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posibly they might have don as they did. The cheefe man among these praying Indians who also was their Ruler named Capt Tom Allius Wuttasacomponom. A prudent & I believe a pyous man and had given good demonstration of it many yeares. I had particular aquaintance with him & cannot in charity think otherwise concerning him in his life or at his death, though posibly in this action hee was tempted beyond his strength; for had hee don as hee ought hee should rather have suffered death then have gon ammong the wicked enimies of the people of God; This man yelded to the enimies -- arguement, & by his example drew most of the rest for which hee afterward suffered death beeing executed at Boston; the June after, yet their were some of these chtian Indians, went away with the enimy with heavy harts, & weeping eyes, particularly Joseph Tuchuppawillin the pasteur of the church at Hassanamaset & his Aged father Naoas & some others of which I had particular information from some & with eye & eare witness thereof, This providence concerng these chtian Indians, beeing tarried thus away by the enimy, was a very deepe wound to the worke of Gospelizing the Indians for this people were considerable for number as before hinted Beeing the greatest part of Indian villages viz Hassannameset magunkog & Chobono Konkonom. It was also a weaking to the English in removeing these frontier Indian plantations & forts which would have been as walls under God to us as the sequel proves Besides many of these poore unclear lost their lives by warr, sicknes & famine & som were executed that came into us: and cheefes it was a great scandal