[264]. This letter has no date, nor direction; but it was evidently written to Mr. Winthrop, not long after the preceding letter.
[265]. This letter has no date. It was probably written near the first of December, 1648. It is endorsed, by Mr. Winthrop, “rec’d. Dec’r.”
[266]. This letter is without a date. It was, perhaps, written in March or April, 1649.
[267]. “Concerning.” Though the original of this letter is much torn, the blank following the above word is the only one which I was not able satisfactorily to make out or supply. The fragments of a few letters look more like parts of the word “Nenekunat” (Ninigret) than any other. Between that sachem and Wequashcook, as appears from another letter of Roger Williams, there was a misunderstanding.
G.
[268]. Vol. i. p. 207.
[269]. Providence Records.
[270]. Rev. Mr. Clarke was the founder and pastor of the first Baptist church in Newport. Mr. Holmes was, a short time before these transactions, presented by a grand jury to the General Court at Plymouth, because he and a few others had set up a Baptist meeting in Seekonk. He removed to Newport, and after Dr. Clarke’s death, was his successor, as Pastor. He had, at the time he was imprisoned and whipped, a wife and eight children.
[271]. Backus, vol. i. p. 215.
[272]. Benedict, vol. i. p. 367.