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6 when the war began in the summer of 1675 were not permitted to stay in the colonies, but were forced to pack away to their own habitations to their great loss. Because the English were so jealous & filled with animosity against all Indians without exception, hereby they tasted but little of the effects of the war, & therefore they will not so properly fall under our consideration. II. Another considerable number of Christian Indians live within the jurisdiction of new Plymouth called the cape Indians; these also (through gods favor) have enjoyed much peace & quiet by their English neighbors, & several of them have served the English in the war, especially in the heat of the war, & did acquit themselves courageously & faithfully(1). Indeed at the beginning of the war the English of that colony were suspicious of them & slow to improve any of them in the war, though divers of those Christian Indians manifested themselves ready & willing to engage with the English against their enemies, & this is so much the more remarkable that those Indians proved so faithful to the English interest considering the war first began in the colony of Plymouth, by the rashness and folly of Philip Chief Sachem of the Indian in those parts, unto whom or to some of his people doubtless these praying Indians were allied by affinity or consanguinity. Therefore good reason it is to attribute it to the grace & favor of god, & to the ef-

(1) The celebrated Church performed scarcely an expedition or exploit without the help of some of these Indians. He had a happy faculty of winning their affections and all of them proved true to him. With the unfortunate Capt. Peirse there went out 20 warriors from the Cape Indians, & but few returned. There was scarce any war or rumor but what some of those Indians were among the first volunteers and they continued in the ranks of the Eng. as long as there were any of them left.