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to get away but could not certenly relate what number of the enimy there were or whether they had carried their freinds, the people captured? were for the most unarmed; about 50 men & 150 women & children, the enimie Indians as we afterward particularly understood were about 300 all wel Armed; who declared to our christian? Indians unclear unclear (ammong whom they had some kindred) And got with them quietly then they would spare their lives. otherwise, they would take away all their corne, & then they would unclear families; And further they agreed with them. If we do not kill you & let? you goe to the English againe they will either send you all to some Iland as the unclear Indians are where you wil be in danger to bee starved with cold & hunger, & most probable in the end bee all sent out of the country for slaves; these kind of Arguments used by the enimy & our frends unclear to defend them unclear, together with their feare of hard measure from the English; wherof some of them had late experience , for among these were the eleven Indians that were so long imprisoned at Boston & tryed for their lives upon a pretense of murder unclear by them at Lancaster above mention wherof they knew in unclear inocent & were aquited But they smarted so much in and About in matter of they were in feare of further sufferings: upon these considerations many of them at last were inclined In this strait of two unclear to choose the feast as if to them in appered, & to accompany the enimy to their quarter under their promise of Good faythe? & protection: and perhaps if English men & good christians? too had beene in ther case & under like temptation