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,

new

fort,

were put

and Fort Orange, with its nine pieces of in order x was prepared against an attack." artillery, Meanwhile a reenforcement of forty-two men, under com mand of Ensign Niessen, was sent from Fort Amsterdam to ;

Wiltwyck, and measures taken to enlist a more considerable On the 26th, Burgomaster Martin Kregier, with addi tional men and a force of forty-six Long island Indians, was sent forward, and on the 4th of July, assembled at Wiltwyck in a force.

A few days after, five Mohawk and

general council of war.

Mahican chiefs arrived from Fort Orange, on whose mediation a portion of the Dutch captives were restored but to proposals for peace the Indians would not listen unless they were paid " for the land, named the Great Plot," and rewarded with pre ;

sents at their Shawangunk castle within ten days.

Scouting parties

were then sent out by the Dutch, who succeeded in bringing in a few prisoners, from whom it was ascertained that the Indians had fallen back to their castle ; that