James Printer

As we covered last time, the colonists' inability to prevent these raids or to find and fight a substantial force of Indians increasingly led to anxiety and paranoia regarding those Indians under their control.

The men of Hassanamesit, like James Printer, had faced the consequences of this, though most of them had made it through alive and unenslaved.

But with the war effort not improving, these fears only worsened.

As we saw last time, the general court brought in repressive decrees confining Christian Indians to the five praying towns.

Of these, most were released quickly.

The women and children were allowed home, albeit with colonial militia to keep an eye on them.

Thirty-five men were marched off to the same Cambridge prison James Printer had spent a grueling few weeks.

The trial of the Wamesit Indians was as much of a farce as the one for the Hassanamesit.