Two messengers had been previously sent by the Massachusetts council, to interrogate three of the principal Narragansett chiefs, respecting the conduct of Governor Stuyvesant.

They reported at the meeting, that the Narragansett chiefs utterly denied that Governor Stuyvesant had ever approached them with any such proposition.

One of them, Ninigret, said: "It was winter when I visited the Dutch governor.

I stood the great part of a winter's day, knocking at his door.

He would neither open it nor suffer others to open it, to let me in.