Excerpt from Minutes of the Court of Rensselaerswyck: 1648-1652 Condihons, Just then, were not favorable for the erect1on of a court in the colony. Differences had arisen 1n the board of directors of the Dutch West India Company in regard to the fin trade and efforts were made by those who were opposed to the agricultural colonization of New N etherland to deprive the patroons of the privileges granted to them by the charter of Freedoms and Exemptions. Van Rensselaer complains of this in a memorial presented by him to the Assembly of the XIX on November in which he rnakes the statement that in July, 1632, he had people and animals enough to start five farms, but that his efforts were frustrated because the Company refused to let him have carpenters, smiths and other mechanics and also declined to furnish his people with supplies, in exchange for grain and dairy products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.