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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
nite trace of a voyage to Manhattan in that year has been discovered. Besides: to avoid a competition with England, the Dutch ambassador at London, that same Brodhead's Hist. 44, 45. year, proposed a joint colonization of Virginia, as well as a partnership in the East India trade; but the offer was put aside from fear of the superior art and industry of the Dutch. The development of a lucrative fur-trade in Hud- 1611. son's river was therefore left to unprotected private adventure. In 1613, or in one of the two previous years, the experienced Hendrik Christiaensen of Cleve and the worthy Adriaen Block chartered a ship with the skipper Ryser, and made a voyage into the waters of New York, bringing back rich furs, and also two sons of native sachems. The States General still hesitated to charter a West India Company; but on the twenty-seventh of March, 1614, they ordained that private adventurers 1614. might enjoy an exclusive privilege for four successive voyages to any pass