Terror inereasing all over the land the eight men assembled, drewt up a proposal in writing wherein they demanded that delegates should be sent to the North, to our English neighbours, to request an auxiliary force of One hundred and fifty men, for whose pay a bill of Exchange should be given for twenty five thousand guilders, and that N. Netherland should be so long

/ mortgaged to the English as security for the payment thereof (one of the most influential among the eight men had by lettert

* Note N. Resolve of 18 Sept'r. 1648, + Note O. Dated 6th Octob. 1648. { Note P. Dated 9th March, 1648.

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enforced by precedents previously endeavored to persuade the Director to this course, as they had also a few days before resolved* that the Provisions destined for Curagao should be unloaded from the vessels and the major portion of the men belonging to them detained, and to send the Ships away thus empty. This was not agreed to nor considered Expedient by

the Director. [Here four pages are wanting. |

[An expedition was despatched consisting of soldiers ] under the command of the Sergeant, XL Burghers under their Captain Jochem Pietersen, XX XV Englishmen under Lieutenant Baxter, but to prevent all confusion, Councillor La Montagne was appointed general. Coming to Staten Island, they marched the whole night ; the houses were empty and abandoned by the Indians ; they got 5 or 6 hundred skepels of corn, burning the remainder without accomplishing any thing else.