[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] " The other Indians," con tinues the narrative, " so soon as their maize was ripe, followed this example, and through semblance of selling beavers, killed an old man and woman, leaving another man with five wounds, who, however, fled in a boat with a little child on his arm, who, in the first outbreak had lost father and mother, and now grand father and grandmother, being thus twice rescued from the hands of the Indians, first when he was two years old." Nor was this all. Under the pretense of warning from approaching danger, the Indians visited dwellings and killed the inmates, and applied the brand to factories and outbuildings. The few families who had settled in the Esopus country abandoned their farms in alarm, and universal fear pervaded the province. Kieft now called his people together again, and a committee of "eight men "was appointed to consult with him for the defense of the colony. Before any arrangement had been made, however, the Weckquaesgeeks attacked the plantation of Ann Hutchinson,1 killed that extraordinary woman and her married daughter and son-in-law, and carried off captive her youngest daughter.2 Throgmorton's settlement 3 was next attacked and the build ings burned, the inhabitants escaping in their boats. Eighteen victims, however, were added to the revenges of the Indians. Pavonia was attacked and four bouweries burned under the very guns of " two ships of war and a privateer." From the