corner ; a bridge thrown over the kill, and barracks erected for

Brodhcad, i, 6495 'Callaghan , u, The village located by Stuyvesant 361. was about three miles north-west from the centre of the present village of Kingston, at a bend in the Esopus creek near the residence now, or late, of Benjamin The Indians were probably resiSmith. dents of the castle of Wiltmeet!

OF HUDSON'S RWER.

the soldiers, of whom Stuyvesant detailed twenty-four to guard the infant settlement, and then returned to Fort Amsterdam.

Stuyvesant visited Esopus again in the fall of 1658, in order Indians a transfer of the remainder of their

to obtain from the

Calling the chiefs together, he thus addressed them : year and a half ago you killed two horses belonging to

lands.

" A

Madame de Hulter, and attacked Jacob Adriaensen in his own house with an axe, knocked out his eye, mortally wounded his infant child, and not satisfied with this, burnt his house last You, moreover, robbed him of his property, and killed spring. a Dutchman in one of his sloops. You compelled our farmers to plow your land ;

threatened, at the same time, to

fire

their

Bouses, and repeatedly extorted money from the settlers, who have already paid you for their farms. You have added threats

and insults, and

finally

forced the colonists, at

much expense,

to break up their establishments and concentrate their

dwellings.

Various other injuries you have committed since that time, not

For all this we demand compen withstanding your promises. sation ; to enforce which, efficient measures will be taken, unless the terms we now propose be acceded to."