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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 79 (part 3)

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] After the Esopus savages burned three of our houses and murdered one of our men, a year ago, we forgave them and renewed the chain of friendship with them, promising the one to the other, that we should not thenceforth again wage war though a man was killed, but that the murderer should be surrendered and punished. Notwithstanding all this, the Esopus