Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 175 (part 5)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Nothing else could well be done, for the garrisons are not sent out complete agreeably to The rauu of New the Exemption, so that the fault of New Netherland's low condition lies as much ^onSrJ.'mlits iiso at the door of Fatherland, as of this place; yea, the seed of the war was, '"'"' ""''^°"P'"'y-according to Director Kieft, first sown in Fatherland, for he said that he had express order to exact the contribution from the Indians; this would have been very good, had the country been peopled, but in this instance it was premature. Trade, without which, when lawful, no country prospers, has also fiillen off so L»eiiimate trade in 1 • r ^ y^, 1 •. • 1 111. ^^^ Nftherland is much m consequence or the Company s acts, that it is without a parallel, and more '-•^p' 'i"«n ^y ihe ^ r J r ' Company.