. A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . ater,during the time of Kieft, he deliberately set out oneafternoon to do what he considered his religiousduty. He visited the house of a harmless old wheel-wright who lived some distance out of town and pre-tended that he wanted to trade some beaver skinsfor blankets. AYhile the old man was bending overhis box, the Indian struck him a cowardly blow onthe head with his axe and killed him. This act ledto a terrible war, during which men, women, andchildren were murdered, their houses burned, andtheir farms la
. A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . ater,during the time of Kieft, he deliberately set out oneafternoon to do what he considered his religiousduty. He visited the house of a harmless old wheel-wright who lived some distance out of town and pre-tended that he wanted to trade some beaver skinsfor blankets. AYhile the old man was bending overhis box, the Indian struck him a cowardly blow onthe head with his axe and killed him. This act ledto a terrible war, during which men, women, andchildren were murdered, their houses burned, andtheir farms laid waste. The horrors of this time aretoo awful to repeat, for the Indians, when enraged,inflict the most cruel tortures on their unfortunatevictims. Emily shuddered, Avhile the boys were strangelysilent. Another serious outbreak occurred in Stuy-vesants time, continued the professor. ISTear the A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK 35 present site of Trinity cliiirch, one Van Dyck had afine orchard of peach trees. This fruit was new tothe Indians, and not being able to resist the tempta-. Map of New York in 1642, drawn from the ])est data in his posses-sion by D. T. Valentine, compiler of the citys Manuals. tion of tasting it, they often slipped into the orchardat night and stole a few peaches. This practice sovexed Mrs. Van Dvck that she made her husbandload his gun and watch for intruders. He had notlong to wait. All too soon a slim form crept up toone of the trees and began shaking a limb. Van 36 A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK Dyck, without uttering a word of warning, raised hispiece, aimed and fired. The form dropped andnever stirred again. When Van Djck rushed up tosee the result of his shot, he found at his feet thelifeless form of a young Indian girl. Dearly thecolony had to pay for this hasty action. Over onehundred settlers were killed, one hundred and fiftytaken prisoners, and eighty thousand dollars worthof property destroyed. That was an awful price to give for a fewpeach
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