The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...

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by which many poor inoffensive savages were cruelly and traitorously massacred.
GOVERNOR STUYVESANT'S ADMINISTRATION.
B. tThe state's general being informed of all those evils,
ordered the governors (of the West India Company) to remedy
them; and the latter, conscious' of having trifled too long with
director Kieft, with whom they were thoroughly acquainted,
chose a certain PetrtyS Stuyvesant, formerly director of Curaqao,
the son of a minister in Vriesland, to supersede him. This same
Stuyvesant robbed the daughter of his host, and being. discovered
would have had to suffer for the crime, but that he was forgiven
for sake of his father.
E. How in the world did the company manage to find so
many rascals? Why they must have whole magazines full of
them.
B. Their High Mightinesses now thought that the governor
would take care that there should be no more complaints of an
oppreeive or tyrannical direction; we are however informed in
What mannei the same governors who had intrigued with Kieft,
instructed the new director, to the decline and ruin of New
Netherland, to maintain Kieft and vex the inhabitants under any
appearance or pretext whatever. Neither could he contain himself till he had time and opportunity, but even upon his passage
threatened that when he arrived in New Netherland, he would
teach them better to know their plans. As however he had
promised their high mightinesses by oath, that he would punish
the faults of director Kieft according to their deserts, and properly support the. inhabitants; the result however has shown
quite the contrary of these fine promises, according to the
instructions given him by the governors (which he has shown to
several persons), in which he is ordered to do as he afterwards
did.
J. Is not that the same Stuyvesant who some time before at