ithout exception.

The vice-director was punished for his protest, by expulsion from the
council and by imprisonment in the guard-room for four days. Upon his
liberation he took refuge with the Patroon on Staten Island. The
notary, who had authenticated the protest, was dismissed from office
and forbidden any farther to practice his profession. In every
possible way, Stuyvesant manifested his displeasure against his own
countrymen of the popular party, while the English were treated with
the utmost consideration.

In the treaty of Hartford no reference was made to the interests of
the Dutch on the south, or Delaware river. The New Haven people
equipped a vessel and dispatched fifty emigrants to establish a colony
upon some lands there, which they claimed to have purchased of the
Indians. The governor regarded this as a breach of the treaty, for the
English territory terminated and the Dutch began at the bay of
Greenwich. The expedition put in at Manhattan. The energetic governor
instantly arrested the leaders and held them in close confinement till
they signed a promise not to proceed to the Delaware. The emigrants,
thus discomfited, returned to New Haven.

At the same time Governor Stuyvesant sent a very emphatic letter to
Governor Eaton of New Haven, in which he wrote: "I shall employ force
of arms and martial opposition, even to bloodshed, against all English
intruders within southern New Netherland."

In this movement of the English to get a foothold upon the Delaware
river, Stuyvesant thought he saw a covert purpose on their part, to
dispossess the Dutch of all their possessions in America. Thinking it
not improbable that it might be necessary to appeal to arms, he
demanded of the authorities of Rensselaerswyck a subsidy. The
patroons, who had been at great expense in colonizing the territory,
deemed the demand unjust, and sent a commissioner to remonstrate
against it. Stuyvesant arrested the commissioner and held him in close
confinement for four months.

The Swedes were also making vigorous efforts to get possession of the
beautiful lands on the Delaware. Stuyvesant, with a large suite of
officers, visited that region. In very decided terns he communicated
to Printz the Swedish governor there, that the Dutch claimed the
territory upon the three-fold title of discovery, settlement and
purchase from the natives. He then summoned all the Indian chiefs on
the banks of the river, in a grand council at fort Nassa