The rash Director Kieft resolved to punish them with severity which should be a warning to all the Indians.
He sent to this innocent, unsuspecting tribe, a party of seventy well armed men, many of them unprincipled desperadoes.

They fell upon the peaceful Indians, brutally killed several, destroyed their crops, and perpetrated all sorts of outrages.
The Indians never forget a wrong.

The spirit of revenge burned in their bosoms.

There was a thriving plantation belonging to DeVrees on Staten Island.

The Indians attacked it, killed four of the laborers, burned the dwelling and destroyed the crops.