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21 before beeing Shot to death by some souldier at the same place [without] Indeed Andrew having beene severall months before the warr beegan gon upon on a hunting voyage toward the lake, & [french] plantation Returning home a [fortnight] month befor [...] time fell into the enimies quarters, about quabage & was charged to bee [present] [...] the indians [when] at the swamp when they did that [partidious] villany against capt wheelen & capt Hutchinson beefore touched: but some time after he &his son in law left [that] enimy & came into the woods neare marlborow where they were taken by INdian Scouts belonging to marlborow & [particularly[ by some of the 11 now accused & [...] brought to the english way Acused for beeing with the enimy at quabage & so [...ed] shot to dear without aquainting the councel with before it was done for [with] the [actors] incured blame because there might have been good use made of his examination before his [de...] had understood the state & number of the enimy indeed had it not beene a boysterous season at this time the [Auton] woud have been [...] [animadurted] upon: But david as aforsaid beeing fastened to a tree & guns bent at him, feared death & beeing offered a [reprival] if hee would confes [...] hee promised somthing & so was unbound. And then acused 11 of the Indians then at the fort & now prison [...] to bee the murderers of the english at Lancaster before mentioned, but said hee I did not see it don neither was I there, but I heard som of them speake so. David was herupon Released from the feare of present death, But yet was sent downe prisoner, with the rest and beeing examined before the councill hee at firstt owned that hee had said so to the captaine at marlboragh, but after ward upon the trial before the court & Jury, hee said hee had acused those indians falsly. Indeed some of the accused indians particularly one named James Akompanet A very understanding fellow pleaded in behalfe of him selfe and the rest, That what David said against them was (I) to save his own life when hee was bound to the tree: 2ly to revenge himselfe of them because they had seased upon his Brother Andrew & his som & delivered them to the english one whereof was put to death &the other sent out of the country a slave. There were saverall things aleadged against the prisoners, The most material were, that they werre tracked from Lancaster to marlborogh about the time the murder was committed, That one of them had apare of [bandelers] belonging to one of the persons [...] that another