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89 1676 incouragement & Good hope through grace that as God hath wraught effectually upon some So hee will upon others in his owne time & accrdg according to his good pleasure that hee hath purposed in himselfe I account it my duty, not to censure & Judge but to pray for them & others. 1676 About the Latter-End of agust 1676 An Army was sent against the easterne enimies with whom Capt Hunting & his company of indians went: but this army did littel against the enemy but that was don was don by by our Indians, who slew 2 or 3 of their enimy but lost none of their lives through Gods favor. Again in frebruary 5th 1676 in another Expedition to the eastern part, Comanded by major waldren wherin our praying Indians under Capt Hunting word crossed out bore a part,; & som few of the enimies were kild by them, but their councill was not attended in that expedition which if it had been, as I heard some english that were in the service say, in probability the enemy had beene greatly worsted: at that time In June 1677 another expedition into the eastern parts among whome were about thirty six of our christian Indians; who in a fight neare Black point the English lost about 40 men wherof were 8 of our friends Indians & their Leiutenant James Richardson, was then slaine, this was the greatest loss that our Indians susteynd all the warr for in all the former expedition our indian lost but two men But I shall pass from this matter & also from any further discourse of their military actions of our praying indians who to this day upon all ocasions of scouting in the woods or any other hazardous services are frequently imployed as ocasion doth present, now I shal draw towards