The war was caused solely by the exaction from and refusal by the Indians of contributions which they did not owe; the injudicious expeditions and violence against them, and the cruel slaughter which first manifested itself in a mysterious toast pp. 304, 305. -- 66. Jacob Ryntges and Jacob Schermerhorn were banished, and their goods confiscated, for smuggling: the ban is removed, but the restitution of the property is impossible -- p. 312. 67. The Directors, in Holland, have not endeavored, nor used any means, nor given any orders, to discover the cause of, or to forbid the war, which creates strong suspicion that they themselves authorized it -- p. 314. 68. The St. Beninio, a ship belonging to Benjor, an Italian at Amsterdam, was forcibly cut out of New Haven, where it lay under the protection of the English, and brought as a prize to, and confiscated at the Manhattans.

In addition to these, there are divers other excesses too numerous to particularize.

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NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

Answer of the West India Company to the Remonstrance from New Netherland. [ From Ihe Original in the Eoyal Archives at the Hagne ; Loketkas of the States General ; Kubric We6t IndUche Compagnie No. 30 ; 7th division of the Bundle.]

Answer to the Remonstrance delivered by the Delegates from New Netherland, on the 27"" January, 1650, to the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands.

It to the Directors (of the W. I. Company,) that the Remonstrants appeareth strange commence their introduction with calumnies against the Board, their Patroons, complaining of excesses and highly injurious neglect, which, if any existed, ought to have been represented in season to the said Patroons, by them in virtue of their commission dated 27 July, 1G49, communicated for the first time, on the 9'^ of December last, full eight or nine weeks subsequent to their arrival and that they addressed themselves to the Lords of the Supreme government ;