Finally and lastly, we respectfully pray the General and Council to be pleased to legally call together, before the departure of the Princess, all the freemen and Company's servants, who have survived the war, and ask them conjointly the following question, to wit: If we did not live in peace with these surrounding Indians before they were slaughtered, in February, 1643,

on Jan de Lacher's hook, near Jan Evertsen's bouwery at Pavonia, and behind Curler's plantation on the Island of Manhattans ; also, whether each of them, individually, could not at the time, uninterruptedly pursue their outdoor labor in the bush, as well as in the field, and live safely in their houses with their wives and children, without any fear of the Indians. Expecting this, &c., remaining your Hon" faithful inhabitants of New Netherland.

(Signed) Jochiem Piet Cuyter, :

Done at the Manhatans, Ady, this 22'' June, 1647. Cornelis Melyn.

The Eight Men to the Amsterdam Chamber of ike West India Comyany.

Q. To the Honorable, Wise, Prudent General Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam.

Honorable Sirs. We gratefully learned by your letters per the Macht van Enckhuijzeii, your Honors' disposition to extend assistance to us in this our truly most unfortunate plight ; we also trust and pray to God that it be done by the earliest opportunity. We afterwards again respectfully dispatched by the ship Blue Cock, our general necessity to the Hon*'"' XIX. We hope your Honors will have favorably regarded the contents thereof, in which we, in a superficial manner, briefly yet truly, submitted the first origin whence this war arose, to our universal ruin. Would to God it had not been meddled with. We were greatly rejoiced at the miraculous arrival of the Blue Cock here with so many of the Company's people, and therefore hoped that the field would be taken with between three and four hundred men, (not including the sailors and settlers,) divided into three companies of one hundred and thirty men each, and by this force, the neighboring savages for 15 (al 20 miles around, would have had their crops destroyed, and themselves stripped of all their support for the winter, whereby great injury might have been inflicted on the enemy, in order with a view