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[tops of 2 pages are showing, with burned edges; transcribing the front one:] ment to resettle- after torn liberation Mr. Williams, decided? to return, although the war still raged, and the inhabitants were in constant fear." + It was not only "After much deliberation", consultation and advice with his Reverend Brethren in Boston and its vicinity; that "he concluded to return" & "resettle" in Deerfield. But his piety led him to look to that God when he served for counsel, direction and guidance, on the occasion by prayer & fasting. This was his course when first invited to take the charge of the Church and congregation in Deerfield, in May 1686: So in his resettlement, he says, "he pursuit the same course, as he believed on the former occasion, + Rev. Mr. Taylor's append. is the 6th edition of the Red.* Captive, p. 211.

• Redeemed Captive, by John Williams