erous conduct alienated all the Indians who were doubting, and even those who were ſtrongly prediſpoſed to join the Engliſh."
Eaſton, in his Relation, p. 21, says: "Philip being flead; about a 150 Indians came in to a Plimouth Garriſon volentarly. Plimouth authority ſould all for Slafes (but about ſix of them) to be carried out of the country."
Church's authority from Plymouth Colony to demand and receive certain fugitives (whether men, women, or children) from the authorities of Rhode Iſland government, Auguſt 28, 1676, is printed in Hough's Eaſton's King Philip's War, p. 188. He was "impowered to ſell and diſpoſe of ſuch of them, and ſoe many as he ſhall ſee cauſe for, there: to the Inhabitants or others, for Term of Life, or for ſhorter time, as there may be reaſons. And his actinge, herein, ſhall at all Times be owned and juſtefied by the ſaid Collony."
Nor did the Chriſtian Indians or Praying Indians eſcape the relentleſs hoſtility and cupidity of the whites. Beſides other cruelties, inſtances are not wanting in which ſome of theſe were ſold as ſlaves, and under accuſations which turned out to be utterly falſe and without foundation. Gookin's Hiſt. of the Christian Indians.
Some of them are probably referred to by Eliot, in his letter to Boyle, Nov. 27, 1683, in which he ſays, "I deſire to take boldneſs to propoſe a requeſt. A veſſel carried away a great number of our ſurpriſed Indians, in the times of our wars, to ſell them for ſlaves; but the nations, whither ſhe went, would not
