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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 268 (part 7)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] But we hope that their High Mightinesses and you, Noble Mighty, will give full credit to all that we have represented and written, all which (God help us) is too true — We gladly saw, and it was fortunate that the drainage of the people had ceased, and that they could earn an honorable livelihood. God grant that the country may this year be redressed; it would cheer and console the people and set them on their legs, otherwise we and the entire country are in danger of going to ruin, and of falling into foreign hands. But we shall wait patiently, and cannot but hope that a matter in which