Apprehensive that they might experience hereafter some inconvenience on account of the aforementioned proceedings, the English of Hertfoort sent down three Deputies to enter into some arrangement with the Director of New Netherland, with which view they submitted some points, whereof the Governor of Hertfoort was to communicate the ratification ; this has not been done to this date, and the difference has remained in statu quo. We have, thus far, spoken of the right whereby the aforesaid West India Company, in virtue of the Charter, have taken possession of those lands, to wit by its lawful and voluntary :

sale and conveyance by the natives, which can be proved by Christians and Indians still living.

Having heretofore mentioned the lands which the Hon'''* Directors caused to be purchased by their servants on the South bay near Cape Hindlopen, on both sides of the South river, on the North bay, the North river, and on the Fresh river, whereof they took possession by forts and hamlets, long before any Christian nation had settled on said lands which places have, ;

since the origin of the Company, continued garrisoned at its expense, unto this day -- 'Now Springfield, Mass. Ed.

544 NEW-YOEK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. We shall now state how long and how wide the limits of New Netherland can be asserted alon" the coast, inasmuch as it has been discovered and frequented by the Dutch nation, in virtue of the abovementioned charter, long before any of the English visited that coast, as can be demonstrated by old maps whereon the islands, bays and rivers stand recorded by Dutch names. The limits of New Netherland, as claimed then, would be from Cape Hindlopen, on the south, to Cape Cod, on the east, including therein Long Island, situate right in front of New Netherland, whence it is separated by an arm of the sea, called the East river, which begins at Coney Island, in the North bay of the North river, and runs again into the sea at the