Whilst the King was disposing of the New Netherlands in this unlawful manner, we find Governor Stuyvesant thus complaining to Governor Winthrop and the General Assembly of Connecticut, "That John Coe, Jun., and Antliony Waters with eighty horse and foot have put down the old magistrates in some towns, and setting up others." He trusts the English will suppress such things, and prevent bloodshed. Dat. Amsterdam, N. N. Nov. 15, 1663.b

As early as 1641 it appears to have been the British policy as one means of counteracting the Dutch in America, " that the English put forward their plantations, and crowd on, crowding the Dutch out of those places where they have settled ;"•= this continued to be the principle upon which the former acted until the subjugation of ihe latter, which happened 5th Septem-

» Town and Lands, Hartford State Rec. Vol. i. No 36. b Col. Boundaries, Hart. Rec. fol. ii. letter vii. c Col Boundaries, Hart. Rec. ful. ii. letter i,

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ber, 1664, when the Province of the New Netherlands surrendered to Colonel Richard Nicolls, the Duke's governor.

The same year the commissioners appointed for settling the bounds of his Royal Highness the Duke of York's patent and the colony of Connecticut, did order and declare '• that the creek or river, called Mamaroneck, which is reputed to be about twelve miles to the east of Westchester, and a line drawn from ye east point or side, where the fresh waters fall into the salt at high water mark, north north-west to the line of Massachusetts, shall be the western bounds of ye said colony of Connecticut." ^^