[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] After some days spent in negotiation a treaty was concluded on the 25th, and the chiefs dismissed with presents and solicited to bring to the fort the chiefs of the river families " who had lost so many " of their number. The Long Island sachem accordingly went to Hack-insack and Tappan, but weeks elapsed before negotiations were concluded. Oritany, sachem of the Hackinsacks, after consulta tion with his allies, finally appeared at Fort Amsterdam, clothed with authority to conclude a peace both for his own and the neighboring chieftaincies. The opportunity was embraced by the director and the following treaty agreed to : " This day, the twenty-second of April, 1643, between Wil liam Kieft, director general and the council of New Netherland, on the one side, and Oratatum, sachem of the savages residing at Ack-kinkashacky, who declared that he was delegated by and for those of Tappaen, Reckawawanc, Kitchawanc, and Sint-Sinck^ on the other side, is a peace concluded in the following 1 " We were awakened and led by one one point of accusation. The men whom of the Indians in the woods upwards of in your first trips you left here to barter 400 paces from the house, where we your goods till your return, these men found sixteen chiefs from Long Island, have been treated by us as we would have