Again, in 1654, "the States-General, feeling that the encroaching disposition and superior numbers of the English rendered their North American possessions insecure, instructed their ambassadors at London to negotiate a boundary line. But this effort, like those which had preceded it, proved unsuccessful, and throughout the protectorate' England declared the Dutch to be intruders. During the next four years* a good understanding was maintained between the Dutch and their New England neighbors, -- the Dutch, as the weaker party, being very careful not to give offense.

The situation was substantially unchanged, when, in April 1662, John Winthrop obtained from King Charles II. a charter for the colony of Connecticut," confirming the whole of the country granted by Charles I. to the Earl of Warwick, and conferring many powers not included in former chartere.'" Winthrop, the new Governor of Connecticut, now gave notice to Director Stuyvesant that he must not trouble any of His Majesty's subjects within the limits of the new patent; Westchester (Orsdorp) wiis advised that it was included within the colony of Connecticut, and Stuyvesant, on the 15th of November, 1663," wrote to Hartford, consenting that West-

3 2 Bolton, 203. * 2 Itencrort, 295.

6 2 O'Callaghan, 202. « 2 O'Callaglian, 277.

: 2 O'Callaghan, 342. 8 2 O'Callaghan, 402.

3 3 New Haven Hist. Soc. Papars, 441 ; Truuibull, 259. >o 2 O'Callaghan, 455. " 2 O'Callaghan, 505.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Chester be annexed to Connecticut. Thus, one after another, the Dutch abandoned every point their enemies assailed; the Connecticut River had been given up, and now Westchester and shortly afterward Long Island were relinquished.