an court of the general assembly, held at Hartford, October 9, 1662, dehereby doth y assembl -this that effect the to issued order was clare and inform the inhabitants of Westchester that the plantation is included in ye bounds of our charter, granted to this colony oi The Westchester people were accordingly notified to Connecticut." d send deputies to the next assembly, appointed to meet at Hartfor "take to ngs, proceedi legal in Mav, 1663; and also, in matters of of Stamford and Greenwich, the benefit," in common with the towns attaching much imporReadily Fairfield. at hed of a court establis tance to the will of Connecticut thus expressed, they abstained from their usual custom of nominating magistrates for the next year to The latter, after some delay, sent to make Governor Stuyvesant. for this omission; whereat Richard Mills, reason the to as s inquirie ed to him a meek communication, address officers, local one of the and saying: "We Connecticut from inclosing the notifications this humbly beseech you to understand that wee, the inhabitants of This Honor." your against d place, have not plotted nor conspire to be arrested and indid not satisfy Stuyvesant, who caused Millsplace of confinement the From his carcerated inNew Amsterdam. and contrite doleful several wrote ate magistr unhappy Westchester " Right lion. Gov. Lord Peter Stevletters to the wrathful director. enson," said he in one of these missives, - thy dejected prisoner, raRichard Mills, do humbly supplicate for your favor and commise , presence honor's your unto me of ng tion towards me, in admitti there to indicate my free and ready mind to satisfy your honor wherein I am able, for any indignity done unto your lordship m more any way, and if possible to release me or confine me to some from I have been tenderly bred wholesome place than where I am.