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 Nassau.

After a "solemn conference" these chiefs ceded to the West India Company all the lands on both sides of the river to a point called by them Neuwsings, near the mouth of the bay.
The Swedes were left in possession only of a small territory surrounding their fort, called Christina.

As Stuyvesant thought fort Nassau too far up the river and inconvenient of access, he demolished it.

In its seclusion in the wilderness it had stood for twenty-eight years.