romised, but without any result.

Some weeks after this Miantonimo, principal sachem of Sloops Bay,(1)
came here with one hundred men, passing through all the Indian
villages(2) soliciting them to a general war against both the English
and the Dutch,(3) whereupon some of the neighboring Indians attempted to
set our powder on fire and to poison the Director or to inchant him by
their devilry, as their ill will was afterwards made manifest as well
in fact as by report. Those of Hackingsack, otherwise called Achter Col,
had with their neighbors killed an Englishman, a servant of one David
Pietersen, and a few days after shot dead in an equally treacherous
manner a Dutchman, who sat roofing a house in the colony of Meyndert
Meyndertz,(4) which was established there against he advice of the
Director and will of the Indians, and which by the continual damage
which their cattle committed caused no little dissatisfaction to the
Indians, and contributed greatly to the war. The commonalty began then
to be alarmed, and not without reason, having the Indians daily in their
houses. The murderers were frequently demanded, either living or dead,
even with a promise of reward; they always returned a scoffing answer
laughing at us. Finally, the commonalty, very much displeased with the
Director, upbraided him for conniving with the Indians, and [declared]
that an attempt was making to sell Christian blood;(5) yea, that the
will of the entire commonalty was surrendered to him, and in case he
would not avenge blood they should do it themselves, be the consequences
what they might. The Director advised Pacham the sachem,(6) who
interested himself in this matter, warning him that we should wait no
longer inasmuch as no satisfaction had been given.

(1) I.e., of the Narragansetts.

(2) "Note C. The English Manifest, Page 2." This means
that now rare pamphlet, _A Declaration of Former Passages
and Proceedings betwixt the English and the Narrowgansets_
(Cambridge, 1645), published by order of the Commissioners
of the United Colonies. See its text, and the particular
passage here referred To, in _Records of Plymouth Colony_,
IX. 50.

(3) "Note D. Capt. Patricx letter dated 2 Jan'y, 1642." I
have nowhere seen this letter.

(4) "Note E. The order in the Director's letter and in the
deposition thereupon." See De Vries, p. 215, supra.

(5) "Note F. Resolve of the 12 del