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Identifier: annualreportofam00amer_2 (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the legislature of the State of New York.
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.
Subjects: Historic buildings Natural monuments Monuments
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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unicating this informationto Henry IV, but meanwhile some of the members of the DutchEast India Company, who had learned that Hudson had treatedwith LeMaire, became afraid that Jeannin might wish to employHudson in the interest of France. The Directors of the Amster-dam Chamber, therefore, reconsidered their former decision, re-newed their negotiations with Hudson, and on December 21), 1608,commissioned Direk van Os, Jan Poppe, and Arent ten Groten-huys to draft a contract for his engagement. This connuitteowas also directed to prepare the necessary letters to the otherChambers of the East India Company. At the same time theAmsterdam Chamber appointed Marcus de Vogelaer and JanHermanz, in conjunction with Dirck Gerritz, the chief boatswainof the Chamber, to look out for a suitable vessel of from twenty-five to thirty-five lasts (fifty to seventy tons) for Hudson. Van Os, Poppe, and Grotenhuys performed their work withexpedition and on January 8, 1G09, the following contract wassigned:
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Fifteenth Annual Report. 257 Translation of Contract with Henry Hudson.On this day, the Sth of January, in the year of our Lord, onethousand six hundred and nine, the Directors of the ten Yearsaccount of the Chamber of Amsterdam of the East India Companyon the one part, and Mr. Henry Hudson, Englishman, assisted byJodocus Hondius, on the other part, have agreed and covenantedwith each other in the manner following, to wit: That the afore-said, directors at the first opportunity shall equip a small ship oryacht of about thirty lasts, well-provided with men. provisionsand other daily necessaries, wherewith the aforenamed Hudsonshall sail about the first of April to seek a northerly passagearound the north side of Xova Zembla, and so long follow thelongitude (or, that direction) that he shall be able to sail south-ward to the latitude of sixtv desrees, and trv to become as wellacquainted with the lands (seen) as shall be possible without con-siderable loss of time; and, be it feasible, i

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