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 ;

known and caused to be communicated to Johan Printz, the Swedish Governor, the right the Company had, by virtue of first discovery and taken possession, generally to the aforesaid river, confirmed and rendered indisputable by the purchase of divers lands, including the Schuylkil district, which purchase and conveyance was effected many years before the coming there of the Swedes, as is to be proved by deeds and conveyances; requesting him, therefore, to show in like manner by similar evidence, what lands there had been purchased by him or his,and vrere, consequently, conveyed to them by the natives and proprietors. The result was only a simple writing, wherein the aforesaid Governor designated the Swedish limits wide and broad enough but without any justification or proper proof; having ;

recourse to the subterfuge that the deeds of the purchase and conveyance of the acquired lands there, were not at hand, but in the Chancery at Stockholm, where, he said, he had indeed seen them. 'Twas shortly after made manifest, that these subterfuges were destitute of truth, for said Governor then for the first time tried to buy from a certain Sachem or Indian chief, named Waspangzewan, such lands as he already occupied, and insisted were included within his limits.