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To some merchants strikethrough "of" at Boston, & sent to Jamaica, but upon the importunity of Mr. Elliot, which the master of the vessel related to him, was brot back again, but not released? His 2 children taken prisoners with him were redeemed by Mr. Elliot & afterward his wife, their mother taken captive, & afterwards, which woman was a sober Christian abbrev woman, & is employed to teach school among the abbrv Indians at Concord, & her children are with her, but her husband held as before, a servant, though seven at that know she said Joseph, & his former carriage have interceded for his release but cannot obtain it. Some informing authority that he had been against the English when he was with the enemy. xxxxx There were several others of our praying Indians employed for guides to the forces sent up by Major Willard (2) to Brookfield & with Cap. Lathrop & Lieut Curtice (3), & Daniel Champney in several enterprises and affairs committed to them, both for the release of Brookfield, & to speak with the Wipmuchs before they broke out into hostility, all which Indians acquitted themselves faithfully according to their several employments & betrustments. But not withstanding those signal &faithful services only those Christian Indians &divers? others not here related yet the animosity & rage of the common people increased against them that the very name of praying Indian spoken against, insomuch that some wise & principled men did advise some that were concerned with?(1) 38 to forbear giving that eppithet of praying (1). This rage of the people, as I contend, was occasioned from here. Because much mischief being done, & English bloodshed by the brutish enemy, strikethrough (1), & because some neighbor Indians to the English at Quabage, Hadley & Springfield (1) See note at the end. p.1. (3) See p. 66 (2) Major Simon Willard was an active officer during this war until his death, which took place 26 April ? at Concord.