1620.] HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 5 



" First^ he hath discovered for his aforesaid Masters and 

 Directors, certain hinds, a bay and three rivers situate between 

 38 and 40 degrees." 



" And did there trade with the inhabitants ; said trade con- 

 sisting of sables, furs, robes and other skins." 



" lie hath found the said country full of trees, to wit : oaks, 

 hickory and pines; which trees, were in some places covered with 

 vines." 



" He hath seen in said country, bucks and does, turkeys and 

 partriges." 



" He hath found the climate of said country very temperate, 

 judging it to be as temperate as this country, Holland." 



'' He also traded for and bought from the inhabitants, the 

 Minguas, three persons, being people belonging to this company, 

 which three persons were employed in the service of the Mohawks 

 and Machicans; giving for them kettles, beads and merchandise." 



"Read August 19th, 1616."' 



It cannot be fairly inferred from this report, that the Schuyl- 

 kill was one of the three rivers discovered by Captain Hendrick- 

 son, and the original " Carte Figurative,"-' found attached to the 

 memorial of his employers, presented on the day before the re- 

 port was made, furnishes almost conclusive evidence that the 

 voyage of the Restless did not extend even to the mouth of the 

 Delaware river. The refusal of the States General, to grant 

 the trading privileges to these applicants, which in justice could 

 not be withheld from the discoverers of "any new courses, 

 havens, countries or places," furnishes additional proof that the 

 discoveries made in the Restless did not go much beyond what 

 had been previously made. If any knowledge of the Delaware 

 or Schuylkill rivers was acquired on this occasion, it was proba- 

 bly obtained from the three persons belonging to the company, 

 purchased from the Indians, or from the Indians themselves. 



In anticipation of the formation of a Dutch West India 

 Company, exclusive trading privileges were not again granted 

 under the general charter of 1614, except in a few instances and 

 to a very limited extent. The trade to New NetJierland, regard- 

 ed by the Dutch as extending beyond the Delaware, was thrown 

 open, in a measure, to individual competition. This did not last 

 long, for on the 3rd of June, 1621, the West India Company 

 was incorporated. It did not, however, go into operation until 

 1623. 



Thus far, trade, and new discoveries for the purpose of extend- 

 ing trade, appear to have wholly engrossed the attention of the 

 Dutch. This year a proposition is made by the Directors of the 



1 N. Y. Col. Doc. i. 13. 



2 For a copy of this " Carte Figurative," see N. Y. Col. Doc. i. facing p. 13. 



