[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] flict with the direction of the West India Company. In the spring of that year he was chosen one of Stuy-vesant's "Nine Men," an auxiliary and advisory company, to the constitution and annual popular election of which Stuyvesant had consented the year before, in order to allay a discontent which, by his imperious conduct, he had excited among the people. Deeming the director tyrannical, Van Der Donck, after his election, at once took ground against him. Stuyvesant, enraged at his course, was so impolitic as to have him arrested and imprisoned. In August, I having been released, be was sent to Holland with a remonstrance against the New Amsterdam direction, prepared by himself at the request of his associates of the " Nine," who all signed it with him. The paper still exists. He was met in Holland by agents of Stuyvesant, who, of course, vehemently denied its charges. These agents bad the ready ear of the home authorities, and Van Der Donck was defeated. The steps he had taken only drew upon him ill-will and persecution. When he wished to return to America, he was stopped by the government, even at the moment when he was about leaving with his family. He was detained till 165.'}. During the interval he was regarded with suspicion and watched.