278 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



land at Hartford, 8 against winch usurpation your Attorney General, in his quality 

 and in the name of the Lords his masters, had in due form entered his protest, 

 which the Lieutenant Wheeler, who there commands, not at all respecting, con- 

 tinues to remain there with his associates in planting and building, luring and ac- 

 commodating our run-away inhabitants, vagrants and thieves, and others who 

 for their bad conduct find there a refuge. As it has pleased your Honors in con- 

 formity to the instructions and letters of the Lords majors, and in preservation of 

 the convention made at Hartford, to keep it inviolated, to send thither a body of 

 armed men to secure said Wheeler and his associates, who, as appears from their 

 own declaration of the 11th of March liad met there tlce Director General tliere 

 present on the spot with an armed force, and declined to move from thence, say- 

 ing that it was their land, on which said Englishmen were disarmed and twenty- 

 three of them conducted as prisoners to the ship " Weigh-scales" leaving a few 

 to protect their wives, children and property. All of which the Attorney General 

 demands that your Honors would send one or two of the oldest to Vreedlandt to 

 inform the remainder of the English that they must leave that spot, taking with 

 them all that they brought thither, under the penalty that if they acted otherwise, 

 that then other measures shall be adopted accordingto law ; and further that the 

 aforesaid Lieutenant Wheeler and his associates shall not be set at liberty before 

 they have paid all the expenses which your Honors have been compelled to, 

 through their conduct and disobedience, in that expedition in going thither with 

 an armed force in boats. Besides this they shall sign an act, and promise under 

 oath, that they never more will inhabit any of the lands of our Lords and princi- 

 pals situated in Vreedlandt, now lately by them called Westchester, or any other 

 lands within the limits finally concluded at Hartford ; neither settle, or build, or 

 plant, or sow, or mow there, without a special order and consent of your Honors 

 — under the penalty, that if they acted contrary to it, of corporal punishment as 

 the case might require, &c."& 



The Council sustained this demand of the Attorney General (as plain- 

 tiff ). the same day. 



Upon the 16th of March, 1656, Lieut. Thomas Wheeler and his Eng- 

 lish associate at Vreedlandt, voluntarily submitted themselves to the 

 government of the New Netherlands. Their names were as follows : — 



TnoMAS N. Newman, Thomas Wheeler, 



robbbt bassett, isaac iiolbert, 



John Gloes, Robert Roes, 



Sherrood Damis, James Bill, 



William H. Fenfall, John S. Gexxee, 



Richard C. Meares, Richard Osbort, 



Samuel Harelt. William Ward. 



The following prisoners were released on the 25th of March, 1656 : — ■ 

 Captain R. Ponton, William Elet Black, merchant; John Gray and 



a s .- negotiations between New England aud Peter Si uyvesant concerning limits.— Haz- 

 ard - * HlSt Coll. vol. ii, 156, 173, 549. 

 b Alb. Rec. vol. ii. 301. 



