We are, therefore, to our grief and sorrow, under the necessity of troubling you in this manner and of again imploring your favor, and pray you, High and Mighty, to be pleased to be indulgent towards us, for so long as the Redress is not here, we cannot refrain from so doing; therefore, hoping that its speedy arrival will comfort and console us, we, in concluding, shall commend you, High and Mighty, both generally and in particular, and your prosperous and wholesome Government unto God's protection, remaining your High Mightinesses' most humble and most faithful servants.'

' Dated 13 September, 1650. See duplicate, supra, p. 420. -- Ed,

448 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

The Select men of New Amsterdam to the Committee of the States General.

Noble Mighty Lords. On the arrival here, namely, on the 23"" June last, of Jacob van Couwenhoven and Jan Evertse Boutt, delegates sent commissioned by our Board last year to their High Mightinesses, and on the delivery of the letters from their High Mightinesses and others, to the Director and Council of New Netherland, we wrote to their High Mightinesses, and summarily related in brief,that the Director and Council did not observe their High Mightinesses' order. The melancholy condition of this country remains unchanged, and even has become worse ; His Honor does not recognize any Select men, and regards not our Board he considers not of the ;

least account the copy of the report and Provisional Order. '". the matter of the Redress, preservation and peopling of New Netherland, &c., with great labor and pains drawn up, proposed and submitted by you. High and Mighty, for the advantage of this country and its inhabitants, and which we were under the necessity of communicating to the Commonalty, in order to animate and encourage them, notwithstanding his Honor never deigned to look at it.