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yet cap. Mosely, who was sent from Boston with 50 dragoons to follow the chase, could not overtake the enemy, whose time was not yet come, our pray. Inds. with cap. Henchman being not so loaded with plunder as the Nohe. moved the cap. to send them to head the enemy. But he tho't it not prudent to break his small company(for the Providence, Jamestown and Leekouk men were all gone home) and to hazard so few, as 8 Inds. were against so considerable and numerous as Philip was apprehended then to be. But as we were also certainly informed that Philip was so distressed and clogged at that time, his ammunition almost spend; also, the squaw Sachem and her people with Wompouoges (his greatest strength) drawn off from them to the unclear., that he had little above 50 able men left, but many hundreds of old men, women, and child; so that if the counsel of out christian Inds. had been put in practice, according to rational probability, they had taken or slain Philip, and so restored his motion, that the rest might have come up with him and destroyed his party. But god's providence overruled those prudent suggestions and permitted this out arch enemy to live longer to be a scourge to us.

      About the latter end of July, 1675, the council sent Cap. Edward Hatchinson as a commissioner to treat with the Ripmuck Inds., and as a guard and assistant to him, Cap. Wheler, and 2.5 of his troops were sent with him, and 3 of out Mr. Inds. for guides and interpreters, named Joseph and Sampson, Brothers, and Sous to old robin Petuhanit, deceased, a good man, 

(1) Namumpun, sister in law to Philip, having been wife of Alexander. She was now called Weelamoo?. See her life in BK. Inds. No- Weetamo is meant.-- see a full acct. of her in the BK. Inds. B. iii, 184-- Her first husband was Alexander, brother of Philip, after whose death she united unclear, called by church Peter Runuit. Among the Wampanoegs the was as potent as any except Philip himself. (4 see note, at the end of the work.