To this end, his first wife having died without issue, he married a widow Van Gaasbeck and adopted her children. He died in 1698, and was buried in his vault on the site of the residence now or late of His reJansen Hasbrouck, at Rondout. mains, with those of the Van Gaasbeck The family, were removed in 1854. name of the manor and its owner only live in history.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

at once leave the place,

urging that all be killed." that would they body

u he felt

a sensation in his

His companions, however,

laughed at his alarm. They had never harmed the Dutch But the speaker still cherished should they kill us ?" u his fears, and replied heart feels heavy within me ;" and

"

Why

:

My

again he entreated his companions to depart, but they refused, and, in conscious security, lay down upon their blankets to sleep.

Meanwhile Ensign Smith had yielded to the request of the villagers by dispatching Sergeant Stol to reconnoitre and report the

cause of the disturbance.

Stol, on his return, stated the

facts,

when Smith gave orders that the Indians should not be molested. this order, Stol went among the villagers and them to unite in a sortie against the Indian encamp Enlisting some ten or eleven persons in the enterprise,

Notwithstanding invited

ment.

he left the village and stealthily appro'ached the sleeping Indians,

who were aroused from their slumbers by a volley fired among Jumping up to escape, one was knocked on the head with an axe, a second was taken prisoner, a third fled, and a fourth, too deeply intoxicated to awake, " was hewn on the head with