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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 did [?] 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.