Throgmorton was another refugee His settlement was from Massachusetts. a few miles west from that of Ann Hutchinson, and included the point now

known as Throg's neck.

O^ HUDSON'S RIPER.

Hudson to the highlands of the sea, the warat a blow " from the Neverhighlands of the

whoop was reechoed, and

single

New

the valley of the Tappans, the whole of Jersey once more in the possession of its aboriginal lords." 1

sincks to

was

Fort Amsterdam afforded the only place of shelter, and thither the colonists fled.

" There women and children

in straw huts, while their

lay concealed

husbands and fathers mounted guard

on the ramparts above." The whole force of the Dutch was scarce two hundred and fifty men, while the Indians were repre sented by fifteen hundred of their most expert warriors, includ ing the Wappingers of the Connecticut river, under the lead of Mayane, with whom the Dutch claimed they had never had any

who then learned " for the first time that he and his Indians had done" them " much injury." 2 The position of the Dutch was perilous in the extreme. The Indians literally hung " upon their necks with fire and sword." 3 Had they known their own strength, the last refuge of the colonists would have fallen before them, but judging from their own modes of warfare, difficulty, but

they feared to attack the fort and contented themselves with sweeping off the exposed plantations and with the terror which their presence inspired. 4