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12 with abut 68 men wherof above 20 were of 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 com? up with him, nor yet Capt Mosly who was sent from Boston with 50 Dragoons to follow ye chase could not owtake the enimy: whose time was not yet come:our praing indians with Capt Hentchman Beeing not so loaden with plunder 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 &dogged? at yt time his Amunion allmost spent Also the squa sachem & her people the womponoges ( his greatest strength) drawne of from them to ye narragansitts; that her had little above 50 able men left, but many hundrids of old men women & chidren, 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 out ruled those prudent supressions & {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 indiansm & as agreed 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