engaged seven farmers with a superintendent and carpenter, now deceased, with women, children and servants in number exceeding twenty, but by him augmented to seventy persons ; and that he was advised by Patroons and Merchants to purchase a ship for that purpose with an offer to take one-half interest thereof, which a worthy merchant at Amsterdam, named Gerrit van den Voorde and partners did ; having thus purchased one-half the ship called the Ni(uw Nelherlandsche Forluyn, according to the deed of sale executed before the Burgomasters and Regents of the city of Amsterdam, dated the eighteenth May XVI' and fifty; which being equipped, the said farmers were sent over with their farming implements and some goods, to be sold and used there for their support; this vessel having arrived in New Netherland after a voyage was confiscated, together with its cargo, by Petrus Stuyvesant the Director difficult

of that quarter, on a pretended judgment of the two and twentieth of April XVP one and fifty, under pretext of some fraud said to have been committed, though denied by Cornells Melyn, who went over in said ship and was found to have complained to us of the exorbitant government of said Director, and on that account, esteemed his greatest enemy. And though the fiscal had, at the suggestion of the Director, instituted his action at first

against the aforesaid Melyn, he was cast at that time, but yet, in order to attain his object, he subsequently sued the skipper and by collusion and want of defence, obtained the required and previously fabricated confiscation on the same forced and contradictory evidence which he had produced against Melyn, although by the said pretended judgment, the skipper was declared