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men in all, and three of them were severely wounded.

The fight ended, several fires were built in consequence of the great
cold. The wounded, fifteen in number, among whom was the general, were
dressed, and the sentinels being posted the troops bivouacked there
for the remainder of the night. On the next day, the party set out very
early in good order, so as to arrive at Stantfort in the evening. They
marched with great courage over that wearisome range of hills, God
affording extraordinary strength to the wounded, some of whom were badly
hurt; and came in the afternoon to Stantfort after a march of two days
and one night and little rest. The English received our people in a very
friendly manner, affording them every comfort. In two days they reached
here. A thanksgiving was proclaimed on their arrival.

[The remainder is wanting.]

(1) Stamford.

THE REPRESENTATION OF NEW NETHERLAND, 1650

Reference material and sources.

Adriaen van der Donck, The Representation of New Netherland,
1650. In J. Franklin Jameson, ed., Narratives of New
Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original Narratives of Early American
History). NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.

INTRODUCTION

The fussy incompetence of Kieft and the disastrous results of the Indian
war he had aroused led at last to his removal, and in May, 1647, a new
director-general arrived, Petrus Stuyvesant, who had made a good record
as governor of Curacao in the West Indies. Stuyvesant, the last of the
Dutch governors, was a man of character, brave, honest, capable and
energetic; but he was proud, headstrong and tyrannical, and had
such high notions of a governor's prerogative that from the first he
conceived a prejudice against the opponents of Kieft, and presently
Kuyter and Melyn were condemned to severe punishment for attempting to
bring the latter to justice.

The new director-general was bent on pursuing a vigorous policy toward
encroaching English and Swedish neighbors, on repressing the high claims
of the patroon's officers at Rensselaerswyck, on putting the province in
good condition for defence, on suppressing illegal trading, especially
the supplying of fire-arms to the Indians, and on regulating with a
strong hand all the doings of his small body of subjects. But such
a policy costs money, and to obtain it by taxation he found himself
compelled in August, 1647, like many another arbitrary ruler, to
summon reluctan