Their High Mightinesses' arms were set up at Kievits Everything possible hooU, which is at the mouth of the river, so that everything possible was done introducing people, except that the country was not wholly occupied, and the English would have it so ; forsooth, as if these people, who now by means of their greater numbers do as they please, were at liberty to dictate the law to our nation within its own purchased lands and limits, and to order how and in what manner it must settle the country, and if it do not happen to suit exactly their desire and pleasure, then they are at liberty to invade and appropriate our waters, lands and jurisdiction.

OF THE RODENBERGH, BY THE ENGLISH CALLED NEW HAYEN; AND OF OTHER PLACES OF MNOR LMPORTANCE.

kl'es^ ^and"'VeiJ ^" ^^^ villagcs Settled by the English from New Holland or Cape Cod unto Buengih. Stamford, within the Dutch limits, amount to about thirty, and may be estimated at nearly five thousand persons capable of bearing arms; their cattle, including

cows and horses, are computed at thirty thousand ; their goats and hogs cannot be stated ; it is impossible to ascertain precisely both the one and the other, for there are divers places which cannot well be put down as villages, and yet are New Haven a mem- beginnings of them. Among the whole of these, the Rodenbergh or New Haven land, which consists jg the rprincipal; it has a Governor, contains about thirteen hundred and forty of four colonies. r ' j families, and is a province or member of New England, there being four in all.