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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 334 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] In this manner, then, have the English by unrighteous usurpations, made themselves masters of all the beforementioned places, aud especially of the beautiful Fresh river. They well knew that the Company had not only ratified the possession of the aforesaid river by the construction of its fort and some bouweries besides, but that it had, particularly in the year 1G32, purchased from the natives and proprietors many lands thereabout, which were accordingly conveyed to it, long before the coming thither of any English, who first arrived