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Mr. Lowell Mr. Lusher Mr. Henry Short Mr. Chickering Mr. Mathew Boyse Mr. Willard Mr. Edwd. Carleton Mr. Hayne Mr. Danl. Denison Mr. Hawkins Mr. John Tuttle Mr. Tyng Mr. Joseph Bachelor Mr. Weld Mr. Nicholas Norton Mr. Johnson Mr. Emanuel Downing Mr. Glover Mr. William Hathorne Mr. Duncan Mr. Robt. Bridges Mr. Casse Mr. Edwd. Tomlins Mr. Peter Bracket Mr. Robt. Sedgwick Mr. Torrey Mr. Edwd. Sprague Mr. Hollister Mr. Geo. Cook Mr, Ames Mr. Saml. Shepard Mr. Joshua Hubbard Mr. Mahue Mr. Stephen Winthrop Mr. Mason of our own We have & by these presents do voluntarily & without any constraint or persuasion, but of our own free notion, put ourselves, our subjects, our lands. & estated under the govt. & jurisdn. of Mas. to be govnd. & protected by them according to their just laws & orders, so far as we shall be made capable of understanding them, & all do promise for ourselves & all our subjects, & all our posterity to be true & faithful to the Sd. gov't. & aiding to the maintainance there of, to our best ability. And from time to time to give speedy notice of any conspiracy attempt or cruel intention of any that we shall know or hear of agt. the same. And we do promise to be willing from time to time to be instructed in the knowledge of god. In witness whereof we have hereunto put our hands the 8th day of the 1st month 1643/4.

                                                                                                                                                                             Massanomit*
                                                                                                                                                                             Kutshamaquin  t
                                                                                                                                                                             Squaw Sachem
                                                                                                                                                                             Nashoonon  I
                                                                                                                                                                             Wassamaquin
* The same called Mascomono in the Hist. N. Eng.   t Cutshannekin, Winthrop.     I Nashacowam, Wint. ib.