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satisfied. They sent Captain Pes, taken on Staten island, with 

 propositions of ransom, but tired of waiting for his return they 

 sent further word that in two days they would deliver all their 

 prisoners to the Dutch at Paulus Hook. Pos went back and soon 

 brought fourteen prisoners from the Hackensack camp with the 

 report that the Indians desired some powder and ball in exchange. 

 These Stuyvesant sent with two prisoners, a Wappinger and an 

 Esopus, and promised more on the delivery of the rest of the 

 captives. 



Pos and two others took this message to the Indians, and brought 

 back twenty-eight more prisoners and the intelligence that twenty 

 others would be restored on the receipt of a ransom of powder and 

 ball. Thirty-five pounds of powder and ten staves of lead which 

 were demanded were sent and the prisoners were released. As 

 Stuyvesant believed his people were at fault, he refused to punish 

 the Indians, to the rage of the settlers. Of this outbreak the Long 

 Island Indians denied any part. Indeed it is said that the war party 

 which landed on Manhattan island was on its way to fight these Long 

 Island tribes, and only stopped to avenge the murder by Van Dyck. 

 Had the band been tactfully treated at the time the entire calamity 

 might have been averted. 



From this time on the scene of combat was changed to the Esopus 

 country. The i\Ianhattan, Hackensack, Raritan, and Canarsie seem 

 to have taken little part in these troubles. The English under 

 Richard Nicolls now took possession of Fort Amsterdam, which they 

 called Fort James on September 6, 1664. Treaties were made by 

 the English with all the local Indians and the alliance with the Iro- 

 quois was strengthened. 



Little further trouble was had with the weakening savages who 

 from this time on are rarely heard of as separate bands. Some 

 became incorporated with the so-called " Schaticooks " who were 

 made up of Indians partly from New England, and these often 

 assisted the Mohawks and English against the French. Their 

 descendants may still be seen on the Housatonic river in Connecti- 

 cut.^ Others were incorporated among the Delawares and their 

 descendants are scattered in Canada, Wisconsin and Indian Terri- 

 tory. The name of Manhattan is now only a memory and the people 

 who bore it are lost forever. 



'^See Speck. Anthropological Papers, v. 3, p. 183: "The Mohegan 

 Indians." 



