Document: Journal of New Netherland 1647. Written in the Years 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, and 1646. Image 028

command of the sergeant, (4) forty burghers under their Captain Jochem Pietersen,(5) thirty-five Englishmen under Lieutenant Baxter [Backster] ,(6) but to prevent all confusion, Councillor La Montagne(7) was appointed general. Coming to Staten Island, they marched the whole night, finding the houses empty and abandoned by the Indian; they got five or six hundred skepels of corn, burning the remainder without accomplishing anything else.

Mayane, a Sachem [Sackema], residing eight leagues northeast of us, between Greenwich [Groenewijck] (that lies within our jurisdiction) and Stantfort,(8) which is English,—a bold Indian who alone dared to attack with bow and arrows three Christians armed

(4) Pieter Cock.

(5) Jochem Pietersen Kuyter, one of the Twelve Men and of the Eight Men.

(6) George Baxter, an exile from New England, now English secretary under Kieft. The number of English colonists in New Netherland, especially on Long Island, was rapidly increasing.

(7) Dr. Johannes la Montagne, a Huguenot physician, who with Kieft constituted the council of the province.

(8) Stamford.