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 pirit manifeted in Mr. Keith's uggetions prevailed. In a letter from Mr. Cotton to his brother Mather, on the 20th of March following, on another ubject, there is this incidental remark: 'Philip's boy goes now to be old.'" Davis's Morton's Memorial, Appendix, pp. 353–5.

In the winter of 1675–6, Major Waldron, a Commiioner, and Magitrate for a portion of territory claimed by Maachuetts (now included in that of Maine), iued general warrants for eizing every Indian known to be a manlayer, traitor, or conpirator. Thee precepts, which afforded every man a plauible pretext to eize upected Indians, were obtained by everal hipmaters for the mot hameful purpoes of kidnapping and lave-trading. One with his veel lurked about the hores of Pemaquid, and notwithtanding warning and remontrance, ucceeded in kidnapping everal of the natives, and, carrying them into foreign parts, old them for laves. Similar outrages were committed farther eat upon the Indians about Cape Sable, "who never had been in the leat manner guilty of any injury done to the Englih." Hubbard adds to his account of this affair, "the thing alleadged is too true as to matter of Fact, and the perons that did it, were lately committed to prion in order to their further tryal." If the careful reearch of Maachuetts antiquarians can dicover any record of the trial, conviction and jut punihment of thee offenders, it will be an honorable addition to their hitory—far more creditable than the contant reiteration of the tory of "the negro interpreter" in 1646, which has been o long in ervice, "to bear witnes againt y$e$