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 (in 1637): "Mr. Endecot and my elfe alute you in the Lord Jeus, etc. Wee haue heard of a diuidence of women and children in the bay and would bee glad of a hare, viz.: a young woman or girle and a boy if you thinke good. I wrote to you for ome boyes for Bermudas, which I thinke is coniderable." M. H. S. Coll.,, vi., 95.

In this application of Hugh Peter we have a glimpse of the beginning of the Colonial Slave-Trade. He wanted "ome boyes for the Bermudas," which he thought was "coniderable."

It would eem to indicate that this dipoition of captive Indian boys was in accordance with custom and previous practice of the authorities. At any rate, it is certain that in the Pequod War they took many prioners. Some of thee, who had been "diposed of to particular perons in the country," Winthrop, ., 232, ran away, and being brought in again were "branded on the houlder," ib. In July, 1637, Winthrop ays, "We had now lain and taken, in all, about even hundred. We ent fifteen of the boys and two women to Bermuda, by Mr. Peirce; but he, miing it, carried them to Providence Ile," Winthrop, ., 234. The learned editor of Winthrop's Journal, referring to the fact that this proceeding in that day was probably jutified by reference to the practice or intitution of the Jews, very quaintly oberves, "Yet that cruel people never ent prioners o far." Ib., note.

Governor Winthrop, writing to Governor Bradford of Plymouth, 28th July, 1637, an account of their ucces againt the Pequods—"y$e$ Lords greate