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90 a close, only mention some few [things] concerning those of our christian Indians that have not beene imployd in the warre being not capable therof, som by reason of age, & farr the greatest part beeing women & chidren But yet for Religion these are farre the greater part of the religious staid at home. When their able men were for the [generably] drawne forth to the warr, the Rest being neare fower hundred old men women & children, were left upon Long Island in a [crossed out] suffering State It was intended they should plant corne upon the Iland & in order therunto, they made some preparation[s] expending their Laubor upon clearing & Breaking up ground, But som English, that lived on these Iland & had interest there, were unfriendly to them & discouradged them, But [the] Authority of the country did interpose, for then quiet [...] yet the poore indians were discoradged & in want of all things almost except clams which food (as som [concrurd]) did ocasion flux[...] & [...] them diseases among them, beesides they werre [...] [...] meanfor clothing & the Islands werre [blea...th...] sea winds in Spring & the place affordeded [littl] Fewel & their wigwams were [meare]. In this condition of want & sicknes they were [othertheirmen] were sent forr to thewarruntill mid may, then God was pleased to molify theharts & mynds of men toward them by littel & littel partly by the true reports brought to the [Generall] court of their distressed estate & the great unlikely hood they were to plant or reape any corne at the Island & partly from the sucess God was pleased to [geve] to their Brethren abroad in the Country service, in so much that the harts of many were in [adrger] chainged to these christian Indians & the General court then sitting