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.
(17) This place was begun eleven years ago, in the year 163S, and they have since hived further out and formed Milford, Stratford, Stamford, and the Trading House already referred to. Director Kieft hath caused divers protests, both in Latin and other languages, to be served on these people, commanding them by virtue of his commissions, in the name of the Lords States General, his Serene Highness of Orange, and the Honorable Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, to desist from their proceedings and usurpations, and in case of refusal, warning them thereby that satisfaction should be required of them, some time or other, according as circumstances might allow; but it was knocking at a deaf man's door, for The English eon- they " did uot heed it, nor give it any attention but, on the contrary, had ; tinue to encroach on i , ihe land, moreover rccoursc to Several subterfuges, circumstances, false pretences and sophistical disregard every pro- o ' r ' r •