vince,bnt,as plainly appears by a copy from a certain letter, that the high sheriff" Lieutenant Weyler kept in and about the time of our late dismal engagements with the savages, a constant correspondence with these barbarians. ^^ Wherefore to promote the welfare of the country, and defend the rights of the Lords Patroons, against such usurpations, it was unanimously resolved by tlie 13irector General and Couticil to arrest as secretly and easily as it can be performed, said Englishmen or at least their leaders, to compel the remaining to remove from there with their property, and the execution of this expedition to be intrusted to the valiant Captain Frederick de Coninck, Captain Lieutenant Brian Naton, and witli them the Attorney General, Cornelis Tiei.hoven, to execute his commission and apprehend the fugitives and thieves. Done in Fort Amsterdam, 6th of March, 1656.

Peter Stuyvesant. Nicassius de Siile.

■ - La Montague.

- ■ ' Cornelis van Tienhoven.''

In accordance with the above order, the valiant Captain Frederick de Coninck euibarked in the ship Weigh-scales and proceeded to Westchester, where he succeeded in arresting several of the English thieves. Upon their arrival in the city, the following order appears in Council.

'•With regard to the English prisoners, lately brought hither from Vi'eedlandt, from the village which they call Westchester, who remain yet in confinement in the ship the Weigh-scales, it is unanimously concluded and resolved, that all those who before were on oath and allegiance of this government, and who therefore either for debts or other causes did run away, or against whom the attorney general supposes to have a just cause for indictment, these the aforesaid attorney general is authorized to secure in close confinement, and prosecute them agreeably to law. The remainder who either from New England or from other