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Points extracted from the protest of Rensselaerswijck with the company's responses

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[1] Remarks by the chamber at Amsterdam on the extracted points. ]   Points extracted from the petition of the patroon and co-directors of the Colony Rensselaerswijck. ]  
Directors are truly ignorant of the place ] where the petitioners' flag was hauled down, [and consequently cannot furnish any information on this  1. 
The placard was published at the place where ] the Company exercises ] jurisdiction, and the woods from which the wood was to be taken, are so defined that no person can be in any way injured by removing such wood; also, no one has any legal claim on it.  2. 
The legal claim to Fort Orange rested with the Company long before the Colonie Renselaerswijck was ever granted, and consequently the limits of the aforesaid Colonie were laid out above and below the fort; afterwards, the petitioners were allowed by petition to come under the cannon of the aforesaid fort in order to be secure from the insolence ] of the Indians. From this no title ] can be claimed. How far the limits of a fort ought to be computed, the directors will hereafter willingly examine. ]   3. 
The fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh points the directors ignore and consequently deny in good faith that something was done against the subjects of the petitioners; however, these persons are free settlers, bound in no way to those of the Colonie.  4. 
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As far as we understand, the oath this person swore to the Company did not release him from his oath to the petitioners, but rather he remains bound to both in their respective capacities.  8. 
The petitioners are expressly obligated by the freedoms to make these communications, and it was accordingly properly and legally requested.  9. 
As the director of the Colonie refused, on being asked, voluntarily to permit this publication to be made, it became necessary to take assured order therein. ]   10. ]  
This manner of proceeding finally had to be allowed in order to obviate ] and prevent this individual's ] intolerable insolences and aggravations.  11. 
Whereas the years of exemption have long since expired, the Company must finally consider the collection of its rights.  12. 
All contraband goods are forbidden to all settlers and especially those of the fort for sale, according to the placards, but ] because one was afraid that the strict observance thereof would be construed unfavorably by the Indians, it was at the request and for the benefit of those of the Colonie allowed that now and then something might be sparingly permitted  13. 
This is expressly denied; on the contrary, good order is maintained therein through instructions from the bench of justice.  14. 

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And whereas the aforesaid directors on [      ] need to be informed; likewise on various points that they think to have by order of the aforesaid patroon [      ] director, therefore, they undertake to write [      ] their director general and councilors with the ships now ready to depart in order to offer a deeper understanding herein; thus in the meantime reserving for themselves the more specific interpretation of the aforesaid provisional replies, in order to carry out increased [      ] and the like as shall be deemed appropriate.

Notes

Missing material supplied from NYCD, 1:522-25.

References

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