[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] During the Patroon's stay in Holland, he had shipped for Colen Donck seven persons, four of whom had cruelly deserted and betrayed him. Upon this we find him again petitioning the Directors of the Dutch We.^t Iiidia Company's department, Am-sterdam. Remonstrates reverently, Adriaen Van der Donck, residing in New Nether-lands that to the supplicant was granted by the Director General and Com-pany in New Netherlands, the Saw Kill with the adjacent lands to erect there saw and grist mills, and clear the land for a plantation and farms as far as his property would permit it, which grant was chiefly obtained because the sup-plicant had contributed a vast deal by his services as mediator, to negotiate and conclude a peace between the director Kieft from the one side and the Indians from the other side, not without great sacrifice from his side, as it was the first part of the year when his presence was wanted at home, and all this at his own expence so that he might assert without boasting that he con-tributed at least as much to its consolidation than any other person whatever, so that at length peace was concluded when the supplicant advanced the prin-cipal part of the money, as the Director General was at thai period not well provided with it to procure seawant,' which was wanted for presents in con-firmation of the peace which God be praised, remains yet uninterrupted.