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

men "was appointed to consult with him

defense of the colony.

for the

Before any arrangement had been made,

however, the Weckquaesgeeks attacked the plantation of Ann Hutchinson, killed that extraordinary woman and her married daughter and son-in-law, and carried off captive her youngest

daughter.

Throgmorton's settlement

was next attacked and the build

Eighteen ings burned, the inhabitants escaping in their boats. victims, however, were added to the revenges of the Indians.

Pavonia was attacked and four bouweries burned under the very guns of

The

" two

ships of

history of Ann Hutchinson

pretty generally

known.

war and a privateer." is

With Roger

Williams, she was banished from Massachusetts, as "unfit for the society" of She followed Wilher fellow-citizens. liams to Rhode Island, but fearing the power of Massachusetts would reach her there, removed, in 1642, to Manhattan and settled on a point now known as

Pelham's neck. "The Indians set upon them and slew her and all her children, save one that escaped (her own husband having died before), a dreadful blow Some !