between the people of New Amsterdam and Governor Stuyvesant as the representative of the West India Company, he could not give his Patroonship the attention it needed. Three years after the grant to him of Colen-Donck by Governor Kieft, the troubles with Stuyvestant came to a head. The Commonalty of the " Province of New Netherland," drew up by a committee, a Petition to the States-General for a redress of their grievances, dated July 26th, 1649; the draughtsman, and first signer, of which was Adriaen van der Donck. This Petition, with a full explanation in the form of notes, also by van der Donck, and signed by him and the others of the committee was transmitted to Holland.* Two days later on the 28th of July, was also signed the famous "Remonstrance," or " Vertoogh" of van der Donck, giving a long, detailed, history of the discovery, productions, settlement, and alleged misgovernment of the New Netherland by the ofiicei"s of the West India Company.

Van der Donck, Jacob van Couwenhoven, and Jan Everts Bout, were appointed by the Commonalty a delegation to proceed to Holland and lay these documents before the States-General and the West India Company and ask for a redress of what they deemed oppression. On the 12th of the succeeding August, von Dincklagen the Vice-Director under Stuyvesant, but not favored by him, sent a letter to the States- General, in which he says, " whereas the Condition of that most fertile New Netherland is seriously impaired by the war,^ and the Commonalty hath resolved on a delegation of three of the Nine Selectmen in order that your High Mightinesses may obtain full and thorough information on every point, [and] I have not been able to dissuade them therefrom. I cannot but say they intend what is right.