"This assembly doth hereby declare and inform the inhabitants of West:, chaster that that plantation is included within the bounds of the charter granted to the colony of Connecticut, and as it late pleased his majesty, our gracious sovereign lord, Charles H., thus to dispose of them, we cannot but declare, that we conceive it most conducible to their tranquility and future peace, that they do demean themselves in all things as may declare and manifest their readiness to subject to his royal will and pleasure herein.

The next assembly is appointed and ordered to be held at Hartford on the second Thursday in May next.

Copia scriptum per me,

Richard Mills.

Alb. Rec. vol. x.xi- 99.

164 HISTORY OF THE

;- • ••* Extracted from the records of the

. ' .' ^ colony court at Connecticut, and certified with the seal of the said court per Daniel Clark, Secretary. The signal of the seal above is come to the inhabitants of Westchester, absolute made in red wax, the motto I suppose to be the arborated craggy wilderness and the flying cloudr s.

Richard Mills, " - •

In this dilemma, we find the inhabitants of Westchester addressing Governor Stuyvesant in a letter which they sent by their two magistrates, William Betts and Edward Waters.

Westchester, the 30lh of April, 1663. Hon. Lord Stevenson, We humbly beseech you to understand, that wee the inhabitants of this place, have not plotted nor conspired against your Honour. The original of the writing here enclosed, were not in any measure, sought for by us, but were by the said court sent unto us when we expected them not. How to resist ihera we know not, they being as you see, in his majesties name of England. This was a reason why we choose not magistrates at present as formerly, and that wee hope that your honour will be herewith satisfied.