William Elliot Griffis

“ Men openly twitted him with sleeping in the fort and sending others to risk their lives on his abominable errands. Portents of war were every day growing more threatening, yet the people had no share in the government, as in the Fatherland, while they had to suffer from the Director's folly. So, to save his own skin, Kieft called together the heads of families on Manhattan Island for deliberation and advice before going to war. ”

“ As there were two distinct Indian domains, on the plateau and in the tide-water region, Iroquois and Algonquin, so in New Netherland there were two different Dutch policies in dealing with the natives, according as the white man's principles were incarnated in Arendt van Curler or William Kieft. In the north was an almost unbroken peace founded on mutual respect and justice. ”

“ The Iroquois from the north attacked the Mohicans in the lower Hudson valley, driving them across the river like sheep before wolves. Those who survived Mohawk bullets and tomahawks were slaughtered by Dutch soldiers sent by Kieft at Pavonia and Corlaer's Hook. Then fifty Englishmen were enrolled anal led by Captain John Underhill. In February, 1614, these attacked and burned an Indian town in Connecticut with frightful slaughter. The men who were opposed to Kieft's policy, and who throughout pleaded for justice to the Indians, were de Vries and Jacobus van Curler. ”