ifa boundary can be determined on yonder, with the aforesaid English, and the inclination thereunto appearing, they are instructed to send forthwith advice thereof hither, with pertinent information after due inquiry, how much of the Company's lands the English possess ; all with the understanding, nevertheless, that the aforesaid English who are at present in the Company's district and have and settle therein, shall be subject to the Company's settled there, or shall come government there, and to that end shall take the oath of fidelity to their High Mightinesses the Lords States General and the West India Company, after which they shall not be regarded otherwise than as original subjects.

In respect to the division of boundaries between the people of New Netherland and the English, the Director hath, without any advice and joint resolution, not only repaired to New England, in September, 1650, but hath there, also, on his own authority, so far proceeded in the matter of the boundary, that he and ihe English mutually referred" the differences thereon to four arbitrators, two of whom were chosen on each side. The Director named on his side, instead of Dutchmen, one M"^ Thomas Willet,^ a merchant residing at Plymouth, in New ' Rev. Johannes Megapolexsis, Junr., son of the minister of Coedyck, in Holland, wag born in the yenr 1603, and at the time of leaving his native country, was in charge of the congregation of Schoorel and Berge, under the Clossis of Alkmaer. He came to America in the summer of 1642, with Matheld Willemsen, his wife, and Hellegond, Dirck, Jan and Samuel, their children. He was the 6rst minister in Fort Orange, now Albany, wliere he officiated until lC-1'.', when he was called to tako charge of the church in New Anibterdam, on the departure of Dominie Backerus.