build a village and trading house there and, in truth, if they begin, there is no ;

one here on the part of the Company who can prevent them, or apparently offer them much opposition. And not longer ago than last year, divers freemen, among whom were even some of ourselves, and all of whom without exception had or The Netheriandera good employers could have n r J in Fatherland, requested liberty to make a settlement request a place on 1 J '

in^ai'n"'"*'^'^'''"' there; to wit, a trading house, some bouweries^ and plantations, on condition

' Or Miigechqueshou, of the Dutch Maps; supposed to be the creek at Bordentown, N. J. ' Trenton Falls. Acrelius' History of New Sweden. ' Here again the word is, incorrectly, Brouweryen, in the Vertoogh. -- Ed.

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and provided some suitable Freedoms and Exemptions were granted but this ;

the General refused, saying, he could not do it as he had no order nor instructions to that eftect from Hon"' Lords Majors; but if they chose to make a the beginning there, without Freedoms or such like, that could in some respect be

done. And when we represented to his Honor that such were offered us by the neighbors all round, if we would only declare our willingness to acknowledge ourselves members of their government, and that this place ran a thousand dangers from the Swedes and English his Honor replied, that he well knew it, ;

and that it was as we represented, whereof in fact he was fully aware. Reason was on our side, but the instructions he had from his superiors were such that he could not justify it before them. Now we are blind in these matters, but one of (22) two things must be true either it must be the fault of the Director The Director wames ; the Company tor tho or of the Company, or of both.