In this letter, which bears the impress of frankness and honesty, he says, "What your worships lay unto our charge are false reports and feigned informations.

Your honored messengers might, if they had pleased, have informed themselves of the truth of this, and might also have obtained more friendly satisfaction and security, concerning our real intentions, if they had pleased to stay a day or two with us, to have heard and considered further of these articles." On their way home, the New England agents stopped at Flushing, Stamford and New Haven, to collect all the evidence they could against Governor Stuyvesant.

The hearsay stories of the Indians they carefully picked up.

Still the only point ascertained, of any moment was, that Governor Stuyvesant had told an Englishman, one Robert Coe, that if the English attacked him, he should try to get the Indians to come to his aid; and that he had said the same to William Alford.
This was all the evidence the agents could find against the governor.
He had made these declarations without any purpose of concealment.

He had been instructed to pursue this course by the Amsterdam Directors.
The New England colonists had in their Pequod war, set the example of employing Indian allies.