Tiien after cautioning him to obtain a good title, and directing him how to begin and carry on the actual settling and planting of the location, the instructions, with a sharj) eye to their main object, thus conclude; -- " La,stly, we desire you to advise us, or either of us, how affairs stand with you, what your wants are, and how they may be most advantageously employed by us, for the life of our business will consist in the nimble, (piiet, and full, correspondence with us ; and although these instructions we have given you, clearly indicates [our views] yet we are not satisfied that you must needs bring in the place so numy difficultyes, and also observe so many inconveniences, which we at this distance cannot possibly imagine; and therefore we refer all wholly to your discretion, not doubting but that you will doe all things to the best advantage of our designe, thereby obliedgiiig your faithful friends and servants

Thos. Modilord Barbadoes h^ept. 18, 1G57. Will. Sharpe.'

Certainly John Richbell carried out these " instructions " to the letter. No better desiTijjtion of the situation of ]\Iamaroneck and its peculiar local characteristics could be written than they contain. Directly on the Sound, close to Connecticut and claimed by that Colony, yet within the Dutch jurisdiction, with a deeply indented harbour, and a fine ever running stream of fresh water falling over a reef directly into it, backed by high wooded hills, and skirted by the cleared planting fields of the Indians ; and within a day's sail of the" Manhadoes," Richbell could not have found on the whole coast a locality better adapted to the " nimble" business of himself and his Barbadoes friends. There was only a single point in which it failed to meet their "instructions." It was not "already settled," and had no "house" already built.