years; and all colonies shall be obliged, at least once in every twelve months, to make exact report of their condition and of the lands thereabout to the commander and council there.
XXIX.
The colonists shall not be permitted to make any woollen, linen or cotton cloth, nor weave any other stuffs there, on pain of being banished, and as perjurers, to be punished, at discretion.
XXX.
The Company shall use their endeavors to supply the colonists with as many blacks as they can, on conditions hereafter to be made, in such manner, however, that they shall not be bound or held to do it for a longer time than they shall think proper.
XXXI.
The Company promise to finish the fort on the island of the Manhattes as soon as possible, and to put it in a posture of defence; and to cause these Privileges and Exemptions to be approved and confirmed by their High Mightinesses the Lords States General. 1
By these means many persons have become inclined to repair thither and to plant their colonies there, so that it is hoped--since the land itself is fruitful, and adapted if well cultivated to bring forth rye, wheat and other grains, as has now been demonstrated on various voyages, and since also good traffic can be carried on there in all sorts of peltries, which are plentiful there and fine--that good profits may be expected thence for the Company and the colonists.
This was done on June 7, 1629. Although the issue of these Privileges and Exemptions made better provision than had hitherto existed for local government and for agricultural occupation of the province by small independent proprietors, it also, in its provision for large manorial grants, transferred to the New World some undesirable features of the (modified) feudalism of the Netherlands; and by opening very profitable opportunities to directors and other rich members of the Company, tempted them to assume interests opposed to those of the Company and paved the way for much dissension between patroons and directors general. Forthwith Samuel Godyn and Samuel Blommaert secured a patroonship on the west side of Delaware Bay, other associates another on the east side, Michiel Pauw one which he called Pavonia, extending along the west side of the North River from the Narrows to Hoboken and including Staten Island. All these proved temporary. Kiliaen van Rensselaer established a great and more perma- nent patroonship, Rensselaerswyck, by securing broad lands on the west side, later extended to both sides of the Hudson, above and below Fort Orange.
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Publication Information: Book Title: Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664. Contributors: J. Franklin Jameson - editor. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1909. Page Number: 96.
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