Again: "The comissioners doe charge Ninnigrett with breach of couenant _and high neglect of theire order sent them by Major Willard six yeares since not to Inuade the longe Iland Indians;_ and doe account this surprising the longe-Iland Indians att Gull Iland and murthering of them to be an insolent carriage to the English and a barbarous and inhumaine acte; therefore the comissioners _haue proeuided for his entertainment at longe-Iland_ if hee shall dare further to attempt vpon them before hee hath satisfied the comissioners of the justnes of his quarrell, ordering the English there to assist the Indians and driue him from thence." It will be recollected, that Ninigret had always disclaimed the right of the English to interfere in this contest with his neighbors, though he explained to them, so far as to justify himself on the ground of having been first aggrieved and attacked by his enemy. More recently he had chosen--probably for the sake of keeping peace with the English--to make complaints to them; but because he had failed to prove them (--and no doubt they were mostly incapable of being proved, in their very nature--) the commissioners had taken no other notice of his suit than to send Thomas Stanton and others to reprimand him at once for his present insolence and his old sins. Still, he was not utterly discouraged, for he did not invariably fail of having justice done him. In 1662, the commissioners being informed of his intention to sell a certain tract of land in his actual possession, which was nevertheless claimed by one Harmon Garrett, they sent to him--not a message of threats by Thomas Stanton--but "a writing vnder theire hands sertifying the said Harmon Garrett's claime, which being made knowne to Ninnigrett, the said Ninnigrett by his Messengers to the comissioners att theire last meeting att Plymouth made claime to the said land, and Refered the Determination therof to the next meeting of the court att Boston, _desireing that notice might bee given to the said harmon Garrett att the said Meeting of the comissioners to apperr._"