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. Jochim Pieters Cuyter, Willem Beeckman, Michiel Jansen, Geurt Coerten, and many others are by the Indians threatened to have their bouweries fired should no satisfaction be given. The Deputy and 1 have repeatedly inquired what lands were bought and how were they paid for, but we never could learn. We must always be satisfied with the word and say-so of Secretary Cornells van Tienhoven and the Director. I cannot omit stating here that the late Commissary Adriaen Keyser and Augustin

Heerman going hence to Rhode Island in New England, on the 14"' April, Ensign George Baxter gave them a letter for William Coddington,' Governor there, which letter the Court or Assembly of the people of Rhode Island intercepted and opened, accusing the bearers of it with the Governor and their Director, the abovenamed Tienhoven and Baxter, of conspiracy and treason against the State of New England, inasmuch as, among other things, the Director