The Swedes, who were daily increasing in numbers and arrogance, have not only charged their people not to trade with the Company's settlers nor to pay them their debts, but also make any bouweries, plantations or gardens between strictly forbade our settlers aforesaid to their trading house and the Company's fort Bevers reede, though it was many years before the arrival of the Swedes there, the Company's own and indisputable land, purchased from tlie natives and right owners, and by Deed conveyed to the Company as aforesaid. Which, notwithstanding, their intolerable insolence became so excessive, that contrary to all public law, they by force broke down and wholly destroyed the houses, plantations and gardens already erected and made on the aforesaid Company's own lands, to the further contempt of this State and Company, and to the serious injury and damage of those who, as subjects, had repaired and settled there under their High Mightinesses' and the Company's protection as more fully appears by divers ;
papers and documents received from New Netherland, and among the rest by a certain Remonstrance presented there by the said subjects to Petrus Stuyvesant, the Company's Director; copy whereof is annexed, N° 3. It is sufficiently apparent from all these unheard of and insufferable proceedings, that their
intention was thus to dispossess and unseat the Company from the entire river. Wherefore, Director Stuyvesant was under the necessity of proceeding thither in person in the year 1G51, for thepreservation and protection of the Company's right and jurisdiction, and for the maintenance of its inhabitants where being arrived, he, by letters and messengers made ;