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This was one cause that determined the English on the conquest of NewAmsterdam.
NewYork now became a royal colony, and the new king, who at heart despised popular government, refused to sign the Charter of Liberties, abolished the NewYork assembly, and sent Andros to govern the colony as consolidated with New England and New Jersey.
News of the accession of William and Mary and of the imprisonment of Andros at Boston created a great excitement in NewYork; and the militia, led by Jacob Leisler, a German merchant, took possession of the government.
The government of the new colony was carried on by Governor, or "Director General," Minuit and a council of five appointed by the company in Holland.
They blamed Kieft for the pitiful condition of the colony, begged that a new governor be sent them and that the people be given some voice in the government, or that they be permitted to return with their wives and children to their dear fatherland.
After two or three years' dispute with the people of New England, he agreed with them to fix the western boundary of Connecticut about where it now is, and the Dutch from this time ceased to disturb the peace of the Connecticut Valley.
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