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 "captives taken in war" were dipofed of in the uual way. The notes which follow are mainly from the official records of the colony, and will be ufficient to how the general current of public opinion and action at that period.

In Augut, 1675, the Council at Plymouth ordered the ale of a company of Indians, "being men, weomen, and children, in number one hundred and twelve," with a few exceptions. The Treaurer made the ale "in the countryes behalfe." Plymouth Records, 173.

A little later the Council made a imilar dipoition of fifty-even more (Indians) who "had come in a ubmiive way." Thee were condemned to perpetual ervitude, and the Treaurer was ordered and appointed "to make ale of them, to and for the ue of the collonie, as opportunity may preent." Ib., 174.

The accounts of the Colony of Maachuetts for receipts and expenditures during "the late War," as tated from 25th June, 1675, to the 23d September, 1676, give among the credits the following:

Plymouth Records,, 401.

There is a peculiar ignificance in the phrase which occurs in the Records—"ent away by the Treaurer." It means old into lavery. ''Mas. Records,'', 5 The tatiftics of the traffic carried on by the