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.

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CONTENTS

REMONSTRANCE OF THE DEPUTIES

NEW NETHERLAND.

Page. KEPRESENTATION OF NEW NETHERLAND AS REGARDS ITS LOCATION, PRODUCTIVENESS AND POOR CONDITION, 275

OF TUE AMERICANS, OR NATIVES, THEIR APPEARANCE, OCCUPATION, AND FOOD, 281

BY WHOM NEW NETHERLAND WAS FIRST OCCUPIED, AND HOW FAR ITS BOUNDARIES EXTEND, 283

OF THE FRESH RIVER, 286

OP THE DUTCH TITLE TO THE FRESH RIVER, 287

OF THE RODENBERGH, BY THE ENGLISH CALLED NEW HAVEN; AND OF OTHER PLACES OF MINOR IMPORTANCE, 288

OF THE SOUTH RIVER AND THE BOUNDARIES THEREABOUT, 289

OF THE SOUTH BAY AND SOUTH RIVER, 290

OP THE CONVENIENCE AND EXCELLENCE OF THE WATERS, 293

OF THE REASONS AND CAUSE OF THE GREAT DECAY OF NEW NETHERLAND, 295

THE ADMINISTRATION OF DIRECTOR KIEFT, IN PARTICULAR, 304

THE ADMINISTRATION OF DIRECTOR STUYVESANT, IN PARTICULAR, 307

IN WHAT MANNER NEW NETHERLAND SHOULD BE RELIEVED, 317

Vol. I. 35

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IV, 275

(3) REPRESENTATION OF NEW NETHERLAND, AS REGARDS ITS LOCATION, PRODUCTIVENESS AND POOR CONDITION.