Netherland should be mortgaged to the English as security for the payment thereof, (one of Dated gih" Mkrch, the uiost iofl ucutial amoug the Eight men had, by letter, <^ enforced by precedents, ^^^' previously endeavored to persuade the Director to this course; as they had In thir'^R^so^ve of Tcsolved to do a few days before ||) that the provisions destined for Curiigao :643. ^^P"^""""^' should be discharged from the vessels and the major part of the men belonging Vol. I. 24

186 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. to them detained, and that the ships be sent away thus empty. This was not agreed to, nor deemed expedient by the Director. Here four 'pages are wanting. \_ '^

[An expedition was despatched consisting of soldiers] under the command of the Sergeant; XL. Burghers under Jochem Pietersen, their Captain; XXXV. Englishmen under Lieutenant Backster but to prevent all confusion, Councillor La Montague was appointed ;

General. Coming to Staten Island, they marched the whole night the huts were found ;

empty and abandoned by the Indians; they got 5 or 6 hundred skepels of corn and burnt the remainder without accomplishing anything else. Mayane, a Sachem, residing eight miles N. E. of us, between Greenwich (that lies within our jurisdiction) and Stamford, which is English, a fierce Indian who, alone, dared to attack with bow and arrows, three Christians armed with guns, one of whom he shot dead ; was, whilst engaged with the other, killed by the third Christian and his head brought hither. It