The history of King Philip's War

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dren's faft friend. And (by the way) the friendfhip is
maintain'd between them to this day. 185
Then he propofed unto them, that they mould choofe
told
five men to go ftraight with him to Plymouth : They
him, No ; they would not choofe, but he mould take
which five he pleafed: fome complements paffed about it,
at length it was agreed, They fhould choofe Three, and he
Two. Then he agreed, with that he would go back to
the Ifland that Night, and would come to them the next
Morning, and go thro' the Woods to Plymouth. But they
afterwards objected, That this travelling thro' the Woods
would not be fafe for him ; the Enemy might meet with
them, and kill him, and then they fhould lofe their friend,
and the whole deiign ruined befide. And therefore pro-
pofed, That he fhould come in an Englifh VefTel, and they
would meet him and come on board at Sogkonate-point,
185 This was written in 1715 or 1716. each place. [See original printed Rein
June, 1698, Rev. Grindal Rawfon, of port to Comm. for Prop. Go/pel, made
Mendon, and Rev. Samuel Danforth, July 12, 169S.] In 1700 there were faid
of Taunton, " Preachers to the Indians to be 100 Indian men ftill living in
in their own tongue," vifited Little Little Compton. About 1750, a moft
Compton, and reported that they found deftrudtive fever caufed great mortality
two plantations of Indians there, at among them; lb that in 1774 the R. -I.
Saconet and Cokejit (on the borders cenfus reported there only 1 male and
of Dartmouth) ; that Samuel Church, 13 females above 16 yrs., and 5 males
alias Sohcha-cvahham, taught the firft, and 6 females under that age, — 25 in
and had ordinarily 40 hearers, of whom all. In 1803 there were "not more
20 were men; and that, at the fecond, than 10" there. So far as I can learn
Daniel Hinckley taught eleven families in the town, there is not one perfon
twice every Sabbath. A fchoolmafter, with any trace of Indian blood recogniznamed
A/iam, alio labored at Coke/it, able in his veins there now. [1 Mafs.
and there were two Indian rulers at Wft- Coll. ix : 204; x: 114, 119.]
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