A division of the Indian captives among the allies would tend to draw them nearer to the English. It was for this reason, and because the Indians enslaved at the first division of captives persisted in running away, that all the Indians of the second division were not enslaved. The Indians distributed among the friendly Indians did not become their slaves. In the case of the Narraganset, Roger Williams informed Governor Winthrop, June, 1637, that they did not desire to use the Pequot as slaves, but preferred to treat them kindly, and grant them houses and lands. _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, series 4, vi, p. 195. [439] Winthrop, _Journal_, i, p. 225, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_. [440] Steiner, _History of Slavery in Connecticut_, p. 9, in _Johns Hopkins University Studies_, xi. [441] Morton, _op. cit._, 104; _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, series 4, iii, p. 360. In the Swamp Fight the Indians were attacked by the combined forces of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Hence the division of the captives between the two colonies. [442] Winthrop, _Journal_, i, p. 260, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_; Bradford, _op. cit._, p. 342, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_. [443] Winthrop, _Journal_, i, p. 225, in _Original Narratives of Early American History_. [444] _Calendar of State Papers_, colonial series, i, 1574–1660, p. 278. [445] _Ibid._, i, p. 296. [446] Freeman, _Civilisation and Barbarism_, p. 64, declares that the enslaving of Indians had become a mania with speculators. [447] Williamson, _The History of the State of Maine_, etc., i, p. 531; Drake, _The Book of the Indians_, ninth edition, bk. iii, p. 40. [448] Drake’s Note in Hubbard, _A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New England_, etc., ii, p. 94. [449] Bodge, _Soldiers in King Philip’s War_, p. 209. [450] _Plymouth Colony Records_, v, p. 173. [451] _Ibid._, v, p. 174. [452] Felt, _The Ecclesiastical History of New England_, ii, p. 576. [453] Baylies, _Historical Memoir of New Plymouth_, ii, pt. iii, pp. 47–48; Church, _The History of King Philip’s War_, Dexter edition, p. 147. [454] Baylies, _op. cit._, ii, pt. iii, p. 75. [455] Hough, _A Narrative of the Causes which led to Philip’s Indian War of 1675–1676_, pp. 188–189. [456] _Plymouth Colony Records_, v, p. 173; ix, p. 401. [457] Hough, _op. cit._, p. 25; Felt, _Annals of Salem_, second edition, i, p. 507. [458] _New England Historical and Genealogical Register_, viii, pp. 270–272. [459] Hutchinson, _The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay_, etc., i, p. 306. [460] Ellis and Morris, _King Philip’s War_, p. 287.