[591]. Cf. letter from the sachems to Massachusetts, 1644, in R. I. Records, vol. I, pp. 136 ff.

[592]. For the causes of the Narragansett “war” of 1645, cf. Acts United Colonies, vol. I, pp. 50 ff. For the war with Ninigret, Ibid., vol. II, pp. 101 ff.

[593]. Conn. Col. Records, vol. I, pp. 119 ff., 266 ff.

[594]. Ibid., pp. 189 ff.

[595]. Acts United Colonies, vol. I, p. 80; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VI, p. 380.

[596]. Acts United Colonies, vol. I, pp. 89 ff.

[597]. Massachusetts Records, vol. II, p. 269. This had been anticipated by Connecticut; Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VI, p. 383.

[598]. Acts United Colonies, vol. I, p. 158.

[599]. Ibid., vol. I, pp. 151 f.

[600]. C. W. Bowen, The Boundary Disputes of Connecticut (Boston, 1882), pp. 19, 53 ff.