Stuyvesant declined to obey the " Provisional order," except in some minor matters, and opposed it by strong despatches to the company, while his Secretary van Tienhoven was already in Holland fighting van der Donck strenuously before the authorities there. On the 10th of February, 1652, nothing having been finally determined, still another rc])resentation of the contumacy of Stuyvesant, and the continued bad state of New Netherland, and the necessity for an act of redress of their grievances was made by van der Donck. It thus concludes, -- " the said delegate of the Commonalty of New Netherland again humbly prays and requests your High Mightinesses to be
1 1. Col. Hist., 387. 2 Ibid., 303.
Mbid., 401. *l. Col. Uist., 379.
'I. Colonial HlBt., 447.
))leased to dispose favorably of the aforesaid, in order that he, the delegate, may leave by the first ship this spring on his return for New Netherland.""
With this paper van der Donck laid before the States-General a voluminous mass of extracts of letters and other documents received chiefly in the year 1051, by him from New Netherland, detailing the difliculties there.' After a reference of these papers to the different chambers of the West India Company and considering their various reports thereon, which occupied many months, the States-General adopted and sent the following recall to Stuyvesant, " Honorable &c. We have, in view of the public service considered it necessary to require you, on sight hereof, to repair hither in order to furnish us circumstantial and pertinent information, as to the true and actual condition of the country and aff"airs; and also of the boundary line between the English and the Dutch there. Done 27th April 1052." -