[18] Ibid.
[19] Ibid., p. 66. The Narragansetts’ name for the Englishmen was “knive men”; Williams, p. 176.
[20] Willoughby, p. 243.
[21] Ibid., pp. 243-44; Williams, pp. 72-73.
[22] William Bradford, HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION 1620-1647, II (Boston, 1912), pp. 52-53.
[23] For an example of the Indians’ sentiment toward the embrace of Christianity, the following passage from Wood: “... since the English frequented those parts, they daily fall from his the devil’s colours, relinquishing their former fopperies, and acknowledge our God to be supreame. They acknowledge the power of the Englishmans God, as they call him, because they could never yet have power by their conjurations to damnifie the English either in body or goods; and besides, they say hee is a good God that sends them so many good things, so much good corne, so many cattell, temperate raines, faire seasons, which they likewise are the better for since the arrivall of the English; the time and seasons being much altered in seven or eight years, freer from lightning and thunder, long droughts, suddaine and tempestuous dashes of raine, and lamentable cold Winters.”; William Wood, NEW ENGLAND’S PROSPECT (Boston, 1865), p. 94.
[24] M. K. Bennett, “The Food Economy of the New England Indians,” THE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, LXIII (October, 1955), p. 395.
[25] John Elliot, quoted in Edward Winslow, “The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England,” Massachusetts Historical Society, COLLECTIONS, Ser. 3 IV (Boston, 1834), p. 81.
[26] Willoughby, pp. 297-98.