The skipper and owners of said vessel further declare that, had they six times more accommodation or ships, they would all be filled; so that in the hope of better government, more passengers begin to set their faces towards New Netherland, according as passage and opportunity offer. As this tends greatly to the peopling and prosperity of that Province, we, therefore, are unwilling to neglect directing your Mightinesses' attention to it, requesting you to be pleased

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to take this into consideration for the salie of New Netherland, to the end that speedy order and direction be given that sufficient accommodation thither may be furnished. Which doing.

(Endorsed) Remonstrance of the Delegates from New Netherland to the Most Mighty Lords their High Mightinesses' Deputies on the redress of New Netherland. Received 12"' March, 1G50.

Appendix.

Before me, Jan Colterman, admitted by the Court of Holland, a notary public, residing in the city of Haerlem, and the undernamed witnesses, appeared the worthy Willem Thomassen, skipper of the ship named de Valckenier, lying in the harbor of Amsterdam, ready to sail for

New Netherland ; request of the delegates from New Netherland, testifies and who, at the and with tender of an oath, if requisite and required, that it declares by his troth, in place is true that he, deponent, agreed about two weeks ago, to convey as many people in his

aforesaid ship to New Netherland, as he can in any way accommodate; and that he has been, every day since, applied to by several other persons, for passage in his, deponent's, ship. And that he, deponent, hath rejected fully as many as thirty persons, for the aforesaid reason, that he cannot accommodate any more people in his vessel ; further deponent saith not. Thus executed within the city of Haerlem aforesaid, on the fifteenth of March XVI" and fifty, in presence of Mathys Arentsen Zuyck and Govert van Liphorst, witnesses, invited for the verification hereof, and who, with the deponent and me, the notary, have also signed, in testimony, the original draft hereof.