[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and the settlers were forced, by threats of arson and murder, to plow up the patches of land where the savages planted their maize." 2 The white population consisted, at that time, of between sixty and seventy persons, who were in no condition for defense. They wrote at once to Stuyvesant, imploring him to send " forty or fifty soldiers to save the Esopus." The shall be forgiven and forgotten, since ye sd year 1645. " z.^That Tackapausha being chosen ye chief sachem by all the Indian sachems from Mersapege, Maskahnong, Secatong, Meracock, Rockaway and Canorise, with ye rest, both sachems and natives, doth take ye governor of ye New Netherland to be his and his people's protector, and in consideration of that to put under ye sd protection, on thiere lands and terri-toryes upon Long Island, so far as ye Dutch line doth runn, according to the agreement made att Hartforde. " 3. The governor doth promise to make noe peace with the Indians that did the spoile at ye Manhattans the I5th September last, likewise to include the sachem in ic. " 4. That Tackapausha shall make no peace wh ye sd Indians, without ye con sent and knowledge of the governor, and sd sachem doth promise for himself and his people to give no dwelling place, enter tainment nor lodging to any of ye govern or's, or thiere owne enemies. "5.