[426] _North Carolina Colonial Records_, i, p. 815. [427] McCrady, _The History of South Carolina under Proprietary Government_, p. 499. [428] _North Carolina Colonial Records_, i, p. 826. [429] _Ibid._, i, p. 875. [430] _Ibid._, ii, p. iv. [431] _Ibid._, i, p. 826. [432] _Ibid._, ii, p. 30; McCrady, _op. cit._, p. 526; _South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine_, ix, 1908, pp. 33, 39, 41. [433] McCrady, _op. cit._, p. 566; Rivers, _A Sketch of the History of South Carolina_, etc., p. 254; _South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine_, viii, 1908, pp. 28–54. [434] Bassett, _op. cit._, p. 73, in _Johns Hopkins University Studies_, xiv. [435] These Indians had never forgotten the seizure of twenty-seven of their number by Thomas Hunt who had been in Smith’s expedition of 1614, and were, in consequence, always antagonistic to the whites. As the result of their depredations, the Connecticut general court, May 1, 1637, declared an offensive war against them. See copy of the court record in Orr, _History of the Pequot War_, etc., p. ix. Mason records that one cause of not pursuing the Indians farther was the Sabbath coming on. Mason, _A Brief Narrative of the Pequot War_, in Orr, _op. cit._, p. 34. [436] _Ibid._, p. 39. [437] Winthrop, _Journal History of New England_, i, p. 225, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_; Hubbard, _A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New England_, p. 42. They were carried into the harbor and drowned. Mather, _Magnalia_,, edition of 1820, ii, p. 483. It has been stated that Massachusetts made no effort to retain the captive male Pequot as slaves because of the admonition given in Leviticus, xxiv, 44, that the heathen of the land in which the Israelitish people dwelt were not to be enslaved, but only those “that were round about them”—the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Syrians, whose utter extermination had not been expressly decreed. _Historical Magazine_, x, p. 49. [438] Winthrop, _Journal_, i, p. 225, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_; Bradford, _History of Plymouth Plantation_, p. 342, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_. Winthrop states the number of captives as eighty. This is evidently an error, for the sum of those whom he mentions as disposed of is eighty-three. Mason, _op. cit._, in Orr, _op. cit._, p. 39, gives the number of captives as one hundred and eighty.