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Alderman later took the name of Isaac and worked as an Indian minister in Coxit in
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Church to set up the apprenticeship of an Indian woman and her son to a local weaver. The woman was being punished for her support of
Metacomet in the recent hostilities, and was apprenticed to William Wodell, a weaver, for life.
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