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3 Notes, p. 48.

"But so it was, that by one & two at a time most of these eight Indians (& four more sent afterwards on the same account) were let loose by night, which so exasperated the commonality that about the 10th of September, at 9 o'clock at night, there gathered together about 40 men (some of note) & came to the house of Capt. James Oliver; two or three of them went into his entry to desire to speak with him, which was to desire him to be their leader, & they should join together & go break open the Prison, & take one Indian out thence & hang him: Capt. Oliver hearing their request, took his cane & cudgelled them stoutly, & so for that time dismist the company." The London Letters, 25, 27; - The writer of which being in Boston at the time, ought to have been correctly informed of all such occurrences.

p. 34.n.

  We at first were not sure that Capt. Mosely was the individual meant but had little doubt of it.   We are now sure.   The following  passage from one of the "Letters to London" renders the fact conclusive.  Towards the latter end of August, Capt. Mosely took eight Indians alive & sent them Prisoners to Boston, who were put in prison there.  These were of the number of Mr. Elliots Indians; (as also many of those Indians that were shipt off  by Capt. Sprague, for the Straits & Cacos.)  These men were at several times tried for their lives & condemned to die.  Meantime, Mr. Elliot & Capt. Guggins pleaded so very hard for the Indians, that the whole council knew not what to do about them.  They hearkened to Mr. Elliot for his gravity, age and wisdom, & also for that he hath been the chief instrument that the lord hath made use of, in propogating the Gospel among the heathen;" &c.  "But for Capt. Guggins, say such a wise council as they should be so overborne by him, cannot be judged otherwise than because of his deity troubling them with his impertinences & multitudinous speeches; insomuch that it was told him on the bench by a very worth person (Capt. Oliver) There present, that he ought rather to be confined among his Indians, than to sit on the bench:  his taking the Indians part so much hath made made [sic] him a byword both among men & boys."