(Endorsed) "Provisional Boundary between the English and our Nation " agreed upon at the Meeting of the Colonies at Herfort " A° 1650, respecting the lands situate in the North part of " America ; whereof our portion under the Director and " Charter of the West India Company, is now named New " Netherland, and that portion belonging to the English, " namely, the Country at the South, is by them called "Virginia; the other Countries taken up by them are " named New England." Read 6 Novb. 1653.

Resolution of the States General on tlie preceding Papers.

[ From the Eegister of West India Affairs, 1652 -- 1663, in the Koyal Archives at the Hague. ]

Saturday, the 8"" November, 1653. Foiioss. Read at the Assembly a certain Remonstrance of the attending Directors of the West India compa- West India Company, representing the Assembly of the Nineteen, and with it

New Netherland. a Description of the Boundaries of New Netherland, requesting that their High Mightinesses' Deputies in England may among the other negotiations with England be particularly instructed also respecting the settlement of the boundary there. Which being considered, the Deputies of the Province of Gelderland have requested copies of the one and the other, which are hereby granted them.

Captain Martin Krygier and others to the Burgomasters of Amsterdam. [Prom the Bundle entitled, Versclieide stukken rakende de Cblonie van Nieuw Nederlandt, No. 1 ; in the Stad Ilitys, Amalerdam. ]

Holland Documents, The dangerous and perilous conjunction of this present time, the continual dread in which we live of being at somemoment surprised, the little means we thesr^two^" whe^n See prepared for protection in time of need, added to the zeal we all feel for the authenticated to be placed in the hands Welfare of this couutrv, forcc US, at present, r to take pen ' r in hand, and to address of the Directors of