Meanwhile, we were advised that Pennewitz,? one of the oldest and most experienced Indians in the Country, and who, in the first Conspiracy, had given the most dangerous Council, To wit, that they should wait and not attack the Dutch until all suspicion had been lulled, and then divide themselves equally through the houses of the Christians and slaughter all these in one night--was secretly v. aging war against us with his tribe who killed some of our people and set fire to the houses. It was, therefore, resolved to send thither a troop of one hundred and twenty men, the Burghers under their Company, the English under the Sergeant Major Vander Hy]? (who within a few days had offered his services and was accepted), the veteran soldiers under Pieter Cock, all under the command of M' La Montagne, to proceed hence in three Yachts, Land in Scouts Bay on Long Island, march towards Heemstede (where there is an English Colonie dependant onus.) Some sent forward in advance dexterously killed an Indian who was out as a Spy ;

1 Chief of the Canarsee tribe, Kings sey L. I. Ed. 2 Capt. John Underhill. Ed.

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our force was divided into two divisions--Van der Hil 'with fourteen English towards the smallest, and Eighty men towards the largest village named Matsepe, both which were very successful, killing about one hundred and Twenty men ; of ours one man remained on the field and three were wounded.

Our forces being returned from this expedition, Capt Van der Hil was despatched to Stantfort, to get some information there of the Indians. He reported that the Guide who had formerly Served us, and had gone astray in the night, was now in great danger of his life from the Indians of whom there were about five hundred together.