The directors in Holland thereupon obtained fnnn Charles I. an order in Council, by which all the ports in the kingdoms and territories of the British King were thrown open to all Dutch vessels trading to or from New Netherland.*

Until the year 1629 the Dutch had done nothing to advance a settlement ; a few servants of the company, connected with the trading posts, were the only Dutch iidiabitants of New Netherland ; and not a foot of soil had been reclaimed save the little that sujjplied the wants of the few persons attached to the three fi)rts. During this year, however, a charter with si)ecial privileges was granted to all such members of the comi)any as should settle any colony in New Netherland, and settlements were made on the Hudson River and at Cape Hcnlopen.*

During the years 1628, 1629 and 1630 thousands of English Puritans settled in ^lassachusetts. On March

2 1 Bancroft, IT. S., 272 ; 1 Trumbun, .546 ; 1 Hazard, 103-108.

3 1 0'Ca1Iag)ian'B "New Netherland," 95. * 1 O'Callaglian, 109.

s 1 O'Callagliaii, 110.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

19, 1631, Robert, Earl of Warwick, president of the Council of the Plymouth Company, granted unto Lord Say and Seal and sixteen others, and to their heirs and assigns and associates forever, " All that part of New England which lies west from Narragansett River a hundred and twenty miles on the sea coast and from thence in latitude and breadth aforesaid to the South Sea." This grant extends from Point Judith to New York, and from thence in a west line to the South Sea (Pacific Ocean) ; and if we take Narragansett River in its whole length, this tract will extend a.s far north as Worcester.'