[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The a tract of about five hundred acres in head quarters of the settlement were April, 1 640; made settlement thereon about five or six hundred paces from the the subsequent year, and gave to it the principal village of the Hackinsacks. name of Vriesendael. OF HUDSON'S RWER. 105 the murdered man as the price of peace. Persuaded by De Vries, who became answerable for their safe return, the chiefs visited the fort with him, and there repeated their offer. Kieft refused to accept the wampum, and demanded the mur derer. The chiefs could not comply; the murderer had sought refuge among the Tankitekes, and besides he was the son of a chief and could not be surrendered. They then renewed their expiatory offer, but it was again refused, and they returned to their homes hopeless of effecting reconciliation. These collisions and causes of grievance culminated in the winter of 1643, when Director Kieft threw off all disguise and disgraced even savage modes of warfare by a blackening hypo crisy and a massacre more terrible than any of which their annals bear record.