About the Year 1631. there fled to the _English_ at _Water-town_ the _Indians_ that dwelt thereabouts, for protection against the _Tarratines_, a sort of cruel and salvage Cannibals, by whom near the Town of _Saugust_, in the very dead time of the Night, one Lieutenant _Walker_ being on a sudden alarm’d, was shot through his Coat and Buff Jacket with two Indian Arrows. That Night the _English_ stood upon their Guard, and the next Morning sent word to other parts; who gather’d together, and taking counsel how to quit themselves of these _Indians_, agreed to discharge their great Guns; whose redoubled noise, ratling in the Rocks, struck terror into the _Indians_, and caus’d them to betake themselves to flight. The Autumn following, others of the _Indians_, who till then had held a good correspondence with the Planters, began to quarrel about the Bounds of their Land; but a great Mortality, by the raging of the Small-Pox, breaking out amongst them, put an end to that Controversie: There died amongst the rest one of the chief of the _Sagamores_ of the _Mattachusets_, call’d _Sagamore John_, who before his Death had been instructed in the _Christian_ Faith, and took care that his two Sons should be nurtured therein. In the Year 1635. there arrived several Ships with great plenty of Provisions, and many Persons of good Quality, and amongst the rest Sir _Henry Vane_. The same Year the People of _Cambridge_, otherwise call’d _New-town_, hearing of a fertile place upon the River _Canectico_, remov’d thither, and erected a new Corporation by the Name of _Banectico_, being encourag’d thereunto by the Lord _Say_ and the Lord _Brooks_, and planting a Forrest at the mouth of the River, call’d it _Saybrook Forrest_. About the Year 1638. the _Pequods_, a stout and Warlike Nation, lying to the South-West of the _Mattachusets_, were discover’d upon their March within some few Miles of _Hartford_: Their coming very much terrifi’d all that inhabited thereabouts; but they took onely three Women and return’d; one of whom making a violent resistance, had her Brains beaten out; the other two they carried away with them, without abusing their Persons, as it was suppos’d they would, for they esteem’d their own _Shaws_, being black, beyond our Women. Their chief Design was to learn to make Gunpowder; which seeing they could not effect, they look’d upon their Prize as nothing so precious as they imagin’d.