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1 8. 1647. July 25th, 1647. The Director and Council of New 

 Netherland, decreed that Melyn should be fined and banished for 

 seven years. (Calendar N. Y. Hist. Manuscripts iii.) 



19. 1 6th August 1647. Melyn sailed for Holland, on the ship 

 Princess. (Brodhead i : 472.) 



20. 1649. J^ii- 2d, 1649. The Director and Council of New 

 Netherland adopt a resolution permitting Melyn to reside in New 

 Netherland, in obedience to orders from the States-General, and 

 the Prince of Orange. (Calendar N. Y. Hist. Manuscripts 121.) 



21. 1650. "We do not think it advisable to consider at present 

 your request of erecting a redoubt opposite Staten Island, nor the 

 case of the soldier whom Cornells Melyn has debauched, and who 

 is still upon that island:" (Letter, Directors of the W. I. Com- 

 pany to Stuyvesant, Amsterdam, i6th Feb. A° 1650; Col. Doc. 

 14: 122.) 



22. Melyn induces Hendrick van der Capellen to undertake the 

 settlement of a colony on Staten Island. Van der Capellen pur- 

 chased the ship New Netherland Fortune on May i8th, 1650, 

 which sailed on June 30th, with 70 persons on board, including 

 Melyn, in the charge of Capt. Adriaen Post. The ship did not 

 reach Manhattan until Dec. 19th, 1650. (Brodhead i: 524; 

 O'Callaghan's Hist. 2: 130, 157; Col. Doc. i: 528, 638.) 



23. Melyn fortified himself in his colony, where he established a 

 Manorial Court. (Brodhead i: 525; O'Callaghan 2: 158.) 



24. 13th Feb. 1652. Representation made by the Directors of the 

 Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Co. to the Burgomasters 

 and Regents of Amsterdam. 



"Upon the Island [S. I.] they [Melyn and another], have 

 established a government according to their own notion, also a 

 judicial court." (Col. Doc. 14: 157.) 



25. 1652. Extract from letter from Directors in Holland to Stuy- 

 vesant, 4th April 1652 : 



" All this with the understanding, that we are and will be will- 

 ing, to grant as much land to everybody, as he will undertake to 

 cultivate and populate, but we do not intend to give away the land 

 with unlimited boundaries, as formerly, especially not whole 

 islands, of which one was given to Cornelis Melyn, who upon 8 

 leagues of country has only settled 5 or 6 living beings." (Col. 

 Doc. 14: 168.) 



