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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 60 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] a tente, and traded with the Indians some fewe dayes; the Governor of the upper fforte, belonginge to the Dutch, cominge to the said tent with other Dutchmen with him, and perceivinge, tiiat tiie said Jacob Jacobson Eii\ins was very well aquainted with the Indians, and speake theire language very well, and was much beloved of them; and that they were a greate deale more willinge to trade with him then with the Dutch: the said Governor envied att the said merchants factor and the rest of the Englishe, and tould them, that they should not trade there any longer. But the said factor replyed, that they were the Kinge of Englands