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92 have been a great weakening to the worke of God among them, The most of those indians continued at this place all thee summer (some few exepted) that scattered to places adjacent to worke for the english in harvest time, But toward october they remouved some to that falls of charles river & some setled about Hoanantum, Hill, not farr from mr oliver neare the very place where they first began to pray to God, & mr Eliot first taught them, which was about 30 yeares since, here Anthony one of the teachers built a large wigwam, at which place the lecture & the scoole were kept in the winter 1676 where major Gookin & mr Eliot ordinarily met every fortnight & the other weke Among the pakemitt Indians who were also brought from the Iland at the same time & placed neare Brush hill in milton under the care of quarter master Thomas Swift, This last summer though they came up late from the Iland yet they planted som ground procured for them by the major among the English & so the got som litel corne & more for worke & that their soulders that were abroad had corne provided By the country for their Relations so that through God [tand] they were [...] well suplied And in the winter time about December then was aboundance of a sort of fire called frost fire which they tooke [with] [...] & dryed great plenty of them; the widdowes & the aged had suply of clothing & corne at the Chardge of the honorable corporation in London [was] tenderly & compassionatly: ordered Release for [...] as were in Need. and many of the men who were about hom, got plenty of venison in the winter 1776 for suply of their family so if God provided for their [own] toward subsitance & for Religion I hope it begins to [verie] among them there were [sevven] places where they mett