The Farnham Papers

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the said main Lands on the Backside of the same Colonies; And to Have and enjoy the Gold, Silver and Copper, to be gotten thereof, to the Use and Behoof of the same Colonies, and the Plantations thereof; Yielding therefore to Us, our Heirs and Successors, the fifth Part only of all the same Gold and...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the said main Lands on the Backside of the same Colonies; And to Have and enjoy the Gold, Silver and Copper, to be gotten thereof, to the Use and Behoof of the same Colonies, and the Plantations thereof; Yielding therefore to Us, our Heirs and Successors, the fifth Part only of all the same Gold and Silver, and the fifteenth Part of all the same Copper, to be gotten or had, as is aforesaid, without any other Manner of Profit or Account, to be given or yielded to Us, our Heirs, or Successors, for or in Respect of the same. And that they shall, or lawfully may, establish and cause to be made a Coin, to pass current there between the people of those several Colonies, for the mere Use and Traffick and Bargaining between and amongst them and the Natives there, of such Metal, and in such Manner and Form, as the said several Councils there shall limit and appoint. GRANT OF EXCLUSIVE TRADE TO NEW NETHER- LAND BY THE STATES GENERAL OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS. October 11/21, 1614. Sources. The Grant of Exclusive Trade to New Netherland, October 11/21, 1614, by the States General of the United Netherlands is found in E. B. O'Callaghan, editor, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York (Albany, 1853-87), I. 11, 12, among papers collected by John Romeyn Brodhead from the Royal Archives at The Hague and translated by Dr. O'Callaghan. Thesource used by Mr. Brodhead is the minute on a half-sheet of paper, File, Loopende. A duplicate document from the Act Book of the States General is also in the Royal Archives. An extract is given by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Channing, American History Leaflets, No. 16; also in Report of the Regents of the University on the Boundaries of the State of New York (Albany, 1874), 5, 6. The limits assig...