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.

In order to reestablish peace and quietness once more throughout the country, they shall endeavor, by all possible means, to pacify and give satisfaction to the Indians; and the Director and Council are therein charg^ to advance, on the one side, the interests of the Company, and on the other to maintain good correspondence with their neighbors, and especially the Indians.

The country is more and more disquieted and disturbed ; for, the Indians not only complain that they receive no satisfaction for the land but they hesitate not to kill on the bouweries the settlerswho are dispersed throughout the country, as happened lately on the 17"" May last to Peter Cornelissen, one of the Select men appointed by the Director, and three persons whom the Indians killed on his bouvv^erie near Hellgate.