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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 147 (part 8)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] It is therefore much to be apprehended, that the English will endeavor in time, to become masters of it, for they, of late years, have come near unto the Dutch, and within fifteen years have increased in New England to fifty or sixty thousand souls, who have now already got a smack of the productiveness and of the convenient navigable rivers of Our New Netheriand. The Petitioners, then, earnestly