Petrus Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland, Curasao, &c., did nothing in this country and Cura9ao during the last four years, from the year 1646 to this current year, 1650, for the benefitof the Incorporated West India Company, this Burghery or the inhabitants, notwithstanding he, himself, declared in the year 1647, before the entire Commonalty under arms, when he came into office and Kieft retired, that he should govern, and be, like a father over his children, for the advantage of the Incorporated West India Company and this Burghery and country. The aforesaid Memoir being, further, of the same tenor and purport, but too long to peruse.

Extract of a letter from Jacob van Couwenhoven and Dirck van Schelluyne, the Notary, to Van der Donck, dated e"- October, 1650.

Iembrace the opportunity afforded by the departure of the ketch called the Voorlooper, for the Caribbean Islands, to advise you, by way of Barbadoes, that we have not as yet received the

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VI. 447 Redress of New Netherland nor any improvement liere, but find the sorrowful condition of this country to be worse and worse, and in a short time we shall have to feel the smart; this urges on me to recommend to you particularly the despatch of affairs. On motion made by himself in Council, but on which no resolution followed. Director Stuyvesant departed on the 17"' September last for New England, with an intention, according to said motion, of which I

have a copy but dare not undertake to send it over herewith, to transact some public business there at the meeting of the General court. What he will propose in that quarter, time will determine. Should Secretary Thienhoven come here with people and troops, as is reported, we shall again have war with the Indians, and they fear it; and if he come here before the Redress, it can easily occur, for the Indians have no confidence in him, and should he come, they will not imagine anything else.