as permitted to act
as minister for the English dwelling about there; and they were bound to
maintain him without either the Director or the Company being liable to
any charge therefor. The English not giving him wherewith to live on,
two collections were made among the Dutch and English by means of which
he lived at the Manhatans.

The said colony of Mespacht was never confiscated, as is shown by the
owners, still living there, who were interested in the colony with
Doughty; but as Doughty wished to hinder population, and to permit no
one to build in the colony unless he were willing to pay him a certain
amount of money down for every morgen of land, and a certain yearly
sum in addition in the nature of ground-rent, and in this way sought
to establish a domain therein, the others interested in the colony (Mr.
Smith especially) having complained, the Director and Council finally
determined that the associates might enter upon their property--the farm
and lands which Doughty possessed being reserved to him; so that he has
suffered no loss or damage thereby. This I could prove also, were it not
that the documents are in New Netherland and not here.

There are no clauses inserted in the ground-briefs, contrary to the
Exemptions, but the words nog te beramen (hereafter to be imposed) can
be left out of the ground-briefs, if they be deemed offensive.

Stuyvesant has never contested anything in court, but as president has
put proper interrogatories to the parties and with the court's advice
has rendered decisions about which the malevolent complain; but it must
be proven that anyone has been wronged by Stuyvesant in court.

As to what relates to the second [Vice Director] Dinclagen, let him
settle his own matters.

It can be shown that Brian Newton not only understands the Dutch
tongue, but also speaks it, so that their charge, that Newton does not
understand the Dutch language, is untrue. All the other slanders and
calumnies uttered against the remaining officers should be required to
be proven.

It is true that in New Netherland it was commonly stated in conversation
that there was no appeal from a judgment in New Netherland pronounced
on the island of Manhatans, founded on the Exemptions by which on
the island of Manhatans was established the supreme court for all the
surrounding colonies, and also that there had never been a case in
which an appeal from New Netherland had been entertained by Their High
Mightinesses