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be subscribed by the community ,• that the church should be built in the fort, to guard against any surprise by the Indians. Thus were the walls of the church speedily begun to be laid up with quarry-stone, and to be covered by the English carpenters with slate, or rather with oak-shingles ; which, by exposure to the wind and rain, turn blue, and look as if they were slate.
About the same time a harmless Dutchman, named Claes Eademaker, (wheelwright,) was murdered by an Indian. He lived a short mile from the fort by the Dtnsd-bay, where 'he had built a small house, and had 6et up the-trade of a wheelwright. It was on the road, over which the Indians from Wickquasgeck passed daily. It happened that an Indian carne to this Claes Eademaker, for the purpose of trading beavers with him for duffels-cloth, which goods were in a chest. This chest he had locked up, and stooped down in order to take his goods out, when this murderer, the Indian, geeing that the man had his head bent over into the chest, and observing an axe standing behind him, seized the axe, and struck Claes Eademaker on the neck therewith, who fell down dead by the chest. The murderer then stole all the goods and ran off. The commander sent to Wickquasgeck to inquire why this Dutchman had been so shamefully murdered. The murderer answered that while the foT* was being built, he came with his uncle and another Indian to the freshwater, bringing beavers, in order to trade with the Dutchmen, that some Swannekes (as they call the Netherlanders) came there, took away from his uncle his "beavers, and then, killed him. He was then a small boy, and resolved when he> should grow up, he would revenge that deed upon the Dutch, and since then he had seen no better chance to do so than with Claes Eademaker. Thus these Indians resemble the Italians, being very revengeful. Commander Kieft afterwards made an attempt to send some soldiers there, of whom Van Dyck, the ensign-bearer, had the command, but ip consequence of the darkness of the night, the guides missed the way, and arrived there too late" in the day, so that the attempt failed, and £hey returned again without effecting anything. Another expedition against these Indians was subsequently sent, which also miscarried. "When Commander Kieffc saw that these expeditions against the Indians miscarried, and that trouble would follow3 and found that the people began