Document A: Provisional Regulations for the Colonists adopted
by the Assembly of the Nineteen of the West India Company,
March 28, 1624........................................1

Document B: Letter from Jan van Ryen to the Directors of the Zeeland
Chamber of the West India Company, Fort Nasssau, Wiapoco,
April 25, 1625 (1627?).............................21

Document C: Instructions for Willem Verhulst, Director of New Netherland
{January 1625).........................................35

Document D: Further Instructions for Director Willem Verhulst and the
Council of New Netherland,
April 22, 1625...........................................81

Document E: Special Instructions for the Engineer and Surveyor Cryn Fredericksz
and for the Director and Council regarding the building of the fort and houses,
April 22, 1625.........................................131

Document F: Letter from Isaack de Rasiere to the Directors of the Amsterdam
Chamber of the West India Company, Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island,
September 23, 1626................................171