They returned to Providence, and on the 7th of March, 1637–8, the following instrument was drawn up, and signed by nineteen individuals, all but two of whom were named in the act to disarm certain citizens of Massachusetts: “We, whose names are underwritten, do swear, solemnly, in the presence of Jehovah, to incorporate ourselves into a body politic, and as he shall help us, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those most perfect and absolute laws of his, given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby. THOMAS SAVAGE, WILLIAM DYER, WILLIAM FREEBORNE, PHILIP SHERMAN, JOHN WALKER, RICHARD CARDER, WILLIAM BAULSTONE, EDWARD HUTCHINSON, Sen. HENRY BULL, RANDALL HOLDEN, WILLIAM CODDINGTON, JOHN CLARKE, WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, JOHN COGGESHALL, WILLIAM ASPINWALL, SAMUEL WILBORE, JOHN PORTER, EDWARD HUTCHINSON, Jr. JOHN SANFORD.” By the friendly assistance of Mr. Williams, Aquetneck and other islands in the Narraganset Bay, were purchased of the sachems, Canonicus and Miantinomo, on consideration of forty fathoms of white beads. The deed of cession was signed by the sachems, March 24, 1637–8.[179] The natives who resided at Aquetneck soon after agreed, on receiving ten coats and twenty hoes, to remove before the next winter.[180]