[354]. Thatcher’s Indian Biography, vol. i. p. 162. Morton, Appendix A. A. p. 425.
[355]. Backus, vol. i. p. 466.
[356]. Mr. Harris soon after went to England, on this business, but the vessel was captured by an Algerine or Tunisian corsair, and he was sold for a slave. His family, in Rhode-Island, redeemed him; by the sale of a part of his property. He arrived in England, but died there. He was an able man, and we may hope, a good man, notwithstanding some infirmities. His quarrels with Roger Williams were very discreditable to them both. On which side the most blame lay, we cannot now decide.
[357]. Backus, vol. i. p. 421.
[358]. In 1679, a fine of five shillings was enacted for “riding gallop in Providence street.” This implies, that the town was becoming populous again, after the Indian war, during which it suffered much. Previously to the war it contained about 500 inhabitants, but many of them removed to Newport. A rate of sixty pounds, ordered in 1679, was apportioned thus: Newport, eighteen; Portsmouth, eleven; Providence, four; Warwick, four; Westerly, four; New-Shoreham, four; Kingstown, six; East-Greenwich, three; Jamestown, six.
[359]. Referring to the great comet of 1680. which was supposed to have approached so near to the sun, as to be heated two thousand times hotter than red hot iron.
[360]. 2 His. Col. viii. p. 196.
[361]. Page 110.
[362]. Backus, vol. i. p. 515.
[363]. She was certainly alive in November, 1679.—Backus, vol. i. p. 478.