The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 89
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] [Vol. I.] 59 POPULATE— 1647. GOV. STUYVESANT TO THE STATES GENERAL. [ Hoi. Doc. XI. ] I need not intrude on your Illustrious High Mightinesses with a long narrative as to the low con-dition in which I found New Netherland on my arrival — the Flattland so stripped of inhabitants that with the excepti m of the three English Villages of Hemstede, New Flushing & Gravesend, 50 Bouw-eries and Plantations could not be enumerated; and there coidd not be made out in the whole Pro-vince, 250, or at farthest 300 men capable of bearing arms. 1673. [ Vanderkemp Transl. of Dutch Rec. Vol. XXII. ] " They and as many of the Dutch nation as are yet residing under this Government is calculated to amount, Women and children included, to about Six thousand." (6.000). Address of the Burgo-masters cj*c to Bencks and Evertsen.