[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 190 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. The Eight Men to the Assembly of the XIX. B, Honorable, Wise, prudent Gentlemen of the XIX. of the General Incorporated West India Company at the Chamber in Amsterdam. Honorable Gentlemen Rightly hath one of the ancients said, that there is no misery on earth however great that does not manifest itself in time of war. We, poor inhabitants of New Netherland, now complain that having enjoyed for a long time an indifferent peace with the heathen, Almighty God finally, through his righteous judgment, hath in this current year kindled around us the fire of an Indian war in which not only numbers of innocent people, men, women and children, have been murdered in their houses and at their work, and swept into captivity (whereby this place with all its inhabitants is come to the greatest ruin); but all the Bouweries and Plantations at Pavonia, with 25 lasts ' of grain and other produce are burnt and the cattle in part destroyed by the Indians. Coming next to Long Island : It also is stripped of people and cattle, except a few insignificant places, over against the main, which are about to be abandoned. The English who have settled among us have not escaped. They too. except at one place, are all murdered and burnt. Slaten Island, where Cornells Melyn settled, is unattacked as yet, but stands hourly expecting