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24 at the triall of the 11 Indians : as an artifice to render them all pfdyeous and treachourous to the English , that they had concealed a great quantity of powder & ball & hid it in the ground in the fort , yet ptended to delivr all to the Leistanant [Lieutenant], for the captains & soulders when they seased the prisoners or not long after, Ransacked the fort & finding thir comon stocks of Amunition, & thre or 4 gunns more [which Some men were abroad when the former were deliverd had brought unto the fort] afterward were seased ; this matter was much talked of & great clamors made against those poore chtians about it , But when the cheefest of praying indians of marllborough had liberty to make answr for themselves things were so fully cleared that neither dishonesty perfydiousness or lying could bee imputed to them touching those things. But yet not withstanding all their Arms & Amunition Surendered & Seased (which to them was a very considerable matter) at such a time & was their owne propriety yet was taken away And squandred by the Souldiers & others, & nevr Restored to the indians to this day that I know of, nor any Satisfaction for them Though sometimes afterward the Counsell ordered some persons to take Acct of these Armes & Amunition, but nothing could bee gotten; And though at their trial it was multiplied to a great quantity, now it was alledged that it was a small matter. & the Soulders had shared it as plunder among then & nothing could bee recovred.

 But now I have done with the story of those poore chtian Indians at Marlborough, for it was not long after they were all forced to retire from thence,  I am sorry I have been

so long upon this story, which I had not don But it was a foundation & beging beginning of much trouble that befell both the english & indians afterward. I had need Apologize for this long story concerning these Indians. But the true Reason of being so particular that is that I might in the words of truth and sobriety cleare the Inocency of those indians unto all pious and impartiall men that shall peruse this script, and so farr as, in mee lies to vindicate the hands of God & Religion that they