The New York genealogical and biographical record . rview with Lion Gardinerconcerning the nature of his , astonished at the short-sightedstoutly protected against it. saying: YouLhese wasps about my ears, and then youwill take wing and flee away. Gardiner, being a trained soldier, andhaving an intimate knowledge of the Indian character, foresaw the evilthat followed so rash an act, and had his counsels been heeded the Pequotwar might, perhaps, have been averted. Lion Gardiner, although opposed to the step about to be taken byEndicott, believed that if he sent men and boats to
The New York genealogical and biographical record . rview with Lion Gardinerconcerning the nature of his , astonished at the short-sightedstoutly protected against it. saying: YouLhese wasps about my ears, and then youwill take wing and flee away. Gardiner, being a trained soldier, andhaving an intimate knowledge of the Indian character, foresaw the evilthat followed so rash an act, and had his counsels been heeded the Pequotwar might, perhaps, have been averted. Lion Gardiner, although opposed to the step about to be taken byEndicott, believed that if he sent men and boats to accompany the expe-dition against the Pequots, there would, probably, be an opportunity toprocure a supply of corn, a commodity he was in dire need of tor the sus-tenance of the garrison at Saybrook. A conversation he had with Endi-cott and his officers, relative to this project and the plans agreed upon forthe procuring of the corn, is thus described by Gardiner in his Relationof the Pequot Wars : Sirs, seeing you will go, I pray you, if you dont. JOHN LYON GARDINER. policy of Sir Henry Vane,have come hither to raise lS92.] The Gardiner Family and Gardiners Is/and. 16 load your barks with Pequits, load them wifJh corn, for lhat is now gath-ered with them, and dry, ready to put into their barns, and both you andwe have need of it, and I will send my shallop and hire this Dutchmansboat, there present, to go with you. and if you cannot attain your end ofthe Pequits, yet you may load your barks with corn, which will be wel-come to Boston and to me. But they said they had no bags to loadthem with, then said I, here is three dozen of new bags, you shallhave thirty of them, and my shallop to carry them, and six of them my menshall use themselves,, for I will with the Dutchman send twelve menwell provided : and I desired, them to divide the men into three parts,viz. two parts to stand without the corn, and to defend the other one-third part, that carried the corn to the water-side, ti
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