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had put themselves into a posture of defence, & had made forth

for their security against the comon enimy. & it was suggested & proposed to the Authority of the country that some English men? about one third part might might crossed out have been ioyned with these chtian Indians, in each fort which the praying indians greatly desired, that theirby their fidelity might have beene better demonstrated & that unclear with the assistance & company of some of those English souldiers they might daily scout or range the wood ? from towne to towne in their several assigned Stations: & herby might have beene as a living wall to gaurd ye English from them & consequently the greatest part of the jurisdiction: with the blessing of God might have prevented the desolation & devestations that afterward enued. This was not only the sugestions of some English, but the earnest desire of the most prudent of the Chtian Indians who in all their achons declared, that they were greatly Ambitious to give demonstrated Interest of Chtian Religion, and to endevor all that in them lay to abate & take unclear the Animosity & displeasure yt they perused was in kindred in some english against them; & hence it was that they were alwaiss found ready to commply cherfuly wth all comands of the englsh Authority. But such was the unshaping of our affair or rather the displeasure of God in the case, that those counsels were rejected & on the contrary, a spirit of enmity & hatred comeded? by many against those poore xtian indians as I apphend without cause so farre as I could ever understand: wich was according to the operation of second cause a very great ocasion of many distressing callamities, yt befell both one & other. The great God who outruleth & ordereth all councills & achons for the bringing to passe his owne purpose & desires? . was pleasd to darken the ? councill from sure as had power to put it in practise, And although there was ademonstration neare hand in the Colony on Conechitut of the Benifit of such a course as was before proposed & desired in keeping a secire corespondancy with their neighbour Indians the mohegins, & Pequods, unclear which were not onlyim provrd? by the English in all their expeditions, but were a gaurd to yt frontier, wherby those indians upon the {{Accot?]] of yr owne interest [ for they had no principels of Chtianity to fixe y to the English) proved very faithfull & sencisicable to the english -- and was in