[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] ever arbitrary or unscrupulous; for in the event of an armed conflict over the boundary difficulty, the powerful New England colonies could easily crush the weak and meager Dutch settlements. It is not known to what extent, if any, the settlers at Wrestchester suffered from the great and widespread Indian massacre of 1055, which occurred before they had submitted themselves to the Dutch government and consequently before their affairs became matters 122 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY of record at New Amsterdam. On the 15th of September of that year sixty-four canoes of savages — -k Mohicans, Pachamis, with others from Esopus, Hackingsack, Tappaan, Stamford, and Onkeway, as far east as Connecticut, estimated by some to amount to nineteen hundred in number, from five to eight hundred of whom were armed," —landed suddenly, before daybreak, at Fort Amsterdam. They came to avenge the recent killing of a squaw by the Dutch for steal-ing peaches. " Stuyvesant, with most of the armed force of the set-tlement, was absent at the time upon an expedition to subdue the Swedes on the Delaware. A reign of terror followed, lasting for three days, during which, says O'Callaghan, " the Dutch lost one hundred people, one hundred and fifty were taken into captivity, and more than three hundred persons, besides, were deprived of