Done in Fort Amsterdam, in the open air, the whole by the director and council in New Netherlands, and in the presence this purpose for called together commonalty, been the daughter of Ann Hutchinson. to have Supposed ;

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

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of the Maquas ambassadors, who were solicited to assist in this negotiation, as arbitrators, and Cornelius Anthonisson, their in Done terpreter and arbitrator with them in this solemn affair. as above."

The original was signed with the mark of Sisindogo, the mark of Claes Norman, the mark of Oratany, the mark of Auronge, the mark of Sesechemis, the mark of Willem of Tappan, the

mark of Aepjen, sachem of the Mahicans, and William Kieft,

La Montagne, and other Dutch officials and witnesses. Thus terminated a war which had been waged for over five years.

Both parties had suffered severely. is said, perished,

Sixteen hundred Indians, it

while the Dutch pointed to " piles of ashes from

the burnt houses, barns, barracks and other buildings, and the bones of the cattle," and exclaimed: " Our fields lie fallow and

waste ; our dwellings and other buildings are burnt ; not a handful can be planted or sown this fall on all the abandoned places.

All this through a foolish hankering after war ; for it these Indians

known to all right thinking men here, that

is

have lived as lambs among us until a few years ago, injuring no one, and affording every assistance to our nation."

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