It is also agreed that the most westerly half, just as the Lord Director pleases, shall go with this for as many goods as in * * * * can be paid ; and they, the grantors, promise at all times to induce their rulers on the North River to talk the matter over, and not to sell to any without the knowledge of the Lord Director General ; the grantors promising this transport firmly, to maintain as in equity they are bound to do. Witness these presents, by them respectively signed in the Fort Amsterdam, in New Netherlands, this 14th day of July, A. D., 1649. "a

The mark of Ponupahan helbghelen.

The Mark of Wegtakochken.

The mark

The mark

a Alb. Rcc G. G. 222.

THE TOWN OF GREENBURGH.

The sachems of this town subsequently committed further depredations, and probably armed several of the sixty-four war canoes that attacked and ravaged the country around Manhattan during the absence of Stuyvesant in 1 655."

For on the 6th of March, 1 660, we find Ackhongh, the chief and counsellor of Weecquacsqueeck, appearing in the city of New Amsterdam, before the Director General and Council, to treat for peace.6

On the 10th of July, 1663, during the .negotiation between Connecticut and the Dutch, a furious war was raging in the neighborhood of Esopus. The insurgent tribes were headed by five warlike chiefs, viz. : Pennyraweck, Sewekenamo, Wapperonk, Caelcop and Mekarowe, who threatened not only the extinction of the Dutch villages, but also their allies, the Weeckquaesqueeck' s. In dread of the threatened invasion, we find the chiefs of this town repairing to New Amsterdam on the 26th of July, 1663. "Souwenaro, sachem of Weeckquaesqueeck, came of his own accord, with his brother and asserted that he was warned by a Wappinger Indian, that the Esopus Indians intended to come down, within five or six days, with forty or fifty men to kill them, with the Dutch of New Harlaem and other places, and those of the New Village; he told them he, with his people, took therefore their flight near Harlaem.