The accounts do not agree. _Cf._ Mason, “A brief History of the Pequot War,” _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, Series II, vol. VIII, p. 134; Underhill, “Newes from New England,” p. 16; Gardiner, “Relation,” p. 149. Footnote 486: Mason, “Brief History,” p. 137; P. Vincent, “A true Relation,” _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, Series III, vol. VI, p. 38. Footnote 487: Mason says 600 to 700 (“Brief History,” p. 141); Underhill, 400 (“Newes from New England,” p. 25); Gardiner, 300 (“Relation,” p. 150). Mason's account throughout is the most accurate. The English, carrying their wounded, retreated to the ships,—which fortunately had come into Pequot Harbor,—as the savages from the smaller village were hampering their movements. With the vessels had also arrived Captain Patrick and forty men from Massachusetts, that colony having voted one hundred and sixty, and Plymouth sixty, although too late to take part in the expedition. The bulk of the Pequot nation was now destroyed, and it remained only to make an end of the few hundred who had thus far escaped. Sassacus, the sachem, being repudiated by his own followers, fled with seventy warriors to the Mohawks, and the English indefatigably ran down detached parties. In a swamp twenty miles from the Dutch line, eighty of the Pequots' “stoutest men,” with two hundred old people, women, and children, made a last stand. After being subjected to the fire of the English for some hours, the two hundred non-combatants surrendered, while the warriors fought to the last man, twenty finally escaping through the surrounding lines. The other savages turned against the all but annihilated Pequots, and “happy were they,” wrote Mason, “that could bring in their heads to the English: Of which there came almost daily to Windsor or Hartford.” In all, during the campaign, over seven hundred were killed or made captive.[488] Footnote 488: _Massachusetts Records_, vol. I, p. 192; _Plymouth Records_, vol. I, p. 60; Mason, “Brief History,” pp. 141, 148; J. Winthrop, _History_, vol. I, p. 279. [Illustration: Document signed by Uncas and his Squaw Original in Massachusetts Historical Society ]