[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] him dead, and then wiihdreWj having rifled the house of all its contents. • O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. p. 105. lb Raadmaker (wheelright.) COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 167 *• This aggression on an old and helpless man excited, when it became known, considerable feeling at Fort Amsterdam."* " Director Kieft promptly demanded satisfaction from the chiefs of the Weckquaskecks. "But the sachem" (who was doubtless Mongockonone) " refnsed to make any atonement. He was sar-ry that twenty Christians had not been immolated; the Indian had but avenged, after the manner of his race, the murder of a relative whom the Dutch had slain nearly twenty years before. On receipt of this answer, armed parties were sent out to retaliate, but they returned, having effected nothing,"*^ -/ Aug. 29, I641y it was proposed to wait -'until the hunting season, when it was suggested that two expeditions should be got np; one to land in the neighborhood of the ' Archipelago,' or Norwalk Island — the other, at Weckquaskeck." Notwithstanding the impatience of Kieft to attack the Weck-quaskecks, he could not obtain the consent of his council un-til Feb. IS, 1642. Having now received their sanction, " he ordered Hendri^ck Van Dyck, ensign in the Company's service, who had been already over two years stationed at New Amster-dam, to proceed with a force of eighty men against the Weck-quaskecks, to execute summary vengeance upon that tribe, with fire and sword.