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The company met this difficulty by obtaining a new charter and seeking to promote emigration by dividing up the country among some great patroons: Samuel Godyn, Killiaen van Renssalaer, Michael Pauw, David Pieterson de Vries, and other rich men.
As the deeds showed, the munificent consideration of "certain quantities of duffels, axes, knives and wampum," which is equal to saying that the pearl merchant got it for almost nothing. Two other directors Godyn and Bloemart became owners of great feudal estates.
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