should be enlisted, who were indeed now proposing to
depart; the third part of these were to be paid by the commonalty; this
promise was made by the commonalty but was not followed by the pay.

(1) "Note N. Resolve of 13 Sept'r 1643." _N.Y. Col. Doc._,
I. 194.

Terror increasing all over the land the Eight Men assembled, drew(1) up
a proposal in writing wherein they asked that delegates should be sent
to the north, to our English neighbors, to request an auxiliary force
of one hundred and fifty men, for whose pay a bill of exchange should be
given for twenty-five thousand guilders, and that New Netherland should
be so long mortgaged to the English as security for the payment thereof.
One of the most influential among the Eight Men had by letter(2)
enforced by precedents previously endeavored to persuade the Director
to this course, as they had also a few days before Resolved(3) that the
provisions destined for Curacao should be unloaded from the vessels and
the major portion of the men belonging to them detained, and to send
the ships away thus empty. This was not yet agreed to nor considered
expedient by the Director.

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An expedition was despatched consisting of ---- regular soldiers] under
the command of the sergeant,(4) forty burghers under their Captain
Jochem Pietersen,(5) thirty-five Englishmen under Lieutenant Baxter,(6)
but to prevent all confusion, Councillor La Montagne(7) was appointed
general. Coming to Staten Island, they marched the whole night, finding
the houses empty and abandoned by the Indian; they got five or six
hundred skepels of corn, burning the remainder without accomplishing
anything else.

(1) "Note O. Dated 6th Octob. 1643."

(2) "Note P. Dated 9th March, 1643."

(3) "Note Q. In their resolution 30th September, 1643."

(4) Pieter Cock.

(5) Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, one of the Twelve Men and of
the Eight Men.

(6) George Baxter, an exile from New England, now English
secretary under Kieft. The number of English colonists in
New Netherland, especially on Long Island, was rapidly
increasing.

(7) Dr. Johannes la Montagne, a Hugeunot physician, who with
Kieft constituted the council of the province.

Mayane, a sachem, residing eight leagues northeast of us, between
Greenwich (that lies within our jurisdiction) and Stantfort,(1) which
is English,--a bold Indian who alone