in the wilderness.

massacre ; but was it not terribly provoked ?

condition.

They

On the morning

commanded to

ride down

and

returned with the statement

that the Indians had not been seen there ; that fugitives from the

new village had reached there, but the soldiers had not dared to venture to the assistance of the settlers.

On the 1 6th, a troop of

soldiers was sent to the redoubt to bring up ammunition and to

convey letters to be dispatched to Fort Amsterdam for assist This company was attacked, on its return, at the first the skirmishing continued until after passing the second and hill,

ance.

hill.

One of the soldiers was killed and six were wounded

;

the remainder reached Wiltwyck with their wagons and am munition.

Immediately on the receipt of the dispatches which had been sent to him, Stuyvesant sent a commission to Fort Orange, to raise a loan, engage volunteers, and invite from the Mabicans, the Mohawks and the Semcas, the assistance which they had The promised, under the treaty of 1660, in case of a revolt.

O^ HUDSON'S RIVER.

commissioner, however, found that the Mahicans and the Mo hawks were at war, and that the Senecas had taken the field

From them no concerted action could be against the Minsis. the while expected, people of Beaverwyck were in alarm lest the assistance which they had rendered to the Senecas should recoil upon their own heads.

u The farmers fled to the

patroon's Cralo, at Greenbush ; the plank fence which in closed Beaverwyck, and the three guns mounted on the church,