[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IV. 289 farthest that they have ever been willing to come is, to declare that the matter could never be arranged in this country, and that they were content and very desirous that their High Mightinesses should arrange it with their Sovereigns, and as this is very necessary, inasmuch as the English already occupy and have The Eogiish have seized nearly the half of New Netherland, which hereafter can well be of great SeriaSd/ ^"^ importance, so it is earnestly to be desired, that their High Mightinesses w^ould please to press this matter, before it proceed farther, and the breach become irreparable. We should now pass from this to the South river, by the English called Delaware bay, with a view first to describe the boundaries in this way, consecutively; but we cannot omit, in passing, to say that there was here, both in Director's Kieft's time and in that of General Stuyvesant, a certain Englishman New Albion; he represented and claimed that the country from the west side of the North river unto Virginia, was his, by grant from King James of England, but he said he did not wish to create any difficulty with the Dutch, though he was very much piqued at John Prins, the Swedish Governor at the South river, on account of some affronts he had received from him, which are too long to relate; he added, that he, at a proper opportunity, should meet that gentleman, and take possession of the river.