Whence it appears in consequence of the want of such commission and patent, the obtaining whereof from their High Mightinesses has been so long postponed, as if your Honors have been pleased to place the good inhabitants of this Province, as it were, upon glare ice, and have given them grounds and lands to which you have no real right.'- And in this way, too, the well intentioned English who have settled under your Honors Government are held in a labyrinth and a maze, without any right assurance how they shall have to demean themselves in observing the oath taken by them. \j)f allegiance to the Company and the States- General^.

Wherefore the Remonstrants in these their troubles, afllictions, intricacies, and extreme necessity, are come, in all humilitv, to throw themselves on vonr Honors consideration, fervently and heartily praying you to be pleased to enable them exactly to apply the essential means, whereby, they, your Honor's most faithful servants, may be effectually sup])orted and maintained in the real possession of the lauds, properties, and what depends thereon, which were given and granted them by the above mentioned ex-

1 The Connecticut Patont, granted to the Xew Uftven and Hartfurd Bettlements on the 23d of April, li;62. '-Special putontsainl charters, lilie those under Duglidh law, were not ■ favored by the Ruiuuu Liutch law of liuUanJ.

HISTORY OF AVESTCHESTER COUNTY.

emptions, and by them possessed at the expense of vast labor, bloody fatigue, and the outpouring of countless drops of sweat."'