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manners which quite upset the placid Dutch of
New Amsterdam. Inevitable boundary disputes
followed, which reached no adjustment until, in
1650, Stuyvesant went to Hartford to engage in
a conference with commissioners of the United
Colonies of New England.

The Director began as usual with bravado; but
presently he consented to leave the question of
boundaries to a board of four arbitrators. This
board decided that the boundary between the
Dutch and English possessions should run on Long
Island from Oyster Bay south to the Atlantic, and
that on the mainland it should run north from
Greenwich Bay, but never approach within ten
miles of the Hudson River. The Dutch in New
Netherland were amazed and disgusted at the de-
cision; but though Stuyvesant is said to have
exclaimed in dramatic fashion that he had been
betrayed, he found it hopeless to struggle against
the superior force arrayed against him.