[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] objects, and not complain when the Directors requested a collection towards the erection of a Church and school. What complaints would there be, were the Director to demand a collection for an asylum for aged people and orphans. Divine service will not be interrupted, by the absence of D^ Johannes Backerus, who, however, has been there only 27 months. The place is again supplied with a learned and godly clergyman, who requires no interpreter when defending the Reformed Religion against any minister of our neighbors, the English Brownists. The preceding are, in fact, the points requiring any answer. We shall add thereunto only some particulars respecting the persons who have signed the Remonstrance. They are as follow : Adriaen van der Donck has been about 8 years in New Netherland; he originally went thither as sheriff, in the employ of the co-proprietors in the Colonic of Renselaers wyck, but did not long hold that office; he resided in the Colonic, however, until the year 1646. Arnoldus van Hardenberch accompanied Hay Jansen, in 1644, to New Netherland, with a cargo for his brother, where he never suffered any let or damage, to our knowledge; but he knows how to charge the colonists well for his wares. AuGUSTYN Heermans Went out in the Maecht van Enchmjsen, being, as he now is, clerk to Gabri, in the trading business.