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Massacre Of Indians
had sold his rights to the Company, was known as
Bout's farm, and included all of the upland lying between Communipaw Creek, where the Abattoir stands,
on the south, and the meadows where the engine house
of the Central railroad stands, or Maple street, on the
north. Later the Governor, General Kieft, and the
Council gave him a patent for this farm. The house
was burned in 1643. It was in commemoration of Jan
Evertsen Bout that the circular hill and section of
upland at the mouth of Mill Creek was named Jan de
Lacher's (or John the Laugher's) Hook. In 1636 Cornelis Van Vorst became Superintendent of Pauw's
property and lived in the house built by Pauw at Ahasimus. For several years there was trouble between
the Company and Pauw, which was finally settled by
the Company paying to Pauw 26,000 florins for his interest
in Pavonia.
In February, 1643, about a thousand Indians fleeing from the
Mohawks came to the Dutch for protection. They were
encamped on the upland near the present intersection of Pine
street and Johnston avenue. Here, on the night of February
25th, a party of Dutch soldiers, by order of Governor Kieft,
murdered and brutally mutilated a large number of men,
women and children. The sickening details of this massacre by
white Christians cannot be surpassed by the records of
savage races. This led to serious troubles; all the Indians
united and for a year and a half made war upon the Dutch.
They burned the house at Ahasimus in which the widow and
family of Van Vorst lived. A portion of the farm-house built on
the site of this first house
was still in existence in 1895. Between 1649 and
The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and The Central Railroad Terminal
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