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89 1676 incouragement & Good hope through grace that as God hath wraught effectually upon some So hee will upon others in his owne time & unclear to his good pleasure that hee hath purposed in [[him] selfe I [[account?]l it my duty, not to censure? & Judge but to pray for them & others. About the Latter-End of agust 1676 An Army was sent against the easterne [e...d][with] [whom] capt [Hunting] & his company of indians went: but this army did littel against the enemy but that was don was don by by our Indians, who slew 2 or 3 of their enimy before none of them? through Gods favor. Again in frebruary 5th 1676 in another Expedition to the eastern part, Comanded by unclear B waldren wherin our praying Indians under Capt Huntry [crossed out] bore a part,; & som few of their [r...d] were kild by them, but their councill was not attended [inthat] expedition which if it had been, as I heard some english that were in the service say, in probability the enemy had beene greatlywasted: at that time In June 1677 another expedition into the eastern parts among whome were about thirty six of our christian Indians; who in a [togth...] Black [ponit] the English lost about 40 men wherof were 8 of our friends Indians & their [dristen...] Richardson, was then slaine, this was the greatest loss that our Indians susteynd all the warr for in all the former expedition our indian lost but two men But I shall pass from this matter & also from any further discourse of their military actions of our praying indians who to this day upon all ocasions of scouting in the woods or any other ha[z]ardous services are frequently imployed as ocasion doth present, now I shal draw toward