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. The claims of Conmy cradle, and now antient and weakly," etc. necticut to Westchester being persisted in, Stuyvesant made a journey to Boston in the fall of 1663 to seek a permanent understanding But no with the New England officials about the delicate subject. d in remaine affair ster Westche the and at, arrived was on conclusi before force English of statu quo until forcibly settled by the triumph New Amsterdam in the month of September, 1664. The Dutch-English controversy regarding the Westchester tract was one of the incidental phases of the general boundary dispute, which Stuyvesant, from the very beginning of his arrival in New a deciNetherland as director-general, had iu vain sought to bring to sion In 1650, as the result of overtures made by him for an amicable with adjustment of differences, he held a conference at Hartfordand on ; Colonies English United the by d appointe oners commissi the 19th of September articles of agreement were signed by both