Also, that the peculiarity of places should be considered ; whether we could extricate our people who had settled at a far distance ; also, the question of force and munitions of war ; whether we could indeed defend ourselves and continue the war ?

Is it true that Director Kieft made answer to this in his room, in the presence of Jan Claesen Daem, Abraham Planck, and Maryn Adriaensen, who had already obtained his written reply -- to the petition " The word has gone forth it must remain out?" ;

9.

By whose order were the Indians, with their wives and children, killed over at Pavonia, and behind Corlaer's hook on the Island of Manhatans, between the 24"" and 25"' February, 1643 ?

10.

Did he vote for it and was it subsequently resolved in the lawful Council ?

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Were not our surrounding Indians and neiglibors very much exasperated against us on account of this murder, so that the general war broke out the next day?

12.

Did we not, up to this time, before this deed was committed, live in peace with all those Americans, the Haccinsack murderer excepted ?

13.

Is it not true, that all those Indians had Had to the two places abovementioned, through fear of the Mahicanders, in the hope of being protected by our people from their enemies?

Interrogatories to be proposed to Secretary Cornells van Tienhoven.

Article 1.

Can he, the Secretary, not fluently speak the Manhatans language, which was used by the Indians hereabout? 2.