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16 By this order, ( which the council was in a manner nessesitated to put forth to quiet the people). The poore chtian indians were reduced to great sufferings, beeing hindred from their hunting and looking after their catle, swine, & getting in their corn: or lauboring among the English to get clothes: & many other waies incomoded. also were daily exposed to bee slaine or imprisoned if at any time they were found within their limmets, And there wanted not some English ( if wileng to them] that tooke ocasion to sease upon them & take away yr guns & detayne them to this day & to bring them to prison, And wheras it was intended and ordered by the councill, that two or three English men should bee kept at entry of the indian plantations afforsaid, to Inspect their carrrige & conversation [ which thing the indians earnestly desired] but few were found willing to live among them only at Natick two persons were perswaded to reside with John watson senior? & Henery Prentis of Cambridge, And for a short space some others tooke turnes to keep at Punkapog, but they were chainged weekly & so I have not an Accot of their names, But those two above named sojorned with the Natick indians[ where were the greatst number] for many weekes yea untill they were removed to