After the truce of a few weeks the war, without any imaginable cause, broke out anew.
All the settlements at Westchester and Long Island were laid waste.
Scarcely an inhabitant, save the roving Indian, was to be found in those regions.

The Dutch were driven out of the whole of New Jersey.
The settlers on Staten Island were trembling in hourly expectation of an assault.

War's devastating surges of flame and blood swept nearly the whole island of Manhattan.

Bold men ventured to remain well armed, upon a few of the farms, or _boweries_ as they were called, in the immediate vicinity of the fort, but they were continually menaced with attack, night and day.

A _bowery_ was a farm on which the family resided.