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45 Hassannamesit whom the indian saw before they discovered him, & hee could easily have concealed him selfe as hee told me but he not fearing to speak with the english from whom hee was sent, with a passe stood in open viw & when the english saw him, they rode up to him & som of them said let us kill him, but other said hee is a lone man let us not kill him but carry him to our captaine, to bee examine the later councell prevald & then they seased him & disarmed him & tooke away his cloths: so that his gun & some cloths was then plundered hee never had them againe to this day, so they carried him to Captaine henchman who examined him [for] the Indian spake good english the Indian told him all the truth of matters & shewed him his certificate but the Captane beeing Ignorant of the designe sent both him & his passe to the Governor at Boston, who more to satisfy the clamors of the people, then for any offence comitted by the man hee was comitted to the comon Goale & there Remaned under very great sufferings for three weeks time; [for] there were many indians then in a smaul prison which was very neysome after three weeks time when the clamour was over hee was discharged from prison & sent to deare Iland onto the rest of his suffering countrymen hee had committed no offence (that ever I herd] of) but was imprisoned meerly to still the clamor of the people who railed much against this poore fellow & faine would have had him put to death (though they knew not wherfore) but those murmurings was not only against the indian but as much against major Gookin that granted him the certificate, some not spareing to say that hee was sent forth to give inteligence to the enimy, & such like false & reprochfull, reflecktions upon their freinds that had many wais approved the fidelity to the county But this was an houre of temptation & murmering that somtime Gods owne people are inclinable unto, as at massah & meribah thus it pleased God to exersised this poore Job: yet reserved him for greater service after ward as in the sequel will appeare The 15 of november there befell another great tryall to the poor praying indians at wamesit, they lived very neare to Leiftent [Thomas]: Henchman about 2 miles from chelmsford, & were under the Guard & care of Leiftenant Richardson, appointed ther unto by the councill. the Antecedent to this affair non of the indians was this A Barne belonging to Richardson beeing full of hay & corne, was sett on fire & consumed this was don by som [Skulkery] roages of the enimy that formerly lived about Groaton as were afterwrd understood, but the english at Chelmsford inputed the fact to the wamesett indians as they had formerly don by the same mans hay: & therby brought much trouble upon these poore christians; upon this ocasion about