£02 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



the bearer, Resolve Waldron our substitute sheriff, (schout) for to inquire after 

 the grounds and reasons thereof, which you arc to give unto him iu writing, and 

 send either of }-our present Magistrates to give us more fully information. So 

 after our love, I shall rest. Your loving friend and Governor, inscribed, 

 Done in Fort Amsterdam, 



N. Nbtiiekland, 9 May, 1663. P. STUrVESANT.a 



The same day Sheriff Waldron conducted the two Magistrates,William 

 Betts and Edward Waters, to Governor Stuyvesant, " who were asked, 

 why they neglected to present to the Director General and Council in 

 conformity to custom and orders, a new nomination of magistrates? 

 Their answer was, that they in due time, when the nomination ought to 

 have been made, called the inhabitants together, and requested them to 

 nominate new magistrates for the ensuing year, who declined to do so at 

 two different times, because they had been summoned by those of Hart- 

 ford in Connecticut colony, as clearly appears by the following English 

 documents 6 conveyed to them for this purpose, by the aforesaid colony, 

 with the declaration of the aforesaid village, in the form of a letter to 

 the Director General. Being further questioned why they did not com- 

 municate the aforesaid orders and letters of Connecticut colony, so as 

 they ought to have done, and as other English villages actually did at 

 the past instance, now more than half a year past, and now above it, 

 had actually, de novo, appointed two of their village to go and assist in 

 the aforesaid order, on the stated day, at Hartford. They answer in the 

 first, that they as magistrates, solicited an order to present to us the nom- 

 ination, but that they could not obtain it while it was refused by us ; 

 Mr. Richard Mills who had it in his possession, or by an order of the 

 people of that village, or in his own authority unknown to them. At last, 

 they acknowledged and declared, that they through ignorance to main- 

 tain the peace and tranquility in said village, had committed a fault, and 

 solicited with submission and prayed to be excused for the present time. 

 The Director General and Council having heard the submission and con- 

 fession of guilt of the aforesaid persons, together with the promises made 

 by them, to dispose if possible, the inhabitants to make a new nomina- 

 tion of magistrates, and due obedience, resolved to let them return for 

 the present time ; and the following letter to the inhabitants was de- 

 livered to them. 



Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 12th of May, 1663.' 

 The letter delivered to the magistrates by Governor Stuyvesant : 



a Alb. Rec. vol. xxl SO. 

 t> See preceding documents, 

 c Alb. Rec. vol. xxL 93-4. 



