[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] the land there and that more easterly, will not consent to go back, nor easily The English love ■' o ' J ll,j la^j^ jjnil win submit to their High Mightinesses' protection unless respectfully invited thereunto, "o'easuy go back, which it was desirable might have happened from the first. OF THE DUTCH TITLE TO THE FRESH RIVER. In the beginning, before the English were ever spoken of, our people, as we find it written, first carefully explored and discovered the northern parts of New Netherland and some distance on the other side of Cape Cod. And even planted an ensign on, and took possession of Cape Cod. Anno 1614, our traders O" v<^°p^e ant " * ^ took possession of not only trafficked at the Fresh river, but had also ascended it before any English LoughuSerawi people had ever dreamed of coming there; the latter arrived there for the first °'"" time in the year 1636, after our Fort Good Hope had been a long time in existence, and almost all the land on both sides of the river had been bought by our people