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71 and prevent that which was feared. Accordingly they were speedily dispatched, to pursue Job which ? ? to compose & qualify, the feats?, that were Begotten upon this season?, But ? woeth? & Syll did not order take Job. nor meet them til he was rehand to the Army, nor yet did Job meet with his friend But found signes where they had partly gone, for those poore creatures had shifted? their ?, for parte, ? the time was expired, that Job ? to meet them?, if hee were admitted. But Job missing his friends, redacted faithfully fullfilled his promise in return- ing to the Army, whome hee met upon the [[?] about twenty miles, westward of marlborough, & so proved him selfe an honest man, & ? those suspicions of him were groundedlye. . I ? had this practice & that so much Reflected upon the cheefe? comander? & army authority of the councill J/I? been comited? in some other part of the world. , it would have cost the Author of it a casheering, at least if not a more severe? animadversion, for it was an action against this order & good discipline of an Army for any private, captaine to Animadversion (in such a manner) upon the generall actions ? with consideration & prudence. those poore ? Indians before mentioned (with Jobs children) allthoughe? Job could not meet them? they? were met by Capt. Benjamin Gilby & a small party of ? under his command, who scouting in the woods as the army were upon their march to Qualauge?, tooke those poore creatures (supposing they had got? aprise) they were but two men (one very aged) three women & six children, the

soilders then? seased? them, tooke from them all those 

few nescesaries they had purchased, as? two ruggs two Brass? kettles?, some dishes & a ? cupp that the minister had ? which he was woont? to use? at the Administration of the sacrement of the Lord ? ? ? which by much ? for the ?, in a word? the? soldiers tooke all the piles? they had told many stories concerning them that so they? might not returne, their ? ^ ? But yet God so ordered it that they hurt not ? bodies but ? them into that General Savage, at the rendezvous