Now, the case is, that the Director went to the General Court of New England on the 17"" September, in the year 1650, and treated there with deputies from the Provinces respecting the boundary, and finally the arbitrators mutually made and came to a decision and award, subject to tiieir High Mightinesses' ratification ; but we have uo precise copy of it, as it still remains with the Board of Directors. All the arbitrators were English and friends of the English; and in this affair they pulled the wool over the Director's eyes; for, according to our information from New Netherland, he hath ceded to the English as far as Greenwich, inclusive, on the Main, together with a portion of Long Island. Now, New Holland, or Staten hook, called by the English Cape Cod, and Greenwich are si\ty leagues apart, and include many fine bays, kills, rivers and islands, namely, Stamfort, Straefford, the Red Mountain, Totolet, Gilfort, Kieft's hoeck and the beautiful Fresh river, where full fifty Colonies or more might be planted; also the river Pequatoos and divers fine islands, bays, kills and places ; if the tenor of the Exemption be adhered to, which prescribes four leagues along a navigable creek, bay or river, and so far landward in as circumstances admit, it can be seen by the map that the ceded territory will admit, not of

of a much greater number of Colonies. fifty, but Long Island, which is included, hath full two hundred leagues of navigable coast, not in one continuous stretch, but calculating the bays, rivers and shores, as can easily be demonstrated to your Mightinesses on the map. 'Tis, indeed, true that this country was occupied by the English in part, but not the whole of it; the whole of it, then, ought not to be theirs; not that we would deprive people of what belongs to them, but the sovereignty ought to remain with this State; at least of the whole of Long Island, and so northerly along Sequins river.