vesant instructed the magistrates to announce that he would soon visit Esopus, give them presents and renew the peace ;

but this promise he failed to fulfill with that promptness that was

On the 5th necessary to satisfy the Indians of his sincerity. of June, the promise was renewed, but the Indians still doubted,

and replied that " if peace was to be renewed with them, the

The location of this fort is supposed

to have been at the place still bearing the

aboriginal name of Ponckokie.

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honorable herr director-general should, with some unarmed persons, sit with them in the open field, without the gate, as it

was their custom to meet unarmed when renewing peace or con ducting other negotiations.

Without waiting for a reply to this condition, the Indians attacked the settlement, on the jth of June, and, with tomahawk

On the morning

and fire-brand, executed the work of death.

of that day, the settlers went forth to their fields as usual. About

noon, bands of Indians entered the gates of both villages, and scattered themselves among the" houses, ostensibly fc>r the pur poses of trade.

Suddenly they attacked the inhabitants -of the

"

Some people on destroyed the .buildings. " horseback" escaped and reached the old village, crying out,

new village, and *

The Indians have destroyed the new village to attack the

signal to the Indians

'

"

This was the

!

old village ;

"

the war whoop

in their houses with rang out, and the people were murdered axes and tomahawks, and by firing on them with guns and pis