[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] curtail the liberties of his subjects across the sea, and to repress the spirit of independence for which they were already becoming noted. Connecticut, however, by the skillful management of its agent, the celebrated John Winthrop, had obtained a royal charter confer-ring most valuable privileges: constituting that colony, in fact, a self-governing State, and reaffirm-ing its claims to a wide extent of territory. The General Court at Hartford hastened to apprise the towns, and require their submission to the new order of things. Notice even was sent, to Governor Stuy-vesant's great displeasure, as far as Oostdorp, or W est-chester village, in New Netherland, where Connecti-cut men had settled some years before under grants from the Dutch. The Hartford government informed them that by the terms of the new charter they were included in the colony limits, and enjoined 648 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.