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' Gentlemen in your parts, and hearing nothing but by 

 ' accident, and that in the latter end of the week by fome 

 ' of ours coming from Bofton, informed me that the Indici7is 

 ' were come in to your Town to feek for Peace; and that 

 'there was to be a treaty fpeedily; 149 but the time they 

 ' knew not. I took my Horfe, and upon the Monday fet out 

 ' for Bojlon, expecting the treaty had been at your Town, 

 * as rationally it mould but on Tuefday Night coming to 

 ' Bq/ion, there met with Capt. Eli/ha Andros™ who in- 

 ' formed me that the Place of treaty was Sacaty-hock^ 1 and 

 ' that Capt Alden was gone from Bq/ion four da}*s before I 

 ' came there, and had carryed all the Indian Prifoners 

 ' with him, and that all the Forces were drawn away out 

 'of your parts, except 12 men in your Town, and 12 in 

 ' Pifcaiaqtta, which news did fo amufe me, to fee that wif- 

 ' dom was fo taken from the wife, and fuch imprudence in 

 ' their actions, as to be deluded by Indians ; and to have a 

 ' treaty fo far from any EngliJJi Town, and to draw off the 

 ' Forces upon what pretence foever, to me looks very ill. 

 ' My fear is that they will deliver thofe we have taken, 

 < which if kept would have been greatly for your Security, 

 ' it keeping them in awe, and preventing them from doing 

 ' any hoftile action or mifchief, I knowing that the EngliJJi 

 ' being a broad are very earneft to go home, and the In- 

 ' dians are very tedious in their difcourfes, and by that 

 ' will have an advantage to have their Captives at a very 



H9 See Williamfon's Hift. Me. i : 626. 151 Sagadahoc, the fite of Popham's 

 150 See note 128, ante. convicft-colony, of 1607. 



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