ISRAEL AMOS, Secretary.

We also proceeded to discharge the missionary, telling him that he and the white people had occupied our meeting house long enough, and that we now wanted it for our own use.  We likewise gave him notice that we had complained against him to the authorities at Harvard.

Those who had, as we think unlawfully, ruled us hitherto, now awoke in astonishment, and bestirred themselves in defence of their temporal interests.  Mr. Hawley was despatched to the Governor at Worcester, to whom he represented the state of affairs in colors which we cannot acknowledge to have been faithful.  He stated that the Indians were in open rebellion, and that blood was likely to be shed.  It was reported and believed among us that he said we had armed ourselves, and were prepared to carry all before us with tomahawk and scalping knife; that death and destruction, and all the horrors of a savage war, were impending; that of the white inhabitants some were already dead, and the rest dreadfully alarmed!  An awful picture indeed.

However, several weeks previous to this the Governor and Council had been apprised of what was going forward, and had authorised one of the Council to visit the tribe, in order to hold counsel, and if possible, restore peace among them.  But the first of July arrived before he came, and we did even as we had pledged ourselves to do, having in view no other end than the assertion and resumption of our rights.  Two of the whites, indeed, proved themselves enemies to the Indians, by holding themselves in readiness to break up the new government, and daring them to carry it into effect.  They were brothers, and one of them has since gone to his reward.  Their name was Sampson.  They came, in defiance of our resolutions, to take away our wood, in carts.  As I was walking in the woods, I discovered them in the act of removing our property, and called to him who was the owner of the teams to come near me.  He complied, and appeared much agitated as he approached.  I mildly stated to him the views and intentions of the tribe, saying that it was not their design to wrong or harm any man in the least, and that we wished them to desist till we should have had a settlement with the Overseers, after which every thing should be placed upon a proper footing.  I begged them to desist, for the sake of peace; but it was to no purpose.  They said that they knew what they were about, and were resolved to load their teams.  I answered, that the men who owned the wood were resolved to carry their resolutions into force; and asked if they had not seen the notification we had posted up.  One of them replied that he had seen, but had not taken much notice of it.  I again told them that the owners of the wood were at hand, and by the time one of the teams was laden, the Indians came up.  I then asked William Sampson, who was a member of the missionary’s church, if he would, even then, unload his team and wait till things were more quiet;