[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] This terrible deed aroused strong feeling throughout the settle-ments, and Director Kieft demanded satisfaction of the chief of the Weckqttaesgecks, the tribe to which the offender belonged. An exas-perating answer was returned, to the effect that the accused had but avenged a wrong, and that, in the private opinion of the chief, it would not have been excessive if twenty Christians had been killed in retaliation. The only recourse now left was to declare war against the savages, and to this end all the heads of families were summoned to meet on August 25), 1641,,w for the consideration of some important and necessary matters.'* The assembled citizens selected a council of twelve men, who, upon advising together, recommended that fur-ther efforts be made to have the murderer delivered up to justice. All endeavors in this line proving unsuccessful, war was declared in the spring of 1642. Ilendrick Van Dyck, an ensign in the company's