Note [437 — Chapter V
Reading edition
[437]
Winthrop,
Journal History of New England
, i, p. 225, in
Original Narratives of Early American History
; Hubbard,
A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New England
, p. 42. They were carried into the harbor and drowned. Mather,
Magnalia
,, edition of 1820, ii, p. 483.
It has been stated that Massachusetts made no effort to retain the captive male Pequot as slaves because of the admonition given in Leviticus, xxiv, 44, that the heathen of the land in which the Israelitish people dwelt were not to be enslaved, but only those “that were round about them”—the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Syrians, whose utter extermination had not been expressly decreed. Historical Magazine, x, p. 49.7