having been
taken and burnt, they made peace. Since then some nations near the
sea having killed some Hollanders of the most distant settlement,
the Hollanders killed one hundred and fifty Indians, men, women and
children, they having, at divers times, killed forty Hollanders, burnt
many houses, and committed ravages, estimated at the time that I was
there at 200,000 l. (two hundred thousand livres).(3) Troops were raised
in New England. Accordingly, in the beginning of winter, the grass being
trampled down and some snow on the ground, they gave them chase with
six hundred men, keeping two hundred always on the move and constantly
relieving one another; so that the Indians, shut up in a large island,
and unable to flee easily, on account of their women and children, were
cut to pieces to the number of sixteen hundred, including women and
children. This obliged the rest of the Indians to make peace, which
still continues. This occurred in 1643 and 1644.(4)

(1) One hundred and fifty English miles.

(2) The Mohicans.

(3) Livres tournois or francs, worth two or three times as
much as francs at the time.

(4) See _The Journal of New Netherland_.

From Three Rivers in New France, August 3, 1646.

"JOURNAL OF NEW NETHERLAND" 1647

Reference material and source.

"Journal of New Netherland, 1647." In J. Franklin Jameson,
ed., Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 (Original
Narratives of Early American History). NY: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1909.

INTRODUCTION

AN account of the great Indian war which so desolated the province of
New Netherland, and of some other actions of Kieft's administration,
written from his point of view or that of his supporters, must be
regarded as an important piece of evidence. It is the more to be
welcomed because on the whole our evidences for New Netherland history
come mainly from opponents of the provincial administration and of
the West India Company. The archives of the company disappeared almost
completely many years ago, the bulk of them having apparently been sold
as waste paper not many years before Brodhead went to Holland upon his
memorable search. Of Kieft's papers, we may suppose that the greater
part were lost when the Princess was shipwrecked on the Welsh coast in
September, 1647, and the deposed director and all his possessions were
lost.

The document which follows was found by Broadhead in the