Long Island which is encompassed Southwardly by the Great Ocean and Northwardly by the East River, and is about 30 leagues in length, was, before the English had any pretension, or ever made any claim to it, taken possession of by the Dutch by planting the villages of Amersfoort, Heemstede, Flushing, Gravesend and Breuckelen with a goodly number of bouweries and plantations, the inhabitants whereof are all subjects and vassals of their High Mightinessses and of the Company. Notwithstanding which the English of New Haven, (called Rodenbergh by the Dutch of olden times) have planted on the East end of Long Island two little villages named. Southampton and Southold. [In like manner] in the Krommegou which is an inland sea in Long Island, have they usurped what is called Garnaets Island, which belongs to Long Island, and lies very convenient for the Cod fishery. The Company remarking that no benefit was derived from protests, but that the English proceeded boldly and continuously in their unrighteous usurpations there, wrote, in order to stay further encroachment, to their Director Stuyvesant whom they authorized to agree on a

' Sic. Now Naraganaet ^ Springfield, founded by Mr. Pj-nclieon. -- Ed.

566 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Provisional Boundary with the English. He, accordingly, repaired to a certain meeting of Commissioners summoned by the English at Hartford, where they mutually agreed and concluded on a Provisional Boundary subject to the ratification of t!ie principals on both sides, as can be more fully seen by the letter dated 26 November, IGoO, of the aforesaid Director with whom the agreement thereof remains. Yet the aforesaid English cannot respect this Provisional Boundary which was concluded at such a sacrifice and to such prejudice of the Company's established right, obtained by prior possession and purchase of the lands, as already stated; for sometime afterwards, and now lately, they have not hesitated to commit fresh usurpation on the lands situate within the