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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 matter 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. I. Upon the island of Nantucket & Martha's viniard(1), in which two islands there {are}[crossed out] inhabitants['ants' crossed out] 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 English in the Mas. Colony, whither many scores of them did usually repair to work; whereby 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[first and last name underlined] or Pring[underlined], its first discoverer. For a particular account of the Christian Indians there see Experience Mayhew's "Indian Converts," 8°. London, 1727, and Matthew Mayhew's Brief Nar. 12°. Boston, 1694. (2) In 1694[first written "1695" corrected to "1694"] Mr. M. Mayhew reckoned there were "about three thousand."