[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] One of the conditions of the above treaty was the surrender of the murderer of Clas Smits, dead or alive; a condition which however was never fulfilled, owing either to unwillingness or in-ability on the part of the Indians.''^ " Feb. 7ih, 1642, winter came, and while the earth was yet buried in snoW, a party of armed Mohawks, some eighty or ninety in number, made a descent upon the Weckquaskecks and Tappaen Indians, for the purpose of levying tribute.''^ '• At the approach of these formidable warriors of a braver Huron race, the more numerous but cowering Algonquins crowd-ed together in despair, begging assistance of the Dutch. Kieft seized the moment for an exterminating massacre. In vain was it foretold that the ruin would light upon the Dutch themselves. In the stillness of a dark winter's night, the soldiers at the fort, joined by freebooters from Dutch privateers, and led by a guide who knew every by-path and nook where the savages nestled, crossed the Hudson," (into Pavonia, New Jersey, whither the unsuspecting Weckquaskecks and Tappaens had fled from Man-hattan,) " for the purpose of destruction. The naked and un-suspecting tribes could offer little resistance : the noise of mus-ketry mingled with the yell of the victims. Nearly a hundred