Note 772 — Chapter XIII · THE REASSERTION OF IMPERIAL CONTROL

R. I. Records, vol. I, pp. 356, 389; New York Colonial Documents, vol. XIV, p. 459. In the same year, the directors of the Dutch West India Company wrote to Stuyvesant that he should treat the English frigate, “which lies at New Haven and has already threatened the communication between the Manhattans and New England,” as a pirate. Ibid., p. 458. Cf. Ibid., p. 453.