Nevertheless, if the aforesaid Patroons declare that they have no particular claim against the aforesaid Company, and will not institute any action on account thereof, and desire and expect only a decision on the general points which concern the aforesaid Patroons conjointly ; the Directors will not make any opposition to the examining and deciding the claim regarding the said general points by them conjointly instituted, saving the aforesaid Company's exception and defence to the contrary. (Signed), Albert Kounraut Burgh. Jacques van Horn. Exhibited, 22. June, 1634.

Reply of the Patroons to the West India Company. [ From the Original In the Royal Archives at the Hagne ; Lokefk,aa of the States General, Division, West Indiachs Compagivie ; Loket K., Letter L., No. 6, part 5 of the Bundle. ]

High and Mighty Lords. The Patroons of the Colonies in New Netherland having seen the writing delivered on behalf of the Directors of the West India Company, in opposition to the demand and claim of Vol. I. 12

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90 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. the said Patroons, communicated in writing to your High Migiitinesses, they say in reply to it As the foundation of the suit which they may institute, in proper time, against the above named Directors, for indemnification of such damages and losses as they respectively shall happen to have suffered, because the aforesaid Directors have not allowed, nor suffered, them to realize the full effect of the granted Exemptions and Freedoms, mainly depends upon the force and tenor of said Exemptions and Freedoms ; and your High Mightinesses would be uselessly detained by the deduction of the damages and losses suffered by the Patroons in the planting and continuance of their respective Colonies, and the consequences thereof,