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were sent back to their wives & children at wameset. But as they passed home being under the Guard of Leiutenant James Richardson, & a field of soldiers, they were to march through a village called wooburne, at which time the traned Band, of that place were exersising, Leitenant Richerson & his Indians with their Gaurd before they drew neare the English souldiers, made Hlt & he held out his handkerchief as a flag of truce, whereupon the captaine & officers of the band sent to Richardson who showing them his comision from the councel to conduct those Indians safe to their home, where upon the captaine & officers gave very strict charge to all the souldiers not to shoot a gunn until the Indians were past & cleare, nor yet to give any oprobious words. But notwithstanding this strict prohibition, when the indians were passing by a young fellow a soulder named Knight discharged his musket & killed one of the Indians stone dead; being very neare him. the person slayne was a stout young men very neare allyed to the principal praying Indians of natick & wameset whose grandfather & unkel were pious men - his father long since: slayne the war with the magues the murderer was presently aprehended & comitted to prse & not long after tryed for his life, but was aquitted by the jury much contrary to the mind of the bench the jury aleadged they wanted evidence and the prisoner pleaded that his gun went of by acident; indeed witness were meal mouth in finding evidense" the jury was sent out agane & agane by the judge who was most unsatsfid with the juries proceedings, but yet the jury did not see cause to alter their mind & so the fellow was clerede cleared

 About the beginning of November Inteligence came

from Mendon by two of the principal chtian Indians (that escaped viz James Speen, & Job Kattenanelt) how the enimy had seased upon & carried away captive the chtian Indians that were at Hassanansitt who were gathering threshing & putting up in Indian barnes (as the manner is) a considerable crop of Indian corne that grew in that place & parts adjacent. these two men & some squas squaws & children being as at a little distance from the rest made a shift