Pursuant to his perfectly serious intentions respecting his estate in this county, he obtained from the States-General, on the 20th of April, 1652, the right to dispose by will, as patroon, " of the Colonie Nepperhaem, by him called Colen Donck, situate in New Netherland." From this time for more than a year he was constantly occupied in seeking to overcome the obstacles put in the way of his departure for America by his enemies of the West India Company. He evidently regarded the securing of this patent as the final step preparatory to the systematic colonization and development ofColen Donck; for immediately after its issuance he embarked his private goods, with a varied assortment of supplies for the colony, on board a vessel lying at anchor in the Texel. But upon applying to the States-General, on the 13th of May, for a formal permit

DR.

ADRIAN

DONCK

to return, he was refused. On the 24th, renewing his application, he stated that " proposing to depart by your High Mightinesses' consent, with his wife, mother, sister, brother, servants, and maids," he had " in that design packed and shipped all his implements and goods "; but he understood " that the Honorable Directors [of the West India Company] at Amsterdam had forbidden all skippers to receive him, or his, even though exhibiting your High Mightinesses' express orders and consent," " by which he must, without any form of procedure or anything resembling thereto, remain separated from his wife, mother, sister, brother, servants, maids, Beschryvinge family connections, from two good friends, from his merchanNIEUVVNEDERLANT dise, his own necessary goods, ( ©tjclrjtfc [jet tcgnitooo?0!gIj in istact is ) furniture, and from his real estate Begrijpende de Nature, Aerc, gelcgentheyt en vruchtbaerheyt van hetvallen, felvedieLanaldaer t ; mitfgaders de proffij telij ckc enndcrhout der Mcufchen , (fo< in New Netherlands' These and uyt hier fclvcn als van buyten ii ebrachr) gevonden worden. degewenfl K, other strenuous representations ©emanicte m onqfotmtvm cpgmfcfjappm proving unavailing, he was at last • Dantic ©ilomoftc J3atu«l|cri Uanorn 11 anDr. compelled to dispatch his family Ecn byfonder verhael vanden wonderlijcken Aert ende het Weefen der B E V E R S , and effects, remaining himself in Daer Noch By C evoeghe Is tfcnSDifcourfi otorr be gelcrjrwrjcpt ban Nieuw Nederlandc , Holland to await the more favorOlfftticn CHI■ Nieuw Nedcrlandrs Patriot , cn&C COl Nederlander.