An Order Directed to the Comittee [sic] of Scittuate, MASS. GEN. LAWS (William White 1856) (Law Passed 1675).

“An Order directed to the Comittee of Scittuate...

    ...Forasmuch as by frequent and sad experience it is found, that selling, &c, of armes and ammunition to the Indians is very poisonous and destructive to the English, it is therefore ordered, decreed, and enacted by the councell of warr for this jurisdiction, that whosoever shallbe found to sell, barter, or give, directly or indirectly, any gun or guns, or ammunition of any kind, to any Indian or Indians, and the same legally proved against them, every such person or persons shallbe put to death, and in defect of full and legal process there, the printed law to take place.”