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& his people had not been in hostility against the Eng. nor had done them any wrong only fled away for fear & for wrongs suffered from some Eng., so that there lay no just unclear in the way onto their reconciliation, so they were accepted, & yet afterward when they were sent to Boston, accusations came agt. some of them by Eng. Captives escaped, that some of them were in arms agt. the Eng. (how true those charges were god only knows, for 'tis very difficult unless upon long knowledge to distinguish Inds. from one another) however the testimony of the witnesses agt. ym were admitted & some of them condemned death & execution & others sent to islands out of the country but some few were pardoned & reconciled whereof Wannaleancet & 6 or 7 of his men were a part & the Wamesit Inds. Sam Numphour?? (hardley escaped) Symon Betokam Jonathan George, a brother to Sam Numphour??, & very few other men but several women & children who now lived amg. The rest upon the 21 Feb. the govt. court of Mas. Convent according? to a former adjourant? as unclear as it were met tidings were bro't? them that a body of the enemy, about 400, had attacked that morning a town called Medfield about 18 miles from Boston west southerley (& altho. it be a digression, yet I shall take the liberty to unclear a particular unclear of it, because occasion hereby to bring more trouble & affliction upon the Chr.n Inds & also it may serve once for all for an example of the manner & methods of the enemies proceeding agt