Url
	https://dhprojects.bc.edu/s/bcdh/item/2148
Resource class
	bibo:Letter
Title
	[MA Governor & Council] Letter to Capt. Brockles & Others
Creator
	Anthony Brockles (Captain)
Subject
	Anthony Brockles (Captain)
	Daniel Denison (Major General)
	Thomas Clark (Major)
	Joseph Dudley (Esquire)
	MA Council
	John Leverett (MA Governor) Kennebec Indians
	Wabanaki Indians
	Pemaquid
Description
	Massachusetts Governor John Leverett and the Massachusetts Council write to Captain Anthony Brockles, commandant of the English fort at Pemaquid, Maine. They inform Brockles of the ongoing negotiations for peace with the Kennebec and Penobscot Abenakis, which they seek “for the redemption of those miserable Soules Captives.” To that end, they have sent Major Denison and Esquire Joseph Dudley, who are “fully Instructed to effect the same with such others as are knowne unto & desired by the Indians in a late Aplication to us by the principall Sachem of the Kennebecke Indians.”
Date
	1677-07-05
Type
	Letter
Is Part Of
	James Phinney Baxter, ed., Documentary History of the State of Maine, vol. 6 (Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1900), 185-186.
	https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007474281 Full text on Hathi Trust
Recipient
	John Leverett (MA Governor)
	MA Council
Transcription
	Letter to Capt. Brockles & Others 
Gentlemen 
[185] Yours from Pemaquid by the Hands of major Thomas Clarke of July 3rd 1677 we received, & therein perceive your freindly & forward Inclination for the procuration of a setlement of the Inhabitants of those easterne parts who have been so great sufterers in the unhappy warre, the same hath [186] been Considered by us & the result of our thoughts are that yourselves being now vpon the place, & not having yet been Concerned in any Acts of Hostility against them may Sooner obteyne Credence with them for the redemption of those miserable Soules Captives in the hands of those Infidells, and for the Setlement of a peace wth them if to be obteyned with Honor for the accomplishment whereof we have sent Our Trusty & welbeloued freinds major Generall Daniel Dennison & Joseph Dudley Esqr two of our Majestrates fully Instructed to effect the same with such others as are knowne unto & desired by the Indians in a late Aplication to us by the principall Sachem of the Kennebecke Indians wth which Gentlemen; if yow please to Joyne you assistance it may be a Comon benefit to His Majesties Interest in these parts &, resetlement of those parts; 
Gentlemen 
wee are your Humble Servants. 
The Gounor & Council of the Massachusets, In their name & by their Order signed Edwd Rawson Secret
War
	King Philip's War
Century
	17th Century
Decade material covers
	1670s
Rights
	https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/ Public Domain
Point of Departure
	Pemaquid, ME
Point of Arrival
	Boston, MA

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