Abstract
DMUND Browne, minister of Sudbury, Massachusetts, rarely troubled the Bay Colony's magistrates before the outbreak of the Indian War in June i675. That calamity cost the lives of nearly 5,000 Indians and 2,500 English and led to the destruction and abandonment of more than a dozen English towns, most, like Sudbury, on the frontier.1 The stresses of war on the fringes of English settlement aroused Browne to action. Between September i675 and July i677, he sent the governor and council five letters. He requested assistance against Indians lurking in the woods near Sudbury, begged release from military service for impressed servants or sons of Sudbury neighbors, and asked that a soldier assigned to his garrison and mistakenly impressed be returned to him.2 Early in i677, as the General Court prepared to issue new regulations governing the conduct of Indians remaining in the colony, Browne set to paper his opinion and delivered it to the magistrates sitting at the Middlesex County Quarterly Court.3
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