not only slain and killed many animals, such as cows, horses and hogs," to the immigrants belonging, but had " cruelly mur dered ten persons," one in the second year after the peace had

been concluded, one in the year 1651, four in the year 1652, The mur three in the year 1653, and one in the year 1654. derers had been demanded under the treaty of 1645, but the Indians had refused to give them up, and the government,

" for

the sake of peace and out of consideration for the good and ad-

OF HUDSON'S RIVER.

vantage of the country and its people," had not attempted to enforce redress. 1 Granting that the offenses recited had been

committed, they only prove that they were in retaliation for in all simi outrages inflicted on the Indians, for the testimony lar cases is that the

The

not wanton murderers. 2

latter were

found no

the fitting wrongs which they suffered hands of the Dutch, but their acts of retaliation were detailed with horror, and were exceeded, when opportunity offered, in the cold-blooded vengeance which was inflicted upon them.

record

at

were not long delayed. A squaw, detected in from the garden of Hendrick Van Dyck, at New Amsterdam, had been killed by him, and her family deter mined to avenge her death. Availing themselves of the or Hostilities

stealing peaches

ganization of a war party of Wappingers, then about to make descent upon some neighboring tribe, they prevailed upon them