Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 12
February 9. August 10. October 4. 1620.
February 12. Official copy of the above special grant to Gerrit Jacobsen Witssen and others, of an exclusive right to trade, &c., to New Netherland, from the "Acte Boek " of the States-General -Minute of the appearance, before the States-General, of Captain Cornelia Hendricksen, <tc., in behalf of Gerrit Jacobsen Witssen and others, Directors of New Netherland, and of his submitting his second report of certain discoveries he had made in New Netherland, in a small yacht of eight lasts burthen, called the Onrust, which the Directors had caused to be built there, &c., &c.; upon which the States-General resolve that, before coming to any decision on the special grant asked for, the report be committed to writing, (fee Memorial of Gerrit Jacobsen Witssen and others.