ſhould have their lives ſpared, and none of them transported out of the country. In one inſtance, narrated by the famous Captain Church himſelf, no leſs than "eight ſcore perſons" were "without any regard to the promiſes made them on their ſurrendering themſelves, carried away to Plymouth, there ſold and transported out of the country." Church, 23, 24, 41, 51, 57. Baylies, in his Memoir of Plymouth Colony, Part iii., pp. 47, 48, gives ſome additional particulars of this affair.
"After the deſtruction of Dartmouth, the Plymouth forces were ordered there, and as the Dartmouth Indians had not been concerned in this outrage, a negotiation was commenced with them. By the perſuaſions of Ralph Earl, and the promiſes of Captain Eels, who commanded the Plymouth forces, they were induced to ſurrender themſelves as priſoners, and were conducted to Plymouth. Notwithſtanding the promiſes by which they had been allured to ſubmit, notwithſtanding the earneſt, vehement, and indignant remonſtrances of Eels, Church, and Earl, the government, to their eternal infamy, ordered the whole to be ſold as ſlaves, and they were tranſported out of the country, being about one hundred and ſixty in number. So indignant was Church at the commiſſion of this vile act, that the government never forgave the warmth and the bitterneſs of his expreſſions, and the reſentment that was then engendered induced them to withhold all command from this brave, ſkilful, honeſt, open-hearted and generous man, until the fear of utter deſtruction compelled them, ſubſequently, to entruſt him with a high command. This mean and treach-
