Dear & worthy S^r: &c. To let you know somwhat of our affairs, you may understand that y^e Pequents have sent some of theirs to us, to desire our freindship, and offered much wampam & beaver, &c. The first messengers were dismissed without answer; with y^e next we had diverce dayes conferance, and taking y^e advice of some of our ministers, and seeking the Lord in it, we concluded a peace & freindship with them, upon these conditions: that they should deliver up to us those men who were guilty of Stones death, &c. And if we desired to plant in Conightecute, they should give up their right to us, and so we would send to trade with them as our freinds (which was y^e cheefe thing we aimed at, being now in warr with y^e Dutch and y^e rest of their neigbours). To this they readily agreed; and that we should meadiate a peace betweene them and the Narigansetts; for which end they were contente we should give the Narigansets parte of y^t presente, they would bestow on us (for they stood [219][DS] so much on their honour, as they would not be seen to give any thing of them selves). As for Captein Stone, they tould us ther were but 2. left of those who had any hand in his death; and that they killed him in a just quarell, for (say they) he surprised 2. of our men, and bound them, to make them by force to shew him y^e way up y^e river;[DT] and he with 2. other coming on shore, 9. Indeans watched him, and when they were a sleepe in y^e night, they kiled them, to deliver their owne men; and some of them going afterwards to y^e pinass, it was suddainly blowne up. We are now preparing to send a pinass unto them, &c. In an other of his, dated y^e 12. of y^e first month, he hath this. Our pinass is latly returned from y^e Pequents; they put of but litle comoditie, and found them a very false people, so as they mean to have no more to doe with them. I have diverce other things to write unto you, &c. Yours ever assured, JO: WINTHROP. Boston, 12. of y^e 1. month, 1634.