Meanwhile Pachem a crafty man, ran through all the - Villages urging the Indians to a general massacre, thereupon it happened that certain Indians called Wappingers, dwelling sizteen miles up the River,with whom we never had any the least trouble, seized on a boat coming from Fort Orange wherein were only two men, and full four hundred Beavers. This great Booty stimulated* others to follow their example, so that they seized two boats more, intending to overhaul the fourth also, from which they were driven off with the loss of six Indians. Nine Christians including two women were murdered in these Captured barks, one woman and two children remaining prisoners, The other

* Note M. Their acknowledgment made before the English 16 January, 1648 ; English style. x x

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Indians, so soon as their maize was ripe--followed this example, and through semblance of selling Beavers killed an old man and woman, leaving another man with five wounds who however fled to the fort in a boat with a little child on his arm, who in the first outbreak had lost Father & Mother, And now. grandfather and grandmother, being thus twice through God's merciful blessing rescued from the hands of the Indians, first when two years old ; Nothing was now heard but murders most of which were committed under pretence of coming to put the Christians on their guard.

Finally they took the field and attacked the bouweries at Pavonia. There were here at the time, two ships of war and a privateer who saved considerable Cattle and Grain. Probably it was not possible to prevent the destruction of four bouweries on Pavonia, which were burnt, not by open force, but by stealthily creeping through the brush with fire in hand thus igniting the roofs which are all either of reed or straw ; one covered with plank was repeatedly saved.