[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Among other things, some individual Directors of Amsterdam have written by Vastrick to the Director General that they will uphold him with all their might and means; that they shall be dismissed before him; that the Burgomasters of Amsterdam will effectually oppose the Redress, &c. But the Board and I shall all confidently rely on their High Mightinesses and the Lords of the Committee abovementioned, and depend on their words and earnest zeal, and e.xercise patience in all things, although wholesale ruin of ourselves and of the people and country, stares us in the face, and the water reaches almost to our lips. Extract of a Memoir sent by Mr. van Dinclage to Van der Donck. Petrus Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland, Curasao, &c., did nothing in this country and Cura9ao during the last four years, from the year 1646 to this current year, 1650, for the benefit of the Incorporated West India Company, this Burghery or the inhabitants, notwithstanding he, himself, declared in the year 1647, before the entire Commonalty under arms, when he came into office and Kieft retired, that he should govern, and be, like a father over his children, for the advantage of the Incorporated West India Company and this Burghery and country. The aforesaid Memoir being, further, of the same tenor and purport, but too long to peruse. Extract of a letter from Jacob van Couwenhoven and Dirck van Schelluyne, the Notary, to Van der Donck, dated e"-October, 1650.