[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] While visiting this settlement a Hackinsack warrior became in toxicated, and was robbed of his beaver-skin coat. When the stupor passed off and he became conscious of the imposition which had been practiced upon him, he vowed he would go home for his bow and arrows and shoot the " roguish Swanne-kin " (as the Dutch were called), who had taken his things, and faithfully did he keep his vow. Watching his opportunity, he shot one of the colonists, Garret Jansen Van Voorst, as he was thatching the roof of one of Van der Horst's houses. The chiefs of his tribe, anxious to keep unbroken friendly relations with the Dutch, hastened to De Vries to secure his counsel and intercession. They dared not go to Fort Amsterdam for fear Kieft would keep them prisoners, but they were willing to make the " blood atonement of money " customary among the tribes, and offered two hundred fathoms of wampum* to the family of 1 HubbarcTs Indian JVars^ 44. • 4 Myndert Myndertsen Van der Horst 2 The superstitious fears of the Dutch purchased and located on a tract " within and the English were alike strongly an hour's walk of Vricsendael." His worked upon by the skill of the Indians plantation extended from Archer Cul in jugglery. bay north towards Tappan, and included 3De Vries purchased from the Tappans the valley of the Hackinsack river.