[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] He returned home brooding over the wrong, and vowed to take vengeance when he should arrive at the years of manhood; a vow he too faithfully fulfilled years afterwards, the Dutch having neglected to expiate the crime by a suitable present of wampum, in conformity with the customs of the redmen, or to punish the murderers, as justice and good policy demanded."^ Sept. A. D. 1641, the boy had now attained the age of man-liood. " His uncle's spirit was still unappeased — his murder was unavenged. His voice was heard in the roaring of the storm — in the rustle of the leaves — in the sighing of the winds; and full of the conviction that that spirit could not find rest until ven-geance should be had, the young Weckquaeskeeck sought for a victim to offer to the manes of the dead. Shrouding his evil purpose under the cloak of a friendly or business visit, he called a-t the house of one Claes Cornelisz Smits, the '• raadmaker,"^