By Adriaen van der Donck. [ From B Notarial copy in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague Loketkas of the States General ; ; Division, West Indische ConpagnU, No. 88. ]

Memoir respecting the ancient Boundaries of New Netherland, as first occupied in the year 1609 ; the usurpations, from time to time, of the English, and, finally, what has been ceded by Director Stuyvesant to the English, subject to their High Mightinesses' ratification, as indicated in letters and memoirs from New Netherland, drawn up pursuant to their High Mightinesses' last resolution, dated 16"" February, 1652.

Albeit the ancient original Boundaries are very fully treated of at page 11 to page 22 ' of the Great Remonstrance made by the people of New Netherland and presented in October, 1649, by their Delegates to their High Mightinesses, and afterwards published in print, to which

'Pp. 283, 293, supra. -- Ed. Vol. I. 58

458 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. their\obIe Mightinesses are respectfully referred; it will be higlily necessary briefly to review atid explain what has occurred since the Remonstrance has been prepared. That paper relates that iNew Netherland was casually discovered in the year JG09; that the Netherlanders were the first finders and occupiers thereof; that the English came to those

parts, for the first time, some years after due possession had been taken thereof by the Dutch; that the former had been protested against, from time to time, and that they had continued to advance by force, and not of right, &c. But in order to be more precise, we shall say a word generally of the progress of the affair. 'Tis, then, thus : -- The English remarking from time to time more closely and particularly that the lands within the territory of New Netherland were much better and more fertile than those in New England and perceiving, at the same time, that they lay mostly vacant and were ;