Michael Pauw purchased from the Indians the tract now included in Hoboken and Jersey City, and established there a colony to which he gave the name of Pavonia. i,

Brodbcad, i, 203.

Colonial History, in, 1465 0' Callaghan,

266 ; Brodbead,

tive is principally by

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We,

i,

349.

The Narra-

De Vries.

therefore,

hereby

authorize

his request, with to attack a party of sa-

Maryn Adriansen, at his

associates,

vages skulking behind Corlear's hook, or plantation, and act with them in every such manner as they shall deem proper

and the time and opportunity shall permit. Sergeant Rodolf is commanded and authorized to take under his command a troop of soldiers and lead them to Pavonia, and drive away and destroy the savages being behind Jan Evertsen's, but to spare, as much as possible, their wives and children, and to take the savages * The exploit to be exeprisoners.* cuted at night, with the greatest caution and prudence. Our God may bless the Done Feb. 24th, 1643." expedition. O'Callaghan, i, 267, 268.

OF HUDSON'S RWER.

The plan was executed on the night of the 25th of February. The Indians had gathered behind Pauw's settlement at Pavonia, unsuspicious of attack from those to whose shelter they had fled, and were sleeping in conscious security when the work of death

commenced. Loud shrieks first announced to DeVries, who was watching at Fort Amsterdam, that the slaughter had begun, but these shrieks were succeeded by the stolid indifference with which the red man always met his fate, and nothing was heard but the report of fire-arms. Neither age nor sex were spared. Warrior and squaw, sachem and chief, mother and babe, were alike massacred. DeVries describes the terrible tragedy in Children were taken from the arms of their pointed language. mothers and butchered in the presence of their parents, and