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 joined the Englih in its proecution, and received a part of the prioners as laves, for their ervices. Miantunnomoh received eighty, Ninigret was to have twenty. Mather ays of the principal engagement, "the captives that were taken were about one hundred and eighty, which were divided between the two Colonyes, and they intended to keep them as ervants, but they could not endure the Yoke, for few of them continued any coniderable time with their masters." Drake, 122, 146. Mather's Relation, quoted by Drake, 39. See alo Hartford Treaty, Sept. 21, 1638, in Drake, 125. Drake's Mather, 150, 151.

Captain Stoughton, who aited in the work of exterminating the Pequots, after his arrival in the enemy's country, wrote to the Governor of Maachuetts [Winthrop] as follows: "By this pinnace, you hall receive forty-eight or fifty women and children. … Concerning which, there is one, I formerly mentioned, that is the fairet and largest that I aw amongt them, to whom I have given a coate to cloathe her. It is my deire to have her for a ervant, if it may tand with your good liking, ele not. There is a little quaw that Steward Culacut desireth, to whom he hath given a coate. Lieut. Davenport alo deireth one, to wit, a mall one, that hath three trokes upon her tomach, thus: — ||| +. He deireth her, if it will tand with your liking. Soomon, the Indian, deireth a young little quaw, which I know not." MS. Letter in Mas. Archives, quoted by Drake, 171.

An early traveller in New England has preerved for us the record of one of the earliet, if not, indeed, the very firt attempt at breeding of laves in