[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] of PatroonSji enjoyed all the feudal appendages attached thereto, such as power to erect a church or churches; to administer juris-diction, to decide civil suits, to impose fines, to pronounce the first sentence, finally to exercise all rights belonging to the jurisdic-tion of Colen Donck together with the right of hunting, fowling, fishing and trading according to immunities granted in the same. Soon after the settlement of our Patroon at Colen Donck, there arose a controversy between the government of the Colony of New Netherlands and several of the colonists; among the most forward of the latter was Adriaen van der Donck. who with others united in a strong remonstrance to the States General of Holland, complaining of the power exercised by the Dutch West India Co. especially during the administrations of Kieft and Stuy-vesant. This remonstrance was afterwards printed at the Hague A. D. 1650. and formed a small vol. (quarto) of fifty pages enti-tled "Vertooghb van Nieuw Nederlandt, weghens de Ghelegen-hetyd, Vruchtbaerheydt, en soberen Slaet desselfs. In s' Graven Hage 1650, (An Exposition of the New Netherlands, in respect to the situation, fertility, and wretched condition of the country.