Your Honors will please to observe in the two remonstrances or protests of Thomas Hall and the late Barent Dircksen, what defence or assistance was furnished to any of ours at

that time. 3. The piles of ashes from the burnt houses, barns, barracks and other buildings, and the bones of the cattle, more than sufficiently demonstrate the ordinary care that was bestowed We respectfully request your Honors on the country, God help it, particularly during the war. matter to institute a rigid inquiry into this How many first class Bouweries and plantations :

were abandoned in the war by our Dutch and English, whose houses were burnt, as has been

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206 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. stated, and what number of cattle lias eacli individually lost? It is our opinion those will amount to between 40 and 50, and had they been all preserved, might have been doubled at this day, and the cattle quadrupled, so that a considerable tenth would yearly accrue to the

Hon"^ Company, and ourselves obtain annually overflowing returns of produce, with which not only the Hon"' Company's ships -- yea, were the whole fleet to amount 30 to 40 in number but also the Islands in the West Indies and the Brazil, could be supplied with grain, flour, peas, pork, beef and other necessaries, which now must be had from the English at the North at a great expense. ,

4. That relative to princely power is questioned. Thereunto we say, that Mr. Arent van Curler verbally communicated that information to us as worthy of belief; and that the aforesaid Curler declared, at the house of the Minister, Everhardus Bogardus, in the presence of Captain de Vries, that he had heard Mons"' de la Montaigne complain in the tavern to Martin Krygier, that Mr. Kieft's power in this country was greater and more extensive, as regards his commission, than was that of his Highness of Orange in the Netherlands and thougii, through ;