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" Upon the warrant which went to Ipswich, Rowley, and Newbury, to disarm Passaconamy, who lived by Merrimack, they sent forth 40 men armed the next day, being the Lord’s day. But it rained all the day, as it had done divers days before, and also after, so as they could not go to his wigwam, but they came to his son’s and took him, which they had warrant for, and a squaw and her child, which they had no warrant for, and therefore order was given so soon as we heard of it, to send them home again. "

John Winthrop , Winthrop's Journal, History of New England, 1630-1649: Volume 2


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John Winthrop quote : Upon the warrant which went to Ipswich, Rowley, and Newbury, to disarm Passaconamy, who lived by Merrimack, they sent forth 40 men armed the next day, being the Lord’s day. But it rained all the day, as it had done divers days before, and also after, so as they could not go to his wigwam, but they came to his son’s and took him, which they had warrant for, and a squaw and her child, which they had no warrant for, and therefore order was given so soon as we heard of it, to send them home again.