Resolution of tlie States General relating to the Boundary of New Netherland. [ From the Eegister of West India Affaire, 1653 -- 1663, in the Eoyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Thursday, the 6"- November, 1653. Folio S2. On reading the petition of the present Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, representing the Assembly of the Nineteen, here at the Hague, and who therewith New Netherland. exhibited three documents annexed, relating to the division of the Boundary in Boundary. IVew Netherland, between the West India Company aforesaid and the English Nation in those parts, the subject is postponed until to-morrow.

Vol I.

WEST INDIA COMPANY.

DIVISION

BOUNDARY IN AMERICA BETWEEN THE

WEST INDIA COMPANY AND THE ENGLISH.

Read 6th November, 1653.

[ From the MS. In the Boyal Archirea at the Hague Lokelkaa of the States General ; ; Divuion, West Indiaehe CompagnU, No. 83.

HOLLAND DOCaMENTS: VIL 541

West India Company to the States General. [ L. s. ] To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands.

The Directors of the Incorporated West India Company now present representing the Assemby of theXIX. met here at tlie Hague, most respectfully submit: That the English nation bordering on our territory of New Netherland on the North, have for some years been endeavoring by undue practices and means to invade, on unfounded pretences, our lands and jurisdiction; many protests have been made against such proceedings, but remarking that they, relying on their numbers, having more people than we, and we being apprehensive of further invasions from time to time, in order to obviate all troubles between them and us, the Directors had resolved to instruct their Governor to employ all means, to induce that nation by all fair oti'ers to come to a neighborly, good correspondence and provisional settlement of the Boundary, which order he hath obeyed, and accordingly, so far succeeded that the English consented to confer thereupon with our Governor, which conference also followed.