Whereupon the aforesaid persons returning hither with copy of the letter, complained to the Director and Council of the aforesaid Baxter's writing. They were illy received, finally obtaining, after great trouble, a certificate of their ignorance from the abovenamed Council and Select men. And instead of the Director, Tienhoven and Baxter purging themselves as being innocent of disturbing the peace between our neighbors, or at least punishing the writer of the letter, the matter was disregarded and

the Director, Tienhoven and Ba.xter still remain great amigos and companions daily resorting each other's company to the great suspicion and probability of what is above related. The High and Mighty Lords and masters have to consider how the advantage of the Company, the welfare of the people, and the maintenance of good correspondence with neighbors and with Indians are promoted. 5.

They shall do all in their power to induce the Colonists to establish themselves at some of the most suitable places, with a certain number of inhabitants, in the manner of towns, villages and hamlets, as the English are in the habit of doing, whereby they will dwell in greater security, according to the intentions of the Company in the granting of the already printed Freedoms, and the amplifications thereof.

The Director proceeds so rigorously against the Commandant of the Colonie Renslaerswyck and the Patroon of Staten Island, that it is to be deplored and is a scandal for neighboring Christians and heathens, causing him to be dragged forcibly by soldiers out of the Colonie, and to be detained a prisoner at the Manhatans and so terrifying Cornells Melyn, on Staten ;