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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 58 (part 2)

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In retaliation, the Montauk and the Hackimack and Tappan chieftaincies made common cause with the Weckquaesgeeks* who had suffered i-n the February attack, and who had learned fully that the Dutch, and not the Mahicans, had been the principals in the massacre of their kindred, and the toma hawk, the scalping knife and the firebrand executed the work of vengeance. " From swamps and thickets the mysterious enemy made his sudden onset. The farmer was murdered in the open field; women and children, granted their lives, were swept off

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