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4 Notes p. 36 n. (2) Capt. Mosely had been ranging the woods between Lancaster & Marlborough, "where a lad keeping sheep, was shot at by an Indian that wore a sign, as if he had been a friend: the Indian was supposed to belong to the Hassanemedit Indians, at that time confined to Marlborough, where they had liberty to dwell there in a kind of fort. The next day the inhabitants sent to demd. their guns, Capt. Mosely acquainted therewith, marched to the fort & found much suspicion against eleven of them, for singing & dancing & having bullets & slugs, & much powder hid in their baskets." Hubbard, 30.

p. 30, n. 1 "But so it was," says the author of the London Letters, "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 Sept. 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."

 This author is right about the number of Indians accused, & even more circumstantial in his narration than Mr. Gookin.  There was a Squaw among them which neither Hubbard nor Gookin includes.

p. 36, n. 3.

  About the 21 August, 1675, "Capt. Mosely took two Indians, the father & his son, & willing to examine them both apart, proceeded them.  Took the old man & bound him to a tree, after he was so bound, he sent away the son by a file of men out of sight;  The old man there confessed he was a praying Indian, & that he was only hunting for Deer thereabouts, but said his son was one of those men that wounded Capt' Hutchinson.  So then after they had pumped him as hard as they could, they fired a gun with no bullet over his head, untied him, & sent