<1> "Note N. Resolve of 13 Sept'r 1643." _N.Y. Col. Doc._, I. 194. Terror increasing all over the land the Eight Men assembled, drew<1> up a proposal in writing wherein they asked that delegates should be sent to the north, to our English neighbors, to request an auxiliary force of one hundred and fifty men, for whose pay a bill of exchange should be given for twenty-five thousand guilders, and that New Netherland should be so long mortgaged to the English as security for the payment thereof. One of the most influential among the Eight Men had by letter<2> enforced by precedents previously endeavored to persuade the Director to this course, as they had also a few days before Resolved<3> that the provisions destined for Curacao should be unloaded from the vessels and the major portion of the men belonging to them detained, and to send the ships away thus empty. This was not yet agreed to nor considered expedient by the Director. [Here four pages are wanting.] [An expedition was despatched consisting of ---- regular soldiers] under the command of the sergeant,<4> forty burghers under their Captain Jochem Pietersen,<5> thirty-five Englishmen under Lieutenant Baxter,<6> but to prevent all confusion, Councillor La Montagne<7> was appointed general. Coming to Staten Island, they marched the whole night, finding the houses empty and abandoned by the Indian; they got five or six hundred skepels of corn, burning the remainder without accomplishing anything else. <1> "Note O. Dated 6th Octob. 1643." <2> "Note P. Dated 9th March, 1643." <3> "Note Q. In their resolution 30th September, 1643." <4> Pieter Cock. <5> Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, one of the Twelve Men and of the Eight Men. <6> George Baxter, an exile from New England, now English secretary under Kieft. The number of English colonists in New Netherland, especially on Long Island, was rapidly increasing. <7> Dr. Johannes la Montagne, a Hugeunot physician, who with Kieft constituted the council of the province.