[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] But while willing to accommodate separate immigrants from New England with homes, the Dutch had always regarded the presence of the English on the banks of the Connecticut River, and their steady advance westward in an organized way, with apprehension and resentment. To secure the Dutch title to original and exclusive sovereignty over the whole country, Kieft made land purchases from the Indians, in 1039 and 1010, extending as far east as the Norwalk archipelago, purchases which, however, were matched by similar early deeds granted by the natives to the English to much of territory in the eastern part of Westchester County. After the close of the Dutch and Indian wars, the territorial dispute steadily grew in importance, although it was a number of years before the Dutch found any special cause for complaint on the score of actual English encroachment. Ou July 11, 1019, Director Stuyvesant, representing the West India Company, confirmed the former Indian deeds of sale by pur-chasing from the sachems Megtegichkama, Oteyochgue, and Wegta-SETTLEMENT OF WESTCHESTER TOWN 115 kockken the whole country " betwixt the North and East Rivers." The boundaries of this tract, which in the record of the transaction is called Weckquaesgeek, are not very distinctly defined; but the in-tent of the purchase was evidently incidental to the general Dutch policy of showing a perfect title to the country.