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Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam

CHAPTER VII
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Time will instruct us of the design of the new-built fort Casimir.

We are at a loss to conjecture for what reason it has received this name.

You ought to be on your guard that it be well secured, so that it cannot be surprised." The States-General were more and more dissatisfied with the measures of Governor Stuyvesant.

The treaty of Hartford was severely censured.
They said that the Connecticut river should have been the eastern boundary of New Netherland, and that the whole of Long Island should have been retained.

Even the West India Company became convinced that it was necessary to make some concessions to the commonalty at Manhattan.


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