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... . The cause of our war against the Block Islanders , was for taking away the life of one Master John Oldham , who made it his common course to trade amongst the Indians . He coming to Block Island to drive trade with them.
... . The cause of our war against the Block Islanders , was for taking away the life of one Master John Oldham , who made it his common course to trade amongst the Indians . He coming to Block Island to drive trade with them.
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... trade , as they pretended ; watching their opportunities , knocked him in the head , and martyred him most barba- rously , to the great grief of his poor distressed servants , which by the providence of God were saved . This island ...
... trade , as they pretended ; watching their opportunities , knocked him in the head , and martyred him most barba- rously , to the great grief of his poor distressed servants , which by the providence of God were saved . This island ...
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... trade . We used them well , and traded with them , and took them to be such as would not wrong us in the least matter . But our sachem or prince coming aboard , they laid a plot how they might destroy him ; which plot dis- covereth ...
... trade . We used them well , and traded with them , and took them to be such as would not wrong us in the least matter . But our sachem or prince coming aboard , they laid a plot how they might destroy him ; which plot dis- covereth ...
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river , and pretended to trade with us , as the former did . We did not discountenance them for the present , but took our opportunity and came aboard . The sachem's son succeeding his father , was the man that came into the cabin of ...
river , and pretended to trade with us , as the former did . We did not discountenance them for the present , but took our opportunity and came aboard . The sachem's son succeeding his father , was the man that came into the cabin of ...
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... trade with them our enemies , with such commodities as might be prejudicial unto us , and advantageous to them , as ... trade ; and what would they trade for but the English maids ? which he much disliked . Suddenly withdrawing himself ...
... trade with them our enemies , with such commodities as might be prejudicial unto us , and advantageous to them , as ... trade ; and what would they trade for but the English maids ? which he much disliked . Suddenly withdrawing himself ...
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