[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We, therefore, hereby humbly entreat and request your High Mightinesses to be pleased to give credence in all things that they may do or say in the premises, to these persons, to wit, Adriaen Van der Donck, Jacob van CouwENHOVEN, and Jan Evertse Bout, our Delegates and Agents; inasmuch as we know them for persons of honor and of good name and fame, also right well disposed towards the interest of this Country. With humble reverence we pray your High Mightinesses to be pleased to grant them a favorable audience, and we are and remain your High Mightinesses' faithful subjects. We have, in addition, presumed to send your High Mightinesses a specimen of this country's products, crops and forage most humbly praying that, according to our straitened circumstances, it may be graciously accepted, which we pray God also to grant, to whose keeping we ever commend your High Mightinesses' persons, deliberations and undertakings. Amen. In the name, and on the behalf, of the Commonalty of New Netherland, Done the 26"" July 1649 in New Amsterdam, on the Island Manhattans in New Netherland. (Signed) Augustin Herman. Arnoldus van Hardenberch. Oloff Stevenss. Machyel Janssen. Thomas Hall. Elbert Elbertsen. Govert Loockermans. Received 13 October, 1649. Hendrick Hendrickse Kip. (Addressed as follows :) To the Great, Powerful, High & Mighty Lords The Lords States General of The United Netherlands residing at the Hague. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IV.