It was subsequently confirmed in council. ^ Thomas Pell stated before a court of assize, held in 1665, that he had obtained license to make the purchase, from the authorities of Connecticut, and that he had paid large sums of money for the same.^J In 1654 it was resolved, at a meeting of the director general and council of the New Netherlands, "that whereas a few English are beginning a settlement at a great distance from our outposts on lands long before bought and paid for, near Vreedlan^ to send there, interdict, and the attorney general, Cornelius van Tienhoven, and forbid them to proceed no farther, but to abandon that spot. Done at Fort Amstel on the 5lh of November, 1654 in New Netherlands,"c *' On lands purchased from the Indians by the Hon. Thomas Pell of Fairfield, Connecticut." Notwithstanding this and further protestations made by the Dutch authorities, Thomas Pell continued the settlement of his lands until the surrender of the Dutch in 1664. The two principal Sachems of Pelham, Ann-hoock (Wampage) and Himham or Nimham,^ lived to advanced ages. In 1675 the Indians must have been residing on the neck in considerable numbers, for at a general court of assize Iield the same year, it was resolved. " that the Indyans at Mr. Pell's or Anne Hook's neck, be ordered to remove to their usual iviuter quarters , within Hellgate, upon this island ; and further that all canoes belonging to Christians or Indyans on the north side of Long Island to the east of Hellgate shall be (within three days from the publication of this order,) brought to the next townes and delivered to the constables to be secured near the block-house. Any canoes found upon the sound after that time to be destroyed." This order is said to have been made to prevent the Indians of Long Island joining King Philip against New England. <=