stealing pigs and had been confined in Fordam's cellar.

*He held the rank of sergeant-major.

Documentary History, iv, 16.

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killed three of the

seven in the cellar ; two were towed in

the water until they were drowned, and two were taken to Fort

Amsterdam, where, after a short time, they were turned over to the soldiers " to do as

they pleased with," and by whom they

were dispatched in the most brutal manner. 1

The third and last expedition was now organized.

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having visited Stamford and learned that a large number of In dians had assembled in one of their villages in that vicinity, a force of one hundred and thirty men was dispatched under his command to destroy them. Passing up the sound in .three

yachts, he landed at Greenwich, where he was compelled to remain over night, in consequence of a severe snow storm. Piloted by an Indian, he marched in the morning to the north

west " up over stony hills over which some must creep," and arrived in the evening about three miles from the village^ Halt

ing until ten o'clock, the

march was resumed, and the

reached about midnight.

Says the narrator

:

village

" The order was

given as to the mode to be observed in attacking the Indians ; they then marched forward towards the houses, being three

rows set up street fashion, each eighty paces long, in a low recess of the mountain, affording complete shelter from the north-west wind. The moon was then at the full, and threw a strong light against the mountain so that many winter days were not brighter than it then was. arriving there the In