The English, with Sometime after the completion on the Fresh River of Fort Good Hope, which [he"Fr'e3h"'River! was bcgun lu the year 1623, an English schooner arrived there, but Jacob van contmry to protest. ^-,^^^.1^^.^ ^^^ Company's Commissary, protested against it by order of the Director

Wouter van Twiller yet notwithstanding this protest, they came there about ;

a year or two afterwards with some (15) families, whereupon another protest The English care ^^g scrvcd ou them but it was very evident that these people cared very little ; •' .- littlefir protests,

u?e Fresh Eiler.™' fof it, for, notwithstanding repeated protests to the contrary, they finally invaded and usurped the entire Fresh river, and finally sunk so low in shamelessness as to have seized in the year 1640, the Company's lands around the fort. And when was protested against, they paid no attention to it. They have proceeded this The English beat gvcn further, and have severely beaten the Company's people with sticks and ' our people and Jec \ • r •\^\

implements ^"'"'"^ clubs, and whcu the latter were on their land for the purpose of working, forcibly threw their plow and other implements into the river and impounded the

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IV. 287 horses.' The same thing occurred repeatedly afterwards, and they also took up the hogs and cows belonging to the Fort, and even frequently sold some of them, ^^« English seii our for damages as they say. Protests have been made against all these acts and each of them in particular, but they were mocked at; sundry very severe letters were written to their Governors in Latin on this subject, minute or copy whereof remains with the Company's officers, who can furnish a fuller account of this affair; but all opposition was vain; for they having now a smack of the