The colony grew and the situation remained relatively peaceful until 1655, when Pavonia was attacked by a united band of approximately five hundred Lenape. One hundred settlers were killed. One hundred and fifty were taken hostage and held at Paulus Hook until their release could be negotiated. This incident is known as the Peach Tree War, and is said to have been precipitated by the killing of a young woman who had stolen a peach from a settler's orchard on Manhattan, but may have been a retaliation for the Dutch attack on the Lenape trading partners in the Delaware Valley in New Sweden.