And selecting for that purpose a tolerably suitable spot on the Company's own land, conveyedby deed as aforesaid, about a league from the Swedish fort Christina, and havingcompleted the fort which he called Casimir, and provided it with a garrison and munitions of war, according to circumstances, the aforesaid Director before his departure, had divers verbal conferences with Johan Printz, the Swedish Governor, and they mutually promised not to commit any hostile or vexatious acts against one another, but to maintain together all neighborly friendship and correspondence, as good friends and allies are bound to do. Afterwards, this Swedish Governor being gone, and the affairs of the Swedes there goinoto decay, in consequence of not having received any assistance, those who were still remainingin those parts caused application to be made to Director Stuyvesant that the

Company would protect and take them under its care and guardianship, offering for that purpose to behave as inhabitants and subjects of this State ; as is to be seen by the annexed extract of said Director's despatch, dated 0''' October, lb53, N" 7. And although many would have seized that opportunity thus to be rid of them and to be master of those who, by force and contrary to repeated protests, had settled there, and at whose hands they had, in addition, many affronts, injuries and losses, yet such was not done, but the. said Director suffered so even did not want and was unwilling to accept this their offer of removing under the