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.

e HoU. Doc. Xo. Ivlii. "CO.

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Van der Donck, also appears to have been one of the commissioners who repaired to Holland for a redress of grievances. For in islay 13, 1652, occurs the memorial of Adriaen Van der Donck to the committee of the States General, stating his intended return to the New Netherlands."

Again May 30, 1652, a second memorial from Adriaen Van der Donck to the same body, " respecting various matters connected with his visit to Holland on behalf of Gemeente at New Netherlands."*

During the Patroon's stay in Holland, he had shipped for Colen Donck seven persons, four of whom had cruelly deserted and betrayed him. Upon this we find him again petitioning the Directors of the Dutch West India Companj-'s department, Amsterdam : --

"Remonstrates reverently, Adriaen Van der Douck, residing in New Netherlands that to the supplicant was granted by the Director General and Council in New Netherlands, the accommodations the Saw Kill with the adjacent lands to erect there paw- and grist mills, and plantations and boweries according to his means and ability, which grant was chi(.'fly obtained because the supplicant had contributed a vast deal by his services as mediator, to negotiate and conclude a peace between the director Kieft from the one side and the Indians from the other side, not without great sacritice from his side, as it was the first part of the year when his presence was wantod at home, and all this at his own expense so that he might assert without boasting that he contributed at least as much to its consolidation than any other person whatever, so that at length peace was concluded when the supplicant advanced the principal part of the monr'y, as the Director General was at that period not well provided with it to procure seawant,"^ which was wanted for presents in confirmation of the peace which God be praised, remains yet uninterrupted.