[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] plank, nine feet high, and bound around with thick beams, and studded with port holes. Though it was calculated that thirty Indians could hold out, in one of these, against two hundred soldiers, strange to tell, the whole were found uninhabited. The Dutch, thereupon, burnt two of these strongholds, reserving the third as a point to retreat to, in case of necessity. From this place they next marched between thirty and forty miles further, but discovered nothing save a few lir.ts.''^ April 6, 1644. The spring approaching made our river In-dians again anxious for peace, which was brought about by the intervention of Capt. John Underbill. '' xMamaranack. chief of the Indians residing on the Kicktawanc, or Croton River; Mongocko-none, Pappenoharrow, from the Weckqueesqueecks and Noch-peem; and the AVappings from Stamford, ])resented themselves,ia a {^\Y days, at Fort Amsterdam, and having pledged themselves, that they should not henceforth commit any injnrV; whatever on the inhabitants of INew Netherland, their cattle and houses, nor show themselves except in a canoe, before Fort Amsterdam, should the Dutch be at war with any of the Manhattan tribes; and having further promised to deliver up Pacham the chief of the Tamkitekes," (who resided in the rear of Sing Sing,) "peace • O'Callaghan's Hist. p. 285. »» O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. 298. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 171 was concluded between ibem and the Dntch; who promised, on their part, not to molest them in any way."*