Is it not also true, that all those Indians had fled to the above described place some days before, through dread of the Maicanders ; in the hope of being protected by our people from their enemies? 5.

Did not we, the Dutch, in this country, live in peace with these Indians before and until this cruel deed had been wrought on them over at Pavonia and on the Island Manhatans?

Interrogatories to he proposed to Mr. Cornells van der Hoykins.

Article 1.

Did he approve the levying of the contributions which the late Director General Kieft imposed on those Americans in the year 1639?

2.

Was it ever before proposed in Council by the said Kieft, and was it approved by that body?

3.

Did not he (the witness) well remark that this tax had in general excited great animosity among those natives, so that the Raritans shortly after killed four of our people on Staten Island ? 4.

Did not Mr. Kieft on the night of the 24th February, 1643, cause a party of Indians, our friends, to be massacred with women and children in their sleep, over at Pavonia and behind Corker's plantation ? 5.

Did Mr. Kieft previously propose this expedition to the Council, and was it approved by witness, as fiscal at that time, and by the other members of the Council ?

6.

Is it not true that the Indians were much exasperated against us on account of this murder, so that the general war between them and our people followed on the next day ?