The scattered settlements there numbered about ninety souls.

There were eleven farms in a high state of cultivation, and several plantations.
The settlers had received warning of their danger, perhaps by the flames and musketry of Hoboken and Pavonia, perhaps by some messenger from fort Amsterdam.

Sixty-seven of them succeeded in reaching some stronghold where they were able to defend themselves.

The rest, twenty-three in number, were cut off by the savages.

The buildings of twenty-eight farms and plantations were laid in ashes and the crops destroyed.
For three days these merciless Indians had free range, with scarcely any opposition.