Peter Stuyvesant to the Dutch West India Company, Sept. 22, 1654

"The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here, but learning that they (with their customary usury and deceitful trading with the Christians) were very repugnant to the inferior magistrates, as also to the people having the most affection to you...we have, for the benefit of this weak and newly developing place and the land in general, deemed it useful to require them in a friendly way to depart; praying...that the deceitful race...be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colong to the detraction of your worships and the dissatisfaction of your worships' most affectionate subjects."
in The Jew in the Modern World, 2nd Ed., pg. 452.