REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR, 1922 47 
tract of land on the North river (Manor of Rensselaerwyck), is 
printed on the first page of volume 14 of the “Documents Relat- 
ing to the Colonial History of New York.” Unfortunately, neither 
the translation published by General Wilson, nor that made by 
Mr Fernow, is entirely satisfactory, the first giving the date of the 
transaction as August 8, 1630, instead of the 6th, and the second 
representing the possible sale referred to at the beginning of the 
document as having actually taken place, so that for the correct 
understanding.of the document a new translation seems desirable 
and is presented herewith. 
CONTRACTOR SALE TOR WEANDVALONG THE HUDSON RIVER 
FROM THE MOHICAN INDIANS TO KILAEN VAN RENS- 
SIBILAUBIK, MMOGUSIP @, UOT, 
Whereas Bastiaen Janssen Crol, Commissary at Fort Orange, 
stated here at the Manhatas to the Honorable Council of this place, 
that the land situated near the aforesaid fort could not be bought 
this present year from the owners thereof and that, even though it 
were acquired afterwards, it would be understood by the Virginians 
to be sold only for so long as he, Crol, should continue to reside at 
the fort; and whereas likewise, when Wolffert Gerritsz, having 
orders from his Hon. Masters to inform thew Honors of the situa- 
tion there, expressly inquired of lum, Crol, what and what sort of 
information he should send to their Honors aforesaid, he, Crol, did 
thereupon reply that there was this year no chance or means of 
acquiring any land, repeating the same several times, according to 
the deposition thereof made by the aforesad Wolffert Gerritsz, it 
happened afterwards that Gillis Hosset, having on the 27th of July, 
1630, in sailing up the river, come to the place where Jan Jansz 
Meyns was camping with hs men to cut round timber for the new 
ship, there also came by chance to this spot Kotiamak, Nawanemitt, 
Abantzenee, Sagiskwa and Kanamoak, owners and proprietors of 
their respective parcels of land extending up the river, south and 
north of said fort, to a little south of Moeneminne’s Castle, belong- 
img jointly and collectively to the owners aforesaid, together with 
the land called Semesseeck, situated on the east shore, from opposite 
Castle Island to the aforesaid fort, belonging to the said Nawanemit 
‘Tn the record of this contract, in Dutch Patents, GG. page 4, this date is 
given by mistake as the 27th of July, 1631. Partly owing to this mistake his- 
torians have mentioned the present purchase as made subsequent to that for 
land between Beeren island and Smacks island, of May 1631, whereas in 
reality it was the first purchase of land in the Vicinity of Fort Orange. See 
Van Rensselaer Bowier Mss., p. 166-68, 181-82. 
