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

compl^yfchamber ourselves to you. Right Worshipful, and in all humility to beseech you to be eiaminl'tht''Mm'^ pleased to prevail on the Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, to

' To preserve the chronological arrangement adopted in the publication of each series of Documents in this work, it baa been deemed advisable to print the translation of the papers contained in Volumes XV. and XVI. of the Holland Documents, in the order of their dates. To facilitate reference to the Dutch MS., the number of the volume and the page is prefixed in the margin, at the beginning of each document thus transposed. -- Ed,

550 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.

fora^ihl'Bureoraasr whom wc also have applied by letter, that they, as Fathers and Patroons of this u ApriUGSi^"''' country, have the goodness, in their wonted wisdom, to concert good and suitable f-'ba^niIjck cocQ. means, tending to the protection and security of this state, to wit: Right Worshipful, the danger to which we are exposed is great and alarming; bitter foes without, and suspected neighbors round about, within discontented citizens and a government by no means as ample as the present conjuncture of affairs particularly demands. The character of the discontent of the citizens and inhabitants, you, Right Worshipful, can learn, if you will take the trouble to read the accompanying Remonstrance, the original whereof has been presented to the Director-General, Petrus Stuyvesant, who hath rejected it, as if it proceeded from an illegal Assembly.