Awaiting, therefore, a happy deliverance, we commend your High Mightinesses' persons and deliberations to the protection of the Almighty, and remain your High Mightinesses' humble and obedient servants.

Written in the name and on the behalf of the Commonalty of New Netherland, the 26 July, of this year of our Lord Jesus Christ, XVI"= and forty-nine, in New Amsterdam, on the Island Manhattans, in New Netherland. (Signed) Adriaen van der Donck. AuGUSTiN Herman. Arnoldus van Hardenberg. Jacob van Kouwenhoven. Oloff Stevens. Michel Jansen. Thomas Hal. Elbert Elbertsen. • - Govert Lokermans. . ' - : Hbnrick Henricksen Kip. Jan Evertsen Bout.

' Otherwise it will be a shame and a disgrace for our nation. ' The English and French hare, each in their way, already done their duty in this regard. Nevertheless, we are older than they in that country, and therefore ought also to begin. Prcestat sero quam nanquam.

REMONSTRANCE

NEW NETHERLAND,

THE OCCURRENCES THERE.

ADDRESSED

TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY LORDS STATES GENERAL OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS,

THE PEOPLE OF NEW NETHERUND,

On the 28th July, 1649.

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Tbansceibed from the authenticated copy of the Remonstrance, containing 83 pages, remaining in the Royal Archives at the Hague, in the Lokttkas of the States GeneralRubric West Indische Compagnie, No. 30; 4th division of the Bundle. ;

Note. --The figures in the body of the text, within parenthesis, refer to the commencement of the pages of the volume in the State Library, entitled : Vertoogh van Nieu-Neder-Land Weghens de Gheleghentheydl, Vruchlhaerheydt, en Soberen Staet desselfs. In 's Graven-Hage, Ghedruckt by Michiel Slael, Bouck-verkooper woonende op 't Buyten-Hof, tegen-over de Gevange-Poort, 1650. Sm. 4to pp. 49.