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John was killed by Indians.
1643 Tisdale John New Plymouth County MA 256 Duxborrow MA Early Census Index.
Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691 Part One: Chronological Histories Chapter 6: King Philip's War (1675-1676) xxx Shortly afterthe death of Philip, the war ended with Church's capture of Annawon, the most important of Philip's surviving lieutenants. Now came the time to settle affairs, to reward the good and punish the evil. On 22 July 1676 the Council of War ordered that it would be legal for magistrates todispose of the children of those Indians who had surrendered by assigning them as servants to colonists until the children reached the age oftwenty-four or twenty-five (to protect the children, the magistrates later ordered that their masters give them written indentures setting out the terms of their servitude). On the same day it was ruled that volunteer soldiers who had brought in captured Indians could keep half of them to sell as slaves. It was also ruled that no Indian male captive above the age of fourteen could be allowed to remain within colony limits, and thus the slaves would have to be sold outside Plymouth; in fact, probably most were sold to the West Indies. There were not many executions, though Annawon was sentenced to death. On 6 March 1676/77 three Indians, Timothy Jacked, Nassamaquat, and Pompacanshe were charged with murdering John Knowles, John Tisdale, Sr., and Samuel Atkins. While the jury had strong suspicions that the first two were guilty, the evidence against them was not sufficient, and there was no evidence against Pompacanshe. However, the penalty turned out to be the same: Timothy Jacked and Nassamaquat were sentenced to be sent out of the country, and Pompacanshe, as a prisoner taken in war, was also to go. On 13 July 1677 Popanooie was found to be guilty of great cruelty and outrage toward the Dartmouth settlers, and particularly in participating in the murder of several of the children of Thomas Pope, late of Dartmouth, and others. His wife and children being found partners with him in the rebellion, thewhole family was sentenced to perpetual servitude and were sent out ofthe colony. Possibly the acrimonies of the war still remained on 12 November 1678 when three Sandwich Indians were convicted of stealing -25 from Zachariah Allin's house and, having lost the money, they were sentenced to be sold as "lawfull slaves for tearme of theire naturall life."21
Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691
Part Two: Topical Narratives
Chapter 9: Law and Order
xxx That no one was above the law can be seen in the 1636 conviction ofStephen Hopkins, who was at the time an Assistant and magistrate himself, but still was fined -5 for battery against John Tisdale, the court observing that Hopkins should have especially been one to observe the king's peace.
Keeping in mind the delicate balance in Plymouth between "covenant" and"non-covenant" colonists, it is reasonable to assume that Hopkins musthave been a leader of the non-Separatist settlers, and in his career at Plymouth can be seen some of the ambiguity that attached to the non-Separatists living in a Separatist colony. On 7 June 1636, at a time when Hopkins was an Assistant, the General Court found him guilty of battery against John Tisdale, and he was fined -5, and ordered to pay Tisdale forty shillings, the court observing that he had broken the King's peace, "wch [p.309] he ought after a speciall manner to have kept" (PCR 1:42).
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