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Treaty with Massasoit (1621)
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The peace treaty with Massasoit is recorded in William Bradford's history,
Of Plymouth
Plantation, which he wrote between 1630 and 1654, as well as in
Mourt's Relation: A
Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth first published in London in
1622. The original treaty document does not exist. 1. That neither he nor any of his should injure or do hurt to any of our people. 2. And if any of his did hurt to any of ours, he should send the offender, that we might punish him. 3. That if any of our tools were taken away when our people were at work, he should cause them to be restored; and if ours did any harm to any of his, we would do the like to them. 4. If any did unjustly war against him, we would aid him; if any did war against us, he should aid us. 5. He should send to his neighbor confederates, to certify them of this, that they might not wrong us, but might be likewise comprised in the conditions of peace. 6. That when their men came to us, they should leave their bows and arrows behind them, as we should do our pieces when we came to them. Lastly, that doing thus, King James would esteem of him as his friend and ally. |