3
and 1644, protested to the West India Company and the States
General against Kieft's misgovernment, and demanded his
recall.

(4) This is intended to connect Kieft's massacre of the
refugee Tappaans at Pavonia, February 25-26, 1643, with a
previous reconnaissance of their position by Van Tienhoven.

(5) Demand of tribute which Kieft made of the river Indians
in 1639 and 1640.

(6) Reverend Francis Doughty, Adriaen van der Donck's
father-in-law, came to Massachusetts in 1637, but was forced
to depart on account of heresies respecting baptism. He is
reputed one of the first, if not the first, Presbyterian
ministers in America. Further details regarding him, from
an unfriendly pen, may be seen in Van Tienhoven's reply,
post. The conditions on which he and his associates settled
at Mespath (Newtown) may be seen in _N.Y. Col. Doc._, XIII.
8; the Patent, in O'Callaghan's _History of New Netherland_,
I. 425.

(7) Conveyance.

(8) Shrewsbury Inlet.

(9) Mr. Murphy cites the clause, from a ground-brief or
patent issued in 1639. After describing the land conveyed,
it is declared to be "upon the express condition and
stipulation that the said A.B. and his assigns shall
acknowledge the Nobel Lords Managers aforesaid as their
masters and patroons under the sovereignty of the High and
Mighty Lord States General, and shall be obedient to the
Director and Council here, as all good citizens are bound to
be, submitting themselves to all such taxes and imposts as
have been or may be, hereafter, imposed by the Noble Lords."

The Administration of Director Stuyvesant in Particular

We wish much we were already through with this administration, for it
has grieved us, and we know ourselves powerless; nevertheless we
will begin, and as we have already spoken of the public property,
ecclesiastical and civil, we will consider how it is in regard to the
administration of justice, and giving decisions between man and man.
And first, to point as with a finger at the manners of the Director and
Council. As regards the Director, from his first arrival to this time,
his manner in court has been to treat with violence, dispute with or
harass one of the two parties, not as becomes a judge, but as a zealous
advocate, which has given great discontent to every one, and with some
it has