This Petition of fifty-six heads of families, Walloon, and French, all of the Reformed Religion was presented to, and left, with Carleton, who sent it to Eng- 1 md, enclosed in a letter of his own favoring its object, dated the 19tli of July. 1621. Accompanying the petition was a written covenant in these words ; -- "We promise his Lordship the ambassador of the most serene king of Great Britain, that we will go to settle in Virginia, a part of his Majesty's dominions, at the earliest time practicable, and this under the conditions set forth in the articles we have communicated to his said lordship the ambassador, and not otherwise."

This paper bore the signatures of all the petitioners, attached in the form of a round-robin the centre of which was the above covenant; and it showed, besides the names of the signers, their occupations, and the number of the children of each. Among the names are those well known in New Amsterdam from that day to this, as De Forest, De La Montagne, Lambert, Le Roy, Du Puy, and others, as good, honest, upright people. The Lords in Council referred the application to the Virginia Company, who received it very coldly, suggested a few modifications and declined any assistance, in money or in transportation. This ended the matter with the English, and these "Walloons as well as French," afterwards made arrangements with the West India Company to go to New Netherland, which were carried out under May in 1623 as mentioned before.