That all injuries formerly passed in the time of the governor's predecessors, :

OF HUDSON'S RIPER.

But there was no general peace. The conflict was remem bered, and the Indians, as well as the Dutch, stood on guard.

The scene of combat, however, was changed. The settlers at Esopus, who had returned after the panic of 1655, continued

for some time unmolested ; but, as in other places, they soon devoted the largest portion of their time and means to the pur

poses of trade.

The examples of th^traders at New Amster

dam were readily copied.

Familiarity, brandy and other liquors,

were called to their aid, and with results similar to those which had already disgraced the Dutch character. The Indians suf fered wrongfully, and in retaliation (1657) "one of the settlers was killed, the house and out buildings of another were burned, and the settlers were forced, by threats of arson and murder, to plow up the patches of land where the savages planted their maize." 2

The white population consisted, at that time, of

between sixty and seventy persons, who were in no condition for defense. They wrote at once to Stuyvesant, imploring him to send " forty or fifty soldiers to save the Esopus." The shall be forgiven and forgotten, since ye sd year 1645.

z.^That Tackapausha being chosen

house or forte to be furnished with Indian trade and commodities. " 6. The inhabitants of Hempsteede

ye chief sachem by all the Indian sachems from Mersapege, Maskahnong, Secatong, Meracock, Rockaway and Canorise, with ye rest, both sachems and natives, doth