o to the Eastward; for notwithstanding sufficient The Enffii^h pav no rre>ril lo fori ""?"• Good fesDected ^ bv the English e residing ••.rr-iiTT possession was already taken by the erection and garrisoning ot tort Good Hope, and no neglect to warn them occasionally has occurred, in order to make known our right, and to protest against them for usurpation, force and violence, yet have they, disregarding all this, seized and occupied, and still retain, the largest and best part of New Netherland, to wit East of the North river, beginning at :

Cape Cod, named in 1600 by our own people New Holland, (whereof also, Their Tiish MiEhii- possession was taken, if we are correctly informed,^ by the erection of their High

New^f!":, 'i? Holland. ^:"^ °' Mightinesses' a arms)/ down to within six leagues " of the North river; for the

English have now a village called Stamfort, from which place a man can reach the North river and return home on a Summer's day, according to the knowledge Th« English are acquired of the Indian paths. Again, the English of New Haven have a Trading theXtih'rTvIr?'"^ post situatc to the East or South east of Magdalen island, at no greater distance than six leagues from the North river; for that island lies on the East side of the North river, 23J leagues above Fort Amsterdam ;2 and the Trading post is established with no other design than to attract or wholly to destroy the entire trade of the North river, where it now passes down entirely free.^ They, moreover, made repeated efforts eight or nine years (13) ago, to purchase a large tract of land from the Indians, as we understood from the latter; this would have been rather with a view to attract the trade than anything else, for it was situate on the east side, not more than three or four leagues from the Colonie of Renselaerswyck.