[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] He was sent the following year to Penobscot, to superintend a trading house, but returned soon nflcr and engaged in the carrying trade between Ihe New England Colonies and New Amsterdam, where he is found posocsding some laud interests in 1646. He was, in subseiiaent j'earB, au HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: VL 497 England, and one George Baxter, appointed heretofore by the Director here, Ensign over the soldiers, both of whom were Englishmen, whose decision being highly injurious to this Province, the Director declined, though repeatedly requested, to make public his adventures and transactions with the Englisii, and even though we, at the request of some Select men appointe'd by himself, have demanded a report and explanation thereof, inasmuch as very strange reports are abroad among the people, that the Director had sold the country to the English, he gave us for answer: "I must give an account of my commission, and regard nothing else," etc., as appears by the statement of the Deputy and myself, dated xii. April,