The English of Hartford and New Haven, only obtained their Charter of Connecticut from Charles II., on the 23d of April, 1662. Not till after they got this document, did they seriously claim that the Dutch had no title by patent from' the States- General. The claim was baseless, and only made as a cover for encroachment.

Ten days after the above Remonstrance was drawH up and, later, on the 10th of November, 1663, Director Stuyvesant, in a despatch referring to it, also fully and vigorously warns the Company in Holland, in these words ; --

" In regard to the unrighteous, stubborn, impudent, and pertinacious proceedings of the English at Hartford. I can only repeat what has for many years past, and especially these two last, been so frequently stated, set forth, and requested ; all which neither time, nor opportunity, permits us to relate and include herein. Your Honors will be able to see from the inclosures, what efforts have been made agreeably to your Honors letters, to conclude, in this country, a settlement of the Boundary with our neighbors. It was first attempted by the Director-General in person at the general meeting of the four Engli-ih Colonies at Boston ; and since on the advice of three of the Colonies,^ by our Commissioners, viz: Mr. Cornells van Ruyven, Secretary Oloff" Stevens Cortlandt, Burgomaster of this city, and John Laurens (Lawrence), burgher and merchant, made to the General Court, or Legislature, at Hartford.

" On reading over both journals, your Honors will not only percei,ve the impossibility of effecting anything here, unless all be given up to them, hardly excepting alone what the Dutch Nation justly possessed and settled on Manhatans Island and oa the North River.