[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] To still further strengthen the position of the Dutch, he sent a commission to the Soquatucks * to negotiate a peace between them and the Mohawks, for which purpose a conference was held at Narrington and a treaty concluded on the 24th. The day of thanksgiving was a day of peace through out the settlements of New Netherland. But the brooding clouds of war were not dispelled. While yet the Esopus conflict was pending, the Mahicans had been sum moning their clans; the peace of Narrington was broken by the AbenaquiSy who murdered the Mohawk embassadors, "insti gated thereto, it is alleged, by the English; " the war was renewed j the Mahicans overran the country, killed a number of cattle at Greenbush, and " fired a house at Claverack, be longing to Abraham Staats, in which they burnt his wife and two children" (July n). "Proceeding, next, in a body one hundred strong, against the Mohawks, they gave them battle, but the latter being more numerous, routed their assailants.