Document: Journal of New Netherland 1647. Written in the Years 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, and 1646. Image 031

and some children, to exchange for ours. The other troops found the huts empty, and further came hither with the yachts.

The old Indian captured above having promised to lead us to Wetquescheck, which consisted of three castles, sixty-five men were dispatched under Baxter and Pieter Cock, who found them empty, though thirty Indians could have stood against two hundred soldiers since the castles were constructed of plank five inches thick, nine feet high, and braced around with thick balk full of port-holes. Our people burnt two, reserving the third for a retreat.