[484]. Conn. Col. Records, vol. I, p. 9.
[485]. The accounts do not agree. Cf. Mason, “A brief History of the Pequot War,” Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series II, vol. VIII, p. 134; Underhill, “Newes from New England,” p. 16; Gardiner, “Relation,” p. 149.
[486]. Mason, “Brief History,” p. 137; P. Vincent, “A true Relation,” Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series III, vol. VI, p. 38.
[487]. Mason says 600 to 700 (“Brief History,” p. 141); Underhill, 400 (“Newes from New England,” p. 25); Gardiner, 300 (“Relation,” p. 150). Mason's account throughout is the most accurate.
[488]. Massachusetts Records, vol. I, p. 192; Plymouth Records, vol. I, p. 60; Mason, “Brief History,” pp. 141, 148; J. Winthrop, History, vol. I, p. 279.
[489]. Ibid., vol. I, p. 279.
[490]. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series IV, vol. VI, p. 95.
[491]. Ibid., p. 225. Other quotations from Williams and others are conveniently gathered in G. H. Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts (New York, 1866), pp. 1-10.
[492]. Text in E. R. Potter, “Early History of Narragansett”; Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, vol. III, pp. 177 f.
[493]. E. Channing, The Narragansett Planters (J. H. U. S., 1886), p. 10; W. E. B. DuBois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade (Harvard Univ. Press, 1916), pp. 27 ff.