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mark : " that although it had hcon the colors of the Prince of 

 Orange that were hoisted, he would have thrown these too under 

 his feet."' In one of the conflicts between the parties, a Swedish 

 sergeant behaved himself so much " against all good order and 

 decency," that Commissary Hudde felt it to be his duty to arrest 

 him and keep him " in the guard house some time," besides 

 giving him a severe reproof. 



This event elicited from Governor Printz a sharp protest,^ 

 directed to Iludde, in which he reminds him, "to discontinue 

 the injuries of which he lias been guilty against the Royal 

 Majesty of Sweden," and accuses him of "gross conduct" on 

 account of his " secret and unlawful purchase of land from the 

 savages," alleging that in making it, "he betrayed his conviction 

 of the justice^ equity and antiquity of his pretensive claims, of 

 which he so loudly boasted." This protest is dated N. Gotten- 

 burg, September 30th, 1G46, 0. S., and was delivered by Oloff 

 Stille and Moens Fhm, two Swedish freemen. 



On the 22nd of October, the reply of Hudde was sent to the 

 Governor.^ It is rather pacific in its tone. He assures the 

 Governor, that he purchased the land of "the real owner," and 

 if he (the sachem) had sold the land previously to his Honor, 

 then he had imposed most shamefully upon him. He protests, 

 "that lie performed everything and endeavoured to employ all 

 means, by which a good correspondence and mutual harmony 

 might be promoted," and closes with these words, " I will con- 

 fide, that it is your Honor's intention, to act in the same manner 

 — at least from the consideration that ive who are christians will 

 not place ourselves as a stumbling block, or laughing stock to 

 those savage heathens which I trust, that shall remain so, as it 

 is by your affectionate friend.'' 



This affectionate epistle was received in a rather gruif manner 

 by the Governor, who threw it towards one of his attendants 

 saying, "there take care of it." This is reported by Hudde's 

 sergeant who acted as messenger on the occasion, and as the 

 Governor was engaged with " some Englishmen just arrived from 

 New England," the statement maybe credited; but no credit 

 can be given to his tale, that the Governor took a gun down from 

 the wall "with the intention of shooting him." 



Hudde also complained that Printz had forbidded his subjects, 

 (as he called them.) "to enter into any transactions" with the 

 Dutch. This non-intercourse policy does not appear to have 

 been very strictly enforced, for in less than a year, we find 

 Hudde and his wife at the Governor's table — the fact being re- 



1 Acrelius says that this language was used upon the occasion of pulling down the 

 Dutch coat of arms raised at Sairti/can, (Trenton.) 

 » Hudde's Report, 433. 3 ib. 434. 



