Soon after the settlement of our Patroon at Colen Donck, there arose a controversy between the government of the Colony of New Netherlands and several of the colonists ; among tlie most forward of the latter was Adriaen Van der Donck, who with others united in a strong remonstrance to the States General of PloUand, complaining of the power exercised by the Dutch West India Company especially during the administrations of Kieft and Stuyvesant. This remonstrance was afterwards printed at the Hague, A.D. 1650, and fonned a small vol. (quarto) of fifty pages entitled " Vertoogh"^ Van Xieuw Nederlandt, weghens de Ghelegenhetyd,Vruchtbaerheydt, en soberen Staet desselfs. In s' Graven Hage, 1650, (An Exposition of the. New Netherlands, in respect to the situation, fertility, and wretched condition of the country. At the Hague, 1650.) This attempt to shake the authority of the Dutch West India Com.pany, proved abortive, and only served to re-act unfavorably upon the disaffected; 19 March. 1650, occurs a contract between the Dutch West India Company. Van der Donck and others, for the transportation of two hundred persons to New Netherlands.'^ November 29, 1650, Cornelis Van Tienhoven, Secretary of the New Netherlands, delivered to the States General a short statciu.-nt or answer upon certain points contained in the memorial of Van der Donck and others to their High Mia:htne3ses.^

o Albany Roc, court of .Vssize Doed^, vol. iil. p. 42.

6 A title denveJ from the Latia PaiiDQiis like the French Seignior.

c Vertooch soTni'tirao-! means reni'JUotrauce.

d riol. Pi.c. .XVI, I?l.