DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ELIOT, APOSTLE TO THE INDIANS. 1809 Bailey, Joanna Baker, Marcena 100 1851 Benton, Fanny E. 93 123 1790 Betts, Preserved 108 49 1833 Betts, Frederick J. 111 Married. 1837 Sage, Alonzo B. 1849 Sawyer, Sallie F. 1798 Scoville, John Selden, Rev. Sylvester 1851 Sellick, Charlotte Sherman, 1821 Simmons, Tillinghast Sims, Mary N. 1850 Slattery, Rev. George S. Smiley, Jane Smith, Rev. Cotton M. Smith, John 1839 Smith, Margaret 1710 Smithson, Elizabeth 1846 Smythe, Patrick 1850 Soper, Roaline 1843 Spencer, Henry R. 1788 Spencer, Mindwell Spencer, Uriah 1811 Stannard, Mary 1825 Stanton, John 1829 Stone, Hannah 1853 Stone, Leveret C. Stone, William R. 1699 Stoughton, Elizabeth 1814 Stowe, Daniel B. Street, Rev. Owen Struthers, John S. 1846 Stuart, Elizabeth 1846 Swain, Eliza J. 1781 Swift, Rev. Seth T. Talcott, Rev. Hart 1809 Thomas, Eunice Thomson, Adelia 1842 Todd, Rev. George N. 190 Towner, Jane 96 262 17 Towner, Louisa 1710 Trowbridge, John Wynans, Clark 125 31 29 62 36 61 219 129 65 65 229 326 APPENDIX. A Page 37.-See pp. 3 and 4. B. Page 38. A PETITION OF REV. JOHN ELIOT, AGAINST SELLING INDIANS FOR SLAVES. In the Massachusetts' archives is an original petition, in the handwriting of the Apostle Eliot, from which we make some extracts. "To the Honorable Gov. and Council, sitting at Boston, this 13th of the 6th, 1675-The humble petition of John Eliot, sheweth-"That the terror of selling away such Indians, unto the Islands, for perpetual slaves, who shall yield up themselves to your mercy, is like to be an effectual prolongation of the war, and such an exasperation of them as may produce, we know not what evil consequences upon all the land. Christ hath said, blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. This usage of them is worse than death. The design of Christ, in these last days, is not to extirpate nations, but to gospelize them. His sovereign hand and grace hath brought the gospel into these dark places of the earth. When we came, we declared to the world,—and it is recorded, yea, we are engaged by our letters patent from the King's majesty,—that the endeavor of the Indians' conversion, not their extirpation, was one great end of our enterprise in coming to these ends of the earth. The Lord hath so succeeded that work, as that, by his grace, they have the holy Scriptures, and sundry of themselves able to teach their countrymen the good knowledge of God. And however some of them have refused to receive the gospel, and now are incensed in their spirits unto a war against the English: yet I doubt not but the meaning of Christ is, to open a door for the free passage of |