And that meanwhile the aforesaid interested parties would be most seriously damaged in the matter of discharging the cargo. That the abovementioned Board, therefore, would submit to their High Mightinesses in their favor that, whilst waiting for a final decision whether the aforesaid duty shall be paid for the use of the public or the Company, the interested be permitted to unload on provisionally paying the duty, subject to their High Mightinesses' decision, into the office of convoy at Amsterdam aforesaid, in order to save the interested from loss by the postponement of the discharge of the vessel; which, being considered, it is resolved and concluded that copy of the aforesaid letter shall be sent to the Presiding Chamber residing at present in the aforesaid city of Amsterdam, to communicate its information to their High Mightinesses at the earliest on the contents thereof, to the end that when seen here, such further disposition shall be made thereon, as their High Mightinesses shall deem proper.

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States-General to the Chamber at Amsterdam.

[From the Register of Uitgegane Brieven of the States-General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Folio 357. Honorable, &c. We send, herewith, copy of the letter of the Board of Admiralty at Amsterdam, written there on the 6th instant, concerning those interested in the little vessel The Jacob arrived called the Jacob and her cargo, with request and nevertheless earnest requisition land or New York. and order that you will furnish us, without delay, with your information thereupon, so that, when seen, we may dispose thereof as we shall deem proper; wherewith ending, and looking for the information aforesaid by the first opportunity, we commend you to God's Holy protection.

The Hague, 8th October, 1674.

Chamber at Amsterdam to the States-General.

High & Mighty Lords.

[From the Original in the Royal Archives at the Hague; File West Indie.]

Your High Mightinesses' letter of the 8th of October last, being safely come to hand with its inclosure, which is a letter dated the sixth of that month, written to your High Mightinesses in the name and on the behalf of the Board of Admiralty in this city, concerning those interested in the ship the Jacob, David Jochemse, skipper, arrived from New Netherland or New York, and specially whether the public import duty of the cargo of the abovementioned ship should be paid to the said Board, or to the West India Company at the Chamber of this city. We shall, in obedience to and in fulfillment of your most esteemed letter, most respectfully submit, that the Deputies at the Admiralty aforesaid having objected some time ago and at different times, to allow the aforesaid Company such duties as it was competent to collect and receive agreeably to the respective resolutions, placards and regulations in this

regard, successively and from time to time adopted and issued by your High Mightinesses, from and off the goods, wares and merchandize exported and imported to and from the district included within its Charter, we have been under the necessity, for the maintenance and preservation of the aforesaid duty, of causing notice to be given to the skipper of the aforesaid ship, the Jacob, by a notary and witnesses, not to remove a particle of goods from his aforesaid vessel, neither by means of any entry at the Admiralty aforesaid, nor under any other pretext, before and until he shall in fact pay to us the proper duties thereunto belonging. We hope that the reasons and motives which have moved us officially and in duty hereunto, will be considered so powerful and sufficient that your High Mightinesses will not make any difficulty to issue such order, and to make such provision, to the end that prompt and full restitution be made to the Company of what hath already been paid and consigned to the office of the said Board, both on account of the aforesaid ship, the Jacob, and of other ships.

We do not, High and Mighty Lords, base this, our right, so much on the Charter which you, High and Mighty, have been pleased to grant to the newly established Company, as, indeed, on its clear appearance from preceding charters and their successive extensions, and your High Mightinesses' consequent resolutions and regulations, that as the Company is authorized and privileged by you, High and Mighty, solely, and to the exclusion of all other inhabitants of this State, to trade to the kingdoms, countries and places where it has forts, houses or established trade, it is in like manner competent, furthermore, to receive from the inhabitants of this country, who are willing to frequent, or trade to any of the further kingdoms, countries and places above set forth and included in the district of the abovementioned charter, in form of recognition, the import duty agreeably to the order and to the amount customary in the case. That, also, the skippers and in their stead, the owners and freighters at the time of the sailing out and return of the ship, before they load, or break bulk, are bound to apply to the Chambers or places whence they may have sailed, and that they, under pertinent specification and signature, must give in the quantity and quality of the goods, wares and merchandize which they will take along and have traded during the voyage, or may have taken in on freight. Likewise, that the aforesaid convoy and duty must be paid in kind or in coin, at the choice of the Company, on pain of pursuing and prosecuting the defaulters and contraveners thereof, as provided in Article I. of the abovementioned Charter. And seeing that, by the specific distinction of the district and limits of the Charter, it is evident that the Colony of New Netherland is included in it, and that the export and import duty must be paid to the Company off the goods conveyed to that Colony and brought back from it hither; and that the private traders trafficking to this and the other places of the second class must, in this regard, acknowledge the aforesaid Company, and are bound to pay and give it, for and on account of the import duty and moreover by form of recognition, an amount equal to their actual profits in said trade; Therefore shall we, for these and other additional reasons to be alleged, if necessary, at the proper time, hope and trust that you will be graciously pleased, High and Mighty, vigorously to maintain the Company in the rights aforesaid and in the peaceable possession thereof, and effectually put aside all obstacles, hindrances and opposition offered and brought forward thereto; and furthermore, enact such law to the end that not the smallest infraction of the Charter may be committed.

All which we, with due submission, do request that you, High and Mighty, will please to take into such favorable regard, as the importance and justice of the case and the actual condition of the Company's affairs, demand. Whereupon relying, we shall willingly leave it

commended to your High Mightinesses' good and paternal care, for the advancement of the prosperity of the abovementioned Company; and

Herewith,

High and Mighty Lords,

praying God Almighty, to the end that his Divine Majesty may be pleased to prosper your High Mightinesses' most renowned government, and to vouchsafe your eminent persons every holiness and blessing,

Amsterdam,

first November, 1674.

We remain your High Mightinesses'

Most obedient and

Most humble servants,

The Directors of the West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam. (Signed), J. BONTEMANtel,

JACOB PERGens.

Folio 620. West India Company.

Resolution of the States-General.

[From the Register of the Resolutions of the States-General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague, Į

Thursday, 6th December, 1674.

Received a letter from the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam, written there the first of November last, in answer to their High Mightinesses' despatch of the eighth of October previous, and accordingly information on the inclosure, which was copy of a letter from the Board of Admiralty resident at Amsterdam, David Jochemse concerning the parties interested in the ship Jacob, David Jochemse, skipper, Duties on ships arrived from New Netherland, or New York, and especially whether the public Netherland. import duty on the cargo of that ship should be paid to the said Board of Admiralty or to the West India Company; which being considered, it is resolved and concluded that the aforesaid letter shall be placed in the hands of Mess" Pompe and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the affairs of the West India Company, to examine and report thereon.

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Petition of Dutch Burghers of New-York to the States-General.

[From the Original, in the Royal Archives at the Hague; File, Engeland. ]

To the High and Mighty Lords, the States-General of the United Netherlands. The Dutch nation in New York, heretofore called New Netherland, most humbly showeth : That this country had been taken by your High Mightinesses' arms, and reduced under your High Mightinesses' obedience, by Commanders Binckes and Eversen, in the year 1673, during the war with England. That by Article 6, hereunto annexed, of the Treaty of Peace, which

was concluded on the February, 1674, it was agreed: That the islands, cities and harbors, castles or forts, which the one party will have taken, or will yet take from the other, since the breaking out of this unfortunate war, whether in Europe or elsewhere, and before the expiration of the period herein before set down for the cessation of all hostilities, shall be restored to the former Lord or Proprietor thereof, in the same state and condition as they shall have been, &c. That, further, Anthony Colve, at that time Governor of the aforesaid country, hath surrendered the same, by your High Mightinesses' order, to Major Andros, the English Governor, pursuant to the aforesaid Article of the Treaty of Peace. When they, the Petitioners, did not doubt but they would remain in the enjoyment of the rights and privileges which they had possessed, under the government of the English, previous to your High Mightinesses' occupation, and principally by virtue of the Capitulation hereunto annexed, which was entered into in the year 1664, on the 27th of August, old style, before the surrender to the English Governor, Richard Nicolls, which was also accorded to them, the Petitioners, by the aforesaid 6th Article of the Treaty of Peace. But they, the Petitioners, to their profound sorrow, find at present that the aforesaid Governor, Major Andros, does not allow them, the Petitioners, the enjoyment of the effect of the aforesaid Capitulation, and consequently also of the 6th Article of the Treaty of Peace, but hath, over and above, laid before them, the Petitioners, a formula of an Oath he hath drawn up according to his opinion, and not according to the aforesaid Capitulation. Wherefore they, the Petitioners, have been necessitated for the maintenance of the privilege which you, High and Mighty, had stipulated for your subjects there, to postpone the aforesaid oath and, by humble and civil supplication, to request of the abovementioned Governor, Major Andros, to allow them a proper time to depart with their families and property, and meanwhile, protection both in their persons and goods; likewise, free and unmolested, to transport themselves elsewhere, wherever the opportunity should offer; they, the Petitioners, promising, on oath, to be faithful to the aforesaid Governor during their sojourn there, with the exception only of not being forced to take up arms against their own nation, as is more fully demonstrated to your High Mightinesses in the copy of the petition hereunto annexed; and notwithstanding they, the Petitioners, considered it their duty to preserve their privilege and concluded Capitulation, and to demonstrate the same by a most submissive petition to the aforesaid Governor, yet hath he, Governor Andros, not only illy received, but peremptorily rejected their humble and civil petition, and denounced them as disturbers of the King's peace, placing them, the Petitioners, in close confinement, from which they have been released, under bail, and ordering them to be tried. And in order to communicate this to his Majesty of England, the aforesaid Governor Andros to that end hath most subtilely (as they, the Petitioners, are for a certainty informed) dispatched Captain Salsbury to denigrate the Petitioners (as can well be proved) to his Royal Majesty, whence nothing is to be foreseen but ruin and destruction to the Petitioners. Wherefore they find themselves under the necessity of turning to you, High and Mighty, humbly praying and beseeching you, High and Mighty, to cause information of this matter to be transmitted to M. Van Beuningen, Ambassador to his Royal Majesty of England, or to whomsoever you, High and Mighty, shall consider it proper to refer, to the end that no bad nor wrong impression of them, the Petitioners, may be conveyed to his Majesty by the aforesaid Salsbury, Governor Andros' messenger.

And further, that the matter be so directed that they, the Petitioners, may be continued [in the privileges accorded] by the annexed Capitulation, concluded on the 27th August, stilo

veteri, 1674,' between his Majesty of England and your High Mightinesses, and enjoy the same without being contravened by any contradicting statutes, ordonnances, formulas of oath, or otherwise; and principally to order, provisionally, that no prosecutions, punishments, nor other inconveniences be instituted against them, the Petitioners, by reason of the aforesaid presented petition.

Which doing, etc.,

(Signed), CORNELIUS MAGISTRIS.2

Appendix:

Articles of Peace and Alliance between England and the United Netherlands,
Anno 1674.

[Title only given.]

Petition of Dutch Burghers of New-York.

To the Right Honorable Edmond Andros,3 Governor-General over all his Royal Highness's Territories in America, and his Honor's Council.

Honorable Gentlemen.

We the undersigned, your Honors' subjects and Petitioners, with all due respect represent, that in obedience to your Proclamation published on Saturday last, giving notice to all persons who propose remaining residents here, to come and take the oath of allegiance on the ringing of the town bell, we, with many other inhabitants, presented ourselves yesterday about half an

1 Sic.

* Sic.; but supposed to have been, in the original, "Steenwyck."

'Sir EDMUND ANDROS, Knight, Seigneur of Sausmarez, was born in London 6th December, 1637. His ancestors were from Northamptonshire. John Andros [or Andrews *], the first of them connected with Guernsey, was Lieutenant to Sir Peter Meautis, the Governor, and married, in 1543, Judith de Sausmarez, the heiress, who brought the fief Sausmarez into the family. Their son, John, became the King's ward, in the custody of Sir Leonard Chamberlain, the Governor, during a long minority, and appears as a Jurat of the Royal court at the coming of the Royal Commissioners in 1582. The grandson, Thomas, also a Jurat, was Lieutenant-Governor, under Lord Carew, in 1611. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Amice de Carteret, Seigneur of Winsby Manor in Jersey, and Lieutenant-Governor and Bailiff of Guernsey, and had many children, from whom several branches sprung. Amice, father of Sir Edmund, was the eldest son, and married Elizabeth Stone, sister of Sir Robert Stone, Knight, Cupbearer to the Queen of Bohemia and captain of a troop of horse in Holland, and was Master of the Ceremonies to King Charles the First at the time of his son's birth, who was brought up from a boy in the Royal family, and in its exile commenced his career of arms in Holland, under Prince Henry of Nassau. Upon the restoration of Charles the Second in 1660, the inhabitants of Guernsey thought it right to petition for pardon for having submitted to Cromwell. On the 13th August, an Order in Council was issued granting said pardon, but declaring, at the same time, that Amice Andros of Sausmarez, Bailiff of said Island, Edmund, his son, and Charles, brother of Amice, had, to their great *In the parish of Harlestone, in Northamptonshire, a family named Andrews, anciently established there, bears the same arms as those of Andros: A chevron between three pelicans vulning themselves.