THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 283 



Loving Friexds :— "Whereas, wee by the bearers, your present magistrates 

 were informed, which in pait your letters (subscribed by one Richard Mills) doe 

 confirm, that the nomination for new magistrates at due time by them, were pro- 

 pounded at a town meeting, but hitherto differed through some unacceptable 

 orders of Hart ford's Assembly, this, therefore, are to require and to order you 

 and every one that are inhabitants of your towne, that I shall not attend any of 

 their orders, nor that you shall not send any deputies thither; but that you shall, 

 according to oath and duty upon sight of this presents, make nomination of mag- 

 istrates for this present year, and present them upon Monday sennit before us, 

 and if any should be unwillfully so to doe, we have ordered the bearers, that the 

 names of such disobedient and troublesome persons shall be sent unto us, that we 

 may act, and proceed against them according to law and judgment j so, after my 

 love, I shall rest, your loving friend and Governor, 



Done in Fort Amsterdam, P. STUYVESANT, 



N. N-, 12 May, 1G63. 



On the 14th day of May, 1663, the General Assembly of Connecti- 

 cut, choose " Mr. Willys, Mr. Gould, Capt. Tallcote and Capt. Young, as 

 a committee to consider and give up their thoughts and apprehensions 

 concerning the settlement of Westchester and Stamford, and to make 

 return to the court."* 



The same court also ordered, " that the letter drawne up by the com- 

 mittee to the ManhadoeS) be drawn out fair and sent to the Lord 

 Stephenson, &c, as also the letter to Westchester."^ 



For the purpose of answering these pretensions and claims on West- 

 chester, Governor Stuyvesant repaired in person to Boston, and entered 

 his complaints. In his interview with the commissioners (of the New 

 England colonies) on the 21st of September, 1663, he stated, "that he 

 wished a friendly and neighborly settlement of differences concerning 

 Eastdorpe, by the English called Westchester, and all other disputes, that 

 the parties may live in peace in the wilderness where many barbarous 

 Indians dwell." He requested of the commissioners a categorical an- 

 swer, whether the treaty of Hartford made in 1650, remained "firm and 

 binding;" and whether the patent of Hartford, newly obtained, should ex- 

 tend westward. In conclusion, he expressed his willingness to abide by 

 the treaty of Hartford." c 



Governor Stuyvesant was unsuccessful in his negotiations with the 

 commissioners, for he " found their demands in no way answerable to 

 the rights of his superiors." 1 * 



While these negotiations were pending, Richard Mills (the leading 



a Hartford Rec. Bound. Letters, vol. ii. 183. 

 I Hartford Rec. Bound Letters, vol. ii. 

 c Dunlap's nist. N. Y. vol. i. 113, 

 d Dunlap'9 Hist. N. Y vol. i. 113. 



