1° That the Plonorable Company will please to devise some expedient for the settlement of the Boundaries between New England and New Netherland, or at least to define for us their limits. 2° That their Honors will wholly abstain from molesting our people on the Fresh river, alias Coniecticutt, since we are willing that our title should be investigated by indifferent persons, if any such can be found. 3° That said Company set a price on their plantation, if they have any intention to part with it. 4" What conditions would the Company require if any Englishmen remove from our district to the West India Continent, being provided therefor with all necessaries except ships

and ordinance which the Company should furnish? The Company being aware that the English in America are about 50,000 inhabitants 5°

(manneii)^ willplease inform us in what manner can we, who are of the same religion with themselves and, we hope, trustworthy, be employed in advancing the great work there,

'The Reverend Hugh Peters, the descendant of a wealthy and ancient English family, was born in 1599, and graduated at Cambridge, England, in 1622. He received holy orders from Dr. Mountain, Bishop of London but in consequence of the ;

active part he took against the bishops, he was forced to leave the country, and to retire to Holland, where he ofBciated as minister to an English congregation at Rotterdam. He proceeded to New England in 1634, and was there elected minister of the church at Salem, and officiated afterwards in the great meeting-house in Boston, at which place he enjoyed a high reputation and was much respected. After a residence in New England of seven years, he was sent by the colonies as their Ambassador to the Parliament of EngLind, for the purposes mentioned in the text, and also to obtain some favorable commercial privileges.