[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The treaty of peace concluded between Director-General Kieft and the Indians represented by their chiefs on August 30, 1645, led to the re-establishment of a good understanding with the natives in what is now Westchester County, and was followed by renewed intercourse in trade and the purchase of several tracts of Indian lands. Two years after the treaty Governor Kieft was succeeded in office by the cele-brated Peter Stuyvesant. In July, 1649, two years later still, we find Director-General Stuyvesant acting in behalf of the Dutch West India Company, pur-chasing of the Indians a large "parcel of land, and all their oystering, fishing, etc.," "lying on the North River of New Netherland, on the east shore, called Wixquaeskeek." This purchase constituted a part at least of the present township of Greenburgh. The property was seized, however, in 1665, when the rule of the Dutch was superseded by that of the English, and New Netherland passed over to the control of his Royal Highness, James, Duke of York. Thenceforward it continued under English domination, until that, in turn, was swept away by the Revolution in 1776. There frefliiently were conflicting claims to title and jurisdiction, arising partly from the ignorant or careless way in which grants and patents were given by the governments across the ocean, and partly from the fact that the same territory seems to have been sold by the Indians at different times to two or three different purchasers.