THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 28 1 



Another letter from Hartford, entitled an order of the General As- 

 sembly at Hartford about Oost dorp : 



" This assembly cloth hereby declare and inform the inhabitants of Westchester 

 that that plantation is included within the bounds of the charter granted to the 

 y of Connecticut ; and as it hath pleased his majesty, our gracious sovereign 

 lord, Charles II., thus to dispose of them, we cannot but declare, that we con- 

 ceive it most conducible to their tranquility and future peace, that they do de- 

 mean themselves in all things as may declare and manifest their readiness to 

 subject to his royal will and pleasure herein. 



The next Assembly is appointed and ordered to be held at Hartford on the 

 second Thursday in May next. 



Copia scriptum per me, 



RICHARD MILLS. 



Extracted from the records of the Colony Court at Connecticut, 

 and certified with the seal of the said court per Daxiel Clark, Secretary. 



The signal of the seal above is come 

 to the inhabitants of Westchester, abso- 

 lute made in red wax, the motto I sup- 

 pose to be the arborated craggy wilder- 

 ness and the flying cloudes. 



Richard Mills. 



In this dilemma, we find the inhabitants of Westchester addressing 

 Governor Stuyvesant in a letter which they sent by their two magis- 

 trates, William Betts and Edward Waters. 



Westchester, the 30th of April, 1663. 

 Hox. Lord Stevenson : —We humbly beseech you to understand, that wee the 

 inhabitants of this place, have not plotted nor conspired against your Honour. 

 The original of the writing here enclosed, were not in any measure sought for 

 by us, but were by the said court sent unto us when we expected them not. How 

 to resist them we know not, they being as you see, in his majesties name of Eng- 

 land. This was a reason why we choose not magistrates at present as formerly, 

 and that wee hope that your honour will be herewith satisfied. 

 Your honour's loving friend, 



Richard Mills. 

 In the name, and by the appointment, of the 

 inhabitants of Westchester." 



Governor Stuyvesant having ascertained, that the inhabitants of West- 

 chester were about to send two delegates to Hartford, despatched 

 Sheriff Waldron with this letter : 



Loving Friends: — We were much wondered, that you according to order and 

 your duty, have not presented unto us your nomination of your new magistrates 

 for this present year, being now four months past that this thing should be done; 

 the reason wherefore being unknown to us, we have purposely sent and ordered 



