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the poor Indians in New England, to give them right information how these Christian natives have demeaned themselves in this hour of tribulation. And therefore (through divine assistance) I shall endeavour to give a particular & real account of this affair. Before I come to declare matters of fact I shall premise some things necessary to be understood for the better clearing of our ensuing discourse. The Christian Indians in New England have their dwellings in sundry jurisdictions of the English colonies, & that at a considerable distance from each other, more particularly. Upon the island of Nantucket & Martha's viniard, in which two islands there inhabit many, hundreds of them that visibly profess the gospel (2). These Indians have felt very little of this war comparatively, for the English that dwell upon those islands have held a good correspondency with those Indians all the time of the war as they did before the war began. The only sufferings of these Christian Indians was of their coming up in the summer during the war to work for the Englishin the Mas. Colony, whither many scores of them did usually repair to work; wherely they & their families were accommodated with necessary clothing, which is scarce & dear upon those islands. Besides several of these Indians belonging to the islands being at work at some of the English towns °. (1) This island was so named from Martin Prin or unclear, its first discoverer. FOr a particular account of the Christian Indians there see Experience Mayhew's "Indian Convents," 8°. London, 1727, and Matthew Mayhew's Brief Nar. 12°. Boston, 1694. (2) In 1694 Mr. M. Mayhew reckoned there were "about three thousand".