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21 before beeing Shot to death by some souldier at the same place without - crossed out Indeed Andrew having beene severall months before the warr beegan gon upon on a hunting voyage toward the lakes, & french plantation Returning home a fortnight - crossed out month befor this time fell into the enimies quarters, about quabage: & was charged to bee present with the indians when - crossed out at the swamp when they did that perfidious villany against capt wheeler & capt Hutchinson beefore touched: but some time after he & his son in law left tha enimy & came into the woods neare marlborow where they were taken by Indian Scouts belonging to marlborow & particularly by some of the them now accused & Andrew brought to the english was Acused for beeing with the enimy at quabage & so immedly shot to death without aquainting the councel with before it was done for which the actors incured blame because there might have been good use made of his examination before his death to have understood the state & number of the enimy indeed had it not beene a boysterous season at this time the Actors would have been more svrelly animadurted upon: But david as aforsaid beeing fastened to a tree & guns bent at him, feared death & beeing offered a reprrieve if hee would confes truth hee promised somthing & so was unbound. And then acused 11 of the Indians then at the fort & now prisoners to bee the murderers of the english at Lancaster before mentioned, but said hee I did not see it don neither was I there, but I heard som of them speake so. David was herupon Released from the feare of present death, But yet was sent downe prisoner, with the rest and beeing examined before the councill hee at firstt owned that hee had said so to the captaine at marlborogh, but after ward upon the trial before the court & Jury, hee said hee had acused those indians falsly. Indeed some of the accused indians particularly one named James Akompanet A very understanding fellow pleaded in behalfe of him selfe and the rest, That what David said against them was (I) to save his own life when hee was bound to the tree: 2ly to revenge himselfe of them because they had seased upon his Brother Andrew & his son & delivered them to the english one whereof was put to death & the other sent out of the country a slave. There were saverall things aleadged against the prisoners, The most material were, that they werre tracked from Lancaster to marlborogh about the time the murder was committed, That one of them had a pare of bandelers belonging to one of the persons slayne that another