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12 p. 117 " The governor and council resolved to raise new forces and having had good experience of the faithfulness & valour of the christian Indians about Natick, armed 200 of them & sent them, together with 40 English to prosecute the quarrel against those eastward Indians to the full but not judging aright of the number of the enemy, they much underdid their business. for besides that the number they sent of English was a great deal too small, those that were chosen thisbout, to seeke their turns in the service abroad, were many of them young, raw & unexperienced soldiers, who were not able to look danger, much less death, in the face in cool blood; by which means it came to pass that the enterprise succeeded so ill; for Capt. Swett, with Lieut. Richardson that was sent with him to command the friendly Indians, coming.