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57 they suffered much, in their pergiranation (as we afterward understood) and sundry of them died by sickness, wherof two were principal (& I hope pious) men the one named Numphow, their chief Ruler & the other mistick George a teacher of them, besides divers others men women & children, through famine & sickness lost their lives. The rest of them in August following came in with wannalanset to major walderne & the Rest of the comitte at Cochcho, who were appointed to treat & make peace with such as came in and surrend these wamesit Indians, as wel as wannalanset & his people had not beene in hostility against the English, nor had don them any wrong, only fled away for feare & for wrongs suffered from som English. So that there lay no just blocke in their way unto their reconsiliation so they were accepted & yet afterward yet when they were sent to Boston accusations came against some of them; by english captives escaped that som of them were in arms against the English (how true those charges were God only knows tis very difficult unles upon long knowledge to distinguish indians from one another) howevr the testimony of the witnesses against then were admitted & some of them condemned to death & executed & others sent ^ to Ilands out of the country: But some few men were pardoned & reconsiled; wherof wanalanset & 6 or 7 of his men wer a part - & the wamesit Indian Sam Numpho (hardly escaped) Symon Betokom; Jonathan, George, a Brother to Sam Numphow; & very few other men but severall women & children: who now lived among the^ Rest 1675 Upon the 21th day of february, the Generall Court of Massachusetts convened, According to a former adjournment, as soon as they were met tidings was brought them, that a body of the enimy about four hundred had Attacked that morning a towne called Meadfield, about 18 miles from Boston