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[470] Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, v, p. 170; Rhode Island Historical Society Publications, new series, i, p. 234. This same town meeting freed certain Indians and gave them the rights of inhabitants, and sentenced others to be shot for crime. Early Records of Providence, viii, p. 12. These Indian captives were carried to the port in a vessel belonging to Providence Williams, son of Roger Williams. Staples, op. cit., p. 172.