The armed protest and raids may have been triggered by the murder of a Munsee woman who was stealing peaches from the orchard of Dutch colonist Hendrick van Dyck.

They proceeded to break down doors, ransack houses, and threaten or beat some of the occupants, although no deaths or serious injuries occurred.

The attacks on Pavonia and Staten Island were blamed on the actions of Cornelis van Tienhoven on the evening of the 15th: "Whoever considers only his last transaction with the savages, will find that with clouded brains, filled with liquor, he was a prime cause of this dreadful massacre.

University of Iowa historian Tom Arne Midtrød observed: "If the Natives meant to launch a military attack on New Amsterdam, they could have done far more damage.

Because of their close relationship with the Swedes, the Susquehannock are thought to have encouraged the Munsee to occupy New Amsterdam to force Stuyvesant to abandon his attack on New Sweden.

During negotiations for the release of captives, Captain Adrian Post repeatedly travelled between New Amsterdam and the Hackensack encampment at Paulus Hook.

The Director-General ordered that new settlements include a blockhouse for defence, that alcohol not be to given to Indigenous people nor their muskets repaired, and that trade be restricted to a single location.

[3] In 1656, the Dutch West India Company ordered Cornelis van Tienhoven relieved of his post as fiscal due to "manifold complaints" and allegations of fraud.