eck, which
is situated at the mouth of the river, so that everything was done that
could be done except that the country was not all actually occupied.
This the English demanded in addition, just as if it were their right,
since they were in greater numbers, to establish laws for our nation in
its own purchased lands and limits, and direct how and in what manner
it should introduce people into the country, and if it did not turn our
exactly according to their desire and pleasure, that they have the
right to invade and appropriate these waters, lands and jurisdiction to
themselves.

(1) Adriaen Block.

(2) Saybrook Point. Kievit, or kiewit, is the bird pewit.

(3) Hans Eencluys in the manuscript, according to _N.Y. Col.
Doc._, I. 287.

(4) "Contrary to the law of nations, regardless of right or
wrong."

(5) Brouwerye, brewery, in the printed pamphlet, but bouwery
in the manuscript.

Of the Roden-Berch,(1) by the English called New Haven, and other Places
of less Importance.

The number of villages established by the English, from New Holland or
Cape Cod to Stamford, within the limits of the Netherlanders, is about
thirty, and they may contain five thousand men capable of bearing arms.
Their cattle, cows and horses are estimated at thirty thousand; their
goats and hogs cannot be stated; neither of them can be fully known
because there are several places which cannot well pass for villages,
but which nevertheless are beginnings of villages. Among all these,
Roden-Berch, or New Haven, is the first. It has a governor, contains
about three hundred and forty families, and is counted as a province or
one of the members of New England, of which there are four in all.(2)

(1) Red Hill.

(2) I.e., of the United Colonies of New England, the
confederation formed in 1643.

This place was begun eleven years ago, in the year 1638, and since then
the people have broken off and formed Milford, Stratford, Stamford and
the trading house before spoken of, etc.

Director Kieft has caused several protests to be drawn up, in Latin and
in other languages, commanding them by virtue of his commissions from
the Lords States General, His Highness the Prince of Orange and the
Most Noble Directors of the Chartered West India Company, to desist from
their proceedings and usurpations, and warning them, in case they did
not, that we would, as soon as a fit opportunity should present,