HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. 



interview which he asserts to have been held between 

 Philip and some Rhode-Islanders just before the outbreak. 

 He says:* — 



" [Philip] came himfelf unarmed, and about 40 of his Men armed. 

 Then 5 of us went over [Trip's Ferry], 3 wear Magiftrates. We 

 fate veri friendly together. We told him our bifnes was to indever 

 that they might not refeue or do Rong. They faid that was well ; they 

 had dun no Rong, the Englifh ronged them. We faid we knew the 

 Englifh faid the Indians ronged them, and the Indians faid the Englifh 

 ronged them, but our Desier was the Quarrell might rightly be defided, 

 in the beft Way, and not as Dogs defided their Quarrells. The 

 Indians owned y? fighting was the worft Way ; then they propounded 

 how Right might take Place. We faid by Arbitration. They faid 

 that all Englifh agreed againft them, and so by Arbitration they had 

 had much Rong ; mani Miles fquare of Land fo taken from them, for 

 Englifh would have Englifh Arbitrators ; and once they were perfuaded 

 to give in their Arms yt thereby Jealoufy might be removed, and the 

 Englifh having their Arms wold not deliver them as they had promifed, 

 untill they confented to pay a ioo L , and now they had not fo much fum 

 or muny ; y* thay wear as good be kiled as leave all ther Liueflyhode. 



" We faid they might chufe a Indian King, and the Englifh might 

 chufe the Governor of New Yorke, y? nether had cafe to fay either 

 wear Parties in the Diferance. They faid they had not heard of y? 

 Way, and faid we oneftly fpoke, fo we wear perfwaided if y? Way had 

 bine tendered they would have acsepted. We did endeavor not to hear 

 their Complaints, faid it was not convenient for us now to confider of, 

 but to indever to prevent War ; faid to them when in War againft Eng- 

 lifh, Blood was fpilt, y! ingaged all Englishmen, for we wear to be all 

 under one King ; we knew what their Complaints wold be, and in our 

 Colony had removed some of them in fending for Indian Rulers in 

 what the Crime concerned Indians Lives, which they veri lovingly 



* A Relation of the Indyan Warr, by Mr. Easton, &c, pp. 7-16. 

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