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Indians Crazed Indian without Order and measure, insomuch that accord- 

 ing to the complaint sent to me by master Dickestean 

 with advice to present it to your honour, the 26 of the 

 last month there was about twenty Indians so furious by 

 druukeness that they fought like bears and fell upon one 

 called Eemes who is appointed for preaching the Gospel 

 amongst them. He had been so much disfigured by his 

 wonds that there is no hope of his recovery." Bondet 

 then goes on to beg his reader to interpose and maintain 

 ''the honour of God in a Christian habitation" and give 

 comfort to "some honest souls which being incompatible 

 with such abominations feel every day the burden of 

 afliction of their honourable peregrination aggravated." 



But no steps appear to have been taken to suppress the 

 evil on the part of the authorities, for two years later 

 Andre Sigourney made the following deposition : 



No Help— Andr6 Sigourney ages of about fifty years doe affirme that the 28 



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ing day of nouember last he was with all the others of the %nllage in the 



mill for to take the rum in the hands of Peter Canton and when they 

 asked him way hee doe abuse soe the Indiens in seleing them liquor to 

 the great shame and dangers of all the company hee sd Canton an- 

 swered that itt was his will and hee hath right soe to doe and asking 

 him further if itt was noe him how make soe many Indiens drunk he 

 did answer that hee had sell to one Indien and one squa the valew of 

 four gills and that itt is all upon wch one of the company named 

 EUias Dupeux told him that hee have meet an Indien drunk wch have 

 get a bott fooll and said that itt was to the mill how sell itt he an- 

 swered that itt may bee trueth. 



Pn"e^sti^°ncite The scttlers had real cause for alarm when, in the 

 to Murder summer of 1694, a baud of Indians set on by the Canadian 

 priests, brutally murdered the young daughter of one of 

 the villagers named Alard, and carried off two little chil- 

 dren. Other depredations followed, and the whole line 

 of the outlying English colonies was threatened by the 

 attacks of roving bands of Canadian Indians accompanied 

 by Jesuit missionaries. The inhabitants of Oxford were 

 continually stirred by the news of some bloody foray ; 



