joined the Engliſh in its proſecution, and received a part of the priſoners as ſlaves, for their ſervices. Miantunnomoh received eighty, Ninigret was to have twenty. Mather ſays of the principal engagement, "the captives that were taken were about one hundred and eighty, which were divided between the two Colonyes, and they intended to keep them as ſervants, but they could not endure the Yoke, for few of them continued any conſiderable time with their masters." Drake, 122, 146. Mather's Relation, quoted by Drake, 39. See alſo Hartford Treaty, Sept. 21, 1638, in Drake, 125. Drake's Mather, 150, 151.
Captain Stoughton, who aſſiſted in the work of exterminating the Pequots, after his arrival in the enemy's country, wrote to the Governor of Maſſachuſetts [Winthrop] as follows: "By this pinnace, you ſhall receive forty-eight or fifty women and children. … Concerning which, there is one, I formerly mentioned, that is the faireſt and largest that I ſaw amongſt them, to whom I have given a coate to cloathe her. It is my deſire to have her for a ſervant, if it may ſtand with your good liking, elſe not. There is a little ſquaw that Steward Culacut desireth, to whom he hath given a coate. Lieut. Davenport alſo deſireth one, to wit, a ſmall one, that hath three ſtrokes upon her ſtomach, thus: — ||| +. He deſireth her, if it will ſtand with your liking. Soſomon, the Indian, deſireth a young little ſquaw, which I know not." MS. Letter in Maſs. Archives, quoted by Drake, 171.
An early traveller in New England has preſerved for us the record of one of the earlieſt, if not, indeed, the very firſt attempt at breeding of ſlaves in Amer-
