companies were soon organized, one of sixty-five and one of seventy-five men, and the work of retaliation commenced.

The second company was composed of forty burghers under Captain Pietersen, and thirty-five Englishmen under Lieutenant This Baxter j Councillor La Montagne acting as general.

company passed over to Staten island

who had

fallen

previously,

;

but found that the Indians,

vicinity of the fort some abandoned their houses. Five or

back from the

had also

time six

hundred skepels of corn rewarded the invaders, but nothing was accomplished beyond

its

company was increased sent to the

Returning to the fort, the one hundred and twenty men and

removal. to

Weckquaesgeek country.

Landing at Greenwich

in the evening, from three yachts, they marched the entire night,

but found nothing.

Retreating

through Stamford, they were

were Indians in that vicinity. Scouts were sent out who returned with the location of an In dian village. Twenty-five men were at once dispatched thither, and succeeded in killing a number and in capturing an old man, told

by the English

that there

One of the captives offered the castles of the Weckquaesgeeks. expedition men him and were sent with three castles found, but Sixty-five

two women and some to

lead the

children. to

Two of them were burned, and, after " some having marching thirty miles, the expedition returned, killed only one or two Indians, taken some women and children prisoners, and burnt some corn." Meanwhile Underbill, 1 with a company of Dutch and English, they had no tenants.