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them & forced them to be Inds. belonging to unclear., Long I., & Raquod, who had all been at work about 7 weeks with one Maj. Jonathan Tyng (1) of Dunstable upon Merrimack river, & hearing of the wars, they reckoned with their master, & getting their wages conveyed themselves away without his priority; & being afraid marched secretly through the woods, designing to go to their own countries, until they were intercepted as before. This act of our unclear. Inds. of unclear. was an evident demonstration of unclear fidelity to the Eng. interest. The? They? These? prisoners after further unclear before the council where they told the same thing as before, were for a fewdays committed to prison, but afterward released. But to return to our purpose. Notwithstanding the certificate which hereafter follows, & is before touched, concerning the courage & fidelity of our Ch. Inds. at Mount H., yet I am not ignoratn that some officers & soldiers in the army, who had concieved much animosity, against all Inds., disgusted our Chst. Ind. soldiers, & reported ultimately concerning them, saying, that they were cowards & skulked behind trees in fight & that they shot over the enemies heads, & such like repraoches, but as the proverb says, "ill will speaks no good," but certainly none could better know their doings than their particular commenders, who have subscribed the certificate, who are men not inferior to any in the army for honesty & fidelity. This I do also know upon my own personal knowledge, that some of those INdian soldiers at their return, viz. John Hunter, (1) Son of Edward Tyng, was born 15 Dec, 1642, & died 19 Jan. 1724. He was a magistrate member of Sir Edmund Anders' Council, & a man of influence. Tyngsborough in Mas. was so named from the family of Tyngs.