[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] forced to au issue on Long Island by the stubborn attitude of the English towns there, they entered into an arrangement by which all controverted matters in that part of their diminishing realms were determined agreeably to the British interests. By this latter transaction the villages of Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, Hempstead, and Gravesend became English. The arrogant general disposition of the English in Connecticut in the closing period of the Dutch rule is described as follows by Stuyvesant iu a dispatch to the West India Company, dated November 10, 1G63: "They know no New Netherland, nor g< ivernment of New Netherland, except only the Dutch plantation on the Island of Manhattan. Tis evident and clear that were Westchester and the five English towns on Long Island surrendered by us to the Colony of Hartford, and what we have justly pos-sessed and settled on Long Island left to us, it would not satisfy them, because it would not be possible to