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 prizes from the Spaniard and many negroes." Long afterwards Dr. Belknap aid of the lave-trade, that the rum ditilled in Maachuetts was "the mainpring of this traffick." M. H. S. Coll.,, iv., 197.

Joelyn ays, that "they sent the male children of the Pequets to the Bermudus." 258. M. H. S. Coll.,, iii. 360.

This ingle cargo of women and children was probably not the only one ent, for the Company of Providence Iland, in replying from London in 1638, July 3, to letters from the authorities in the iland, direct pecial care to be taken of the "Cannibal negroes brought from New England." Sainbury's Calendar, 1574–1660, 278.

And in 1639, when the Company feared that the number of the negroes might become too great to be managed, the authorities thought they might be old and ent to New England or Virginia. Ib., 296.

The hip "Deire" was a veel of one hundred and twenty tons, built at Marblehead in 1636, one of the earliet built in the Colony. Winthrop, ., 193.

In the Pequot War, ome of the Narraganetts