[585] Vol. XXX, No. 227 A. of the Massachusetts manuscript records contains a petition, dated September 20, 1676, of one John Harton imprisoned for stealing Indians, asking freedom under bail in order to support his wife and family. [586] Felt, _The Ecclesiastical History of New England_, ii, p. 418. [587] Leaming and Spicer, _The Grants, Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey_, etc., p. 105. [588] _New Hampshire Historical Society Collections_, viii, p. 11. [589] Hewat, _op. cit._, i, p. 126. [590] Margry, _op. cit._, vi, p. 316. [591] _Ibid._, v, pp. 178, 354, 360, 361; _Wisconsin Historical Society Collections_, xvi, p. 332. [592] _South Carolina Historical Society Collections_, v, pp. 166, 460–462; _Narratives of Early Carolina_ (Woodward’s relation of his Westo voyage), p. 133, in _Original Narratives of Early American History; Calendar of State Papers_, colonial series, vii, p. 634. One of the instruments of supply was the Cherokee. Thomas, _The Indians of North America_, etc., p. 96; Logan, _The History of Upper Carolina_, i, p. 174. [593] In 1666 Robert Sanford, secretary of the proprietors, made a voyage from Cape Fear to Port Royal and reported to the proprietors that the Indians of that section were anxious for friendship with the whites “notwithstanding we ... had killed and sent away many of them.” _Robert Sanford’s Relation of his Voyage in 1666_, in _Charleston Year Book_, 1885, p. 292. [594] Rivers, _A Sketch of the History of South Carolina_, etc., appendix, p. 353; _Journal of the Grand Council of South Carolina_, August 25, 1671–June 24, 1680, p. 84. [595] For the character of the Carolina settlers, see McCrady, _The History of South Carolina under the Royal Government_, pp. 297–298. [596] Rivers, _op. cit._, p. 126, holds that but little credit can be given to the assertion that the colonists instigated the tribes against each other for the purpose of trading in their captives. Hewat, _op. cit._, i, pp. 126–127, asserts that the colonists early found out the usefulness to this end of setting one tribe of Indians against another. Lawson, _The History of Carolina_, etc., p. 325, tells of the Coranine Indians inviting the Machapunga Indians to a feast, taking them prisoners and selling them to the English. [597] Rivers, _op. cit._, p. 126; Hewat, _op. cit._, i, p. 127. [598] Hewat, _op. cit._, i, p. 127. [599] French, _op. cit._, pt. iii, p. 36. [600] _Public Records of South Carolina_, 1706–1710, p. 197; _B. P. R. O._, vol. 620. [601] Winsor, _The Mississippi Basin_, etc., p. 133. The English in their turn accused the French of pillaging the traders. [602] Margry, _op. cit._, iv, pp. 406, 507, 516.