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 Everett's Addres at Bloody Brook, 1835; Church, 62, 63, 67, 68.

Well might the poet record his ympathy for their fate—or in view of this phae of civilization and progres, igh for that elder tate, when all were

In the proecution of his admirable hitorical labors, Ebenezer Hazard, of Philadelphia, endeavored to acertain what was done with the on of Philip. He wrote to the late Judge Davis, of Boton, who was unable, at that time, to give a atisfactory anwer. Mr. Hazard died in 1817; but Judge Davis was afterwards enabled to furnih a very intereting account of the affair, derived from documents communicated to him by Nahum Mitchell, Eq.

From thee documents he learned "that the question, whether the boy hould be put to death, was eriouly agitated, and the opinion of learned divines was requeted on the ubject. The Rev. Mr. Cotton, of Plymouth, and the Rev. Mr. Arnold, of Marhfield, gave the following anwer:

"The quetion being propounded to us by our honored rulers, whether Philip's on be a child of