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and prevent that which was feared. Accordingly they | and prevent that which was feared. Accordingly they | ||
were speedily dispatched, to pursue Job which | were speedily dispatched, to pursue Job which had a tendency to compose & qualify, the heats, that were | ||
Begotten upon this season, But wadsworth & Syll did not order take Job. nor meet them til he was returned | |||
Begotten upon this | to the Army, nor yet did Job meet with his friends But found signes where they had lately been, for | ||
did not order take Job. nor meet them til he was | those poore creatures had shifted their quarters, for feare, because the time was expired, that Job prmised | ||
to the Army, nor yet did Job meet with his | to meet them, if hee were admitted. But Job missing his friends, [[crossed out]] faithfully fullfilled his promise in returning | ||
But found signes where they had | to the Army, whome hee met upon the Road about twenty miles, westward of marlborough, & so proved | ||
those poore creatures had | him selfe an honest man, & that those suspicions of him were groundless. . I conceive had this mutiynous | ||
practice (that so much Reflected upon the cheefe comander of the army & authority of the Councill been comited | |||
to meet | in some other parts of the world. , it would have cost the Author of it a casheering, at least if not a more severe animadversion, | ||
his friends, [[ | for it was an action against the order & good discipline of an Army for any private, captaine to Animadvert (in | ||
such a manner) upon the Generalls actions don with consideration & prudence. Those poore ch[ris]tian Indians before mentioned | |||
twenty miles, westward of marlborough, & so | (with Jobs children) allthough Job could not meet them yet they were met by Capt. Benjamin Gibbs & a small party of horse under | ||
him selfe an honest man, & [ | his command, who scouting in the woods as the army were upon their march to Quabauge, tooke those poore creatures (supposing | ||
they had got a prize) they were but two men (one very aged) three women & six children, the soilders that seased them, tooke from | |||
them all those few nescesaries they had purchased, as two ruggs two Brass kettles, some dishes & a pewter cupp that the | |||
minister had saved which he was woont to use at the Administration of the sacrement of the Lord suppr being given him by mr Eliot, | |||
for their use, in a word the soldiers tooke all the littl they had; told many stories concerning them that so they might not returne, | |||
their things ^ againe But yet God so ordered it that they hurt not their bodies but brought them into the General Savage, at the rendezvous |
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71 and prevent that which was feared. Accordingly they were speedily dispatched, to pursue Job which had a tendency to compose & qualify, the heats, that were Begotten upon this season, But wadsworth & Syll did not order take Job. nor meet them til he was returned to the Army, nor yet did Job meet with his friends But found signes where they had lately been, for those poore creatures had shifted their quarters, for feare, because the time was expired, that Job prmised to meet them, if hee were admitted. But Job missing his friends, crossed out faithfully fullfilled his promise in returning to the Army, whome hee met upon the Road about twenty miles, westward of marlborough, & so proved him selfe an honest man, & that those suspicions of him were groundless. . I conceive had this mutiynous practice (that so much Reflected upon the cheefe comander of the army & authority of the Councill been comited in some other parts of the world. , it would have cost the Author of it a casheering, at least if not a more severe animadversion, for it was an action against the order & good discipline of an Army for any private, captaine to Animadvert (in such a manner) upon the Generalls actions don with consideration & prudence. Those poore ch[ris]tian Indians before mentioned (with Jobs children) allthough Job could not meet them yet they were met by Capt. Benjamin Gibbs & a small party of horse under his command, who scouting in the woods as the army were upon their march to Quabauge, tooke those poore creatures (supposing they had got a prize) they were but two men (one very aged) three women & six children, the soilders that seased them, tooke from them all those few nescesaries they had purchased, as two ruggs two Brass kettles, some dishes & a pewter cupp that the minister had saved which he was woont to use at the Administration of the sacrement of the Lord suppr being given him by mr Eliot, for their use, in a word the soldiers tooke all the littl they had; told many stories concerning them that so they might not returne, their things ^ againe But yet God so ordered it that they hurt not their bodies but brought them into the General Savage, at the rendezvous