[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] oppose the Director, but was obliged to let many things take their course and submit to them, to which, he afterwards declared, he had great objection because they were unjust, but he saw no other way to secure peace; for the Director himself said, in Council, that he would treat him worse than Wouter van Twiller had ever done, if he would not obey his wishes. This man is then overruled. Let us now proceed further. Monsieur La Montanie had been in the Council in Kieft's time, and was then, by many, greatly suspected; he hath no commission from Fatherland; was, also, driven off his land by the war; is 308 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. deeply in the Company's debt, and is, therefore, under the necessity of dissembling; but it is sufficiently notorious, and has been heard from himself, that he was not pleased with, and disapproved of that administration. Brian Muyson [Nuton], lieutenant of the soldiers, comes next. This man dreads the Director, and honors him as his benefactor; besides being very ignorant and