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pointed ruler and Superintendent of all the friendly Indians; record of one of his courts. Philip's War. prejudice against all the Indians; many imprisoned on Deer Island. Gookin and Danforth friendly to the Indians; savage attacks on them, and on the Rev. Mr. Eliot In describing the original settlement of Cambridge by the Enir own use may have had some influence on the populace then, as it has in more recent times. Afterwards, orders were issued for the removal of the Indians to Deer Island; and Gookin relates the manner in which the Natick tribe was removed. In pursuance of this order, Capt. Thomas Prentiss (who was a person civil and friendly toven..... In the night, about midnight, the tide serving, being the 30th of October, 1675, these poor creatures were shipped in three vessels and carried away to Deer Island above mentioned, which was distant from that place about four leagues, where I shall leave them at present. 1 Coll. Amer. Antiq. Soc., II. 473, 474. In May,