[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [ From the Original In the Eoyal Archives at the Hague; Tile, entitled Weat Indie. ] To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands. High and Mighty Lords. The Deputies of tlie Assembly of the XIX. are instructed to complain to your High Mightinesses, that one Jacob Jacobsen Elkens, having entered the service of Mr. William Klobery and his assistants, with the ship, the William, whereof William Trevor was master, did in the past year 1633, In the month of April, come to the North River, in New Netherland, [opposite the island] of the Manhattes, in order to exchange his [merchandise] up that river for peltries and other [products.] And that under the feigned pretense that said river and adjacent country were in, and of, the Domain of his Majesty of Great Britain. 94 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Without, however, holding, as far as is known to us, or being willing to exhibit, when demanded, by our agents, his Majesty's Instruction or Commission, which he might have for that purpose.