At a Council held at Boston the 22d. of August 1678. Whereas Benjamin Wait and Stephen Jennings of Hadley on the 24th. of October last 1677. were appointed and ordered by the honoured Governour John Leveret Esq. to take their journey to Cannada in order to their procuring the several English captives that were taken by the Indians from Hatfield on the 19th. of September last ...

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Concerning money raised for the redemption and provision of the captives. Signed: By order of the Council, Edward Rawson secr. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, p. 13-44.