We cannot discover from the Remonstrance of the delegates from New Netherland, with what view these people have come hither, inasmuch as the entire of their complaints is filled with calumnies, not only against the Director, but especially against us, their Patroons, who, therefore, cannot presume otherwise but that these people intend, on the one hand, to rid themselves of all government, or on the other, to pay in this wise the Company, what many of Vol. I. 44

346 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. them are for a long time indebted to it; and principally to escape the tenths of their incomes now due by many for several years, and which, on account of their iterated complaints of the losses they had experienced, were remitted up to the year 1648, when the Director first mentioned them. The consequence was, the people being under covenant in this case, requested to be exonerated for still another year from the aforesaid tythes. In this they were again favored, and it seems as if, in return for all this, they intend to pay their Patroons as already stated. We are respectfully of opinion that, if these people have anything to represent or to request, they, as has already been said in the beginning, ought to have applied to the Board of Directors, in conformity to their credentials, addressed to this Chamber. Done at the Hague, the 3P' January, 1650. (Signed) P. Marcus de Vogelar. Jacob Pergens. ISAACK VAN BeECK.

Petition of the Delegates from New Netherland. [ From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hagne Lokakaa of the States General ; : DiTision, West IndMche Oampagnie, No. 25. ]