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tniat tm \ Nieuw  Nederlandei*. | Besclireven  door | ADRIAEN  vander DONCK |
Beyder Rechten  Doctoor,  die  tegenwoor- | digh  noch  in  Nieuw  Nederlandt is. |
t'AMSTELDAM. | Bg Evert Nieuwhof,  Uoeck-tJakoopcr, tooouen&e, cp  't | Huslanbt
in 't Scljnifboeck | Anno 1655. — 4to.

Description of New Netherland {-sucJi as it now is)^ Gom.preliending the
Nature^ Character, Situation and Fruitfulness of the said Country ; together
with the proftahle and desirable opportunities which it offers for the support
of people {whether natives or foreigners). Also, the Manners and peculiar
Characteristics of the Savages or Aborigines of the Country. And a particular
account of the wonderful nature and habits of the Beaver ^ to lohich is also
added a Discourse on the situation of New Netherland, between a Netherland
Patriot and a New Netherlander. Written by Adriaen van der Donck,
Doctor of Laws, who is still in New Netherland.
Title, viii a. 104 pages.

A second edition of this work was published in 1656, with a map, and a translation
of it by General Jeremiah Johnson, has been printed in the Collections of the New-
York Historical Society.

Adriaen van der Donck died in this country in 1655, and left his Colonic, in West¬
chester county, to his wife. This lady, whom he married in 1645, was the daughter of
the Reverend Francis Doughty, of Long Island, whose case is narrated pretty fully in
the following pages. She afterwards married Hugh ONeal of Patuxent, Maryland
whither she and her father removed.

To enable a thorough understanding to be formed on the subject of the public
complaints of those days, the Answer of the government, prepared by Secretary Van
Tienhoven, under the eye of the West India Company, is printed at the end of the
Remonstrance.

The Vertoogh, or Remonstrance as printed in Holland, and Van Tienhoven's Answer,
have been already translated by that ripe Dutch scholar, the Hon. Henry C. Murphy
of Brooklyn, and published by the New-York Historical Society in their Collections ;
also, in a separate volume, by James Lenox, Esq., of New-York. The present, however,
is a translation not of that Vertoogh, but of the transcript of the Notarial copy of the
Original MS. obtained at the Hague for the State of New -York, and contained in the
fourth volume of the Holland Documents in the Secretary's office, Albany. Every
pains have been taken in converting both the Remonstrance and the Answer into
English, and it is hoped that these distinct versions of highly interesting state papers
will subserve the interests of American History.

In order to enable the curious reader to collate the present translation with the
Vertoogh, which bears evidence of having been revised by Authority before it was
allowed to be printed, the commencement of each page of the latter work is marked
by figures, within parenthesis.