Note 46 — Chapter I · THE AMERICAN BACKGROUND
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Gookin, Historical Collection, pp. 145 ff. Another writer, in 1629, says: “The greatest Saggamores about us cannot make above three hundred men, and other lesser Saggamores have not above fifteen subjects, and others neere about us but two.” [Higginson] “New England's Plantation, 1630,” in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Series I, vol. I, p. 122.