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by the procurement o some of their back friends were to be removed from his place to one of the other [s] all. owed places, which order before mentioned, was made but the same day they were seized, viz 30, Aug, 1675. And so it took not yet place and these Indians were orderly settled here at this time; and it had been well for the country, and for Marlborough in particular, if they had never been disobliged or removed from thence. I conceive it might have been instrumental to save many a man's life, and much loss unclear otherwise, for this company of Indians in this place, ad they been cherished, conducted and assisted by the English: would according to an eye of reason, been as a wall of defence to the western frontiers of Massachusetts colony. where most of our danger lay and where most mischief was afterward done. But the council of the Lord must stand, and his purpose to chastise the poor English very sharp and Indians also, must be accomplished, therefore good counsel was hid from us and jealousies and animosities increased and fermented among us. I shall not here recite the reasons moving the instigated unto this action, though I have seen and could produce the copy of the petition of Senonat unto the council, about this time. but there are some ready to conjecture that the occult and main reason inducing some of them to decide to be rid of the neighbourhood of those Indians was in response of a fair tract of land, belonging to them (near Marlborough) not only by natural right but by a grand from the general court in the Massachusetts colony and this is more content now than heretofore for some of the people of those parts have very lately in the Spring 1677.