[Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. Abbott]@TWC D-Link bookPeter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam CHAPTER VIII 25/35
During this time one hundred of the Dutch were killed, one hundred and fifty were taken prisoners, and more than three hundred were deprived of house, clothes and food.
Six hundred cattle and a vast amount of grain were destroyed.
The pecuniary value of the damage inflicted amounted to over eighty thousand dollars. Such were the consequences which resulted from the folly and crime of one man in shooting an Indian woman who was purloining peaches from his orchard.
Terror spread far and wide.
The farmers with their families, fled from all directions to fort Amsterdam for protection. The feeble settlements on Long island were abandoned in dismay. Prowling bands of savages wandered over the island of Manhattan, burning and destroying.
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