The history and antiquities of Boston .. . ferred to, asof doubtful justification ; and even then it made the good Robinson ex-claim, 0 that you had christianized some before you had killed any!f Phinehas Pratt left an account of this colony, wdiich he called aDeclaration of the Affairs of the English people that first inhabited NewEngland. He probably had some interest in the patent with Mr. Wes-ton, and did not leave the country with those that went to Monhiggon ;for he says, We bought the south part of the Bay [of Massachusetts]of Aberdecest,J the Sachem of the Indians. It is not certain ho
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . ferred to, asof doubtful justification ; and even then it made the good Robinson ex-claim, 0 that you had christianized some before you had killed any!f Phinehas Pratt left an account of this colony, wdiich he called aDeclaration of the Affairs of the English people that first inhabited NewEngland. He probably had some interest in the patent with Mr. Wes-ton, and did not leave the country with those that went to Monhiggon ;for he says, We bought the south part of the Bay [of Massachusetts]of Aberdecest,J the Sachem of the Indians. It is not certain how or * They were killed at thi-ee different chiefs by Standish, probably at or near Ne-ponset river, those by Westons men, near Wes-saguscus, and another at a place called Aga-wani, perhaps in what is since Wareham.—Pratt in Mathers Relation, 19-20. I From Pratts Relation to Dr. I. Mather, it ap-pears that when the Indians had determined tomake an attack on Wessaguscus, they builtdivers of their wigwams at the end of a great. I V\ \i\C.\\ VM^ swamp, near to the English, tliat they mighteffect their object easily ; that, at tlie same time,a squaw informed the people that Aberkiestwould soon come and kill them all, and also allthose at Plymouth. He soon after actually ap- peared ; but his olyect was to obtain satisfactionfor the corn the English had stolen from them ;that he had a great many times demanded jus-tice, but they had given him none the English took the principalthief, bound him and delivered him to the sa-chem, and requested him to do with him as hepleased, but he w^ould not receive him. Nay,says he, dojustice upon him yourselves, andlet your neighbors do justice upon theirs. Hethen left the place indignantly ; and in theiralciim the English took the thief and executedhim in presence of the Indians. Hence, thatan execution did take place among the English,as has been reported by the historians (thoughgenerally in doubting terms), there
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