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 ;

had hereunto received from the Crown of Sweden as is to be seen by the annexed extract of ;

said letter, N" 9. The Director-General of New Netherland (who was, at first, greatly pained by this affair, as he received nothing but threats in reply to Iiis friendly demand for restitution.) found it

expedient to resent this wrong last year, on receipt of the reinforcement sent hence. And thereupon departed with his supplementary force for the South river, and with God's help, reduced, without bloodshed, the aforesaid fort Casimir again under the obedience of this State and Company, on the 11"" September, 1655, according to the annexed Capitulation, N" 10. And as the Governor of Fort Christina, named John Rising, so unjustly filched the possession of the aforesaid fort in the year 1654, from this State and the Company, as already narrated, and as nothing was to be expected but that he would undertake a similar attempt after the departure of the aforesaid Director-General, the latter, therefore, summoned the aforesaid Fort Christina, and obtained possession thereof in like manner, without any bloodshed, on the So"" of the same month, according to the capitulation hereunto annexed, N" 11.