and Patron, the Noble Lord Director above mentioned under the Sovereignty of the Noble, High and Mighty Lords of the States General, and in all things as a good inhabitant obey the Director Genera] and Council, subject at the expiration of ten years after date, when required by the Lord Patrons, to the payment of the tenth, also to the other charges and services to which all the inhabitants of the land are liable when occasions arise to require the same constituting over the same the beforenamed ;

Nicasius De Sille in our place the actual possessor of the aforesaid parcel of land, giving him with

the same, complete right, authority, and special charge of the aforesaid parcel of land for cultivation, dwelling, and use, the same as he might have with his other patrimonial lands and effects without our having any further claim thereon But in behoof aforesaid desisting from all such from hence;

forth and forever, promising to keep firm, valid, and inviolable this conveyance, and to perform all its engagements justly,

and to stand to the same without craft or subtlety, is this by Us subscribed,

sealed in red wax, and confirmed ;

At Amsterdam in New Netherland this 22 d day of January 1660.

Signed (Here follows another Patent to De Sille for No. 8.)

Petrus Stuyvesant.

On the 15 th of February 1660, Jacob Van Curler, and Jan Tomassen who had the oversight and charge of the Town, sent to the Fiscal N. de Sille a letter of complaint and also one of enquiry, in the first of which they complained about the bad management in the Town of Utrecht to the injury