[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 610 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS Chamber at Amsterdam to the States General. [ From the Original in the Boyal Archives at the Hague; File, West Jndie. ] To the High and Mighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands. High and Mighty Lords The Directors of the Incorporated West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, did, in the year 1654, call your High Mightinesses' attention to the necessity then existing to conclude and ratify in the countries of New Netherland a certain and assured Boundary between tliose of New England and this State. And as tlie Directors aforesaid are content that certain Provisional Boundary concluded, yonder, in the year 1G50, be included therein, they accordingly requested your High Mightinesses' Ambassadors then in England, may be instructed to apply to the Lord Protector either that the aforesaid Provisional Boundary may be approved, or the Directors on both sides be authorized to agree on and arrange a new one subject to your High Mightinesses' and his Highness' approval. If a pertinent proposal has been drawn up by the said Ambassadors on this subject, it has been witiiout any result, as far as the said Directors are advised. Since that time, the case has been that, in New Netherland some private Englishmen have not hesitated to usurp the possession of some of the Company's lands.