↑"Both in the way it was set up and in the extent of its rights, the council of Twelve Men, as did the two later advisory bodies." Jaap Jacobs, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Uex2budtSOUC&pg=RA1-PA136&dq |isbn=90-04-12906-5 New Netherland: A Dutch Colony In Seventeenth-Century America (2005).
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