The news had now reached the Directors of the Company in Holland, of the governor's very energetic measures on the Delaware, supplanting the Swiss, demolishing fort Nassau and erecting fort Casimir.

They became alarmed lest such violent measures might embroil them with the Swedish government.

In a letter addressed to Stuyvesant, they wrote: "Your journey to the South river, and what has passed there between you and the Swedes, was very unexpected to us, as you did not give us before so much as a hint of your intention.

We cannot give our opinion upon it until we have heard the complaints of the Swedish governor to his queen, and have ascertained how these have been received at her court.

We hope that our arguments, to prove that we were the first possessors of that country, will be acknowledged as sufficient.