and independent enough to speak in our behalf.  Some of these articles shall be given, that it may be seen who were for or against our rights and privileges.  It will be proper to state in the first place, however, that from July 4, to the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas, in September, there was little disturbance upon the plantation.  We thought, from what we heard among the whites that they were inclined to spare no pains to frighten us; but we listened patiently and remained quiet, according to our promise.

In August, we had a four-day meeting, which was the means of much good.  Twelve Indians were redeemed from sin, and during the eighteen months that I have known them, the power of God has been manifested in the conversion of some thirty.  God forbid that I should glorify myself; I only mention the circumstance to show that the Marshpees are not incapable of improvement, as their enemies would have the world suppose.  But, under these circumstances, is it not natural for the Indians to think that their missionaries have cared less for saving their souls than for filling their own pockets, and that their thousands have been expended on them to very small purpose?  I do think that the result of this meeting was in no wise pleasing to our white enemies.

At harvest time the reapers cut their grain and carried it to their granaries.  But they were under the control of their task masters.  A dispute arose.  A woman whose husband was absent, doing business upon the great waters, claimed a portion of the grain, while the overseers maintained that it belonged to them.  She applied for assistance to one of the true proprietors, who, in the presence of five or six men who were with the overseer’s team, unloaded it, and placed the grain where it ought to have been.  I was present and happened to smile at this novel proceeding, which, I suppose was the cause of a prosecution that presently took place for trespass.  My horse had bitten off five or six rye heads in a rye field, for which enormity his owner was obliged to pay ten dollars, though the actual damage was not to the value of six cents.  I will not retort the petty malice which prompted this mean act of revenge, by mentioning names.  I now proceed to mark out the state of public feeling, by some extracts from the newspapers.  The following is from the New Bedford Press, of June 1, 1833: 

    MARSHPEE INDIANS.

The remnants of that race of men who once owned and inhabited the forests and prairies of the Old Colony that have new given place to large and populous villages and the busy hum of civilized man, are, it would seem, somewhat dissatisfied with the manner in which they are governed by the State authority.  Communications illustrative of the condition of the Marshpee Indians in the County of Barnstable, have been forwarded to us by the agent of the tribe, by which it appears that they have been abused.  Intelligence from other quarters comes fraught with bitter