entertain, protect, or reſcue the offender." The order further proceeds: "And, becauſe it will be chargeable keeping Indians in priſone, and if they ſhould eſcape, they are like to prove more inſolent and dangerous after, that upon ſuch ſeazure, the delinquent or ſatisfaction be againe demanded, of the Sagamore or plantation of Indians guilty or acceſsory as before, and if it be denyed, that then the magiſtrates of the Juriſdiccon deliver up the Indians ſeaſed to the party or parties indamaged, either to ſerve, or to be ſhipped out and exchanged for Negroes as the cauſe will juſtly beare." Plymouth Records, ix., 71.
The Commiſſioners themſelves were not blind to the ſeverity of this proceeding, although they alleged that it was "juſt."
There are here two features of hiſtorical importance which the reader will not fail to notice, viz., the export for trade of Indians for Negroes, and the meaſure of "juſtice" in thoſe days between the coloniſts and the natives.
It may be obſerved that in theſe notes we have not drawn the lines between the Plymouth Colony and that of the Maſſachuſetts Bay. In this connection they may juſtly be regarded as one; indeed, they cannot be ſeparated, for in theſe and ſimilar proceedings, to quote a ſignificant proverb of that day, "the Plymouth ſaddle was always on the Bay horſe."
In 1658, June 29, certain perſons were puniſhed by fines by the County Courts at Salem and Ipſwich for attending a Quaker meeting and otherwife "syding with the Quakers and abſenting themſelves from the publick ordinances." Among them were two children,
