Meanwhile I pray the Creator of Heaven and Earth to endow your High Mightinesses with the Spirit of grace and wisdom, so that all your High Migtinesses' deliberations may tend to the advantage of the Country and its Inhabitants.

IV.

JOURNAL

OF THE

SECOND ESOPUS WAR; BY CAPT. MARTIN KREGIER.

With an account of the Massacre at Wildwyck, (now Kingston,) \

And the names of those killed, wounded, and taken prisoners, by the Indians on - that occasion.

1663.

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MASSACRE AT THE ESOPUS. The Court at Wildwyck to the Council of N. Netherland.

Right Honorable, most respected, wise, prudent and very discreet Lords.

We, your Honors' faithful subjects have to report, pursuant to the order of the Rt Hon»le Heer Director General, in the form of a Journal, that in obedience to his Honor's order, received on the 30th of May last, we caused the Indian Sachems to be notified on the 5th of June, to be prepared to expect the arrival of - the Rt Honble Heer Director General, to receive the promised presents, and to renew the peace. This notification was communicated to them through Capt. Thomas Chambers, to which they answered--" If peace were to be renewed with them, the Honble Heer Director General should, with some unarmed persons, sit with them in the open field, without the gate, as it was their own custom to meet unarmed when renewing peace or in other negotiations." But they, unmindful of the preceding statement, surprized and attacked us between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon on Thursday the 7th instant.