Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan

“ By this Resolution you will perceive that you are at liberty to send one ship with all sorts of provisions to Angola, to convey, in return, Negroes thither. Please, therefore, seize on this opportunity as soon as possible, with the provisions which, you say you will have remaining." N. Y. Col. MSS. XI. 12.
I do not find any minute of such a ship, or of any vessel having been sent to Africa from New Netherland, in consequence of the above resolution and instruction. ”

“ The Honble Director General of New Netherland, Curacao and the Islands thereof, and the Honble Council having by experience seen and observed that some careless people neglect to keep their Chimneys clean by sweeping, and do not pay attention to their fires, whereby recently two Houses were burned and greater damage is to be expected in future from fire, the rather as the houses here in New Amsterdam are for the most part built of Wood and thatched with Reed, besides which the Chimneys of some of the houses are of wood, which also is most dangerous ”

“ That no person shall henceforward be allowed to keep a public or private Shop on shore, in cellar or garret, or to carry on any Trade by the small weight and measure within our Government in the Province of New Netherland, except our good and dear Inhabitants who, before they have taken the Oath of Allegiance, own real estate (syn gehuysten gehooft) at least to the amount of two to three thousand guilders and have promised to reside, or at least to keep fire and light in their own House, here in the land within this Province during four consecutive years ”