[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Article 1. IM. Is he not well aware that the late Director General Kieft, did, on the night between the 24"" and 25"" February, in the year 1643, send a party of Soldiers over to Pavonia by the bouwery of Jan Evertzoon, and behind Curler's plantation on the Island of Manhatans and cause them to kill a party of Indians, with women and children, who lay there? 195 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. 2. Did Mr. Kieft previously propose this expedition to the Council, and subsequently communicate it to him as Officer of the Soldiers, which he then was; and did he vote for it? 3. Were not the Indians much embittered by this act; and did not the general war between our Christians and these Americans follow the next day, and date its commencement from that time ? 4. Is it not also true, that all those Indians had fled to the above described place some days before, through dread of the Maicanders; in the hope of being protected by our people from their enemies? 5. Did not we, the Dutch, in this country, live in peace with these Indians before and until this cruel deed had been wrought on them over at Pavonia and on the Island Manhatans? Interrogatories to he proposed to Mr. Cornells van der Hoykins. Article 1. Did he approve the levying of the contributions which the late Director General Kieft imposed on those Americans in the year 1639? 2. Was it ever before proposed in Council by the said Kieft, and was it approved by that body? 3.