If we are correctly informed, and have fully investigated and examined all these, we cannot ascertain or find that any

thing -- we say any thing -- big or little, worth mentioning, was done, built or constructed, during Director Kieft's administration, in which the people were ^,e"i',«ipie''i'n"Kieiv8 concerned or had any interest, except the Church, of which we have already """' spoken. Yea, so much negligence and carelessness prevailed in the matter, that nothing was proposed, undertaken or done with even an ostensible appearance of

302 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. on the contrary, whatever (32) was contributed by the satisfying the people; Commonalty was absorbed among the Company's property; and the effects and The public revenue means Bven of the latter, both in one place and the other, have been squandered and thp Company's p purpose of making friends, securing witnesses, and m order to get rid of i i g^opyiy "« »<i'">°- for the accusers on the subject of the waging of the war. Even the Negroes, which were obtained with Tamandere, were sold for pork and peas something wonderful was ;

to be performed with this, but they just dripped through the fingers. There are yet sundry other Negroes in this country, some of whom have been manumitted on account of their long service ; but their children continue slaves, contrary to all public law, that any one born of a free Christian mother should, notwithstanding, be a slave, and obliged so to remain. It is impossible for us to relate every thing that has occurred. Whoever did not assent and applaud was watched, and when the opportunity offered, was remembered. We now submit to all intelligent persons what fruit this has borne, and what a way this was to obtain good testimony. Man is by nature covetous, and he is especially so who is needy.