have treated him
decently. It may be that some profligate has given the Director, if he
used any bad words to him, cause to do so.

That the fort is not properly repaired does not concern the inhabitants.
It is not their domain, but the Company's. They are willing to be
protected by good forts and garrisons belonging to the Company without
furnishing any aid or assistance by labor or money for the purpose;
but it appears they are not willing to see a fort well fortified and
properly garrisoned, from the apprehension that malevolent and seditious
persons will be better punished, which they call cruelty.

Had the Director not been compelled to provide the garrisons of New
Netherland and Curacao with provisions, clothing and pay, the fort
would, doubtless, have been completed already.

Against whom has Director Stuyvesant personally made a question without
reason or cause?

A present of maize or Indian corn they call a contribution, because a
present is never received from the Indians without its being doubly paid
for, as these people, being very covetous, throw out a herring for a
codfish, as everybody who knows the Indians can bear witness.

Francis Doughty, father-in-law of Adrian van der Donk, and an English
minister, was allowed a colony at Mestpacht, not for himself alone as
patroon, but for him and his associates, dwelling in Rhode Island, at
Cohanock and other places, from whom he had a power of attorney, and of
whom a Mr. Smith(1) was one of the principal; for the said minister had
scarcely any means of himself to build even a hovel, let alone to people
a colony at his own expense; but was to be employed as minister by his
associates, who were to establish him on a farm in the said colony, for
which he would discharge ministerial duties among them, and live upon
the profits of the farm.

(1) Richard Smith, a Gloucestshire man, settled early in
Plymouth Colony (Taunton). Removing thence on account of
religious differences, he settled in what is now Rhode
Island, where he became a close friend of Roger Williams.
Between 1640 and 1643 he made the first permanent settlement
in the Narragansett country, at Cawcamsqussick (Wickford),
where he had for many years his chief residence and where
his house still stands. His extensive trading interests
brought him to Manhattan, where for some years he had a
house.

Coming to the Manhatans to live during the war, he w