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 haynos and crying inn of man-tealing," in behalf of "The Gen$r$al] Co$r$te" of Maachuetts. Hubbard's Narrative, 1677, pp. 29, 30. Williamon's Maine,, 531.

After the death of King Philip, ome of the Indians from the wet and outh of New England who had been engaged in the war, endeavored to conceal themelves among their brethren of Penacook who had not joined in the war, and with them of Oapy and Pigwackett who had made peace.

By a "contrivance" (as Mather calls it) which avors trongly of treachery, four hundred of thee Indians were taken prioners, one half of whom were declared to have been acceories in the late rebellion; and being "ent to Boton, even or eight of them, who were known to have killed any Englihmen, were condemned and hanged; the ret were old into lavery in foreign parts."

Some of thoe very Indians, who were thus seized and old, afterwards made their way home, and found opportunity to atisfy their revenge during the war with the French and Indians known as King William's War. Belknap,, 143, 245. Mather's Magnalia, Book, 55 (699).

firt, the number of laves in Maachuetts was comparatively mall, and their increae was not large until towards the cloe of the eventeenth century. Edward Randolph, in 1676, in an anwer to everal