Very soon difficulties arose between the West India Company and the Patroons in relation chiefly to the trade in furs and the claims of the Patroons to embark in the same under the articles of the charter of Freedoms and Exemptions. The latter were more inclined to push the trade in peltries than the agricultural settlement of their lands, for the reason that the former was highly profitable, whereas the latter required a constant outgo of money with a prospect (»f only distant and much smaller returns. Clashingsas to civil powers and duties also occurred between them. But notwithstanding, population and agriculture slowly increased. Other Patroonships were taken up, and some lands were settled by individuals. The West India Company, although several other Directors in the Assembly of the XIX. had been taken in as partners by the three Patroons above named in their ventures, but without participation in their personal privileges and dignities, thought that the Patroons were prospering too much at the expense of the interests of the Company itself, and sought to restrict them in their trading operations. The Patroons on their side claimed that the Company not only had no right to restrict them, but had not fulfilled its own obligations as laid down in the articles of the Freedoms and Exemptions.

These controversies led finally after much discussion, to a determination by both parties, concurred in by the States-General, to which both had appealed, that the charter of 1729 should be revised, changed in some important respects, and re-enacted in the form of an entirely new Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions.