All which the attorney general demands that your Honors would send one or two of the oldest to Vreedlandt to inform the remainder of the English that they must leave that spot, taking with them all that they brought thither, under the penalty that if they acted otherwise, that then other measures shall be adopted according to law ; and further that the aforesaid Lieutenant Wheeler and his associates shall not be set at liberty before they have paid all the expenses which your Honors have been compelled to, through their conduct and disobedience, in that expedition in going thither with an armed force in boats. Besides this they shall sign an act and promise under oath that they never more will inhabit any of the lands of our Lords and principals situated in Vreedlandt, now lately by them called Westchester, or any other lands within the limits finally concluded at Hartford, nehher settle, or build, or plant, or sow, or mow there, without a special order and consent of your Honors, under the penalty if they acted contrary to it of corporal punishment, as the case might require, &c.^

The council sustained this demand of the attorney general (as plaintiff,) the same day.

Upon the 16th of March, 1656, Lieut. Thomas "Wheeler and his English associates at Vreedlandt, voluntarily submitted themselves to the government of the New Netherlands. Their names were as follows :

Thomas N. Newman, Thomas Wheeler,

Robert Basset, Isaac Holbert,

John Cloes, Robert Rocs,

Sherrood Damis, James Bill,