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THE CHRISTIAN INDIANS. 529 children by them mentioned. And, further, the Councill do hereby declair, that, as they shall be ready to show favour in sparing the lives and liberty of those that have been our enemys, on their comeing in and submission of themselves to the English Government and your disposal, the reality and complacency of the government towards the Indians sufficiently appearing in the provisions they have made, and tranquility that the Pequots have injoyed under them for over forty years ; so also it will not be availeable for any to plead in favour for them that they have been our friends while found and taken among our enemyes. Further the Councill do hereby declare that none may expect priviledge bye his declaration, that come not in and submit themselves in 14 days next coming. By the Council, Edw. Rawson, ClerJce. No. II. — See page 484. For the Honourable the Gouernor and Councill of Massachu- setts Colony ', in New England. May it please your Honours, I am bold at the intreaty of the wife of John Hoare, of Con- cord, to intercede with your honours, on the behalfe of herselfe and husband, (who posibly, upon some consideration, may de- serve no great favours of you,) yet I presume upon arguements of justise and righteousnes ; you will have no respect to persons, but doe that which is equall and right. It is upon this account that I move in this case. It pleased your honours to appoint Major Willard, Mr. El- iot, and myselfe, as your comittee, to ride up to Concord and Chelmsford, about the middle of December last, to endeavour the settlement of the Nashobah Indians, (then at Concord,) under such care and conduct as might quiet and compose men's minds in those parts, at that juncture; yourselves finding, at that time, a great difficulty in that matter, because the Natick and Punkapog Indians being then at the Island, when they were attended with straits for fuelle and victulls, you were not willing to send more thither; now there was no man in Concord appered willing to take care of and secure those Indians, but Mr. John Hoare, whome the Counsill accepted and approved ; vol. ii. 67