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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 299 (part 4)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] How the delegates from the Commonalty and others returned hither have been treated and in every manner of way persecuted by sinister practices, on account of matters represented to your High Mightinesses, themselves can tell, for every one of them knows. The Director hath sent Arent van Cuelen ' with horses to the West India Islands, which he hath sold at Antigua. The Director threatened to retain the brewers' grain in store, in place of keeping a supply himself, and, in order to feed the Company's