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19 and fury: against the English and particularly the springfield & norhampton indians who lived neare the English & seemd to cary it faire for a time, but at last proved perfideous and treacherous. But there was not one of them that ever I herd of that was a pretender to chtian religion. This crossed out deffection of those indians:[though some neere the mark have been ready to say that if they were prudently mannaged, as others of their neighbours the mohegins were they might have continued in Amity & beene helpful to the English to this say I. But their deffection at this time had a tendency to exasperate the english against all Indians, that they would admit no crossed out distinction, between one indian & another, forgeting that the scriptures doe record that sundry of crossed out of the heathen in Israels time beeing prozleted to the church proved very faithfull & worthy men; & women as Uriah the Hittite zeleg the Ammonie