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to the ch[ris]tian religion they profesed yet ther Gods favor som of them were presumed? alive? & are reconsiled againe to the English e now live among the rest of the ch[ris]tian Indians & in special those of them y lamented e mourne when they were carried away: the Lord spared yr lives & Brought them back to the enioyment of h sanctury mercies. Upon this inteligence of the ennimies appear about Hassannamesit two companies of Engl[ish?] soldiers were dispatched away into those parts one commanded By Capt Daniel Hememan & the other by Capt Joseph Sil, this last took with him for guides 5 naticke Indians, wh[en?] they came to Hassanamesit, they found sign of the enimy But could see no considerable company of them. But Capt Syll being at -- at Hassanamesit the 6th of November hearing a noyse Early in the morning sent forth two files of men, with two Indians unclear James -- Qwanapohit & Eliazerpegin, they had not gon far But they discovered unclear of the enimy on[e?] of them leading an English man, the enimy discovering our men fled But the Indians James & Eliazer pursed ym so close e firing upo[n?] the man yl led the English youth. her was forc[ed?] to leave his prisoner e they reskued him e brou[ght?] him to their captaine, also James ye Indian unclear a muskt from the enimy, at ye same time. this unclear unclear whose name was Christopher Muchim was thus let? from the barborus enimy by the courage e ability? of an Indian