THE TOWN OF GREENBURGH. 267 



The sachems of this town subsequently committed further depreda- 

 tions, and probably armed several of the sixty-four war canoes that at- 

 tacked and ravaged the country around Manhattan during the absence 

 of Stuyvesant in 1655.* 



For on the 6th of March, 1660, we find Ackhongh, the chief and 

 counsellor of Weecquaesqueeck, appearing in the city of New Amster- 

 dam, before the Director General and Council, to treat for peace. 6 



On the 10th of July, 1663, during the negotiation between Connecti- 

 cut and the Dutch, a furious war was raging in the neighborhood of 

 Esopus. The insurgent tribes were headed by five warlike chiefs, viz. : 

 Pennyraweck, Sewekenamo, Wapperonk, Caelcop and Mekarowe, who 

 threatened not only the extinction of the Dutch villages, but also their 

 allies, the Weeckquaesqueeck 's. In dread of the threatened invasion, we 

 find the chiefs of this town repairing to New Amsterdam on the 26th 

 of July, 1663. "Souwenaro, sachem of Weeckquaesqueeck, came of 

 his own accord, with his brother and asserted that he was warned by a 

 Wappinger Indian, that the Esopus Indians intended to come down, 

 within five or six days, with forty or fifty men to kill them, with the 

 Dutch of New Harlaem and other places, and those of the New Village ; 

 he told them he, with his people, took therefore their flight near Har- 

 laem. He notified them of it, and why they came, so that those of New 

 Harlaem should not be intimidated. 



" He said, further, that he warned those at New Harlaem, and re- 

 quested we would do the same to the people in that neighborhood, and 

 warn those on the General's farm (Bowery). Souwenaro also stated 

 that his people were only eighty strong, which could bear arms, and that 

 they had, consequently, left their fort at Weeckquaesqueeck, and had 

 retired into the woods to defend themselves."" 



This war with the Esopus Indians lasted till November, 1663, when a 

 peace was concluded. In the Fall of the same year, Sept. 15, 1663, ap- 

 peared in the fort, Schoumenarack, chief of Weeckquaesqueeck, solicit- 

 ing for himself and his men to go fishing unmolested near the village of 

 Harlaem, which was granted on condition that they shall not come with 

 arms near the Dutch dwellings, and that it may be known, with full cer- 

 tainty, that they were his savages, and not some of Esopus ; so was de- 

 livered to him a seal (signet) of the Dutch Company, printed on wax, in 

 small billets, which might be shown in meeting Dutchmen, on the day 

 as above. 



a Bancroft's Hist. U. S. ii, p. 299. 

 b Alb, Rec. xxi. p. 247. 

 <c Alb. Rec. xxi, 247. 



