[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Having been plainly tricked by the English out of the Fresh River, notwithstanding a block iiouse, called the Hope, had been erected 21 leagues up the river, in the year 1633, long before the English had been there, — a sign of first and earliest possession — nothing could, at first, be done in that quarter, except to repair said house, the Hope, and keep it as heretofore occupied by a suitable garrison, for the purpose of maintaining prior possession of the most remote boundary. 2nd. The village of Greenwich belonging to their High Mightinesses', being the furthest place where the Director and Council exercise authority, in the name of their High Mightinesses the States General and of the West India Company, is separated from the English village Stamford, by a small stream; so that the English along the main north coast cannot approach nearer New Nelherland, without being obliged to settle between Greenwich and New Amsterdam, where there is an interval of about seven leagues of country : And to prevent that. Director Stuyvesant purchased these lands last summer from the native and rigiit owners thereof, and paid for them, on account of the West India Company. 3d.