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To which I said, that they should not do that, for they were under command. Whereupon thehorseman, named Jan Hendricksen, answered—They are under the command of no man but LongPeter, whom they, forsooth ! called their Cornet , and uttered divers unmannerly words in presenceof all the officers. Upon which I gave him 2 or 3 slaps of a sword, and he seemed as if he wouldput himself in a posture against me. But I being close up to his body he could not act as he wished,and I said to him that I should bring him to an account. This said Jan Hendricksen, with oneAlbert Heymans Roose, acted insolently on the 7 th July. Whilst we were examining the twoWappinger Indians, in the presence of the Sellout and Commissaries, in Thomas Chambers’ room amessenger came in and said that two or three boors were without the door with loaded guns to shootthe Indians when the} r came forth. Whereupon I stood up and went to the door—found this AlbertHeymans Roose and Jan Hendricksen at the door with their guns. Asked them what they weredoing thSre with their guns 1 They gave me for answer, We will shoot the Indians. I said tothem, you must not do that. To which they replied, We will do it though you stand bj\ I toldthem in return, to go home and keep quiet or I should send such disturbers to the Manhatans.They then retorted, I might do what I pleased, they would shoot the Savages to the ground, eventhough they should hang for it; and so I left them. This Albert coming into the Council told theCommissaries that one of them should step out. What his intention with him was I can’t say. Thisby way of memorandum. Meanwhile arrested Jan Hendricksen.

29 th ditto. Pour parties went out again to cut down the corn and to burn the old maize. Abouto’clock in the afternoon, Some Indians made their appearance on a high hill near the fort andcalled out to us, that they would come and fight us on the morrow whereupon we brought the captiveSquaw out of the fort to speak to them, and they called out to her that they should now come and fightthe Dutch, for the Dutch had now come and taken their fort, cut their corn and burnt all their oldmaize and that they should die of hunger. I said to them, the Dutch had gone in search of youto the mountain but ye always ran away and dare not make a stand. But the Indians would notgive any answer, and so went away.

30 th ditto. We, in two large parties, each of SO men, cut down all the corn and burnt the oldmaize which remained in the pits. Returned to the fort, all together, in the evening, and madepreparations to set out in the morning. Meanwhile the Indians who the day before had called outthat they would come & fight us, did not make their appearance. We cut down nearly one hundredmorgens 1 of Maize and burnt above a hundred pits full of corn and beans.

31st ditto. In the morning at the dawn of day set fire to the fort and all the houses, and whilethey were in full blaze marched out in good order, Capt Lieutenant Couwenhoven forming the vanguard, Lieutenant Stilwil’s Company the centre, and I with my company the rear guard. So arrivedm safety at our fort about 9 o’clock in the evening with our cannon and wagons. Remarkedscarcely anything on the w r ay. The road or course from WikLvyck to the fort of the EsopusIndians lies mostly south west, about 10 [Dutch] miles from our fort.

1st August. In the morning heard two shots from the Redoubt on the river side. Sent off EnsignChristiaen Niessen with 50 men. He found there the Hon ble Company’s yacht in which the IleerSecretary van Ruyven had come. Had him escorted to the Village of Wildwyck , and did nothingEiore as it was a day of Fasting and Prayer.

2 d ditto. Nothing occurred as it rained during the whole day and night.

3d ditto. The Heer Secretary departed on his return to the Manhatans, accompanied bylieutenant Couwenhoven and the Indians being 41 in the whole, who would not remain any longer ;

1 About 215 Acres—E d.