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 hould have their lives pared, and none of them transported out of the country. In one intance, narrated by the famous Captain Church himelf, no les than "eight core perons" were "without any regard to the promies made them on their urrendering themelves, carried away to Plymouth, there old and transported out of the country." Church, 23, 24, 41, 51, 57. Baylies, in his Memoir of Plymouth Colony, Part, pp. 47, 48, gives ome additional particulars of this affair.

"After the detruction of Dartmouth, the Plymouth forces were ordered there, and as the Dartmouth Indians had not been concerned in this outrage, a negotiation was commenced with them. By the peruaions of Ralph Earl, and the promies of Captain Eels, who commanded the Plymouth forces, they were induced to urrender themelves as prioners, and were conducted to Plymouth. Notwithtanding the promies by which they had been allured to ubmit, notwithtanding the earnet, vehement, and indignant remontrances of Eels, Church, and Earl, the government, to their eternal infamy, ordered the whole to be old as laves, and they were tranported out of the country, being about one hundred and ixty in number. So indignant was Church at the commiion of this vile act, that the government never forgave the warmth and the bitternes of his expreions, and the reentment that was then engendered induced them to withhold all command from this brave, kilful, honet, open-hearted and generous man, until the fear of utter detruction compelled them, ubequently, to entrut him with a high command. This mean and