Did he not go thither with a party of armed soldiers and sailors, under the command of Hendrick Gerritsen, skipper of the Neptunus?

By whose order, and with what result was he there ; and was not the supercargo of the Neptunus, named Ross, killed by the Indians in that expedition ?

10.

Did not the Raritans, in the course of the following year, avenge themselves at Staten Island, by killing four tobacco planters of David Pietersen de Vries, whose house they burnt?

11.

Did not the Raritans afterwards make peace with our people?

12.

Did not the Raritans, after the peace, keep always quiet, and abstain from all acts of open hostility against our people, even during the general war with the other Indians?

13.

Did not one of the Wickwaskeck Indians kill one Claes Cornelissen Switz in revenge for the murder of one of his relatives, who was slain by three of Commander Binnewitz' farm servants?

14.

Did he, Tienhoven, not assist in making peace for that affair with those of Wickwaskeck at the house of Jonas Bronck?

'Sic. Minuit -- Ed.

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Was any proposal made to the 12 men by, or in the name of Director Kieft, to commence, on account of that murder, a war against those Indians?

16.

Did not the Twelve men advise not to commence a war on account of the murder committed on the aforesaid wheelwright?

17.

Did not Director Kieft subsequently forbid the Twelve men to hold any more meetings, saying they were of dangerous tendency, injurious to the country and the Director's authority?