He sent a party of fourteen soldiers, armed with muskets, to the patroon's house, who entered the enclosure, fired a volley, and hauled down the flag of the patroon.

He then issued a decree that Beaverswyck, which included the region now occupied by the city of Albany, was independent of the patroon's government, and was brought under the jurisdiction of the colony of fort Amsterdam.
Van Slechtenhorst, the patroon's bold and efficient Commissary at Rensselaerswick, ordered the governor's placards, announcing this change, to be torn down, and a counter proclamation, affirming the claims of the patroon to be posted in its stead.

The governor arrested him, imprisoned him for a time in fort Orange, and then removed him to New Amsterdam, where he was held in close custody, until his successor, John Baptist Van Rensselaer, was formally appointed in his place.
At this time, 1652, there were no settlements, and but a few scattered farmhouses between the island of Manhattan and the Catskill mountains.
Thomas Chambers had a farm at what is now Troy.

With a few neighbors he moved down the river to "some exceedingly beautiful lands," and began the settlement of the present county of Ulster.
Stuyvesant returning to Manhattan, forbade any persons from buying lands of the Indians without his permission.

The large sales which had been made to prominent individuals were declared to be void, and the "pretended proprietors," were ordered to return the purchase money.
Should they however petition the governor, they might retain such tracts as he and his council should permit.
By grant of the governor several new settlements were commenced on Long Island, one at Newton, one at Flatbush.