[848]. D. Gookin, “Christian Indians,” in Archeologia Americana, vol. II, p. 435.
[849]. W. Hubbard, History of the Indian Wars in New England (ed. S. G. Drake, 1865), vol. I, p. 50. A more favorable account of the Alexander incident is given in a letter from John Cotton to Increase Mather, in 1677. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VIII, pp. 233 f.
[850]. Plymouth Records, vol. IV, pp. 25 f.
[851]. Ibid., pp. 165 f.
[852]. Ibid., vol. V, p. 79. The accusations against him are on p. 78. These were only that he had refused to deliver some of his guns; that, on occasion, he had refused to journey to Plymouth when sent for; that he harbored enemy Indians; that he had misrepresented Plymouth to Massachusetts; and that he had been uncivil.
[853]. Cf. Winslow's letter of justification in Hubbard, Indian Wars, vol. I, pp. 56 f., and “Narrative of the Beginning of the War,” in Acts United Colonies, vol. II, pp. 362 f.
[854]. Massachusetts Records, vol. V, pp. 59 ff.
[855]. Acts United Colonies, vol. II, pp. 324, 319, 340 ff.
[856]. Cf. Massachusetts Records, vol. V, p. 47; S. G. Drake, Old Indian Chronicle (Boston, 1836), p. 8; G. M. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (Leominster, 1896), pp. 45 ff.
[857]. Acts United Colonies, vol. II, p. 359.