In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant, on behalf of the colony of New Netherland, had a conference with the authorities of Connecticut at Hartford, which resulted in a provisional treaty on the boundary that the line should "begin at the west side of Greenwich Bay, being about four miles from Stamford, and so run a northerly line twenty miles up into the country, until it shall be notified by the two governments ol the Dutch and of England, provided the said line come not within ten miles of the Hudson River." This agreement was never sanctioned by the home governments, and thirteen years later, on the 13th oi October, 1663, a second conference was held at which Connecticut proposed " that West Chester and all ye people and lands Between that & Stamford shall belong to their colony of Connecticut till it be otherwise issued," which ])roi)osition was refused by the agents of Governor Stuyvesant, who proposed that " West Chester, with the land and people to Stamford, shall Abide under the government of Connecticut tell the tyme that the bounds and limits betwixt the Abovesaid coUonij and the province of New Netherlands shall be determined heare [by our mutual Accord or by persons mutually chosen, margiTi] or by his Royal Majesty of England and other high and mighty lords of the estates of the united provinces." '

War breaking out between England and Holland, this agreement or treaty was never ratified by the home governments.

King Charles II., on the 23d of April, 1662, granted to the colony of Connecticut the following boundary :