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the English nation, for none of the enterprise
the English nation, for none of the enterprise
against the enimy were blessed with success & it was
against the enimy were blessed with success & it was
groundedly feared & judged that se  & hara
groundedly feared & judged that seed time & harvest
would be greatly obstructed, & therby occation famine to follow
the warr,  These things ocasion great thoughts of hart unto the Godly
wise, especially such as were at the helm of Govrmnt
And the rather because God seemed to put us to shame
& not to goe forth with the Arms, but to render our endeavors
to quel the Rage & fury of the enimy, frutles: In this conjunction of our affairs

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76 the same person dated aprill 9th (which was about the time of the armys return home words crossed out as farr as Marleborough "saith hee our pilots (ie the indians) were "laboured with - to repsent the way to wachusite? "where the body of the enimy quartered very "Difficult before they came to speake before "the Councill, and had ill words given them"that so they might bee affraid, to speake "any thing that should afford incouragement "The poore Indians our pillots as soone as they "arived at Marlborough were much abused "by the Townsmen, in so much that they were "unwilling to goe into any house. Thus much of mr Nowels letters touching the six indians of whome the Generall also gave a good caracter

1675/6 In the months of february march & Aprill The enimy Indians were very violent in their attempt & Assaults upon all the frontier English plantations. Burning sevrall villages or parts of them, & murdering many peoples in the highwaies so that weekly yea allmost dayly - messengers, with sad tydings, were brought into the Councill, In so much That the Lord seemed to threaten great callamity to ensue upon the English nation, for none of the enterprise against the enimy were blessed with success & it was groundedly feared & judged that seed time & harvest would be greatly obstructed, & therby occation famine to follow the warr, These things ocasion great thoughts of hart unto the Godly wise, especially such as were at the helm of Govrmnt And the rather because God seemed to put us to shame & not to goe forth with the Arms, but to render our endeavors to quel the Rage & fury of the enimy, frutles: In this conjunction of our affairs