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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 74

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] provincial assembly in 1664. His re-out issue, he married a widow Van Gaas-sidence was near the confluence of the beck and adopted her children. He died Walkill with the Hudson, and was built in 1698, and was buried in his vault on for the double purpose of a house and a the site of the residence now or late of fort, being square and loop-holed for Jansen Hasbrouck, at Rondout. His re-musketry. By commercial and other mains, with those of the Van Gaasbeck speculations, he acquired a considerable family, were removed in 1854. The tract of land, which was erected, by Gov. name of the manor and its owner only Lovelace, in 1672, into the manor of live in history. Foxhall, with power to hold certain 134 THE INDIAN TRIBES at once leave the place, urging that u he felt a sensation in his body that they would all be killed." His companions, however, laughed at his alarm. They had never harmed the Dutch — " Why should they kill us ?" But the speaker still cherished his fears, and replied : u My heart feels heavy within me;" and again he entreated his companions to depart, but they refused, and, in conscious security, lay down upon their blankets to sleep. Meanwhile Ensign Smith had yielded to the request of the villagers by dispatching Sergeant Stol to reconnoitre and report the cause of the disturbance. Stol, on his return, stated the facts,