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The Second Esopus War. 29 burnt. About 10 o’clock we marched thence down along the crook where lay divers maize plantations, which we also destroyed and cast the maize into the creek. Several large wigwams also stood there, which we burnt. Having destroyed everything we returned to Wiltwyck, reaching there in the evening of the next day. About noon of Sunday, October 7th, a girl was brought up from the Redoubt [Rondout], who, the day before, had arrived on the opposite bank at that place, and was immediately conveyed across the stream. The girl said she had escaped from an Indian who had taken her prisoner, and who resided in the mountain on the other side of the creek about three miles from Wiltwyck, where he had a hut, and a small patch of corn which he had pulled, and had been there about three weeks to remove the corn. She had tried to escape before, but could not find her way out of the woods, and was forced to return to the hut. Forty men were at once sent out to try and catch the Indian. They reached the hut before sunset, which they surrounded with the intention of surprising the savage, but the hut was found to be empty. They found a lot of corn near the hut, and another lot at the kill, part of which they burned, and a part they brought back with them. They remained in the hut during the night and watched there. On the 10th of that month, Louis Du Bois, the Walloon, went to fetch his oxen which had gone back of Juriaen Westphaelen’s land. As he was about to drive home the oxen, three Indians, who lay in the bush with the intention of taking him prisoner, leaped forth. One of the savages shot at him with an arrow, slightly wounding him, whereupon Louis struck the Indian a heavy blow on the breast with a piece of palisade, and so escaped through the kill, and brought the news to the fort. Two detachments were instantly dispatched to attack them, but they had taken to flight and retreated into the woods. The Indians were finally cowed. Their principal warriors had been slain, their fort and wigwams burned, and their food and peltries destroyed. A long hard winter was before them, and the ruthless white soldiers ready to swoop down upon them at any moment. Under these circumstances the Delawares sued for peace, and the truce was observed for a period of about ninety years, or until the breaking out of the French and Indian war. When Capt. Kregier marched against the new fort his forces probably crossed the Shawangunk kill at Tuthilltown, and keeping along the high ground came in rear of the fort. A portion of the command marched down the hill directly on the fort, while the other detachment cut off their escape in the other direction. This fort stood on the brow of a hill overhanging the creek; in the side of this hill there is a living spring with the Indian path still leading to it. The old Wawarsing trail led from this fort, crossing the Shawangunk mountain near Sam’s Point.
30 Legends of the Shawangunk. THE ESOPUS MUTINY. AFTER the capitulation of New Amsterdam and its dependencies to the Duke of York, in 1664, some English troops were sent to garrison Esopus. They were under command of Capt. Broadhead, an arrogant, ill-tempered, overbearing officer, whom the Dutch soon came to hate with all the fervor of their natures. There was a constant collision between the English military authorities and the Dutch civil magistrates. The inhabitants drew up a formal complaint against the garrison, and among the charges were the following:— Cornelius Barentsen Sleight is beaten in his own house by soldier George Porter, and was after this by other soldiers forced to prison, and by some soldiers at his imprisonment used very hard. Capt. Broadhead hath beaten Tierck Clausen and without any reason brought to prison. Capt. Broadhead, coming to the house of Lewis Du Bois, took an anker of brandy and threw it upon the ground because Du Bois refused him brandy without payment, and did likewise force the said Du Bois to give him brandy. [Broadhead afterwards said in extenuation of the act that the anker was not broken, and no brandy spilled.] And the said Du Bois’ wife coming to Broadhead’s house for money, he drove her out of the house with a knife. The soldier George Porter coming in the barn of Peter Hillebrants, and finding there Dierck Hendricks, took his sword and thrust it through Dierck’s breeches. Two soldiers coming to Miller’s to steal his hens, and Miller in defending his hens, was by the soldiers beaten in his own house. Besides all this we are threatened by Capt. Broadhead and his soldiers that they will burn down all this town and all they that are therein—“Therefore we do most humbly supplicate that you will be pleased to remonstrate and make known unto the Governor the sad condition we are in, from whom we hope to have redress.” In answer to the above “standings,” Captain Broadhead replies that he will keep Cornelius Sleight in apprehension “as longe as he thincks good” and that in case the inhabitants will “fitch” him by force, that he would wait upon them. The soldiers in their own behalf say they went to the burgher’s [Sleight’s] house by Broadhead’s command, when they found the burgher with his piece cocked, and his hanger [sword] drawn and laid upon his arm; they disarmed him by force and brought him prisoner to the guard. But at their first arrival at the aforesaid house they “found Capt. Broadhead with his cravat torn
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Massacre at Fantinekill 75 on eithe
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Burning of Wawarsing. 77 patrol the
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Burning of Wawarsing. 79 he arrived
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Burning of Wawarsing. 81 telling th
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Burning of Wawarsing. 83 who immedi
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Burning of Wawarsing. 85 that the e
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Kortright’s Expedition. 87 KORTRI
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Anderson and Osterhout. 89 old scho
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Polly Tidd. 91 was no doubt the res
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Polly Tidd. 93 Their pace until the
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Captivity of Mrs. Coleman. 95 over
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Captivity of Mrs.Coleman. 97 horror
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Phebe Reynolds and the Tories. 99 P
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Miss Land’s Midnight Journey. 103
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The Tories After the Revolution. 10
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Tom Quick and the Indian Muskwink.
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Tom Quick and the Buck with Seven S
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Indian Stratagem to Slay Tom Quick.
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The Savages Plan Tom Quick’s Capt
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A Border Alarm. 129 required to awa
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Bear Hunt on the Mongaup River. 147
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Casualty on Blue Mountain. 149 Fina
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The Disappointed Groom. 153 her aff
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New Paltz. 155 especially after he
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The Traps. 159 north side of the bu
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Shanks Ben. 163 the mountain, where
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Facts and Fancies. 165 FACTS AND FA
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