The company made a petulant rejoinder, when circumstances put an end to the dispute.

War between Holland and England then raging was ended by the peace concluded at Breda in 1667, when the former relinquished to the latter its claims to New Netherland.

This brought to an end the controversy between Stuyvesant and the West India Company.
Stuyvesant went to England and obtained from King Charles permission for three Dutch vessels to have free commerce with New York for the space of seven years.

Then he sailed for America, with the determination of spending the remainder of his life in New York.

He was cordially welcomed by his old friends and kindly received by his political enemies, who had learned by experience that he was not a worse governor than the Duke had sent them.