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27 into the woods & swamps, where they had advantage & opportunity enough in Ambushment to have slayne many of the English soldiers without any great hazard to themselves, & severall of these young indians inclined to it. But the sachem, wanalanset by his Authority & wisdom restraind his men & suffered not an indian to appear or shoot a gun. They were very neare the english & yet though they were provoked by the english who Burnt their wigwams & destroyd some dryd fish, yet no ones gun was shot at any english man. This act speaks much for him which himselfe & some of his men had related to some of his english friends sinse his return Besides hee had messengers sent to him more than once from the enimy soliciting him to joyne with them, but he always refused, and after hee understood by messengers sent to him by MajR Richard waldron that hee might come into the english with safety hee complied with it & came in with his Relations, to cochecho, where maj waldron livd & was instruementall to bring in others & now hee is returned again under the english protection, to his own place neare chelmsford

But there a few people with him of his neare friends the rest being dead & fled from him either among their friends & or enimy & now living quietly and peaceably as heretofore - - upon his owne land.
About this time the punkapog Indians, brought into Boston, & before the councill, Some prisoners of the enimy that they had taken in the woods, particulary a noted indian that

lived neare Taunton called Drummer, & two more, also, they b rought in one of their owne Company named Caleb, whom they accused for complotting to runne away to Narragansit with another mans wife & a young man, that hee had inticed to goe with him, all which persons were secured, these Achens of the praying indians of pnhapog as well as many others are demonstrations of their fidelity to the english

1675 September 9th 1675 there came to Boston Ahneko, Eldest son to Unkas sachem of Mohegin, with about 28 indians with him, their buisnes was with the Comissioners of the United Colonies, then sitting in Boston. Their petition considered of three heads - 1 they = complayned that a party of the Narragansitts had by force taken from a smaul company of theirs, about 100 prisoners of philip's people 2dly they desired the confirmation & assurance of their Antient inheritance of land, at mohegin and wabaquisit, 3dly they made intercesion on Behalfe of the eleven marlborough indians that were now on their tryal & of whom I have Before Spoken,. aleadging they were not guilty of the fact chardged upon them: the Comissioners were not long before they issued matters with them & sent them away - - - -