[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] ade fifty-eight feet square, and the whole way, Albany, and called Fort Orange, surrounded by a moat eighteen feet wide, by which name, and that of Beaverwyck, Its armament consisted of two large guns the small settlement which gathered and eleven swivels, and the garrison of around it, it was known until 1664. ten or twelve men. The location proved 3 Ante^ p. 54. 13 100 THE INDIAN TRIBES offended, and it was deemed prudent to erect a fort on what was then known as Prince's island, and to garrison it with six teen men for the defense of the river below."1 Contemporaneous circumstances contributed to keep alive this feeling. One Jacob Eelkins,2 who had been in superintend ence of the trade at Fort Nassau, in the summer of 1622 ascended the Connecticut to traffic, and while there treacher ously imprisoned the chief of the Sequins on board his yacht, and would not release him until a ransom of one hundred and forty fathoms of wampum had been exacted. The offense was resented by all the tribes, and by none more so than by the Mai? icons. To appease them, Eelkins was discharged, and apparently in further overture to them, Krieckbeck, the Dutch commander at Fort Orange, in 1626, joined them, with six men, on a hostile expedition against the Mohawks.* Other causes of grievance were not wanting.