CHAPTER IV.
THE ADMINISTRATION OF VAN TWILLER.
Friendly Relations Restored .-- Wouter Van Twiller New Director .-- Captain Elkins .-- Remonstrance of De Vrees .-- Claims for the Connecticut .-- The Plymouth Expedition .-- A Boat's Crew Murdered .-- Condition of the Colony in 1633 .-- Emigration to the Connecticut .-- Emigrants from Holland .-- The Red Rocks .-- New Haven Colony Established .-- Natural .-- Indian Remonstrance Against Taxation .-- Outrage upon the Raritan Indians .-- Indian Revenge.
De Vrees very wisely decided that it would be but a barren vengeance to endeavor to retaliate upon the roaming savages, when probably more suffering would be inflicted upon the innocent than upon the guilty.
He therefore, to their astonishment and great joy, entered into a formal treaty of peace and alliance with them.

Any attempt to bring the offenders to justice would of course have been unavailing, as they could easily scatter, far and wide, through the trackless wilderness.
Arrangements were made for re-opening trade, and the Indians with alacrity departed to hunt beaver.
A new Director was appointed at Manhattan, Wouter Van Twiller.

He was an inexperienced young man, and owed his appointment to the powerful patronage he enjoyed from having married the niece of the patroon Van Rensselaer.

Thus a "raw Amsterdam clerk," embarked in a ship of twenty guns, with a military force of one hundred and four soldiers, to assume the government of New Netherland.

The main object of this mercantile governor seemed to be to secure trade with the natives and to send home furs.
De Vrees, having concluded his peace with the Indians, sailed up the South river, as they then called the Delaware, through the floating ice, to a trading post, which had been established some time before at a point about four miles below the present site of Philadelphia.