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not only taken away the fencing stuff from all the Indians lands, betaken away some cartloads of their young apple trees, and planted them on their own land. And when some of those Indians underlined made some attempt to plant (by order from authority) upon unclear own lands in the Spring, 1677, some person of that place expressly forbid them and threatened them if they came there to oppose them, so that the poor Indians being put into fears, returned, and dared not proceed, and yet those Indians that went to plant were such as had been with the English all the war, and were not at all obnoxious. But I have been longer than I intended in the preface to that matter: fair to relate , the pretence for seizing those 15 Marlborough Indians and sending them down as prisoners was this, that 11 (1) of them had committed a notorious murder upon seven English persons at Lancaster, upon a Lord's day August 22, the next and immediate accuser of this Indians was one David underlined, and Indian, one of the 15, who being suspected for shooting at a lad belonging to the English of Marlborough that was sent out by his master to look up some sheep (2). This David underlined being apprehended by the aforesaid Captain upon the former suspicion, and fastened to a unclear to be shot to death, and fearing to drink of the unclear unclear as his brother Andrew underlined that done a fortnight before being shot to death by some soldiers at the same place (3). Indeed Andrew underlined having been several months before the war gone upon a hunting voyage toward the lakes and french plantations, returning home a month before this time, fell into the enemies quarters about Quabage underlined, and was charged to be present with the Indians at the swamp when they did that perfidious villainy against Captain M. (1) See the named of these persecuted Indians in prepared in the "Book of Indians", iii, 79 (2) see n. p. 4 (3) see 3 n p.4