He also wrote a religious tract entitled, " Examination and Confession for the Benefit of those who arc inclined to approach the Table of the Lord." -- Ed. ' Mayor of Ncw-Vork, arrived, wliilct yet a young man, at Plymouth, in IC29, from TnosiAS WiLi.ETT, afterwards first

Lcyden in Holland, where he had been sojourning with other Puritans. He was sent the following year to Penobscot, to superintend a trading house, but returned soon nflcr and engaged in the carrying trade between Ihe New England Colonies and New Amsterdam, where he is found posocsding some laud interests in 1646. He was, in subseiiaent j'earB, au

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VL 497 England, and one George Baxter, appointed heretofore by the Director here, Ensign over the soldiers, both of whom were Englishmen, whose decision being highly injurious to this Province, the Director declined, though repeatedly requested, to make public his adventures and transactions with the Englisii, and even though we, at the request of some Select men appointe'd by himself, have demanded a report and explanation thereof, inasmuch as very strange reports are abroad among the people, that the Director had sold the country to the English, he gave us for answer: "I must give an account of my commission, and regard nothing else," etc., as appears by the statement of the Deputy and myself, dated xii. April, we have not been able to obtain any other or further assurance and explanation 1(551, so that

of the agreement with the English, than a simple writing from New England, entitled "Translation of News from New England," being the substance of what is confirmed by daily reports, both of public and private trustworthy persons from those parts.