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 mercies towards us, in our prevailing againt his & our enimies"—says:

"The prioners were devided, ome to thoe of y$e$ river [the Connecticut Colony] and the ret to us. Of thee we end the male children to Bermuda, by Mr. William Peirce, & y$e$ women & maid children are dipoed aboute in y$e$ tounes. Ther have now been laine and taken, in all, aboute 700." M. H. S. Coll.,, iii, 360. Compare the order for "dipoing of y$e$ Indian quaws," in ''Mass. Records,'' ., 201.

Bradford's note to the letter quoted above, ays of their being ent to Bermuda: "But y$e$ were carried to y$e$ Wet Indeas."

Hubbard, the contemporary hitorian of the Indian Wars, ays of thee captives, "Of thoe who were not o deperate or ullen to ell their lives for nothing, but yielded in time, the male Children were ent to the Bermudas, of the females ome were ditributed to the Englith Towns; ome were dipofed of among the other Indians, to whom they were deadly enemies, as well as to ourelves." Narrative, 1677, p. 130.

A ubequent entry in Winthrop's Journal gives us another glimpe of the ubject, Feb. 26, 1638.

"Mr. Peirce, in the Salem hip, the Deire, returned from the Wet Indies after even months. He had been at Providence, and brought ome cotton, and tobacco, and negroes, etc., from thence, and alt from Tertugos;" Winthrop,. 254. He adds to this account that "Dry fih and trong liquors are the only commodities for thoe parts. He met there two men-of-war, et forth by the lords, etc., of Providence with letters of mart, who had taken divers