" When, relieved from the Company's tyranny, it would be dependent on this State, and be favored with good government and firm, valid and inviolable privileges whereby every man could with honesty be secure of his life, honor and property in future, which now he is not. '* mostly in arrests, imprisonments, banishments, confiscations, harsh prosecutions, blows, Consisting scoldings, reckoning half faults for entire ones and so forth : In a word, in ruining and estranging the country, offering every one in particular, who doth not constantly please them, as many insults as they can invent or think of '^ Its want of means causes it to have recourse to various bad finesses; such as extortions, confiscations and so forth ; moreover, the neighbors knowing that, complain of it, and ever after disparage not only the country but the people. We and this State have been challenged with it abroad.

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IL Consequently were your High Mightinesses pleased for a few years ' to send some vessels thither, in order that people, principally Farmers and Farm servants^ may, with their poverty,' be removed and conveyed hither gratuitously* with some necessaries' until the poor people have something in esse,^ your High Mightinesses would not only relieve many embarrassed persons,^ butalso may expect, through their intercession with God, success, a blessing and prosperity-^ HL Also, were your High Mightinesses to order' that all vessels proceeding and trading to those Northern parts of America'" should touch first at the Manhathans in New Netherland,*^ and bring with them as many persons as may seasonably apply '^ and they can conveniently carry ,'^ at suitable fixed rates," many friends (liefhebhers) would, no doubt, emigrate in a short time to New Netherland.'*