On the 14th day of May, 1663, the general assembly of Connecticut, choose " Mr. Willys, Mr. Gould, Capt. Sallcote and Capt. Young, as a committee to consider and give up their thoutrhts and apprehensions concerning the settlernent of Westchester and Stamford, and to make return to the court.''^

The same court also ordered, that " the letter drav/ne up by the committee to the Manhadoes, be drawn out ftiir and sent to the Lord Stephenson, &c., as also the letter to Westchester."*^

^ Alb. Rec. vol. xxl. 93-4.

!> Hartford Rec. Bound. Letters, vol. ii. 183.

« Hartford Roc. Bound Letters, vol. ii.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 167

For the purpose of answering these pretensions and claims on Westchester, Governor Stnyvesant repaired in person to Boston, and entered his complaints. In his interview with the commissioners (of the New England colonies) on the 21sl of Sept. 1663, he stated, " tliat he wished a friendly and neighborly settlement of differences concerning Eastdorpe hy the Enq-lisJi called Westchester^ and all other disputes, that the parlies may live in peace in the wilderness where many barbarous Indians dwell." He requested of the commissioners a categorical answer, whether the treaty of Hartford made in 1650, remained ^'•firm and bind- «n^," and whether the patent of Hartford, newly obtained, should extend westward. In conclusion, he expressed his willingness to abide by the treaty of Hartford."''-

Governor Stuyvesant was unsuccessful in liis negotiations with the commissioners, for he " found their demands in no wayanswerable to the rights of his superiors.''^