New York Historical Society, ad It will be observed that series, I, 270. neither the Ffeckquaesgeeks or Manhattans are mentioned in the treaty, a fact which indicates the local character of both titles,

lections

Doc. Hist., iv, i z.

The Dutch were

surprised at the attack by the affingers, and protested that they had never had any

trouble

with them.

mistaken, nearly all tribe.

In

this

they were

the testimony shows that their troubles were with that as

'

THE INDIAN TRIBES

" Nine Christians, including two attacking the fourth boat. women," were killed in these captured boats, one woman and two children remaining prisoners. " The other Indians," con " so soon as their maize was tinues the followed narrative,

ripe,

example, and through semblance of selling beavers, killed an old man and woman, leaving another man with five wounds , this

who, however, fled in a boat with a little child on his arm, who, in the first outbreak had lost father and mother, and

now grand

father and

grandmother, being thus twice rescued from the hands of the Indians, first when he was two years old." Nor

Under the pretense of warning from approaching Indians the visited dwellings and killed the inmates, danger, The few and applied the brand to factories and outbuildings. was this all.

families who had settled in the Esopus country abandoned their farms in alarm, and universal fear pervaded the province.

Kieft now called his people together again, and a committee

of "eight