The settlement of the boundary is highly necessary, in order to avoid, in future, all difficulties with those of New England and Virginia ; it will also promote the quiet of the Dutch Nation in New Netherland, as many would be thereby encouraged to undertake Colonies, Bouweries and Plantations, in that country. This settlement of the boundary was, in my opinion, not easy to be obtained before the present time, in consequence of the troubles in England ; the rather, as those of Virginia declare for Charles the Second, and those of New England for the Parliament.

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360 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. In order then to block the further progress of the English, I would suggest (under correction), that we should provisionally set about hitching on to New Nelherland tlie most distant lands lying between the Dutch Nation and the English, which are yet vacant and in no one's possession, by the occupation thereof in manner hereinafter described. 1st. Having been plainly tricked by the English out of the Fresh River, notwithstanding a block iiouse, called the Hope, had been erected 21 leagues up the river, in the year 1633, long before the English had been there, -- a sign of first and earliest possession -- nothing could, at first, be done in that quarter, except to repair said house, the Hope, and keep it as heretofore occupied by a suitable garrison, for the purpose of maintaining prior possession of the most remote boundary. 2nd.The village of Greenwich belonging to their High Mightinesses', being the furthest place where the Director and Council exercise authority, in the name of their High Mightinesses the States General and of the West India Company, is separated from the English village Stamford, by a small stream so that the English along the main north coast ;