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59 for as soone as the Allaram was taken, Those at the maine gaurd fireing a great Gunne three or fowor 4 times, ovr game the Allaram effectually in so much that the Indians saw cause to withdraw on a bridge towards Sherborne and fireing the Bridge impeded the pursute of the English Soldiers. The enimy drew up in a body on the other side of the river and; bering secure vapourd & talkd high But the English Soldiers could not get to them becaus the Bridge was cut of as is before mentioned. Before the enemy retreated they Burnt about forty dwelling houses which was neare halfe the Towne. and slew and woonded about twenty persons, whereof the Lieutenant of the towne named Addams [a person somewhat severe against the praying Indians was one], and the same night the leiutenants widdow beeing at mr wilsons the ministers house, that stood neare the main gard bieing up on a bed in a chamber divers Souldiers and comanders being in the room underneth, Capt Jacob having a gun in his hand half bent with the muzell upward, towards that chamber, he being takeing his leave to be gon to his quarters by some accident the gunn fired, ^ & shot through the floure mat and through and through the body of the lieutenants widdow, and lay upon the bed and slew her also; this was a very strange accident But God is awful in such tremendous dispensation. This intelligence of Burning, Medfield coming to the Genll court, and so soone after the Burning of Lancaster, ocasioned, many thoughts, of hard and hurrieng motions, and gave oppertunity to the vulgar. to cry out O come let us goe downe to Deare Iland & kill all the praying indians, they could not come at the enimy indians for they were to crafty and subtile for the English, therefore they would have