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12 with abut 68 men wherof above 20 wereof? our naticke indians came up from pokasit (where hee kept garison)about noone yt day, & pursue the enimy two or 3 daies but could not turn? up with him, nor yet Capt Mosly who was sent from Boston with 50 Dragoons to follow ye chase could not ovtake the enimy: whose time was not yet come:our praing indians with Capt Hentchman Beeing not so loaden with plundr as the mohegins, moved the captane to send ym to head the enimy But hee thought it not prudente to breake this small company ( for the providence Canton & Secunk men were all gon hom ) : & to harvard So few as our indians were, against so considerable & numerous an enimy as philip was apprhended then to bee, But as wee were after certenly in formed that philip was so distressed &[[[clogged?]] at yt time his Amunion allmost spent Also the squa sachem & her people the womponoges ( his greatest strength) drawne of from then to ye narragansitts; & that her had little above 50 able men left, but many hundrids of old men women & children, so that if the counsll of our chtian indians had been put in practice, according to rationll probability, they had taken or slayne Phillip & so retarded his motion, yt the rest might have come up with him & destroy his party, But God providence ovruled those prudent sugestions & [1675 in margin] permitted this our Arch enemy to live longer to be a scourge to us ; About the latter end of July 1675, the Councill sent Capt Edward Hutchison as a Comissioner, to treat with the Nipmuck indians & as a guard and assistant to him Capt Wheeler, & 25 of his troopers were sent with him & three of our chtian Indians for guides & interperters, named Joseph & Sampson Brothers & Sonne to old Robin, petahanit decesed a good man who lived at Hasanumoset together with George memeko yr kinsman: those 3 accompanied Capt wheeler & Capt Hutchison, & were with them at the swampe neare quabage, when the nipmuck indians purfideosly sett upon our men & slew 7 of our men & woonded others the indian George was taken prisoner by the enimy, & came home afterward & brought good inteligence the other two Brothers, Joseph & Sampson, aquited them selves several words crossed out very industreously & faithfully & by their care & skilful conduct, guided Capt Hutcheson and Capt Wheeler with their company in safty to Brookfeild, an english towne neare Adiarens, which village within few hours after way Attacked by those indians & most of it Burnt they had only time to get together into one of its Best houses which was the ?