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[435] These Indians had never forgotten the seizure of twenty-seven of their number by Thomas Hunt who had been in Smith’s expedition of 1614, and were, in consequence, always antagonistic to the whites. As the result of their depredations, the Connecticut general court, May 1, 1637, declared an offensive war against them. See copy of the court record in Orr, History of the Pequot War, etc., p. ix. Mason records that one cause of not pursuing the Indians farther was the Sabbath coming on. Mason, A Brief Narrative of the Pequot War, in Orr, op. cit., p. 34.