Publishing, as aforesaid, that the The title of Fort Orange existed in the Comright of jurisdiction and of soil appertained to pany long before the Colonie Uenselaersthe aforesaid Company to the extent of one Wyck was ever granted, and the limits of the

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : VII. 523 hundred and fifty rods around the aforesaid aforesaid Colonie were corisequently computed trading house causing the same to be staked above and below the fort. The Petitioners off by the Petitioners' own inhabitants whom were afterwards prfcrtrio allowed to come under they conveyed over to the aforesaid Colonie at the cannon of the fort, in order to be secure

great expense, notwithstanding the ground from the insolence of the Indians. No title was bought by the Petitioners from the previous can accrue from this. How far the limits of owners, and is notoriously their property, a fort ought to be computed, the Directors will together with the jurisdiction there, thus hereafter willingly examine. depriving tiie Petitioners of their right, and a small bouwerie.

Fourthly. Releasing the Petitioners' subjects there inherited from the oath taken to the Petitioners and its consequences, and binding them by an oath to the aforesaid Company.

Fifthly. Conceding on a ground rent the lands and lots aforesaid taken from the Petitioners, attempting to make there a village, On the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh points, already called Bevers-Wyck. the Directors ignore and consequently deny, in good faith, that anything was done against the Petitioners' subjects ; but these people are Sixthly. Erecting a court of justice in the free inhabitants, bound in no way to those of aforesaid trading house. the Colonie.