Kieft, unhappy with the reply of the…
February 1643 CE
Kieft, unhappy with the reply of the Council of Twelve, disassembles the council on February 8, 1643.
Some of the Wappingers had taken refuge among the Netherlanders (their presumed allies) when fleeing raiding Mahican from the north.
Kieft now orders the Dutch West India Company soldiers to attack these native encampments at Corlears Hook on the East River and ...