Every family, with the exception of one, was destroyed every man killed, " together with all his cattle," and a large number of women and children taken into captivity.

speedily followed. ;

Staten island was next

visited,

and its ninety colonists and

flourishing bouweries shared the fate of those at Pavonia.

For

three days the carnage continued, and at its close " full fifty" of the Dutch had been " murdered and put to death ; over one

hundred, mostly women and children," were in captivity ; " twenty bouweries and a number of plantations" had been

burned with " full twelve to

fifteen hundred "skepels of grain,"

and five or six hundred head of cattle either killed or driven ofF. In addition to those killed and captured, three hundred colonists

were ruined in estate, and the aggregated damages were com puted at two hundred thousand guilders or eighty thousand dollars.

At the time of

this

occurrence, Director Stuyvesant,

who

had succeeded Kieft, was absent with his soldiers on an expedi tion to South river, and a messenger his return.

disagrees with all of his

contemporaries,

and was apparently determined to give good reason for the great fright which he suffered.

was immediately sent for

Meanwhile, as the tidings of the disaster spread, the Neither

Van Dyck nor Leendertsen

appear to have been killed, Opinion of Fiscal Van Tienhoven, (fCallaghans Indian War of 1655, 40.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

The

inhabitants fled in terror to the fort as to a city of refuge.