HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. 



one of the chief aftors, and a most competent witness, 

 desiring expressly to correct Hubbard, puts an entirely 

 different construction upon the event, and one intrinsi- 

 cally much more in harmony with the probabilities of the 

 case. Mr. Cotton says, — 



" Reports being here, that Alexander was plotting or privy to plots 

 against the English, authority sent to him to come down. He came 

 not. Whereupon Maj. Winslow was sent to fetch him. Maj. Bradford 

 with some others went with him. At Munponset river (a place not 

 many miles hence) they found Alexander with about eight men and 

 sundry squaws. He was there about getting canoes. He and his men 

 were at breakfast under their shelter, their guns being without. They 

 saw the English coming, but continued eating : and Mr. Winslow 

 telling their business, Alexander, freely and readily, without the least 

 hesitancy, consented to go, giving his reason why he came not to the 

 Court before ; viz., because he waited for Captain Willet's return from 

 the Dutch, being desirous to speak with him first. They brought him 

 to Mr. Collier's, that day, and Governour Prince living remote, at East- 

 ham, those few magistrates, who were at hand, issued the matter peace- 

 ably, and immediately dismissed Alexander to return home, which he 

 did, part of the way : but in two or three days after, he returned and 

 went to Maj. Winslow's house, intending thence to travel into the Bay 

 and so home ; but at the Major's house he was taken very sick, and 

 was, by water, conveyed to Mr. Bradford's, and thence carried upon 

 the shoulders of his men to Tetehquet river,* and thence, in canoes, 

 home, and about two or three days after died." 



Upon his decease, his brother Philip \P ometaconi\ 

 reigned in his stead. One of Philip's first a6ls was to 

 renew the ancient covenant between his father and the 



* Titicut, or Taunton Great River, 

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