Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 99 (part 5)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Complaints o( ihe Whercas [complaints have] come now and again before us from the English ES|iand. '" '" residing in New England, against the Dutch settled in New Netherland; Therefore, we have resolved and concluded hereby to request and require you to take care that no acts of hostility do arise [on any pretence] between the English and Dutch nations; but on the contrary, that good friendship and harmony be maintained with the English. Expecting which. Done 20* August, 1643. The words within brackets, in the above letter, are supplied, as the MS. is imperfect, in consequence of the original being, as it is stated, partially illegible, from damp. — En. Resolution of the States General on a Report of the Proceedings of the XIX.