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."'

The formal enactment of the W. I. Company's Charter of Privileges by the States-General, and of the different charters of "Freedoms and Exemptions" were amply sufficient for all purposes under the Law of the United Provinces, to vest perfect titles to all lands granted under them in New Netherland. The English of Hartford and New Haven, only obtained their Charter of Connecticut from Charles II., on the 23d of April, 1662. Not till after they got this document, did they seriously claim that the Dutch had no title by patent from' the States- General. The claim was baseless, and only made as a cover for encroachment.

Ten days after the above Remonstrance was drawH up and, later, on the 10th of November, 1663, Director Stuyvesant, in a despatch referring to it, also fully and vigorously warns the Company in Holland, in these words ; --