You ought to have acted with more vigor against the ringleaders of the gang, and not to have condescended to answer protests with protests.

It is therefore our express command that you punish what has occurred as it deserves, so that others may be deterred in future, from following such examples." To the citizens they wrote, "We enjoin it upon you that you conduct yourselves quietly and peaceably, submit yourselves to the government placed over you, and in no wise allow yourselves to hold particular convention with the English or others, in matters of form or deliberation on affairs of state, which do not appertain to you, or attempt any alteration in the state and its government." A ferry was established to convey passengers from one side of the river to the other.

The licensed ferryman was bound to keep suitable boats and also a lodge on each side of the river to protect passengers from the weather.

The toll established by law, was for a wagon and two horses one dollar; for a wagon and one horse eighty cents; a savage, male or female, thirty cents; each other person fifteen cents.
When Stuyvesant was preparing to defend New Netherland from the English, he encountered another great annoyance.

It will be remembered that the Swedish government claimed the territory on the South, or Delaware river, upon which the Dutch governor had erected Fort Casimir.