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 ?
7.
Did not the Dutch nation in this country live in peace with those Indians before this cruel deed had been committed against them ?
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Did not those Indians fly to those two places above named through fear of their enemies, in fullconfidence of hiding among, and of being protected by, us ?
Interrogatories to be proposed to Dr. Johannes dt la Montaigne.
Article 1.
Did he vote for, and approve of, the maize tax in the year 1639 ?
2.
Was it ever before proposed in their Council, and now when Mr. Kieft had imposed contributions on those natives, did he (La M.) not say in the presence of several persons : --that by those proceedings, a Bridge had been built, over which War would soon stalk through the country ? 3.
Does he know from what cause originated the first trouble between our people and the Raritan Indians ? 4.