John Underhill, hired by the Dutch, attacks and burns a sleeping village of Lenape (possibly the Siwanoy and Wechquaesgeek bands of the Wappinger Confederacy), killing 500-700 Indians. The killings occur at a winter village of the Indians located in present-day Pound Ridge, in Westchester County, New York. Underhill relentlessly fulfills his bloody reputation as the “scourge of the Indians” and exercises his fundamental Puritan belief that “Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents.” Dutch navigator Captain David Pieterszoon describes Underhill’s slaughter in his journal: “Infants were torn from their mother’s breasts, and hacked to pieces in the presence of their parents, and pieces thrown into the fire and in the water, and other sucklings, being bound to small boards, were cut, stuck, and pierced, and miserably massacred in a manner to move a heart of stone. Some were thrown into the river, and when the fathers and mothers endeavored to save them, the soldiers would not let them come on land but made both parents and children drown….” (http://www.montaukwarrior.info/?page_id=277)