[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] The Fiscal answered, Myn Heer Stuyvesant told me the Directors write, that their High Mightinesses have referred the affairs of New Netherland to tliem, as that country belongs exclusively to them, and 1 shall remain some years longer. They also write that we should Vol. I. 57 450 NEAV-YOKK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. not consider of any value, nor regard in the least, the protections and passes which their High Mightinesses had already granted and given, or should hereafter grant to any inhabitants of New Netherland, &c. Extract from a declaration of Joachim Peters Cuyter in the matter and case aforesaid; dated as above. Myn Heer Stuyvesant had received several letters; among others, from Mr. Pergens and other individual directors of the Hon''''' West India Company, and that M' Pergens had written, that the Committee had from their body stated to their High Mightinesses in the matter of New Netherland in their High Mightinesses' meeting, that New Netherland did not belong to their High Mightinesses; that the Lords Majors had purchased the country; that it was their property exclusively, and also that such was true. He said further, that they will uphold the Director with all their might and means, even (they write) unto blood. Extract from the letter of the Select men to Van der Donck, of 22""* December 1650.