PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND.

The Lord General P. Stuyvesant is pleased to learn that the new Village is pleasantly situated and He also on the 6 th of February in the year 1660, in company with the he also Fiscal personally visited the place, and by word of mouth gave good directions and advice every man in the first place admonished to and prepare and make his own together people the called he hopes it will prosper.

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dwelling, and to keep a man or servant able to bear arms ; also to enclose the village with a good

heavy palisades, for which latter purpose the Director General and Council had promised several Negroes who should come on the 16 th inst. following. The inhabitants had the Prince's flag (given to the Town by the Fiscal) hoisted on a high pole in the centre of the village and unfurled to the breeze.

Moreover Ruth Joosten prepared a dinner or

public entertainment in as good a stile as the place could afford, in which he was assisted by the inhabitants.

The Director General and his attendants remained but a short time at the banquet in

consequence of the necessity of their departure to attend to other business.

On the 25 th of said month of February I brought 7 Negroes, with Paulus Heymans as their overseer, who on the 26 th in*t. began with much strength to cut trees in the woods and split them for There came however a soldier to fetch the Fiscal, who consequently could not remain Palisades.