This civility and peaceable proceeding done with so good and upright a meaning and intention, met wfith a very ill return; for afterwards in the month of May of the year 1654, came a Swedish ship full of people into the aforesaid South River, with a new Governor who, contrary to all right and reason, forcibly made themselves masters of the Company's newly erected fort Casimir, stripped the Company's people and soldiers, who were but few in number, of their ariiis and thrust them forth, and obliged and forced the free men to take the oath of allegiance to the Swedish Governor, as they were not resolved to leave all their property there ; as further is to be seen by the copy of the collected affidavits thereof made, and by the annexed extracts

of the letters of Director Stuyvesant and Gerrit Bicker, late commandant of said fort Casimir, N-S. Making themselves, in this wise, wholly masters of that fine and navigable river, to wliich they never had any pretention nor right, inasmuch as the Company had, before the arrival of any Christian Nation there, taken and caused to be taken possession thereof full 12 years before the coming of the Swedes; which possession was further confirmed and rendered indisputable by prior and legal purchase of many and divers lands made over to them by proper deeds and conveyances, as already sufficiently proved ; so that the Swedes cannot justify this atrocious andunheard of action by any just pretext or appearance in the world, as the new Swedish Governor also seems sufficiently to admit in his letter which he wrote on this subject to Director Stuyvesant; for he says, that this is a matter of greater importance than will be able to be adjustedby servants who as he observes -- and this is to be remarked -- must only obey orders excusing this his improper proceedings by the commands which he ;