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552:. As the Munsee gathered at the riverbank that evening, Henrick van Dyck, who may have triggered the occupation by killing a Munsee woman, was wounded in the chest by an arrow. Van Tienhoven urged the militia to open fire on the Munsee. In the ensuing skirmish, three Munsee and three inhabitants of New Amsterdam were killed. The Munsee immediately retaliated with attacks on Pavonia and Staten Island, resulting in many deaths. More than 100 colonists, mostly women and children, were taken captive but were subsequently ransomed.
544:, van Tienhoven seduced a young woman named Liesbeth Croon. Van Tienhoven went to great lengths to keep the relationship a secret, but when the affair became known, he smuggled Liesbeth aboard ship and returned to New Amsterdam. Liesbeth is said to have only discovered that van Tienhoven was married with three children when his wife Rachel met the ship at the dock.
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Company also concluded that van Tienhoven was to blame: "Whoever considers only his last transaction with the savages, will find, with clouded brains, filled with liquor, he was the prime cause of this dreadful massacre." In March 1656, the directors ordered Cornelis
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Nicasius de Sille in a letter to Hans Bontemantel, a director of the West India Company wrote: "...the community and the householders who have sought refuge here, call for revenge and murder against the fiscal and two or three others, whom they loudly proclaim by
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bookkeeper in 1633 on the same ship as the new director of the colony, Wouter van
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to argue against it. The right to establish a local government, however, was granted, and van
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