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.