Several of the New England colonies responded quite eagerly to the appeal of Cromwell.  New Haven pledged herself to the most zealous efforts Connecticut promised two hundred men, and even five hundred rather than that the enterprise should fail.  Plymouth ordered fifty men into the service, entrusting the command to Captain Miles Standish and Captain Thomas Willett.  It is worthy of notice that the Plymouth people made an apology for this action, saying:  “We concur in hostile measures against our ancient Dutch neighbors only in reference unto the national quarrel.”

Massachusetts gave a reluctant consent that five hundred volunteers against the Dutch should be raised within their jurisdiction.

Just as the fleet was about to sail from Boston, on this expedition, the result of which could not be doubtful, a ship entered the port with the announcement that peace had been concluded between England Holland.  This of course put a stop to any farther hostile action.  The welcome news was soon conveyed to Governor Stuyvesant.  He was quite overjoyed in its reception.  The glad tidings were published from the City Hall, with ringing of bell and all other public demonstrations of satisfaction.

The 12th of August was appointed as a day of general thanksgiving to God for his great goodness.  In his proclamation, the Governor devoutly exclaimed: 

“Praise the Lord, O England’s Jerusalem and Netherland’s zion, praise ye the Lord!  He hath secured your gates and blessed your possessions with peace, even here where the threatened torch of war was lighted, where the waves reached our lips and subsided only through the power of the Almighty.”

From this moral conflict, which came so near being a physical one, Stuyvesant emerged very victorious.  The Company had ever been disposed to sympathize with him in his measures.  The delegate Le Bleuw, who had carried charges against him to Holland, was almost rudely repulsed, and was forbidden to return to New Netherland.  The Directors of the Company wrote to the Governor: 

“We are unable to discover in the whole remonstrance one single point to justify complaint.  You ought to have acted with more vigor against the ringleaders of the gang, and not to have condescended to answer protests with protests.  It is therefore our express command that you punish what has occurred as it deserves, so that others may be deterred in future, from following such examples.”

To the citizens they wrote,

“We enjoin it upon you that you conduct yourselves quietly and peaceably, submit yourselves to the government placed over you, and in no wise allow yourselves to hold particular convention with the English or others, in matters of form or deliberation on affairs of state, which do not appertain to you, or attempt any alteration in the state and its government.”

A ferry was established to convey passengers from one side of the river to the other.  The licensed ferryman was bound to keep suitable boats and also a lodge on each side of the river to protect passengers from the weather.  The toll established by law, was for a wagon and two horses one dollar; for a wagon and one horse eighty cents; a savage, male or female, thirty cents; each other person fifteen cents.