One hundred muskets have been distributed among the people, which had been brought over by Jacob van Kouwenhoven; without the assistance and accommodation in wheat, furnished by this individual, the Company's servants at Curasao and here, would have perished of hunger, according to the representation of the Director, who repeatedly borrowed grain of him, and treated him tyrannically notwithstanding. 'Twill hereafter be shown, on your High Mightinesses' order, how the people were bound to keep their arms in good condition.

Further, inasmuch as the respective Colonists have been allowed by the Freedoms to delegate one or two persons to give information to the Director and Council at least once a year of the state and condition of their Colonies, the same is hereby confirmed.

500 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. This has never been done to my knowledge, and I refer to the answer to the S'*" article

which can be taken into consideration here.

9.

The Director and Council shall, first of all, establish the Colonists and freemen on the Island of Manhattans, and grant to them as mu( h land as they will be able to cultivate, either as tobacco plantations, or with grain and all otber crops to which the soil is adapted, and from which they may expect to derive the greatest profit.

I have no knowledge of any bouwerie having been formed on the Island of Manhatans during Director Sluyvesant's administration. Some have been abandoned others not begun. ;

Jochem Pieters Cuyter whom the Director did heretofore, for the affair of the Select men, publicly banish the country, with ringing of the bell, and whom he now has re-established in the same office and appointed Elder of the Church, hath again commenced his bouwerie in company with the Director, and many others should be begun. Many other persons would fain undertake bouweries but the matter sticks and the country remains uncultivated, partly, in Indians and their threats; partly also, addition to other reasons, through dread of the through fear that the patents are invalid, inasmuch as the Director executes and issues them in the name of the Director General and Council, without my knowledge and advice or that of the Deputy ; as appears by the protest which we have signed dated the ig"" December, 1650.