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of all those Inds. from Natk. the contrivers where of 57 well knew that the magistrates generally were very slow to distrust those poor Chrns. this artifice was therefore used to provoke them. God (who knows all ) will I hope one day awake and convince the consciencies of those persons yt have been industriously active to traduce and afflict those poor innocent chrns., without cause for as to the body of them they were always true & faithful to the Eng., & I never saw or heard any substantial evidence to the contrary; besides this of burning the house, there were other false informations presented at the same time to ye genl. court to stir them up to a sharp proceed^ure "ing" crossed out agst. those Inds. but the authors of those things being slain, I shall omit to mention them.

This contrivance agst. ye Natk Inds. obtd. that wh

it was designed for, viz. the passing an order in the genl. court, forthwith to remove them from their place unto Deer Island, having first obtained the consent of Mr. Saml. Shrimpton (1) of Boston, ( in whose possession that (1) Island was) to place them there at present, with ye prohibiton, that ya shd. not cut down any growing wood, nor of this order Cap. Thos. Prentice ( who was a person civil do any damge to his sheep kept there. In pursuance & friendly to those Inds. ) with a party of horse was commanded to bring them down speedily to a place called the Pines upon Chas. river, about 2 miles above Cambridge where boats were appointed to be in readiness to take them on board & take them to ye aforesd. island. Capt. Prentiss accordingly went up to Natk. with a few men & 5 or 6 carts to carry such things (1) [[crossed out "He was a Brass founder or Brasier. Probably the same who bought of Ephrm. Turner, & Sarah his wife "all that his dwelling house & land scituated in Boston, with ye garden," etc. Which Robert Turner his late father, by his last will gave unto him, as it is bounded by the street west by the house & land

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