[537] Ellis and Morris, _King Philip’s War_, p. 287; Baylies, _op. cit._, ii, pt. iii, p. 190. In at least one instance, provision against their being sold as slaves was made by the Indians in the terms of their surrender. When the squaw-sachem, Awanthonks, deserted the cause of Philip and allied herself with the English, she obtained a promise from the Plymouth government “that the life of every man, woman and child shall be spared, and none shall ever be sold as slaves, or transported from their native soil.” Hough, _op. cit._, p. 20; Drake, _The Book of the Indians_, ninth edition, p. 252; Freeman, _Civilization and Barbarism_, p. 129. [538] Shurtleff, _op. cit._, v, p. 136; _Plymouth Colony Records_, v, pp. 207, 223. [539] _Connecticut Colonial Records_, ii, 1665–1677, pp. 297–298. Indians convicted of having murdered any of the English were to be put to death, as in Massachusetts and Plymouth. [540] _Connecticut Colonial Records_, ii, 1665–1677, pp. 481–482. At this meeting the council granted liberty to ten Indians who had been captured in a swamp where they had hidden. [541] _Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England_, i, p. 243; Richman, _Rhode Island, its Making and its Meaning_, ii, p. 192. [542] _Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations_, ii, p. 534. [543] “Because it is said they were left as hostages to the English force of the United Colonies.” Hough, _op. cit._, p. 186. [544] Action was taken in accordance with the powers granted in the charter “to exercise the law martial in such cases as occasions shall necessarily require, and upon just cause, to invade and destroy the native Indians and other enemies of the said colony.” Hough, _op. cit._, p. 173 _et seq._ [545] _Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations_, ii, pp. 549–551. [546] _Early Records of the Town of Portsmouth_, p. 188. Rhode Island was accustomed to sell both whites and Indians into temporary servitude as punishment for crime. The Indians here mentioned were probably examples of such cases. See _Rhode Island Tracts_, No. 18, p. 131. The towns appears to have reversed its policy later. See Weeden, _Early Rhode Island_, etc., p. 178. It was politic for the colonial governments to oppose the enslavement of Indians who were friendly to the English or in alliance with them. Two such instances are recorded in connection with North Carolina. In 1713, at the request of the governor of New York, the Seneca Indians sent an Indian to the Tuscarora to caution them against going to war with the English. The South Carolina Indians captured this Indian and held him as a slave. The council decided to buy him and send him back to his own nation. _North Carolina Colonial Records_, ii, pp. 1–2. In the same year the council ordered that a colonist who had sold a friendly Indian as a slave should be held for trial. _Ibid._, ii, p. 55.