[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We shall terminate here, and commit the matter wholly to our God; who, we pray and heartily trust, will move your hearts and bless your deliberations, so that one of these two things may happen; that a Governor may be speedily sent with a beloved peace to us; or, that your Honors will be pleased to permit us to return, with wives and children to our dear Fatherland. For it is impossible ever to settle this country until a different system be introduced here, and a new Governor sent out with more people, who will settle in suitable places, one near the other, in the form of villages or hamlets, and elect from among themselves a Bailiff or Schout and Schepens, who will be empowered to send their deputies and give their votes on public affairs with the Director and Council; so that the entire country may not be hereafter, at the whim of one man, again reduced to similar danger. So long as this is not done, we say, the rural districts can never be cultivated. We respectfully request that the aforesaid may be taken into consideration. We remain, as we are, your Honors' faithful, poor and distressed inhabitants of New Netherland. Done Manatans this 28"" October, A" 1644. We should have postponed these our multitudinous complaints were we assured that our previous letter to the Hon*"'' the XIX., by the Blue Cock, had safely arrived.