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as were of greatest necessity, & he declared to them the courts pleasure for their removal, [?] a quietly & readily submitted & came down with nine AM hour or 2 warning, about 200 souls of all sorts, (There was one family of them, about 12 in number, the principal man named Old Jethro(1) with his sons & relation who secretly ran away in the night, but this man & his relations were not [?pray?] Indd., nor did they live at Netk only since the wars but dwelt at a place near Sudbury, nobscot hill, & never submitd to the Chrn profesn but separated from [?] being sons of ill fame, & especially the old men, who had the repute to be a powow. (2) Those ran awa for fear at this time & were with the enemy but were taken afterwd at Cochecho & hanged at Boston. good Mr. Elliot that faithful instructor & teacher of the praying Inds. met them at the place before mentioned whre they were to be embarked, who comforted & encouraged and instructed & prayed with them & for them, exhorting them to patience in their sufferings & confirming the hearts of those disciples of Chrst & exhorting them to continue in the faith, for through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of heavn. There were some other Eng men at the place called the Pines with Mr. Elliot who were much affected in seeing & observing how submissively & christn'ly & affectionately by those poor souls carried it, seeking encouragement & encouraging & exhorting one another with prayers & tears at the time of the embarkment being, as they told some, in fear that they should never return more to their habitations, but be transported out of the country; of this I was informed

(1) Tan Hamons was his Indian name, that in 1671 he was appointed missionary to his brethren at Weshakim, lent that his stay three was short. He was one of the Eleven so much [?] & so often mentioned in our previous text. See BK. Ind. iii, 80-1

(2) In Shattucks Hill Concord it is said.