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The sachems of this town subsequently committed further depredations, and probably armed several of ihe sixty four war canoes that attacked and ravaged the country around Manhattan during the absence of Stuyvesant in 16o5.a

For on tlie Cth of March, 1660, we find Ackhongh, the chief and counsellor of Weecqjiaesqueeck,i\ppei\nng in the city of New Amsterdam, before the Director General and Council, to treat for peace. b

On the lOih 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 fieaded by five warlike chiefs, viz.. Pennyraweck. kSewekenamo, Wapperonk, Caelcop, and Mekarowe, who threatened not only the extinction of the Dutch villages, bat also their allies, the Weeck--'- quaesqneecks. 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 th:)t 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 HarUiem and other places, and those of the New Village: he told them he, with his people, took therefore their flight near Harlaem. He notified them of it, and why they came, so that those of New Harlaem should not be intimidated.