[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] After their (12) High Mightinesses, the Lords States General, were pleased, in the year XVP and twenty-two, to include this Province within the Charter of the West India Company, the latter considered it necessary to take complete possession of this naturally beautiful and noble Province; this, indeed, did follow in course of time, but according as circumstances permitted, as in all beginnings; for since the year of our Lord XV1'= and twenty-three, four forts have been built there by ^°^^ bun^herer order of the Lords Majors, one on the south point of Manhattans island, at the ""kenofpoiseMion. junction of the East and North rivers, and named New Amsterdam, where the ' Sapsis seems to be a synonym for Sappaen : Duundare is of the Iroquois stock, and means, literally, Boiled bread; from Onnontara, boiled, and i)a<aroA, bread. See Vocabulary, in Gall., 324; also, Transactions of New-York Ethnological Society, II., 79. —Ed. 284 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. staple right of New Netherland is designed to be. Another, called Orange, is in the Colonie Renselaerswyck, thirty-six leagues higher up on the west side of the last named river, three leagues below the Kahoos, or Great falls of the Mohawk kill; but there never has been, as yet, any difference with foreigners wTailT'difflTJify about that (North) river. On the South river stands fort Nassou, and on the about the Nurih p^ggj^ river, the Good Hope.