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t Orange, and monopolize the fur-trade. Albany Records, VII. 3; IV. 32. The commercial corporation would not risk a war; the expense would impair its dividends. War, they declared, cannot in any event be for our advantage; the New England people are too powerful for us. No issue was left but by negotiation; Stuyvesant himself repaired as ambassador to Hartford, and was glad 1650 Sept. 11 to conclude a provisional treaty, which allowed New Netherland to extend on Long Island as far as Oyster Bay, on the main to the neighborhood of Greenwich. This intercolonial treaty was acceptable to the West India Company, but was never ratified in England; its conditional approbation by the States General is the only Dutch state-paper in which the government of the republic recognized the boundaries of the province on the Hudson. The West India Company could never obtain a national guaranty for the integrity of their possessions. Treaty, in Trumbull, i. 192. Hutchinson, i. 447. Hazard, I