Page "belles_lettres" Paragraph 1069
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Brown Corpus
However, the General Court at Boston ordered the purchasers of Shawomet to appear before them to answer the sachems' claim.
The purchasers rejected the order in two letters written in vigorous terms.
Then Massachusetts switched to its standard tactics.
It pointed out twenty-six instances of blasphemy in the letters, and ordered the writers to submit or force of arms would be used.
The next week, forty soldiers were sent to get the miscreants.
The latter tried to arbitrate through a delegation from Providence, which offer was declined by the invaders.
The Commissioners at Boston wrote the victims to see their misdeeds and repent or they should `` look upon them as men prepared for slaughter ''.
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