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93 to worship God & accepted the Sabath viz At nonatum At Pakemit, or punkapog; At cowate, allius the fall of Charles river, At Natick, at meadfeild, at Concord & at Namkeake neere Chelmsford; in which sevven places there were at each place a teacher & scols for the youth; at most of them, mr Eliot kept his Lecture weekly at Nonnantum, & paksnut, where also major Gookin kept ^ his courts among them; When the winter was over, 1676 & the spring drew one the praying indians most of them repayred to their plantations at Naticke magunkog & som planted at Hassannemesit But not long after, they withdrew from thence & gave out tending their corn, for feare of the maquas who had Beene among Unkas men & don som mischeefe & caried away one of Unkas sons prisoners, but hee was againe released by them _ Some of their praying indians planted among the English plantations as at meadfeld, concord, Cambridg & Chelmsford; & got suplies, by their laubor word crossed out Before they removed from Cowate; there was a poore widdow woman of praying Indians that went to gather some flags to make matts ^ about 2 or 3 miles Shee being alone & her company gon befor her home was mett by an englishman of sudbury named Curtis who required her to goe with him shee being unwilling made a way to escape from him homeward to the wigwams, but he outranne her & knocked her down - crossed out with his Hatchett helv & woonded her very sorre in sevrall places about the head; leaving her all in her blood. But not b eing mortally wounded (as it proved) made a shift to get to the wigwams wher shee lay by it a Long time before shee recovred; shee knew not who it was that had offered her this injury but the man spake of it himselfe; & pretended the woman beat him & what hee did was, in hiw owne defense. it is probable shee strugled what she could when hee was beating of her; in the Summer of 1677 severall of our Indian