The Esopus Mutiny
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Eight or nine Dutchmen went armed to the place where their comrade was confined, headed by Hendrick Yockams. Capt. Broadhead with seven men marched to them and demanded the occasion of their being in arms. Their lieutenant made answer that they would have the burgher out of the guard. Broadhead commanded them to return with their arms to their houses; their lieutenant replied they would not, but would have the prisoner out of the guard.
Capt. Broadhead with seven men marched to them and demanded the occasion of their being in arms. Their lieutenant made answer that they would have the burgher out of the guard. Broadhead commanded them to return with their arms to their houses; their lieutenant replied they would not, but would have the prisoner out of the guard. One of their party, by name Anthony, a Frenchman, presented his piece against our Captain, being loaded with nine small bullets, and swore if he moved a foot he would fire upon him, and would not be persuaded nor commanded, but did persist in his rebellious actions.
Anthony, a Frenchman, presented his piece against our Captain, being loaded with nine small bullets, and swore if he moved a foot he would fire upon him, and would not be persuaded nor commanded, but did persist in his rebellious actions. They sent for Capt. Thomas Chambers, who lived outside the stockade, thinking he would have headed them, but he would not; but commanded them to return with their arms to their houses. They continued under arms until about nine in the evening, threatening that they would fetch the burgher out by force that night, and villifying us with our small party of men, saying, “What is fifteen or sixteen men to seventy or eighty?” as continually they have done from the beginning.
Capt. Thomas Chambers, who lived outside the stockade, thinking he would have headed them, but he would not; but commanded them to return with their arms to their houses. They continued under arms until about nine in the evening, threatening that they would fetch the burgher out by force that night, and villifying us with our small party of men, saying, “What is fifteen or sixteen men to seventy or eighty?” as continually they have done from the beginning. Another of the rebellious party by name of Albert Hymons, the chief instigator of the first rising, gave out speeches in the hearing of the soldiers that “if he had been in command he would not have left one English soldier alive in the Esopus.”
Albert Hymons, the chief instigator of the first rising, gave out speeches in the hearing of the soldiers that “if he had been in command he would not have left one English soldier alive in the Esopus.”Tyerk Clausen says the reason why Capt. Broadhead abused him was because he would keep Christmas on the day customary with the Dutch, and not on the day according to the English observation. Capt. Broadhead acknowledged it. De Monts swore that last New Year's Day he had some friends at his house, and Captain Broadhead quarreled with the wife of Harmen Hendricksen, and threw a glass of beer in her face.
Harmen Hendricksen, and threw a glass of beer in her face. The burghers brought into court a paper to excuse their being in arms,-"because Captain Broadhead and the soldiers threatened to burn the town, and all that was in it, and also because Captain Broadhead had committed a burgher to prison, and had misused and cut him, so that his wife and children ran about the town crying that the English had killed their father.”
Jacob Johnson and Claus Clasen sworn and said the reason why Antonio Dalve presented his gun at Capt. Broadhead was because he made to him with his naked cutlass, and threatened therewith to cut him in pieces.
Antonio Dalve presented his gun at Capt. Broadhead was because he made to him with his naked cutlass, and threatened therewith to cut him in pieces. When Capt. Thomas Chambers commanded the Dutch to return to their homes, and they refused, he went to the English guard and told them they were a lot of stubborn rogues, and would not be commanded by him. Whereupon he said he would have nothing to do with said mutinous rogues, and returned to his own house.
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