[25] It is stated in Winthrop's Journal [p. 147 and after], that four servants of Plymouth were condemned and hung upon their own confession of having murdered an Indian to obtain his wampum.
[26] In the tomb, apparently of a chief, in the Grove Creek Mound, 1700 beads were found around the remains of a skeleton, and such deposits are frequently found in opening old graves.
[27] Winthrop, I, 113.
[28] Bradford's Letters, Mass. Hist. Collections, III, 54.
[29] Doc. Rel. to Colonial History of New York, I, 459.
[30] Lawson's History of North Carolina, ed. of 1714, page 315.
[31] Rhode Island Colonial Records, I, 130.
[32] Winthrop, pages 147, 149 and 192.
[33] Thompson's Long Island, page 62.
[34] Hazard, II, page 413.