Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 249 (part 4)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] We deem it in every respect expedient that the murderer should be punished as the Director proposes, but subject to God and opportunity; and meanwhile, everything necessary ought to be provided and the Director ought, especially, to get 200 coats of mail (malj rocken) from the North as well for the soldiers as for the freemen who will pay for their own share of them. On the 2^. And that a friendly traffic be carried, in the meantime, yea, until the maize trade be over, and until an opportunity and God's will be made manifest; also, that no one, be his rank what it may, commit any hostility on land or water, against the Indians, the murderer excepted; meanwhile, let every one be on his guard; that when the Indians are out hunting