[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] With the renewal of difficulties in New England, in Septem ber (1643), war again broke out at New Amsterdam. " Pachem, a crafty man, ran through all the villages, urging the Indians to a general massacre." The first aggressive act was by the Wappingersf who seized a boat coming from Fort Orange, killed two men and took four hundred beaver skins. Others followed this example, " so that they seized two boats more," but were driven off, with the loss of six of their number, in 1 O'Callaghan i, 277. De Pries, Col-surprised at the attack by the W af fingers, lections New York Historical Society, «ad and protested that they had never had any series, I, 270. It will be observed that trouble with them. In this they were neither the Ffeckquaesgeeks or Manhattans mistaken, as the testimony shows that are mentioned in the treaty, a fact which nearly all their troubles were with that indicates the local character of both titles, tribe. 2 Doc. Hist., iv, i z. The Dutch were 112 ' THE INDIAN TRIBES attacking the fourth boat. " Nine Christians, including two women," were killed in these captured boats, one woman and two children remaining prisoners.