, and finally the English and Swedes will make away with the Province. Whether the removal of the duty be advantageous to New Netherland. The abolition, modification or altera…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 229 (part 5)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] ] To the Honorable Mighty Lords, the Lords Alexander van der Cappellen of Heraertsbergen and the other their High Mightinesses' deputies on the redress of New Netherland. Honorable, Mighty Lords. The Delegates of the C…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 229 (part 6)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] (Endorsed) Remonstrance of the Delegates from New Netherland to the Most Mighty Lords their High Mightinesses' Deputies on the redress of New Netherland. Received 12"' March, 1G50. Appendix. Before me, Jan Colterman, a…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 229 (part 7)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Resohition of the States General concerning Neiv Netherlands &c. [ From the Eegister of West India Affairs, 1638 — 1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ] Saturday, 12 March, 1650. Foiio542. Messrs. van Aertsbergen…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 229 (part 8)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] jj^g,^ jg jj^g defence and maintenance of the forts and country there, with notice Defence and mam-, '' InTiandl'^n B^-'■'^^^ their High Mightinesses have sent a reinforcement thither of twelve ships, "''... provisions…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 230

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] States General to the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company. [ From the Register of Uilgenanc Brieven of the Stales General, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hagne. ] To the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Compan…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 230 (part 2)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Herewith is sent an extract from written information which the Directors of the West India Company, at Amsterdam, transmitted on the IJ"" instant to New Netheriand, our Committee in the matter of the West India Company…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 230 (part 3)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [ From the Minute in the Eojal ArchiFes at the Hague; File, West Indie, ] This day, the 19"" of March, 1G50, the Committee of the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company on the one part, and Adriaen van der Donck, …

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 230 (part 4)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The Committee of the Company shall immediately make an assignment of such funds, together with seven thousand guilders additional, to be drawn in New Netherland from the peltry revenue, amounting, in all, to the sum of…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 230 (part 5)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And the West India Company shall be privileged, whenever said 200 persons are brought on board, to cause to be inspected the ship and the people, if these be qualified as aforesaid. And the New Netherland contractors d…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 230 (part 6)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Dele atesfromNew '^^^ Assembly is advised that some Delegates from New Netherland having Netherland. come here with power to convey from this country to that, a considerable number of farmers and other people, but that…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 231

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We learn from a reliable source, that by your High Mightinesses' order, the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company is authorized to lay on a ship for Brazil; and we have lying at Amsterdam a lot of forty barrels o…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 231 (part 2)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We will, meanwhile, conform ourselves to whatever your High Mightinesses' Committee, with the assistance of the Directors delegated from the other Chambers, shall do and determine in the premises. Herewith concluding, …

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 232

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Received 31 March, 1650. Resolution of the States General. [ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1638—1651, in the Eoyal Archives at the Haguo. ] Thursday, 31" March, 1650. Folio 54S. Received a letter from the Di…

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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 232 (part 2)

E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)

[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] On representation made to the Assembly by Mess" van Aertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, it is, after Pieter stuyvpsanL previous deliberation, resolved and …

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