The several attempts to plant forcibly on the Delaware were successfully repulsed by the two nations already in possession there; and in 1646, Kieft sent a protest to the New Haven magistrates against their settling on the Housatonic. To this they replied that they could not imagine what river the Dutch could mean, and unfairly offered to leave any dispute to the English Parliament as arbitrators; while at the New Haven court, “it was fully and satisfyeingly voted” that they would make good their titles “at the trading house, and leave the issue of things to God.”[570] Footnote 570: _New Haven Records_, vol. I, pp. 265 _f._ The Dutch spoke of the river as the Mauritius. In their reply, the New Haven people stated that they had built on the Paugusset “within our owne lymitts.” Contentions, new and old, dragged along, embittering relations, and filling a very large portion of the United Colonies' time and records. Finally, after Stuyvesant had been governor for three years, he went to Hartford to try to arrange an amicable settlement of all outstanding grievances between the colonies of the two nations. The negotiations were carried on in writing; and both then and in subsequent correspondence, it must be confessed that, in dignity and courtesy, the Dutch Governor shone by comparison with the English Commissioners. His tone throughout was statesmanlike and dignified, while that of the Puritans was frequently low, and, at times, insulting. It was finally decided that each side should appoint two deputies to negotiate a treaty, and Stuyvesant nominated, as his, two Englishmen, then resident in the Dutch colony.[571] As a result of their deliberations, a treaty was signed, in September, 1650, which should have set the disputed matters finally at rest.[572] Most of the smaller questions were passed over, while that of the Delaware was referred to Europe. The explanation of the Dutch Governor as to a ship seized at New Haven, some years earlier, was accepted as final,[573] and a definite boundary line agreed upon, which gave to the English all territory, except Fort Good Hope, lying eastward of Oyster Bay on Long Island and of a line beginning four miles west of Greenwich on the mainland, and running north, provided it came nowhere within ten miles of the Hudson. Greenwich, also, was to remain to the Dutch, who were otherwise not to build within six miles of the new boundary, which was to be referred to England and Holland for ratification. Holland subsequently accepted it,[574] but England never acted, as to have done so would have been to recognize Dutch claims as valid, which she persistently refused to do. Footnote 571: _Acts United Colonies_, vol. I, pp. 186 _f._ Footnote 572: _Ibid._, pp. 188 _ff._ Footnote 573: _New Haven Records_, vol. I, pp. 333, 508; _Acts United Colonies_, vol. I, pp. 112, 146. Footnote 574: _N. Y. Col. Docts._, vol. II, pp. 258 _f._