Was not that difficulty sometime after entirely settled with the Raritans; so that they have remained quiet, on their side, to the present time ?

14.

In what year did he, the Secretary, make the peace with the Wicquaesgeckers, at the house of the late Jonas Bronck? 15.

After the difficulty with the Raritans and with the Wicquaesgeckers had been arranged and peace concluded, did not our people live in peace, in the year 1642, with all those surrounding Natives, the Hackinsack murderer exccepted ?

Did he, the Secretary, not write a petition, on 24"' February, 1643, on the subject of this

war with those Natives for Maryn Adriaensen, Jan, Claesen Daem and Abram Planck; and by whose order, or at whose request, was it sent?

17.

Did he copy the aforesaid petition from another's draft, or did he draw it up himself; was it conceived by himself, or did he, in accordance with his duty, first submit the draft to the Director before it was signed? 18.

For what reason, and by whose authority did he, the Secretary, insert the words -- "the whole of the Commonalty or free people and by their order" -- in the petition, when he,

indeed, well knew that no person either without, or on, the Manhatans had any knowledge of it except Director Kieft, he, the Secretary, and those three petitioners also, that he should ;

have considered that an affair of such importance, so productive of heavy loss to the Hon'''' Company and the inhabitants in this country, ought not to have been undertaken on the simple representation of those three men.